Forum Fructose Malabsorbtion



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Thank you this is very helpful! I've had my Thermo for 3 weeks and love the fact things like curry and Thai food are back on the menu for my husband, now that I can make my own quick low FODMAP curry paste. The only think that I'm not sure of is how much garlic or onion oil to add when I need to adapt a recipe. When a recipe asks for 1 glove or 3cm of garlic, would you know roughly how much that is is teaspoons of garlic oil? Also, I would be interested in the other links that you mention you in last paragraph. Thanks.


Hi all, I realise the original post was some time ago but thought others might discover this thread and appreciate a few extra tips:

**make your own stock or stock paste ommitting the garlic and onion.  You can use the green part of spring onions though.

**make your own soups using the vegetables you CAN have.  Root vegetables, zucchinis, spinach all make great soup (use the stock or stock paste you have made in your TMX for the soup).

**make your own nut and seed milks and butters.  The milks are great in smoothies, baking, for white sauce (just add some savoury yeast flakes for a cheese flavour) and on GF cereal.  The butters are great on GF bread or for slices as a binding agent.

**steam your meat, fish and veggies in the varoma.  Just use the veggies that you CAN have.  You can even cook the rice in the jug while you steam your protein/veg on top (or by itself if you are just doing rice).

**look at Quirky Cooking for some great baking and desert ideas.  GF floursand nut/seed meals are SO easy in the TMX and cost a fraction of what you would pay in the supermarket.

**you can infuse olive oil with garlic.  Then saute the green part of a spring onion, some celery and the stock paste you have made plus some of your infused olive oil as the basis of soup and risotto.

**creamed rice (using whatever milk you can have) or porridge is easily done in your TMX.  Add some berries and seeds/nuts and voila, a delicious meal itself.

**Quirky Cooking again has some terrific bread recipes.  She uses a lot of spelt which fructose intolerant people can often tolerate.  Her GF pizza base is delicious and has allowed my son to have pizza again (wohoo!)

**make your own chocolate (go to Quirky for this one too).  No burnt sauce pan, just yummy chocolate!

I also used my TMX recently to cater for the different diets in our house.  I sauted the onion and garlic for me in my TMX and then just sprinkled it on top of the meat sauce when I served it up on my plate.  I made the meat sauce in the fry pan.  You can set one person's meal going in the TMX (and with the time setting, know you won't burn it) while you attend to something on the stove.  Or you can put a meal in the Thermoserver, rinse out the jug and cook the next meal.  The Thermoserver will keep the first meal hot (or cold) for two hours.

(I have also just made a sourdough from My Darling Lemon Thyme which is wheat free.  I made it in the bread maker and it worked a treat).

Another great source of recipes besides Quirky Cooking is Jude Blereau.  She has a wholefood TMX cookbook which is well worth checking out.  Her bigger cookbooks aren't TMX specific but are easily adaptable and doable in your TMX.  Plus she has lots of great information on wholefoods and possible substitutes.

Send me a message if you want any more information or the links to a few other websites that I have found invaluable.  You can easily convert their recipes to TMX friendly ones or use the TMX to save heaps of time and money for some of the key recipe components.

Cheers

Felicity

 


i have just been diagnosed fructose intolerant and can have rye bread.  i made the "Yeast Free rye Bread" on the recipe community and i really like it.  i think i used buttermilk but cant remember as i sliced it and it is the freezer.  doesnt seem to rise too much.

looking at date of your post you are probably an expert now.

sandy


 

I bought a Thermomix last year and shortly afterwards my daughter was diagnosed with fructose malabsorption.  This threw me for a while, because I wasn't sure how to change the basic Thermomix recipes to make them fructose friendly. (Many of the Basic Cookbook recipes contain onion!)  However, I soon found that I could leave out onion from recipesand they still work out really well.  (My daughter tolerates small amounts of garlic which helps.)  More recently, I've found that I can easily adapt  recipes with apple in them.  For example, I have been able to make TM cookbook beetroot salad without onion and apple in it and it still tastes really good - better than the original I think.  There is a gluten free TM cookbook too, that I purchased and have used.  With a bit of practice, I've found that I have been able to cook other fructose friendly recipes very quickly in the TM.  I'm beginning to experiment more and finding lots of new ways to use the TM.  I'm looking for a good fructose friendly bread recipe though!  If anyone has one that is wheat but not gluten free, I'd love to try it!


 

I bought a Thermomix last year and shortly afterwards my daughter was diagnosed with fructose malabsorption.  This threw me for a while, because I wasn't sure how to change the basic Thermomix recipes to make them fructose friendly. (Many of the Basic Cookbook recipes contain onion!)  However, I soon found that I could leave out onion from recipesand they still work out really well.  (My daughter tolerates small amounts of garlic which helps.)  More recently, I've found that I can easily adapt  recipes with apple in them.  For example, I have been able to make TM cookbook beetroot salad without onion and apple in it and it still tastes really good - better than the original I think.  There is a gluten free TM cookbook too, that I purchased and have used.  With a bit of practice, I've found that I have been able to cook other fructose friendly recipes very quickly in the TM.  I'm beginning to experiment more and finding lots of new ways to use the TM.  I'm looking for a good fructose friendly bread recipe though!  If anyone has one that is wheat but not gluten free, I'd love to try it!


Not really knowing what constitutes a Low Fructose diet I am a bit stuck to give recipes that are low fructose.  However I am guessing you can still have some veggies/fruits. 

Its not too hard to convert recipes. We do a diet free of a natural chemical called amines and so I often need to substitute fruits and veggies in recipes.

As for family friendly ones - was thinking Quirky Jo's fried rice:

http://quirkycooking.blogspot.com/2009/08/thermomix-fried-rice.html

Just use the veggies you can have in the top.

Are there any recipes you have that you use regular that you can share that someone can then convert to Thermy speak for you??

Not a day goes by I don't use my thermomix!



Hi Cassandra

Once we work out a list of substitutes for ingredients that you need to avoid, then a whole new world of fabulous fructose free food will open up for you!

I'll be there of course to help you along the way with recipe tweaking and conversion. I'll convert a couple of recipes over the next week and post them on the Recipe Community.

Chat soon!Melinda


Looking at our Gluten Free Cookbook, I think a few of these recipes could definitely be converted to fructose free. There is lots of information out there about what not to consume if this is a concern for you and if you use the Gluten Free cookbook as a starting point this should make the process easier. These are TM recipes that don't include gluten or wheat, which are both not recommended for a fructose free diet. In the meantime if you need more information check out Cyndi O'Meara's website or book 'Changing Habits Changing Lives' that may be able to provide you with some good info too.

Thermomix Head Office


Hi CassK,

The TM is great for being able to completely control what you put into your meals - which is particularly handy if you, or a family member, suffers from an intolerance. We have any gluten free recipes but fructose is something we haven't focused on as of yet. We do have a Cyndi O'Meara book that also deals with avoiding the chemicals and additives used in modern day food production which may be of assistance. I have also posted on our FaceBook page for people to assist you with this query so hopefully someone responds with a few recipes to help you out.

Thanks for joining and we hope you soon become the proud owner of a TM!!

Smile

Thermomix Head Office


I'm in the process of thinking about buying a thermomix. I've been to 2 demos, and love it. But I myself and 2 of my children have fructose malabsorbtion, which is a managable condition but does restrict a lot of foods, and therefore many basic recipes are not suitable.

Just wondering if there's anyone out there who has any thermomix fructose free recipes?! Particularly family friendly meals.