LID - Day one...

Thanks for the heads up Kazzy, i'll make sure to get stuff out of the way this week hopefully before I feel too grotty.

Thought i'd let you all know of a few responses i've had from various companies regarding salt content...  Hopefully you'll find it helpful.  I'm waiting on another couple of responses, so will update to include these as/when I get a response.

Nairns

confirm that products do contain Sea Salt, therefore would not recommend them.

Snack a Jacks

confirm they do not use iodised salt in Walkers or Snack a Jacks crisps and snacks.
The following products do contain sea salt:
Red Sky West Country Bacon & Cream Cheese Red Sky Roasted Red Pepper & Lime Red Sky Sea Salt & Cracked Peppercorns Red Sky English Cheddar & Red Onion Sunbites Lightly Salted Walkers Baked Salt & Vinegar Planet Lunch Bread Bites Garlic Planet Lunch Bread Bites #Cheese

Oatly (Oat Milk Drink)

Thank you for your inquiry of Oatly. We have today three oat drinks on the UK market, Oatly oat drink organic, enriched and chocolate. We are using sea salt in only organic version. The Oatly chocolate and enriched contain regular salt which is not iodised.

Good research!

Damn - with comments like that I'm going to have to keep it up now, aren't I. I should have mentioned it's not so easy when you work on the site of one of Europe's biggest donut and muffin factories. Each time I see choc I shall think of all our LID-ers and try to find some of the will power I've had when doing the LID.

Good luck tomorrow Els - must admit I hadn't worked out that the Beautiful South weren't beautiful any more.

hi

wished i'd known about the reasearch one week earlier, might need it again in 6months + so copying it, merci

Honestly, make double portions and freeze for the 2nd week, especially the last days. keep busy with other things after a few days of LID  so it's not so obsessing, don't u think?. 

home made bread was great, on 2nd loaf , i added walnuts to make it more like a treat, sliced with honey : tres bon. 

biscuit recipe was ok but i added nuts and sugar, who heard of so called biscuits without sugar!

in hospital they didn't cater for LID so took a few things till the day after i got the iodine pill. u see, had to go one day earlier, they won't start till they get the result from the blood test they take first thing.

i looooooove meat, wonder which one u shopped for ...

Hey all, Well it's day 6, no major problems - starting to get a bit tired I think, but i'll just have to go with the flow...

Things are ticking over, trying to keep busy and not dwell too much at the moment - I'm naturally a pessimistic sort which doesn't help!

I was starting to worry about my calcium levels dropping - as I have cut dairy and soya out, but I'm still taking my prescribed Calcium supplements (calcichew and alfacal), added to which I am using the Oatly Milk drink with added Calcium with my granola and in my hot drinks to try and keep my levels from dropping too much!

Couple of things about Oatly - I decided to strain it into a Jug using a tea strainer to take out as many of the floating oat fibres as possible. Also pour your hot drink first then add the Oatly, as it seems to not taste as nice if you pour the Oatly and then add the hot drink.  Not sure why?!

Also to let you all know that I used the good food olive oil bread recipe (thanks Barbaral!). Having never made bread before I wasn't expecting much - I am so chuffed with the end result though!  I used Spelt flour as there was only trace Salt and Splenda instead of sugar! So my loaf was Fish, Gluten, Sugar, Dairy, Soya, Egg and Iodine free!

I got a little impatient to try it so didn't let it cool enough before slicing, so I made it crumble a bit - sooooooo good with some golden syrup though!  Never new I would miss bread!  Home made soup tomorrow courtesy of mother, so I now have bread for dipping!  I can see this loaf won't be lasting long!  Might try another loaf in the week as I have a pack of Rice flour to use as well (again gluten free). Will let you know how that turns out too ;)

-Rich

Pretty loaf - well done. I don't think I could have been more proud of my first loaf if I'd personally given birth to it.

Jeez, that's pretty extreme. There's nothing about white flour or sugar that you should be concerned about - at least not from an LID perspective. If you have some other reason for wanting to make your life difficult, no problem, but no need at all to ruin a good loaf of bread by leaving out salt (uniodised) or sugar.

I would say leave off the rice flour - seriously that's not going to make you a decent loaf. Take it from me - I work for one of the world's biggest bakery supplies companies and rice flour won't kill a cake but it'll sure as hell not be an adequate substitute in bread.

Don't panic! I'm not cutting out salt completely, I'm just avoiding anything with salt as an ingredient unless I can be sure it's not sea salt or iodised (ie. processed foods).  Used the spelt and splenda to make the loaf gluten and sugar free on purpose - members of my family are gluten intolerant and diabetic, so I wanted them to be able to have some ;)  As for salt, I used 2 tsps of non-iodised table salt as per the recipe.  Turned out quite well, and tastes good too!

Ooooh one question though... might seem silly, but can you make bread using just basic plain white or brown flour, or does it have to be one marked as "strong bread flour."  Just wondering how cheaply you could make your own loaf - ie. using supermarket value flour for example?!

You could make bread with almost anything but it won't be much good.

You need strong bread flour - the protein levels in the value flours isn't high enough. It'll make a loaf but not a very good one. If you buy it in the larger bags, it's really not too expensive and certainly a lot cheaper than Spelt (which I'm sure you know isn't gluten free, only lower gluten).

 A large loaf will usually only have a couple of spoons of sugar in it - it's probably better to just use less than to go with Splenda. The sugar is there to 'feed' the yeast, not to make it taste nice, and you could get a lower volume loaf if you leave it out.

So impressed with the photos of your your bread. I admit I am no domestic goddess. I have copped out and gone to my local Whole foods supermarket today and asked could they make me bread with Himalayan pink salt (which they sell there loads of diff kinds), I got the nicest baker ever who offered to try lots of different breads for me and could not be more helpful.

I was thinking I was to be on the diet for three weeks but have noticed everyone on here is doing two weeks. Think I might have this next week as a preperation week. I thought this was going to be easy but until you look into what you can and can't eat you don't realise the amount of planing and thought that goes into shopping and meals.

Learning loads from these posts I may not comment often but just popping on the find out other words of wisdom in invaluable.

Thanks x from Fee x