If you have any experience with thyroid cancer as a patient or caregiver, you know know about the low iodine diet. For those who are out of the loop, it's not a weight loss fad diet, but a a diet meant to deprive the body of iodine to prepare for a radioactive iodine scan or ablation. You spend 2-3 weeks eating foods that are low iodine. This means no eating out, commercial baked goods, dairy, iodized salt, and other foods that we all have come to rely on. Some call it 14 days of hell, but it doesn't have to be!
I have collected recipes from the About.com Food Channel that are within the guidelines of the low iodine diet. They were not created solely for low iodine dieters, but are just regular recipes that fall withing the guidelines. Here's the best part -- they are good. Really good.
My husband just finished up the diet and I played low iodine chef for the past few weeks. I love the recipes from ThyCa.org, but needed more. I went on a hunt for more recipes, especially dessert and bread recipes, and found a ton on About.com.Check out these low iodine diet recipes.
Anyone looking for an alternative to milk for coffee during a low or no iodine diet?
Do I have a great alternative called Mimiccreme!
It is a almond/cashew non dairy alternative.
Dairy free, soy free, cholesterol free, lactose free, gluten free,
non GMO, vegan, kosher.
MIMICCREME
IT IS GREAT
Thank you for idea about mimicream for coffee. It could make a real difference for me those three weeks.
I looked at the Mimiccream website and it has sea salt in it so even though it’s dairy free it would not be safe to take. I thought i would share. I will look for something else for my coffee and if i find something i will post it.
I just bought Miccreme – starting my low iodine diet tomorrow. Coffee creamer was my top priority (last time I ground my own almonds for almond milk…) I don’t see any salt on the label. Am I missing something?
I just checked the website and see that there is a version with salt. I bought the “Unsweetened Original”, which does not have salt (per the container and the website)! I’m having my first cup of coffee with it now. It is a little “gloppy” out of the container, but it doesn’t taste bad at all!