Serious Eater Low Iodine Recipes
My mom is on a low iodine diet prior to undergoing radioactive iodine treatment for thyroid cancer. She is coming to visit next week and I want to treat her to some yummy food. Besides roasted veggies, does anyone have any good recipes for a low iodine diet? Thanks in advance!
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8 Comments:
Aw, this is sweet of you. I wish your mom a successful course of treatment and a speedy recovery. I found a low-iodine cookbook here:
http://www.thyca.org/ThyCa%20Cookbook%20011804.pdf
The Spanish potato salad and garlic-balsamic chicken recipes looked good :)
Also, (I'm sure you know this already) cook with Kosher salt or non-iodized salt, since regular iodized salt is not an option. And if you're making anything with eggs, make sure not to use the yolks - do whites only.
Good luck to you and your mom!
GirlFromJetCity at 11:40AM on 10/23/09
A good friend of mine underwent the same diet for treatment a few months ago, and she subsisted on fresh fruits and veggies, also found some iodine free bread recipes online.
She put together a great website detailing her treatment and things she ate/felt/did...I will try to find it and post it as soon as possible.
veggieout at 2:58PM on 10/23/09
You probably already know this, but avoid seafood, especially seaweed! they are loaded with iodine...
hmw0029 at 3:01PM on 10/23/09
Thank you everyone! The ThyCa cook book is great. Luckily I only have Morton's kosher salt out in my kitchen (non-iodized), but I'm terrified about accidentally putting in something else unknowingly (I seem to always need to make my own "tweaks" to any recipe I use). I'll stick to the book on this one :)
cb1414 at 3:45PM on 10/23/09
The ThyCa site is an excellent resource. I recommend the chocolate-zucchini bread. A friend was on that diet, and she was delighted to get something chocolate when fruit for dessert started getting a little old.
Buy unsalted peanut butter and add your own salt. I made the no-knead bread and used it for crumbs in chicken meatballs. Be wary of anything in a can or package. Surprisingly, pumpkin puree may be processed on machinery that is cleaned with agents that contain iodine, so I avoided that.
Fleischmann's unsalted margarine was allowed. No soy anything. No dairy (that was really hard!). She used coconut milk in her coffee. No sea salt (many organic foods have sea salt, so be careful). I bought organic chicken and cooked everything from scratch, stock for soup and gravy, even ground the meat for meatballs. She was so happy to have a variety of things in the freezer, and many things that she wouldn't normally make herself.
Best of luck and well wishes to your mother.
zucchini at 4:45PM on 10/24/09
@cb1414
http://www.mythyroidcancerstory.webs.com/
That's the website I mentioned in my previous post. You and your mother might enjoy reading it, as it's very uplifting, my friend, Rachel has a great spirit that shines through in her writing.
My thoughts are with you and your mother
veggieout at 5:23PM on 10/24/09
I just wanted to second everything that's been said so far. I went through this a year ago and the thyca cookbook really helped along with having great family members to help me when I didn't feel like cooking. Best wishes to you and your mother... I am sure she appreciates your cooking and the thought behind it.
JennH at 2:13AM on 10/25/09
@zucchini - I made the chocolate zucchini bread this weekend and it smells awesome! (Didn't have any though - saving it all for mom!). Thanks for the recommendation.
@veggieout - thank you so much for the website! I think my mom will enjoy this site. As your friend mentions in her site, most of the info out there is very clinical, and not very personal, so this will be good.
Thanks again everyone.
cb1414 at 3:51PM on 10/26/09