Busy Mom's Dairy-Free SCD Cookbook with Honey Sweetened Recipes

Busy Mom's Dairy-Free SCD Cookbook with Honey Sweetened Recipes is a cookbook and resource guide for parents of children with autistic spectrum disorders. It is of particular interest to parents already using the Gluten-Free Casein-Free diet and considering a GFCF version of the Specific Carbohydrate Diet. The book documents some of our family's experiences and attempts to help our autistic son, Matthew. Our book records important variations and adaptations of recipes we found to be unworkable for a variety of reasons. Most often, a recipe's taste or texture was unacceptable in its original form and we endured a great deal of trial-and-error to find the solutions set forth in our book. The biggest obstacles we faced: creating recipes that were both GFCF and SCD compliant, and sweetening desserts with honey. While the book focuses on recipes for special diets, we did not apply these diets by themselves. Consequently, the book includes other ideas and techniques that worked well for us. Our response to Autism has been rigorous adherence to very strict diets while using tools like weighted vests and special cushions. The foods and ideas discussed here may not help every child but they were very successful with our son. We believe this book covers the key concepts which took our son from a state of autistic incapacitation to an A and B student. It is our hope this small book may help other parents in situations similar to ours.

I was accepted to attend a culinary school in Florida, but did not have the funds to attend at that time. I worked for several years as a cook before getting married. I really enjoy cooking and baking. While I'm cooking, I usually have the stereo tuned to K-LOVE, a contemporary Christian music station. As my husband and son can testify, opening and closing the oven door isn't enough exercise for me; I'm normally singing and dancing while I cook. I like to have fun while I am doing something that needs to done.

As we worked to alleviate the symptoms of my son's autism, I discovered that I enjoyed converting recipes to GFCF or SCD because it's like figuring out a puzzle of what will work. I have sort of a "mad-scientist-in-the-lab" kind of thing going on with this. To set the scene, my oven once exploded because of defective coil during one of my epicurean experiments. Two fire engines later, I had a whole lot of fire extinguisher dust to clean up. At the same time, I was trying to sell the house because my husband was about to retire from active duty with the Air Force (as soon as he got back from Iraq). The poor cleaners just stood there with their mouths hanging open saying "where do we even start?" I no longer joke with my friends about "if you see smoke you know I'm experimenting in the kitchen again, just come pull me out."

I wrote this book to help people in similar situations, not to make a profit or to build my self-esteem. Consequently, the book is small and priced to cover the cost of printing.