Muffins Wanted!

RedHen · Post by **RedHen** » Wed Mar 08, 2017 11:28 am

I'd love a paleo muffin made with coconut flour (almond flour is out, as are eggs, based on my enterolab results). I've looked here, Pinterest, and google for a recipe but come up with nothing. I'm in Phase 1 and would really like to sit down with a dozen muffins!

Any good recipes out there? Thanks!

Gabes-Apg · Post by **Gabes-Apg** » Wed Mar 08, 2017 3:12 pm

There are quite a few discussions on this forum about paleo muffin recipes that can be adjusted to suit your intolerances

have you seen these discussions

http://www.perskyfarms.com/phpBB2/viewt ... eo+muffins

with this one just swap the almond flour for coconut flour
http://www.perskyfarms.com/phpBB2/viewt ... eo+muffins

this one also has good discussion about adjusting the reciepe
http://www.perskyfarms.com/phpBB2/viewt ... king+paleo

hope this helps

RedHen · Post by **RedHen** » Wed Mar 08, 2017 7:10 pm

Thanks Gabes! I had not found those discussions.... I'm not sure why. They seem very helpful and I'd like to try the muffins. I saw lots of alterations I can make with the recipe to suit my dietary needs.

At some point on this forum I think I read that people who can't tolerate almonds can tolerate almond butter and/or almond flour. Was I dreaming this? If it's true, I'm not sure I understand why this is possible but certainly won't complain.

Also, I think we might have sourced duck eggs. I'm assuming they work well in baking.

Thanks!

Post by **tex** » Wed Mar 08, 2017 7:15 pm

Whole nuts are much more difficult to digest than nut butters or flour. But if you show a sensitivity to almonds on an EnteroLab test result, you might not be able to handle those products either.

Duck eggs should work well in baking. They're larger and richer than chicken eggs.

Tex

Gabes-Apg · Post by **Gabes-Apg** » Wed Mar 08, 2017 7:22 pm

first search using the search function I used the following search words Paleo AND muffins
the second search I used the following baking AND paleo
and those discussions were in the first two pages of the results.

Almonds (and all nuts) are high in fibre /harder to digest so that is why they tend to be troublesome for MC'ers.

Duck eggs bake really really well - I used some in a cake the other day and it was way better than using free range chicken eggs
(cake was lighter / fluffier) depending on the size /weight of the duck egg, the one I used was equivalent to 1.5 chicken eggs.

I make a savory pancake /naan bread - using safe flours, home made bone broth and pre cooked ground meat.
this way it increases the protein content of the snack.

RedHen · Post by **RedHen** » Wed Mar 08, 2017 7:45 pm

Tex, almonds are a +2 for me. I had been eating a muffin daily that was made with almond flour for several months before my test. Would that put almonds in a higher category for me? Might I one day be able to have almond flour again?

Gabes, I tried "muffins" and "breakfast", but not together. Thanks for the tip on a better way to search. I hope my duck egg lead comes to fruition.

I'm currently waiting for the 4-6 week Phase 1 time frame to pass in order to let the magnesium and vitamin D supplements to kick in. So I'm basically back at the beginning despite a full year on a limited diet. The enterolab results showed despite my efforts I was not quite on the diet I needed to be on. I'm simply craving muffins and have ordered a new muffin tin guaranteed to not be hiding any gluten on it. Perseverance!

Thanks! : )

Gabes-Apg · Post by **Gabes-Apg** » Wed Mar 08, 2017 7:52 pm

one thing I have seen over my years here with others (and my own personal experience) is that I can not tolerate processed flour items every day. I have to limit intake to 3-4 smalls serves per week. any more than this and I have mild reactions

so far as can you have almond flour in the future - there is no way we could provide that answer
everyone is SOO different, and what we can tolerate now may or may not work in 3 years time.

Post by **tex** » Wed Mar 08, 2017 11:10 pm

RedHen wrote:Tex, almonds are a +2 for me. I had been eating a muffin daily that was made with almond flour for several months before my test. Would that put almonds in a higher category for me? Might I one day be able to have almond flour again?

Gabes, I tried "muffins" and "breakfast", but not together. Thanks for the tip on a better way to search. I hope my duck egg lead comes to fruition.

I'm currently waiting for the 4-6 week Phase 1 time frame to pass in order to let the magnesium and vitamin D supplements to kick in. So I'm basically back at the beginning despite a full year on a limited diet. The enterolab results showed despite my efforts I was not quite on the diet I needed to be on. I'm simply craving muffins and have ordered a new muffin tin guaranteed to not be hiding any gluten on it. Perseverance!

Thanks! : )

Eating something before an EnteroLab test sometimes improves the accuracy (by increasing the result if you're sensitive to it). If you're not sensitive to a food it doesn't matter whether or not you eat it prior to the test. The most important number is the overall score on those 11 antigenic foods. If it's 15 or above, then +2 is significant. If the overall score is 10 or below, the +2 means nothing, because you don't react to any of those 11 foods.

There's a reasonable chance that you may be able to use almond flour in the future, especially if you don't eat it more often than once every 3 or 4 days, as Gabes mentioned. Your ability to tolerate such foods may depend on how well you recover in general (how completely you heal).

Tex