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A sample day aimed at helping you become friends with food again and recover your food tolerance.

Breakfast

• Freshly squeezed juice
• Black or green tea
• Rice hardpan with jam (no sugar added)

Lunch

• A bite of apple
• Whole wheat pasta with cream and ham
• Your choice of mixed vegetables (be careful not to eat “prohibited” ones)

Dinner

• A bite of celery
• Octopus and potatoes salad
• Abundant grilled vegetables (those that are allowed)

If you're away from home...

“Regular” bread without fats, your choice of cold cuts, grilled meat and fish, your choice of fresh vegetables (better avoid spinach). No fried foods or items prepared with low quality fats, such as croissants.

Suggestions

Nickel diet is never “absolute”, and only a doctor can determine how rigidly you must follow it. In severe cases, your doctor may even advise you to control your use of tap water or flour; it's usually enough to limit your intake of foods that contain a lot of nickel. Especially at the beginning, you must be careful to check the ingredients labels. The food profile “Nickel: yes and no foods” offers a list of allowed foods and those to avoid.

Basic rules

• Always start every meal (or snack) with a bite of “raw, fresh and colorful” fruit and/or vegetable;
• Always combine carbohydrates and proteins in order to avoid glycemic peaks;
• Always choose a good extra virgin olive oil over animal fats like butter and cream;
• Avoid sugar: jam is allowed, best if homemade and without added sugar;
• Eggs can be eaten in every diet, even as many as six or seven per week!
• Recipes

The Recipes section offers many useful ideas organized by intolerance type and basic ingredient.

Suggested diets

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