dairy&gluten free diet for asd&adhd anyone tried?

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Hello, struggling to cope with DS 3.1s behaviour so have decided to try a gluten and dairy free diet. Have spent a small fortune tonight on the specialist foods from pasta to gravy granules. Does anyone have any experience of it? Did it help? Any tips on foods or cheap ways to buy them? Also recipies would be very much appreciated. Thanks

I do dairy free diet, not many good tips but it does cost less when you make most of it yourself. I posted on the food talk topics and got some very good ideas. There are several really good books out there with excellent recipes. Most of the websites of the specialist foods that you spent a fortune on - its a huge rip off - have recipe sections. 'Pure' the dairy free spread have aldo zilli on doing recipes - even the bbc website have some dairy and gluten free recipes. google recipes as well - its much cheaper than buying the books!
After a while you get very used to replacing items in everyday recipes. it's eating out that's still a problem. Places like pizza hut can be quite helpful. you can take in GF bases and they put on the rest. They have a comprehensive ingredient list for their products on the website.
I bet there's a lot of other SNmums that can tell you if the diets work. i only know that the more i make myself, the less rubbish ingredients and preservatives are in it. I'm sure that must be better.

my two boys with asd on gf/cf diet for just over a year - i think they are definitely more engaged generally since they started it. definitely more expensive and eating out a pain but worth it i think.

My ds (asd) lives off sandwiches and yoghurt - I have no idea how to get him dairy/gluten free.

I'm not sure it's worth the stress !!

have a look at the teatingautism website
www.treatingautism.co.uk - lots of good info there. there is also a very good yahoo group that you can get onto through traeating autism website