u/InventState_Studio

I do most of the cooking in our house, and manage recipes for the family ... which is a nightmare when different people have different health conditions (and a toddler that has decided she hates all of the food she used to love ...!).

So I built a tool that generates recipes based on everyone's needs, their allergies and health conditions etc., and it generates recipes that are safe for all of them. You can also add things like your cooking equipment, how much batch cooking you want to do.

It's free to use (no credit card, unlimited recipes): appetable if anyone wants to have a look!

It's Coeliac Awareness Month so felt like a good time to share it with this community. I'd love feedback from people here, just trying to do a little bit of good and make it as useful as possible. Anything it gets wrong or missing? The coeliac logic is something I've put a lot of work into & the safety mechanism behind it is documented here: https://appetable.io/how-it-works/coeliac.

Disclaimer: I'm the developer, so obviously biased. But I built it because I needed it, and decided to share it in case it helped others. If these kind of posts are not allowed, I'm happy to take it down.

I cook for a family member with coeliac disease, so when we were doing BLW with our youngest, allergen introduction had some extra level of anxiety. Different people in the house can't eat different things and adding new allergens into the mix felt like a lot to manage at once.

A few things that helped:

We made the mistake of introducing a new formula on Sunday during the early evening, which our kid had an immediate reaction to (we were sleep deprived & I didn't think twice about it unfortunately). From then on, all new allergen tries on weekdays, always before midday (and after we are all fully dressed!). That way if anything happened we could ring the GP or get to A&E in working hours rather than sitting anxious on a Sunday evening. Seems obvious in hindsight but nobody mentioned it to us.
We kept each new allergen clearly separate for its first few tries, peanut butter on toast on its own, nothing else new that week, not bundled with two other new foods at the same time. In BLW you naturally mix things together but when you're watching for potential reactions you want to be able to identify what caused it.
We kept a running note on the phone of what was introduced each week, just one line. When the GP asked at the 9-month check it took about 30 seconds to give a complete answer.
By 10 months everything was ticked off and we've had no issues since. The process felt slow at the time but the certainty you get afterwards is worth it.

Anyone else cook for a household with mixed dietary needs while doing BLW? Curious how others handled it.

In honour of Coeliac Awareness Week - I built a free recipe generator for families managing coeliac and other restrictions