LID (Low-Iodine Diet)

For a while, this blog will probably be all-LID-all-the-time. The LID is the low-iodine diet I have to start on March 8th, and it's got one simple rule (no high-iodine foods) that creates an odd assortment of forbidden foods:

• Milk and all dairy products
• Egg yolks
• Anything from the sea (fish, seaweed, carageenan...)
• Potato skins
• Iodized salt
• Bleached flour (iodides are used in bleaching)
• Any packaged food that contains salt (because there's no way to know if the salt's iodized)
• Ditto restaurant foods
• Certain drugs and vitamins that contain iodine
• Soy

On my thyroid-cancer listserv, someone lamented the loss of cream cheese to spread on her melba toast. Here are some ideas for things-to-spread-on-toast, for her and for me and for anyone else who might be taking this weird little journey. These are reposts of things I've made in the past, but as my energy permits, I'll add some more recipes, and post pictures when I can.

Sunshine Jelly The recipe is at http://www.kraftfoods.com/kf/recipes/certo-citrus-jelly-60900.aspx -- They call it citrus jelly, but my family thinks it tastes like pure sunshine.
Blood orange jelly This is the same recipe as the Sunshine Jelly, but it's made with blood oranges instead of normal ones.
Blood orange jelly closeup
Hummus and not-hummus Top: red-pepper hummus (garbanzos, salt-free tahini, lemon juice, garlic, salt, roasted red peppers). Bottom: not-hummus (garbanzos, lemon juice, garlic, onions, parsley, salt).
Not-hummus Not-hummus is garbanzos, lemon juice, salt, parsley, onions, and garlic.