Archive of recipes suitable for the RPAH Elimination Diet or FAILSAFE Diet; free of artificial preservatives, additives, flavours and colours.

Resources

Food List

My list of allowable foods (used in these recipes) was compiled from a combination of RPAH and Sue Dengate publications and my own research amongst the supermarket shelves. It includes foods that contained low levels of natural food chemicals, amines and moderate levels of salicylates at the time of writing. The science on these chemicals may have changed over time, so please confirm the ingredients in these receipes are OK for you.

I used the RPAH handbook as my definitive list of foods containing amines, salicylates and glutamates. There are a lot of lists available on the internet for amine and salicylate containing foods, but I have yet to find an accurate one.

Books

These are the books we used:

RPAH Elimination Diet Handbook with food and shopping guide, 2009, Anne Swain, Velencia Soutter, Robert Loblay, Allergy Unit, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.

Friendly Food, 2009, Dr A R Swin, Dr V L Soutter, Dr R H Loublay, Murdoch Books
The Failsafe Cookbook, 2007, Random House Australia

For kids, Oscar’s Lunchbox is a fantastic book to help them understand their food intolerances. Its also a great tool for help carers and other “well meaning folk” understand food intolerances as well.

Shopping

Unfortunately most of the places I shopped for specialty foods are no longer in business, the one exception being:

Organics Australia Online (online) – for organic dried fruit

Facebook

Joining the following Facebook pages can offer a lot of support:

Sue Dengate Failsafe Group

Sue Dengate’s Fed Up, Fed Up With ADHD, Fed Up With Asthma, Failsafe Cookbook, Fed Up With Children’s Behaviour DVD.

Failsafe Closed Group

At the Failsafe Table

Cooking for Oscar joined forces with Domestic Diva, Failsafe Foodie and Real Meals to produce a monthly newsletter – At the Failsafe Table – of our posts and recipes. While the newsletter is no longer produced, it remains a resource, along with the websites of the other fabulous ladies I met on this journey