I have a bunch of food intolerancies too (not sure which, still testing with the dietician) and have been on a bunch of diets to avoid certain foods. So I'm well acquainted with all these ingredients on your list.
The balls sound delicious! But the problem I found with recipes like this is that all the ingredients are about 2-3x the price of regular ingredients. Like almond milk, coconut oil ,etc. Super healthy, but only affordable if you have the income for it... which I don't :(
It's unfortunate because without these adjustments I'm suffering from these intolerancies pretty badly, affecting my productivity and thus income, but without additional income I can't get out of this spiral either. It's a catch 22! :(
I also found that once I started removing certain foods from my diet and eating 'healthy' instead, I would continuously lose weight and have significant lack of energy. It's really hard to eat enough when you are eating healthy... apparently there's lots of power in bad food, and not so much in healthy food. While weight loss might be good for many people worldwide, it's not for me, as I'm chronically underweight (related to food intolerancies - food doesn't get properly digested, thus no energy/weight gets added). The past month or so I have had to ditch the diets that I was on, in order to gain some weight again because it was getting dangerously and unhealthily low.
I can tell you one thing: After not eating 'normal' snacks and chocolate for about 2+ years, my mind was blown when I ate chocolate again. My god... this stuff is like drugs! There's way more going on than just the taste of it.... I think normally we are so hooked onto sugar and other pleasure-foods that we don't notice it, but if you've been off of those crap-foods and you eat it again after a long time, it's really noticable.
Sorry to hear you're going through food allergies as well. I also have the same issue with losing weight when I was already underweight. My doctor told me to eat more of what is allowed, but I agree it is a challenge. She also told me to not go the route of testing every possible allergy because most of the times these tests are not relevant. She suggested the elimination diet and then adding back gradually one food at a time to see which one causes trouble. I'm still on the elimination phase.
And yes, most of these healthy foods are way more expensive than the usual ones. I find it frustrating that gluten free stuff costs so much more than the regular. What I do is to make a lot of research and go shop where I find the best prices, either off line or online. And I try to buy in bulk or bigger packaging when possible as these have the best prices.
Wishing you to get better soon and to have enough money for your needs.
thanks!
Yes I had the elimination diet stuff too. I actually never quite got 'out' of it. I had some improvements when on it but once I started adding stuff, I quickly ran into problems again so I fell back to the eliminated list of foods. But the foods that are left are simply not that great and it makes for a super bland dish when you can't use 99% of herbs and spices (incl. onion, garlic, etc. which is in everything). I basically lived off of quinoa for a very long time, and have grown to hate it with a passion because of it. I used to call my evening dinner 'my daily slop' because it always involved the same handful of veggies and spices. Only so much variation is possible with a limited amount of foods