Sugars and sweet things
Seedless jam, jelly-type marmalade (no peel), lemon curd, honey, golden syrup
Allowed — On the allowed list of the leaflet this book follows and of every hospital compared.
Recipes using it
- Banana and honey ice lollies
- Banana and honey shake
- Buttered brioche with warm tinned peaches
- Buttermilk pancakes with golden syrup and warm pear
- Honey-butter cornflake clusters
- Melon and ripe banana with smooth yoghurt and honey
- Plain scones with jam and cream
- Sticky toffee-style pudding without the dates
- Steamed syrup sponge for two
- White toast, done properly
Swaps
- Instead of Peanut butter, use Smooth chocolate spread, lemon curd or seedless jam
- Peanut butter is a nut product and this diet excludes all nuts, so the same creamy sweetness comes from jam or lemon curd instead. Some hospitals allow smooth peanut butter, but the leaflet this book follows does not, so it stays off the ingredients list here.
- Instead of Dried fruit in baking, such as raisins, apricots or dates, use Extra golden syrup or sugar and vanilla, or a small amount of well-drained, finely diced tinned peach
- Dried fruit concentrates its skin and fibre as it dries, so the same sweetness comes from syrup or a little well-drained tinned fruit instead. Some hospitals allow a small amount of dried fruit cooked soft into a sauce, though this is uncommon, so treat it as an exception rather than the rule.
- Instead of Chunky marmalade, use Seedless jam or lemon curd
- It is the peel and pith in chunky marmalade that cause the problem, so a seedless jam or lemon curd gives the same sweetness without them.