About

This is a blog about food, cooking and trying to find low histamine food that my kids will eat which doesn’t require me to cook three different dishes each day.

The first rule of low histamine cooking is ‘no takeaway’ the second rule is ‘no leftovers’ the third rule is ‘nothing processed’.

This basically leaves you eating a lot of quinoa salad.

The recipes in this blog are invented, adapted and curated over the last few months of an enforced low histamine diet, where more than half of a recipe has been lifted from somewhere else I have included a reference. All recipes are based around cooking for five people, three of whom are children an, which translates to four servings, and sometimes enough non histamine intolerant people to have enough left over for lunch the next day (see the second rule of low histamine cooking).

The guidance on low histamine food is fragmented, with different authors emphasising and de-emphasising different things, and minor differences in preparation and freshness having a significant impact on the histamine intolerant eater. My go to list of low histamine foods is the Swiss Interest Group Histamine Intolerance Histamine Elimination Diet, but I also regularly go back to Main Street Vegan, The Histamine Connection and the Histamien Friendly Kitchen.

My goal is to be ‘lowish histamine’, which through trial and error means it is tolerated by the sample of one histamine intolerant diner for whom I cook.

This blog is a work in progress and the pictures get replaced when I remember to take some.