EAT CROW AND STAY HEALTHY!

C.R.O.W comes from an easy to remember acronym that my husband came up with.
Corn Rice Oats Wheat.
It helps you remember what "food day" it is.

When I first set this up, based on the famous, If It's Tuesday, It Must Be Chicken book, I tried to pick foods that natually are eaten together. Like here in Pennsylvania, ham and beans and potatoes always go together. Likewise, isn't it always, chicken and rice? And turkey hoagies? I tried to make it so it would be easy to find something to feed the boys between doctors' appointments on the road. Here is the result of my 14 years of tweaking our diets.

Grain Meat Vegetables Dessert Oil or Fat Formula
Corn	pork/ ham	beans/ peas/peanut / potatoes	corn syrup candies like caramels & hard candies, or peanut butter stuff.	corn/ soy/ or peanut oil	soy or corn

Rice	chicken/ egg	broccoli	chocolate	canola oil	rice "milk"

Oats	beef/ milk	carrots/ yams	icecream	olive oil	cow

Wheat	turkey	lettuce/ spinach	cookies or cake	wheat-germ oil, flax oil	goat or human

Notes:

Any food you stay off of for six weeks, may make the reaction go away. If you overindulge, it can come back!

Peanuts (beans and other legumes), tree nuts and shellfish are NOT likely to go away.

I no longer recommend rotating oils, even though this is the diet I followed for 2 years before it got into this final form.
I recommend only butter and olive oil. Oils are not very allergenic anyway.

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Updated August 12, 2002