How to Rotate Foods in Your Diet

Living with food allergies can be difficult, but their impact on your life can be made less severe by adherence to a structured food rotation diet. A food rotation diet can help you to minimize symptoms and avoid developing new food allergies by constantly altering your food intake so that your body never becomes irritated by the meals consumed. Although sticking to a strict food rotation diet can be burdensome, the improvement in your health will make the sacrifice worthwhile.

Things You'll Need

• Computer and word processing program OR
• Notebook and pen

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Instructions

Setting up a Rotation

• 1

  Follow a strict four-day rotation schedule. This is a schedule that will alternate permissible foods every day, preventing your body from developing an allergy to any particular food, or preventing your body from becoming excessively irritated to foods to which you are already allergic. Keeping your body guessing by constantly changing your food sources is a natural way to keep your body healthy and alleviate the symptoms of allergies without resorting to prescription medication

• 2

  Take a trip to the grocery store to prepare for your new diet. As you will be constantly changing which foods are allowed, you will have to purchase a wide variety of meats, dairy products, fruits, vegetables and grains so that you will always have something in the house that you are permitted to eat. In general, you will need at least at least four different protein sources from the following categories--red meats, poultry, seafood and dairy. For example, you could purchase beef, turkey, halibut and eggs to satisfy your protein needs for your first bout with food rotation. Additionally, purchase at least four different vegetables, four different fruits, and four different types of grain products (for example, oats, quinoa, buckwheat and rye bread).

• 3

  Set up a schedule by taking the different foods you have purchased and assigning them to a day. For each day in the four day rotation you will need to assign a protein source, fruits, vegetables and a grain. For example, day one could consist of eating red meats (e.g. beef, lamb, and venison), apples and oranges, spinach and lettuce and whole wheat products. Day two could consist of eating seafood (salmon, halibut and trout), citrus fruits, beans and cruciferous vegetables, and rye products. Day three could consist of eating poultry (chicken and turkey) along with berries and grapes, cucumbers and turnips and oats. Day four could consist of eating protein from dairy sources (eggs and cheeses), peaches and pears, peas and kale and quinoa. After this, you would rotate back to day one and begin the schedule anew.