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THE FAILSAFE
COOKBOOK Reducing food
chemicals for calm, happy families: This revolutionary book contains hundreds of new and
improved recipes for all kinds of occasions. With the help of these tasty and
easy-to-follow recipes for breakfasts, lunches, main meals and desserts,
through to food for special occasions, vegetarian cooking and gluten-free
food - and by following Sue's step by step guide to eliminating harmful
natural and added food chemicals - it is possible to be free of a wide range
of health and behavioural problems caused by food intolerance. This is a book which transforms families, see readers' stories. |
THIS REVISED AND UPDATED VERSION (2007) IS AVAILABLE IN AUSTRALIAN AND
The Failsafe Cookbook, first launched September
2001 and revised in 2007 - detailed information and hundreds of new and
improved recipes. This revolutionary Failsafe Cookbook is an essential tool for
parents wanting a calmer, happier - and healthier - family. Read this one if
you know you want to do the diet and are too busy to read much.
Sue Dengate's bestseller Fed Up opened the eyes of thousands of
desperate parents to the adverse effects of synthetic additives and natural
chemicals in foods. Based on groundbreaking research, Fed Up showed that
learning difficulties, behavioural problems and minor chronic illnesses in
children and adults can all be the result of intolerances to food chemicals.
Now, in this comprehensive Failsafe Cookbook, Sue has written and
compiled hundreds of new and improved recipes for all kinds of occasions, as
well as detailed information about the science of food intolerance and low
chemical elimination diets.
“Your new Failsafe Cookbook
is helping all of us be a happier and healthier family. My 2-year-old is
finally sleeping through the night and my husband is elated to have me ‘back to
normal" - Carolyn, NZ
Your new Failsafe Cookbook
has been the best $30 that I have spent in a long time. We have started to take
out the obvious salicylates from our diet and already seeing a big improvement”
- Robyn, VIC
'Flavour without faking it' - Weight Watchers Magazine February
2002.
'The most significant contribution to families with problem children. It
is making our job so much easier - you deserve a medal' - Learning
Connections, Brisbane.
ISBN 9781741668766 SUBJECT Food intolerance;
diet; allergy; food additives; ADD PAGES 320 PUBLISHER Random
House Australia PUBDATE 2007
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Ordering
information: Sue Dengate's books are
usually available from all good bookstores in Australia and New Zealand and
online overseas. The DVD Fed Up with Children’s Behaviour is
available through this website or from stores
listed below, or by ordering at any Angus & Robertsons bookstore.
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INTRODUCTION
'Are you affected by food additives?'
What we eat has changed dramatically over the last 30 years, and so have our children. Behaviour and learning problems, asthma, depression, youth suicide and teenage violent crime are all increasing. Many parents find that raising children is not the joyful experience they were expecting, and I was one of them.
When
my first baby was born, my life revolved around trying to get an unsettled baby
to sleep. Then she grew into the terrible twos and never grew out. On good days
she was charming, adorable and clever, but on her frequent bad days she was
demanding, dissatisfied, grouchy, easily annoyed, argumentative, defiant, took
hours to get to sleep and woke frequently. We had expected her to do well at
school but she struggled with schoolwork.
For
11 years I did the rounds of doctors, baby-health nurses, psychologists,
teachers, school counsellors, alternative practitioners, tutors,
physiotherapists, dietitians and many more. I was told I was a bad mother; to
use better behaviour management; to pour myself a stiff gin; to learn to live
with it; that I needed medication; that she needed medication. After years of
sleep deprivation, my marriage was at breaking point, and so was my sanity.
Of
all the remedies we were offered, most helped a little. We tried various diets,
for six years avoiding additives, sugar and dairy foods, but it wasn’t until
she did a 24-hour water-only fast in hospital at the age of 11 that I finally
saw the daughter I’d always wanted. Under our eyes she became settled, calm,
polite, interesting, intelligent and fun to be with. ‘That’s the child I want!’
I said. Our paediatrician finally believed that her problems were food-related,
and we started a three-week trial of a low salicylate diet.
Now read on….
