What is your favourite International Cuisine?

KateGilmore

Hey,

I wonder, which International Cuisine you like best? Especially low-protein-wise?

I love getting to know different ways of cooking and I find there is so much potential especially for us PKUs to find low protein recipes which are delicious.

Personally, I'm especially fond of Korean food (Kimchi 😃), Thai food (Papaya salad 🥰) and just last year I got to know Czech food and find it very delicious too.

I'm excited what you have to tell about this. ☺️

Gosia

#1 KateGilmore I love our local Silesian Cuisine. With small modifications it can be PKU friendly. I like trying dishes from other cuisines.My brother loves Italy so we try PKU version of Italian Cuisine.

Gregor Hammerschmidt

#1 KateGilmore great topic. I like pizza and pasta very much, and you can easily adapt that to PKU needs. I also like Chinese food (especially rice with cooked vegetables). Never tried Korean food - it sounds interesting. I do love some fresh salads - there are many options and variations out there.

Maria

I like Thai and Japanese food. But in reality I end up cooking a ton of Mediterranean stuff - tomatoes, bell peppers garlic and eggplants are my favorite vegetables

KateGilmore

#4 Maria oh yess…. eggplants 🔥I love those too 😃

I took part in several cooking courses in my home town in the past months, they weren't specifically low phe cooking courses, but gave me so many good veggie recipes and inspiration 😊

Xiaofei

Hello Guys,

My son is 9 years old, he is PKU. We are Chinese and mostly we cook Chinese food🙂, eggplants, cabbage, potatoes, .etc.

Just wondering which protein brand you are drinking? My son is drinking NUTRICIA.

Although my boy is 9 years old, it seems I'm still new here🙂, so glad to see these conversation here and wish we could communicate frequently.

KateGilmore

Dear Xiaofei,

nice to online-meet you 😃

Oh wow, could you share some Chinese PKU friendly recipes with us? I really like Chinese food (at least what is offered here in Germany, I heard that mostly it is not really authentic, but I don't know since I've never been to China 😅)

Would you mind telling us more about life with PKU / with a PKU child in China? It's very exciting!

Is your son getting along well with the Nutricia formula? What kind of other formulas do you have in China? Do you have to cover the costs all by yourself or is there any kind of health insurance which helps you covering it?

How is your son doing with the diet? Is it difficult for him?

My son turns 9 in July as well 🙂 However, he does not have PKU.

I take two types of formula: Vitaflo Sphere liquid and Cambrooke Build RTD Chocolate, both are ready-to-drink products, which I prefer, since it's easier for every day 🙂

Looking forward to your reply.

Kathi

Xiaofei

#7 KateGilmore

Hi Kate,

It's so lucky to have your comment🙂

Actually we do have lots of recipes in China because we have different kinds of cooking. We can boil, stir, fry and steam.

You may know hot pot, you can boil any vegetables you like into a pot with different hotpot seasoning, like tomato taste(my son's favourite), spicy or not spicy.

We can also stir different vegetables, potatoes, put some oil in a frying pan, heat it and put some garlic or spring onion and stir with one kind of vegetables or mixed.

Fried mushroom is also a good choice🙂, stick some powder outside of mushrooms, limited eggs, salt and fry. For example, we can stir, fry and steam or cut it into small sticks, boil them in hot water very soon, take them out from hot water, cool them, filter remaining water, then put some salt, sugar, vinegar, soy sauce and mix them. Not sure if you could view this video🙂

https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E9%86%8B%E6%BA%9C%E5%9C%9F%E8%B1%86%E4%B8%9D/4923737?fr=ge_ala

Regarding formula products, we have Nutricia(get from hospital) and Government will pay 75% for us(including rice and powder), we also have some other community compensation. But it's heard this policy only applies to PKU under 18 years old. There are also some domestic formulas.

Do you take other additional nutrition besides formula? It's so glad to hear your son is not PKU, how did you do when you got pregnant? It's heard it has to be very strict for a girl to keep diet during pregnant.

Thank you~