It's difficult living with gout.
You are not allowed much bread; you're allowed even less alcohol.
Gout is a disease that gets your body producing uric acid right in your joints.
Your joints become swollen and painful.
When they look at the list of foods that are not allowed, it seems to anyone suffering from gout that there is pretty much nothing left in the world to eat.
They can't even try seafood a red meat.
These foods contain purine - a substance that is broken down in the body into uric acid.
Contrary to popular belief, you can eat well even if you have gout.
The following list of great foods for gout should help you out.
You aren't restricted from eating all kinds of delicious root vegetables - carrots, sweet potatoes and so on.
You could try a soup made of all this stuff.
It'll be a great comforting bowl for when the weather is cold.
Look up the recipe for a soup made of curried carrots, sweet potato and ginger, and make it with vegetable stock instead of chicken.
It's a low-calorie soup that will set you right up.
You are going to see a running vegetarian theme to all of these foods for gout.
It just so happens that most plant-based foods are a lot safer than animal foods.
How about a nice Waldorf salad? You could chop up apples, celery, cranberries and grapes and walnuts, and mix them all together with low-fat mayonnaise.
All the fruits in this salad have malic acid that help you, and the nuts give you proteins without purines.
So you really want something you can sink your teeth into - something like a hamburger.
Of course, hamburgers contain red meat; which isn't on your list of for gout.
What you can try instead, is a vegetarian sandwich.
You can be happy about how you are being allowed bread.
Tomatoes and eggplant happen to be great low purine vegetables.
While regular cheese can be bad for you, goat cheese can quite make up for the absence of anything meaty.
Put them all together between two buns for great healthy burger.
The vegetables you use here have alkaline qualities - and that helps neutralize uric acid.
Just when you thought that you are being asked to swear off meat for life comes this recipe that you send your hopes up - it is a lemon roasted chicken.
The thing is, even if meat does happen to be a little out of bounds for the most part, it can't always be workable when you need to cook for family.
If you have to eat meat, make sure that you choose chicken.
They happen to have far less purine than stuff like beef, pork or turkey.
Look up the recipe for lemon roasted chicken.
It's easy to make, and the flavor of chicken sits right in with carrots, turnips, stage and lemon.
There are many more delightful recipes that you can tap for your needs.
While finding the right foods for gout can take a bit of research, they really are out there.
And you don't even need to look that hard.