I appreciate what your saying but sometimes you need to adapt something to meet your own needs its well documented that what suits one does not nessacary others, at this present moment in time I'm in a lot of pain due to a prolapsed disk in my neck I'm taking Amitriptyline primarily a anti depressent but using as a muscle relaxant in this case & also Diazepam (Vallium), I'm not sleeping due to the muscle spasms & constant pins & needles down one arm I'm due to see a specialist on 1st August but I already know that nothing is going to happen that day as I need to be refered for am MRI scan so in the circumstances I am doing the best I can, I take your point about checking ingredients but I did find Snack o jacks & rice crispies posted on here as a safe foodS! anyway this morning I am having bread made in the bread machine yes it is with a ready made mix but I have checked & rechecked the ingredients & no dairy at all, I will also be sticking to either Organic white rice or peeled potatoes, but & your not going to like this but I will be eating plain chicken/turkey breasts & fish, if after a few days of this I haven't stablised then I will start dropping the meat etc, Im sorry it does not conform to what you feel is the diet but it is the best I can manage at the moment, you said yourself that you can't eat bananas/certain rice etc so if you stuck to the SF staples listed on page 27 (1st yr) you would also be sick aswell! everybody has to start somewhere & that may be different for everyone I'm not searching for a quick fix I've had this for 11yrs so another few months aren't going to make much difference, Helen