Patient Resources

SCD + Beyond is a group dedicated to helping people find health and healing through the SCD lifestyle and beyond. We are open to questions, ideas, encouragement, and discussions. Feel free to ask questions and share ideas! Just please let us know what is SCD and what is not, so that we can all help each other heal, no matter what stage we are at in our journey! (This group is for those in sustained remission who are interested in reintroducing foods normally not allowed on strict SCD).

Recipes for Crohn's Disease Exclusion Diet

This is a group to exchange cooking tips and recipes for the Instant Pot ( InstaPot ) who follow the SCD (Specific Carbohydrate Diet). If you are looking for a general SCD group, we do not recommend this one.

Treatment of IBD via a combined approach: nutrition, emotional support, medications, and surgery.

Tips for following SCD from a senior dietetics student at Auburn University who has Crohn's disease and uses diet along with meds to manage her IBD.

Instructions for and an example of a Symptom Diary for tracking IBD symptoms

Instructions for keeping a food log with examples.

This page details advice on implementing EEN and for transitioning from EEN to pharmaceutical therapy and/or SCD.

Downloadable/Printable PDF with the allowed foods for each phase

Dr. David Suskind answers questions about IBD, dietary therapy, and much more.

How to use nutrition to manage a flare

This webpage describes helpful stages that can guide a patient through adding new foods in a way designed to minimize symptoms. The pecanbread stages add foods according to digestibility and texture.

Information about using EEN to get into remission.

An example of a cooking program for patients on a therapeutic diet.

This is one of the most popular SCD recipes. Since cocoa powder is not allowed on SCD, "chocolate" recipes have to get creative. This recipes simulates chocolate cake/brownies using dates, pecan flour, and cocoa butter.

On this page, you will find PDFs intended for enrolled participants, but that are useful for anyone implementing SCD or mSCD. Documents include the following: meal plans, FAQs, guide to reading food labels, instructions for making SCD yogurt, managing social activities, SCD brands, SCD snacks, SCD resources, SCD summaries (brief and detailed), recommended food stages for the study, SCD supplements, recipe links, and weight loss prevention.

This page offers advice for determining if SCD is right for you, when it may not work, and when it may be best used in conjunction with traditional medical therapy. While it specifically mentions SCD, the advice on this page is relevant to most nutritional therapies.

Oral iron supplements are not recommended on SCD. This post provides alternative methods to supplement iron.

A list of the allowed and restricted foods. This table includes an Explanation column with additional information about the food item and a NiMBAL Research column with facts from research on the food item.

A nice catalog of recipes compliant with SCD.

Downloadable/printable PDF with an overview of EEN.