Does anyone have a recipe for gluten free, dairy free turkey meatloaf? If it complies with the Specific Carbohydrate Diet that'd be even better, since I'll soon be starting that. I've Googled and can't find anything.

One of my college roommates used to make the best turkey meatloaf and I've been craving it lately. But if I remember correctly, meatloaf is usually loaded with bread crumbs. Since complex carbohydrates and starches are forbidden on the SCD, I'm not sure what you'd replace the bread crumbs with. Nuts maybe? Ground almonds?

I'm also supposed to be avoiding eggs, but it seems a lot of meat loaf recipes use eggs. Or if they don't use eggs, they use yogurt instead, which I can't have.

Maybe I should just give up on the meatloaf idea and just make some turkey meatballs. But what would I put in them?

I'd appreciate any and all suggestions. Thanks!

If you can have oats, I have a great recipe for you. I think you'd have to use the schmancy organic non-contaminated oats, but you don't need a lot of them.

Put in the blender:

1 rough chopped onion
2 cloves of garlic
herbs and spices of your choices
(I usually use herbs de provence, but basil and oregano work fine)
Salt and pepper
1 egg.

Give it a whirl until it's liquified.

Pour it over about 3/4 cup oats and let it soak about five minutes
mix it in with about a pound of ground turkey
press it into a loaf pan lightly oiled with canola or olive oil
Cover in tomato sauce or ketchup and bake at 350 for 40 minutes
Let it stand about 5-10 minutes before you serve it.

You want to put in whatever seasoning you like, usually onions, sometimes worcestershire sauce, ketchup, salsa, etc. Most of the time meatloaf has bread crumbs, but you can substitute anything else that will hold a little moisture - cooked rice or mashed potatoes or millet, shredded carrot or zucchini. I've added sauteed chopped kale or spinach with really good results. And an egg to bind it all together, and salt to taste. You can also add a little water while you mix it all, but start with just a little because you can get it too wet fairly quickly.

And none of us should be eating oatmeal unless it's the special gluten-free brands.

Not meatloaf, but it would work if you bake it like a meatloaf. It's similar.

Turkey Meatballs:

3/4 lb ground turkey
3 turkey italian sausages, remove casing
3T pesto
1/2 log (4 oz) cooked polenta, crumbled
1 egg
pepper

The pesto sauce I use doesn't have cheese in it.

I made turkey meatballs with 1/2 cup almond flour and they were delicious! You can use the recipes above, but sub out the polenta/oats with almond meal to conform to SCD.

I put fennel seeds in mine. The are not on the SCD illegal list. I also use italian herbs, garlic powder, salt, pepper, onion powder on top of chopped onions and the almond meal.

I have diabetes. A lot of diabetics do low carb and I've been told by some that you do not need to put any crumbs, oatmeal, crackers, etc. in the meatloaf. I have also learned by experimenting that you do not need to put milk or egg in.

I don't have an actualy recipe and my meatloaf seems to come out different each time. I do use ketchup or chili sauce (mainly for flavoring). That is sweet. If you can use the One Carb ketchup, sweetened with Splenda, that will work. If you can't have that many carbs, then use a small can of tomato sauce, checking the carb count first because some are carbier than others.

I use ground flax for the egg. This would also work in place of any crumb type thing. Flax is low in carbs. I soak the flax in whatever juice I use. I use juice in place of milk. Normally I use a V-8 type of blend that I get from the health food store. Has less carbs than V-8, but I will sometimes use V-8 or just plain tomato juice if that's all I can get.

I also add a lot of vegetables which I chop in the food processor first. I always add onion and pepper. But if I have them I will add spinach, Swiss chard, carrots, celery, zucchine or even mushrooms. Once I got carried away and added too many vegetables. The end result was good, but it didn't taste much like meat.

I don't like ground turkey so I use lean ground beef. The ratio I go for is about 2 o 3 pounds (I like to make a lot at once) of meat, 1-2 cups of vegetables and 1-2 single serve cans/bottles of juice. Small or large can of tomato sauce or 8-16 oz of ketchup.

I make these into individual meatloaves on a lipped cookie sheet and bake at 350 for about an hour.