Food Allergies

[sanantone]

Sounds like semantics to me.  Many forms of food sensitivities can legitimately be called allergies, as they're also immune-mediated, unlike digestive difficulties due to lack of enzymes.  It's clearer, though, to call them intolerances, and reserve the term "allergies" for the hives & anaphylaxis variety.

Regardless, the simplest way to locate recipes you can eat with those limitations is probably searching for paleo options.  Double-check anything you find, but it's a whole lot easier to double-check the things you expect are already likely to be okay than to read all the ingredients on everything at random.

I would go with what an MD or DO would tell you. The acupuncturist might even be practicing beyond her legal scope of practice. Dietitians need to know exactly what's going on to come up with the best diet plan. In medicine, it's not semantics. Pneumonia that is caused by a virus can't be treated the same as pneumonia caused by bacteria.