What can I eat for breakfast while taking Levothyroxine for Hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid)?

I created this list for my parents, both of whom face this problem. Namely, that they can eat nothing for at minimum 30 minutes after taking Levothyroxine, and then for the next three and a half hours are advised to avoid taking any food or medicine which might contain calcium or iron.

That's some pretty tough criteria to meet, since it's nearly impossible to find very many commonplace, economical (and palatable) breakfast food items which possess zero calcium and iron. In fact, as of late September 2013 I'd only found three of those.

So the only practical thing to do is to look for foods which are very low in both calcium and iron, rather than completely devoid of them. Right off the bat that would seem to exclude most types of diary products and meats, leaving us with primarily fruits and a few types of cereals and pastries.

This page offers a quick rule of thumb for the best breakfast food candidates I've been able to round up so far. Note that different sources both online and off (as well as different manufacturer brands and serving sizes) will tend to change the numbers a bit. But the values given below should offer you a pretty good general idea of where to start with your own breakfast decisions (and you can always Google (or examine the nutritional labels of) individual items on your own to verify my accuracy or lack thereof).

Here's the list (% DV means percentage of Daily Value, and stems from the Recommended Dietary Allowance guidelines maintained by the US FDA and other governmental bodies):

Food	Amount	Calcium % DV	Iron % DV
Art Dessert Rugala Raspberry Walnut pastries	One pastry	0	0
Natural Nutrition Puffed Brown Rice Cereal	One cup	0	0
Applesauce	One cup	0	0
Puffed Rice Cereal	One cup	0	2
Peanut Butter	Two Table spoons	0	2
Natural Nutrition Puffed Red Wheat Cereal	One cup	0	4
Tomato Soup	One half a cup	0	4
Blue Bird Brand Pecan Spin Sweet Roll	One	0	4
Apple (including skin)	One whole Apple	1	1
Blueberries (raw, not dried or otherwise processed)	One cup	1	2
Peach	One large peach	1	2
Baked Potato (the flesh or insides, NOT the skin)	One average sized potato	1	3
Banana	One average sized banana	1	3
Rice Milk	One cup	2	1
Cantaloupe	One cup	2	2
Grapes	One cup	2	3
Cherries	One cup	2	3
Strawberry halves	One cup	2	3
Raisin Bread	One slice	4	2

Please note that some of these items might be combined in various worthwhile ways. For instance, one cup of puffed rice cereal might be combined with one cup of rice milk to make for a decent simulation of a mainstream bowl of cereal, containing only 2 % DV calcium, and 3 % DV iron.

It might also be possible to determine certain food items which tend to discourage or prohibit the body from absorbing calcium or iron, in which case eating those by themselves or in combination with other items might offer you more wiggle room on the % DV numbers for such things. However, that's too advanced and complex a subject for me to go into at the moment (but maybe some of you might look into it?).

I will try to update and expand this list as possible. Hopefully you'll find this helpful to your situation!