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I have been gluten free now for the past 3 years. I know you guys are also staying away from soy/dairy, fruits/veggies and other foods that contain a lot of fiber. I am kind of lost now on what to eat. I know some people do well on some foods and others not but, could anyone help out on some ideas?
Thanks
Jenny
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Jenny,
Check out some of the threads in this forum:
http://www.perskyfarms.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=53
Also:
http://www.perskyfarms.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=49
And:
http://www.perskyfarms.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=7
Tex
Check out some of the threads in this forum:
http://www.perskyfarms.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=53
Also:
http://www.perskyfarms.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=49
And:
http://www.perskyfarms.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=7
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
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Joefnh
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Hi Kelly and welcome from New Hampshire.
As you mentioned many of us find significant relief b eating GF/SF and DF. As you mentioned be careful of raw fruits and veggies. Well cooked veggies are fine.
A good place to start is with some good home cooking with basic ingredients. Here is a link I used to help me along with the dietary part of this.
http://www.perskyfarms.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11680
Take care
--Joe
As you mentioned many of us find significant relief b eating GF/SF and DF. As you mentioned be careful of raw fruits and veggies. Well cooked veggies are fine.
A good place to start is with some good home cooking with basic ingredients. Here is a link I used to help me along with the dietary part of this.
http://www.perskyfarms.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11680
Take care
--Joe
Joe
Hi Jenny, I can assure it takes a while to get a new food routine when you are soy, yeast, gluten, egg, diary and corn free. Also can't eat nuts and have problems with a lot of different types of veggies and fruits. I, immediately after finding this website, went glutenfree. For the other "free's' I waited for my enterolab results. In the meanwhile I had already figured that my bowels didn't like corn. That's an easy thing to discover when you buy glutenfree replacements. I have had never that much stomach pain, as from all that special glutenfree stuff.
Once I found out, soy, milk, yeast and egg where also a big NO, I worked out a new food routine. Twice a day a warm mail (lunch and dinner) with meat/fish, vegetables and sometimes rice. For breakfast rice with fruit. What kind of fruit and vegetables I could digest, that was just simple trial and error. And that takes a while. Also there does not seem to be general rule, we all seem to be different in what we can stand and what not.
The fruit/veggies is most of the time not an intolerance, but more due to an inflamed gut. After is healed, it should get easier.
But in general for a lot here legumes are a problem, same with nightshades (tomatoes, peppers), nuts can be a problem because of the fiber content. With rice it is also saver to choose not the brown rice, but white rice. Peel all your fruit. Banana's seem to be save for quite a view, but not for everybody. Canned or cooked fruit is easier to digest. Vegetables cook them very well. My veggie variation is carrots, beet roots, spinach and broccoli. Fruit variation is banana's mainly, apples and everything out of a tin. Meat and fish the choice is not limited, although I don't eat pig, never liked it. I am a really really really bad for the oceans, I eat a lot of fish, I think the meat/fish ration is 50/50.
Menu suggestions I can't give you, I just cook my food or bake it in olive oil and eat it. Herbs and spices were also not a success (bowel wise than). Apple sauce (if I am able to find it) is my great appetizer.
And it never stops and the smallest details can make a difference, when I came back from Jordan, one thing I was looking forward to, was my coffee, cappuccino made with rice milk. What do you thing, it tasted horribe, just because I used another type of espresso coffee. Bought my old brand again, problem solved.
It's not very excited, but you get used to it. Also you start to learn again what a carrot taste like or a how red beets smell. But most important, the diet makes my feel much better.
But again I think it is important, first you find a new food routine for yourself, what are the basics of your meal and than trying to find out of the choices you have, what you can and what you can't digest.
good luck with it.
harma
Once I found out, soy, milk, yeast and egg where also a big NO, I worked out a new food routine. Twice a day a warm mail (lunch and dinner) with meat/fish, vegetables and sometimes rice. For breakfast rice with fruit. What kind of fruit and vegetables I could digest, that was just simple trial and error. And that takes a while. Also there does not seem to be general rule, we all seem to be different in what we can stand and what not.
The fruit/veggies is most of the time not an intolerance, but more due to an inflamed gut. After is healed, it should get easier.
But in general for a lot here legumes are a problem, same with nightshades (tomatoes, peppers), nuts can be a problem because of the fiber content. With rice it is also saver to choose not the brown rice, but white rice. Peel all your fruit. Banana's seem to be save for quite a view, but not for everybody. Canned or cooked fruit is easier to digest. Vegetables cook them very well. My veggie variation is carrots, beet roots, spinach and broccoli. Fruit variation is banana's mainly, apples and everything out of a tin. Meat and fish the choice is not limited, although I don't eat pig, never liked it. I am a really really really bad for the oceans, I eat a lot of fish, I think the meat/fish ration is 50/50.
Menu suggestions I can't give you, I just cook my food or bake it in olive oil and eat it. Herbs and spices were also not a success (bowel wise than). Apple sauce (if I am able to find it) is my great appetizer.
And it never stops and the smallest details can make a difference, when I came back from Jordan, one thing I was looking forward to, was my coffee, cappuccino made with rice milk. What do you thing, it tasted horribe, just because I used another type of espresso coffee. Bought my old brand again, problem solved.
It's not very excited, but you get used to it. Also you start to learn again what a carrot taste like or a how red beets smell. But most important, the diet makes my feel much better.
But again I think it is important, first you find a new food routine for yourself, what are the basics of your meal and than trying to find out of the choices you have, what you can and what you can't digest.
good luck with it.
harma
"As the sense of identity shifts from the imaginary person to your real being as presence awareness, the life of suffering dissolves like mist before the rising sun"
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Linda in BC
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Hi Jenny and WELCOME since I don't think I have welcomed you yet.
I am really intolerant of casein (milk protein), gluten, egg whites, peas, and peanuts, and when I first discovered this site and was still really ill, I couldn't eat fruit or any veggies except well -cooked carrots. I can eat more veggies and fruit now that my gut is less inflamed from being GF for 8 months now and taking Entocort for 3 months. But when I was still really ill and had just gone GF, this is what I ate:
For breakfast: generic puffed rice cereal that I have added pumpkin seeds and dried cranberries to (it is way cheaper that buying the expensive GF ones in the health food stores and it is made from only rice) with almond or rice milk. Or Van's GF DF and egg free waffles with a bit of maple syrup and bacon or sausage round. Bananas, lots of bananas, or applesauce ( I make my own by just peeling and cooking apples til they are mush and adding cinnamon. It is a good way to use up old apples that are going soft.) i also bought or made GF Df and EF bread, and so had toast some mornings.
Lunch: Homemade soup (chicken and rice, squash, beef and vegetable, or any kind as long as it doesn't have cream base, barley or noodles in it) . Left over spaghetti sauce with tinkyada pasta or any left over supper from the night before; scalloped potato and ham casserole with a GF white sauce made with rice or almond milk. Tuna with mayo and finely chopped dill pickles on rice crackers or rice cakes.
Supper: Stews, braised meat of any kind (I eat a lot of pork tenderloin and pork chops) chicken and rice, and more chicken and rice (with gf soy sauce) ...roasted meats (like a roast beef, pork or chicken with rice stuffing) cooked with roasted veggies, basically meat potatoes and rice and well -cooked carrots, squash, sweet potatoes, canned french cut green beans ( some people can't eat them but I can), fish with rice.
For snacks: Lara bars, homemade bliss balls ( recipes in Dee's kitchen ), rice cakes with almond butter and jam, a peeled apple, GF SF and Df chocolate, root veggie chips ( like potato chips but made from turnips, sweet potatoes, etc. .. because I can't eat even plain potato chips for some reason), banana chips, a few almonds at a time, homemade muffins or scones.
Well, that is mostly what I ate. Now , thank goodness I can eat the occasional raw carrot and most cooked veggies although cabbage still bothers me. Hope this gives you some ideas.
Linda
I am really intolerant of casein (milk protein), gluten, egg whites, peas, and peanuts, and when I first discovered this site and was still really ill, I couldn't eat fruit or any veggies except well -cooked carrots. I can eat more veggies and fruit now that my gut is less inflamed from being GF for 8 months now and taking Entocort for 3 months. But when I was still really ill and had just gone GF, this is what I ate:
For breakfast: generic puffed rice cereal that I have added pumpkin seeds and dried cranberries to (it is way cheaper that buying the expensive GF ones in the health food stores and it is made from only rice) with almond or rice milk. Or Van's GF DF and egg free waffles with a bit of maple syrup and bacon or sausage round. Bananas, lots of bananas, or applesauce ( I make my own by just peeling and cooking apples til they are mush and adding cinnamon. It is a good way to use up old apples that are going soft.) i also bought or made GF Df and EF bread, and so had toast some mornings.
Lunch: Homemade soup (chicken and rice, squash, beef and vegetable, or any kind as long as it doesn't have cream base, barley or noodles in it) . Left over spaghetti sauce with tinkyada pasta or any left over supper from the night before; scalloped potato and ham casserole with a GF white sauce made with rice or almond milk. Tuna with mayo and finely chopped dill pickles on rice crackers or rice cakes.
Supper: Stews, braised meat of any kind (I eat a lot of pork tenderloin and pork chops) chicken and rice, and more chicken and rice (with gf soy sauce) ...roasted meats (like a roast beef, pork or chicken with rice stuffing) cooked with roasted veggies, basically meat potatoes and rice and well -cooked carrots, squash, sweet potatoes, canned french cut green beans ( some people can't eat them but I can), fish with rice.
For snacks: Lara bars, homemade bliss balls ( recipes in Dee's kitchen ), rice cakes with almond butter and jam, a peeled apple, GF SF and Df chocolate, root veggie chips ( like potato chips but made from turnips, sweet potatoes, etc. .. because I can't eat even plain potato chips for some reason), banana chips, a few almonds at a time, homemade muffins or scones.
Well, that is mostly what I ate. Now , thank goodness I can eat the occasional raw carrot and most cooked veggies although cabbage still bothers me. Hope this gives you some ideas.
Linda
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