Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | banana-nut-no-sugar cookies, tomato-rice dish, banana-nut-butter

Never posted on this board before, due mainly to me being too innovative in the kitchen and it often ending in disaster and the fact that universally acknowledged truth is that the food I usually eat/make is really bland and tasteless for anyone else's taste. But thought I'd share two/three v simple and healthy recipes with you all and some of you may also like it, (I do).

BANANA NUT SUGAR FREE COOKIES:
inspired by this recipe originally:
http://lowfatcooking.about.com/od/bakedgoods/r/lchochipcookies.htm
you'll see that I changed it out of all recognition however...

since fat is such a huge problem for me, what can you substitute for oil/butter/eggs? applesauce of course, which I can't have due to fructose malabsorption, but you can go for any other pureed fruit apparently. So I went for bananas! they are also fantastic cos bananas have a lot of resistant starch which act as SF, meaning that the IF in the nuts are balanced out.

-ingredients:
4tbsp white flour
tiny bit of salt
tiny bit of baking soda
1 tbsp ground walnut
1 tbsp ground peanut
1 medium-sized semi-ripe banana
(may want to add a drop of vanilla extract too)

-preparation method:
whisk all these together, I actually put all the ingredients in the food processor/chopper and let it go for 3-4 mins instead. You have the batter then (a liquidy batter, mind), you simply dip the mixture by the tablespoonful onto baking paper on a baking tray and bake in oven for 12-15 mins - 180 degrees C.

yields 5 small cookies, fat only comes from the nuts and it is extremely healthy.
(5 small cookies you'll see is a tiny amount but you may not like it hence make a tiny amount first time round is my philosophy)

TOMATO-RICE DISH
this is again v basic but I like it

-ingredients:
1/2cup rice
1/2cup of rolled oats (like Quaker oats)
3tbsp tomato puree/paste
1tsp basil
tiny bit of olive oil
cooked carrots (raw may be fine too)
cooked and peeled shrimp
chicken/vegetable stock

-preparation method:
make the rice with water and stock until it's almost done. then add oats and simmer for another 5 mins so that oats are cooked as well. (quaker oats I find cook v quickly)

in a separate frying pan on a low heat: cook the oil, tomato puree, carrots, shrimp and basil together, for around 5 mins. (I use carrots to take the acidity away from the tomato sauce, normal people eat onions of course, but I have trouble with onions unfortunately).

mix the two together in the end. add salt and pepper to taste and a tiny amount of toasted sesame seed oil perhaps.

BANANA-NUT-BUTTER
this again may not be hugely original, but here we go:
I grind up nuts in a chopper/food processor. then take two tbsp of ground nuts, be it walnuts/peanuts/almonds, etc, add two semi-ripe bananas and again let the food processor do its job for 2-3 minutes. what you get is a nice paste, I love the taste, easily spreadable (consistency may be tweaked of course with less bananas if you want it more thick). 2tbsp nuts and 2 semi-ripe bananas actually end up as around/less than 25% of calories coming from fat and IF in nuts well balanced out by bananas I've found. I can eat it just with a spoon. if you spread it on toast/rice cakes, even if you have trouble with fat, of course can have more nuts in there and your overall fat intake can still remain low.

this can all be boosted up by mixing in cinnamon too. or sugar. or maple syrup. or vanilla/any other flavoured extract. or cocoa powder (I have to be careful with the fat there though).

think it also may work with other fruit purees.

that's it for today, thanks for reading

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now: stable through EFI+FODMAP dieting (no lactose/no fructose/some fructans and some polyols)

before: IBS-D(pseudo-diarrhoea), bloating, often unbearable pain esp from too much fat: Apr 2007- Dec 2010

FODMAPs: http://www.todaysdietitian.com/newarchives/072710p30.shtml

[I've tried VSL#3 -> I could tolerate v good amounts of IF (even with less SF), it worked great (but overall I find it too expensive)]

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