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Hi Wendy. I hope all is improved. I thought I'd share a few of my favourite salad dressing tips. Prior to IBS, I used to be addicted to the type of dressing that you mentioned. I find, though, that I'm hypersensitive to the olive oil. I find, also, that most fatfree salad dressings are vile, especially the Italian. Lowcal Italian almost always makes me feel retched and nauseated. Therefore I whip up my own.
Iceburg lettuce gives me major gas and bloating and therefore I do not eat it. There is no raw cabbage involved , either. Just lettuce--romaine hearts, spring mix, alfalfa sprouts, boston lettuce, leaf lettuce--those sit well with me. Raw spinach does not digest well with me.
I love heating balsalmic vinegar and reducing it and then pouring it on my lettuce, with stevia and sometimes a little dijon and lemon. Carrot juice and cider vinegar is pretty good too, but lately I'm cutting down on my frutcose intake.
I love roasting or grilling mushrooms, the darker and earthier the better and using the reserve liquid as the vinegrette, with a little lemon and balsalmic vinegar. Or even lime juice. If I feel like a thicker dressing, I use a puree of vegetable or a soup and pour that on the salad with a little tartness or acidity, usually from vinegar and/or lemons. If it need a little sweetening I go for stevia. Sea salt makes a world of difference. I used to like fruity dressings, which I pureed,heated and reduced, i.e. with berries and balsamic vinegar or apricots, mangoes, cranberries, etc. Those ones really go through me to fast, lately, so I've been avoiding them. This next one sounds gross, but it's rather good. A whipped potatoe and herb dressing is delicious and really creamy and thick. Sweet potatoes are really good, too. Oh, how could I forget...the
creamy zucchini dressing. Just cook and puree zucchini and add any palatable herbs and liquid until you get the consistency you enjoy. Roasted and peeled peppers/tomatoes if you tolerate them--I do not--are delicious dressings. I know you detest spinach, but I really like my creamy spinach dressing which is basically steamed and pureed spinach with herbs/lemon/balsalmic vinegar, etc., a little stevia.
Those are just a few flash thoughts and salads that sit well with me.
Wind (Kate, IBS-D).
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Thanks Wind,
Actually I love fresh spinach or cooked fresh. I haven't tried it in over a year. I tried the canned spinach twice and I threw it up both times.  These are great suggestions.  It's so weird that iceberg had no fiber and is mostly water yet has such an affect on so many people. <shrug>?
Wendy in Oklahoma
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No improvment yet. I was feeling "healthier" on the diet, but still no "C" improvement. After my last scope by the gastro he said soluable fiber might not ne the best thing for me with the gastroparesis. It's the same basic diet though. He told me to go off any diet, because nothing I tried made me any better. I think I need a motility specialist.
Anyway I'm back on the diet. It was good for my blood sugar. I just want to see if I can incorporate veggies and fruit instead of mostly starch.
Sorry to hear you were in the hospital. I've been in real severe pain like that in the past. ((huggs))
Wendy in Oklahoma
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IBS-C since 1978
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Hi, I am new to the board.....
I got Zelnorm yesterday for the first time and I suffer from terrible bloating. I also have hypothyroidism, so it makes it worse. I would just like to know something.......I love chocolate and can't help myself when it comes to chocolate. I work in a Chocolate factory in IT and seeing it is around me all day long, I find it very diff. not to eat it. Does this actualy make the IBS worse?
Mel.
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I'm probably being absurd, but most days lettuces agree with me of late--except ICEBURG lettuce. Why does it cause me such GAS AND BLOATING AND SPASMS? Romaine, leaf, spring mix don't have that effect in the least. Just iceburg. Strange. I see those "HEADS" of iceburg and seriously feel like I'm walking around with a ball inside of me if I eat it. The only thing I can think of is that it's sugar component is different. The stuff gives me pain as much as a cruciferous vegetable does. It's like a lettuce slushy inside of my body. Well, I'm not going to curse myself for skipping the iceburg.
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