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[Blend] fresh fruits into smoothie drinks. Cook vegetables into pasta sauces or soups to serve over white rice. The Eating for IBS recipes for zucchini, banana, and pumpkin breads work well here, and so does the jok rice porridge soup. Add in a little low fat soy milk to your oatmeal, and have a bit of grilled fish or skinless chicken breast with pasta or rice. Safe treats are the Eating for IBS recipes for Will's dreamy lemon rice pudding, vanilla or chocolate silk puddings, peppermint fudge cake, and banana cream pie.

Keep your fat content very low and be extra careful as you start to incorporate the insoluble fiber. As you stay stable, you can expand to all the other IBS recipes, follow the general IBS diet guidelines (still low fat, no triggers, careful with insoluble fiber), and you'll be back to a healthy diet overall and not just plain soluble fiber. You should always continue to make soluble fiber the basis of your diet, though, and have those foods as the foundation of your meals and snacks. Continue the soluble fiber supplements on a daily basis as well. Remember, it's the soluble fiber that is key to normalizing a spastic colon and preventing IBS symptoms in the first place.

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So, your blender or food processor is your friend at first!
Some recipe ideas:

- various blended (pureed) vegetable sauces served over pasta and rice

- mashed vegetables and legumes with pasta or rice

- pureed soups (Tip: I take safe canned vegetable soups, like vegetable with pasta and minestrone, and just dump it in the blender and puree it all to to make it safer. So easy and tastes really good! Have with some bread. I don't think this would really work with soups with meat in it though )

- smoothies made with soy* or rice milk and fresh fruit all blended up

- for protein, start adding a bit of soy milk*, chicken breast, egg whites and fish to meals; protein is usually pretty well tolerated

- try some of the EFI breads, particularly zucchini

- other EFI recipes: jok rice porridge soup, Will's dreamy lemon rice pudding, vanilla or chocolate silk puddings, peppermint fudge cake, and banana cream pie

(*Some people have problems with soy - make sure you're ok with by starting with a SMALL amount - if not, try again later when you're a bit more stable. Most people can 'train' their bodies to be ok with soy by starting with only small amounts and gradually increasing. But, depending on your personal tolerances, you may not want to try that until later on, when you're more stable, you know?)

HTH!

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