Does anyone tolerate salads here?
#262793 - 05/11/06 06:13 AM
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Sandyg
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I used to love salads and they are so healthy but I'm so afraid to eat them because they make me go and I don't want to go anymore than I already do! I've tried eating soluber fiber first. From time to time, I can, but that definitely isn't the norm. Just wondered what everyone does or do you forego them altogether because of their reaction? I tried a Mcdonalds Asian salad with lite dressing and that was all she wrote. The next day...tons!
Sandy
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I have a prescription for Donnotal a anti-spasmoditc but only use it after an attack. Maybe I should try it before a salad? I also have Lomotil but use immodium more than that.
Glad you can eat more freely! I'll try it.
Sandy
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Absolutely. (m)
#262813 - 05/11/06 08:16 AM
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Sand
Reged: 12/13/04
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Loc: West Orange, NJ (IBS-D)
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I love salads, too, and I have one with dinner most nights: lettuce, cucumber (peeled and seeded), tomatoes, cauliflower, scallions, radishes, mushrooms, carrots, celery. I use a regular dressing on it, too, one I make myself with olive oil, vinegar, garlic, and spices. There are some caveats, of course:
- I was on the EFI Diet for months before I even attempted this.
- When I did first start eating salads, I started with small, really simple ones: lettuce, carrots, mushrooms, a little bit of scallion. Once I knew I could tolerate that, I added more ingredients.
- I eat it with dinner because that's when my tummy is most stable. I doubt I could handle one with lunch, although I do eat crudites (carrots, celery, tomatoes) in small portions with lunch sometimes.
- I eat it after I eat the rest of my meal, including lots of SF food. I'm in the process of experimenting with starting to eat my salad after about half my dinner is in me. So far, so good.
- I can't eat everything in it. Bell peppers, for example, I can't handle.
- On days when my tummy is feeling wobbly, I skip the salad.
And about dressing. I'd double-check what's in McDonald's lite dressing. There is something in all lite dressings I've tried that makes my stomach turn over, so it's possible it's the dressing that's doing you in.
I'm very fat tolerant by the end of the day, so I can use regular dressing. One trick to using regular dressing on a salad and not ending up with too much of it, is to serve the dressing in a separate bowl. Dip your fork in the dressing, then spear your salad. Or figure out how much oil you can tolerate and toss your salad with that measured amount rather than adding dressing at the table from a cruet. If you toss your salad with wild abandon, a little oil goes a long way.
I wouldn't give up on salads based on not being able to eat one from McDonalds. As my grandmother would say, "You just don't know where that's been." Try making yourself a small, simple one at home, eat it after a high-SF dinner, and see how you do.
Good luck. HTH.
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i spent a long time scared of salads, but now i'm at a point where i can handle them fine.
once i was handling cooked vegetables fine, i started trying salads. first a few bites of a friend's salad, then some after a good deal of white bread. now, as long as my stomach's not already upset, i can eat a salad fine. i find spinach the easiest green, but that might just be mental. i like to incorporate lots of SF veggies - carrots, mushrooms, avocado - and always have low-fat or fat-free dressing.
incorporating salad (and lots of vegetables in general) was actually a really important step for me in getting stable - i got my D under control relatively easily, but then i realized i was an A, and found myself uncomfortably, but not cripplingly, C. eating plenty of veggies is basically the only thing that keeps me not C. and it really just makes me feel better overall.
in fact, i think i'm going to have a salad today.
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I have a salad with lunch every day and stuff it with as much
IF as I can. -Bob
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I love salads--but only when my guts feel stable. I follow Heather's advice and eat it at the end of a meal, after SF and that makes a huge difference. I often include SF fruits/veggies as toppers to the greens. I don't handle most purchased dressings well and favour my own vinaigrettes, generally a funky fruit or herbed vinegar, etc. (There's something in those bottled dressings that gives me a nasty g.i. reaction!) Iceburg lettuce gives me the rudest gas/D attack, but baby spinach, spring mix, and mache are delicate and delicious. (It's terrible, but I love a salad for "dessert.") Yum--leaves of grass.
Kate, IBS-D.
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I can eat salads, but I don't make a whole meal out of it. Also at restaurants you have to watch out for the dressings because they are usually very high in fat, which is a trigger.
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All the time!
#263180 - 05/13/06 04:28 AM
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atomic rose
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I try to eat a salad every single day for lunch. It's a big salad, too. Like Jaime, I've found that it's one of the things that keeps me stable - and I'm D-predominant A.
I think there's 2 things that have helped me be able to eat them again. First is that I kept eating them - at first, they gave me D, but that would happen to just about anyone who suddenly started eating raw vegetables, even if they don't have IBS - so I decided to give my gut a week or so, and if it didn't get better, I'd give it up. Well, it got better. 
Second is what I put on the salad. I start with lots of lettuce, of course, but I end up putting some SF or neutral things on the salad, too. Hard-boiled eggs minus the yolks, lots of mushrooms, avocado, cooked beets - to go along with the cucumber, apple, etc - I eat some bread with it, too, but I think the SF on the salad helps as well.
I also don't use commercial salad dressings - because I'm cheap  , but ingredients in those can be triggering for lots of folks. I make my own fat-free HFCS-free dressing.
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