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I like to cook (when I have the time) so often I make more servings of a recipe and then have it for lunch the next day. Since I was never a huge pasta eater anyway I didn't feel like giving it up was a huge sacrifice. Plus, I like the GF brown rice pasta so that's what I eat if I want some once in a while. Very often I just take my favorite recipe and adapt it to fit my diet. To thicken stews and sauces I use corn starch or a finely grated potato. If I need to add milk or cream I add rice milk (not the same but usually still pretty good). I reduce the amount of fat - most dishes are forgiving and don't actually need all that fat. Very often (when I'm lazy

) I just throw a piece of meat on the grill and then make rice, quinoa, or potatoes on the side.

So here's an example of my daily menu:

breakfast - lately I've been liking Arrowhead Mills' Rice and Shine Hot Cereal, or Rice Chex. To both I add ground flaxseed for extra IF and sometimes frozen fruit
lunch - leftovers from dinner, or a sandwich - GF bread with hummus, ham, peppers, lettuce, tomatoes. Often I just throw the sandwich stuff in a container and bring it to work along with rice cakes and make these open-face rice cake sandwiches at work
dinner - I eat a lot of chicken - stew it with some vegetables, make soup with rice noodles, grill a piece of breast, bake the entire bird in the oven, make chicken curry, "pulled chicken barbecue" (like pulled pork but with chiken)...pretty much whatever recipe I come across and looks good, as long as I make it low fat and within my dietary requirements. Or fish - baked in the oven or grilled, with the sides I wrote at the top and some steamed veggies. I also have time periods when I can tolerate salads so I make salads with grilled chicken.
Snack - I'm OK with eggs as long as I don't eat too many so I'd eat hard a boiled egg with rice cakes, baked sweet potatoes, cereal, fruit, sometimes a Luna bar or raw almonds (or home roasted), or a piece of a GF cake/brownie, rice crackers with avocado, hummus, Trader Joe's red pepper spread
drinks - water, tea (chamomile, fennel, mint, lemon, fruit-flavored herbal tea). Occasionally I have a can of diet coke because I don't think it causes me problems, although I'm not completely sure.

Now that I'm trying to think about it it's actually hard for me to think of stuff that I eat, just because lots of times I just throw a bunch of stuff together and make a stew or a casserole and then have leftovers.

By no means I'm saying that eating like this works, it's just an example of what I'm eating right now and I'm hoping for the best

. I hope you're feeling better

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IBS-C, bloating, cramps
pregnant

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