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Check the label. You can get fat free turkey bacon and chicken weiners. Health food stores often have better brands here than regular grocery stores (they'll have organic, and varieties without added preservatives and artificial ingredients and such). You can also get soy bacon and soy dogs, both of which I love.
- Heather
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1. yes, i have taken red meat out of my diet in the past.
2. it is not a trigger for me.
3. i eat it once a week -- in a 4oz serving
glad you are finding what works for you! best of luck!
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Iron Pills
#30184 - 12/05/03 11:40 AM
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Shanna
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did you guys know that they are constipating? i recommend upping your fiber and water intake if you take iron supp's...
best,
shanna
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I've heard a lot of similar stories, about different triggers, from many people. It's always best to totally remove something (whether red meat, dairy, alcohol, etc.) first, get stabilized, and see how you do. Then you can verrrry carefully try (if you still want to) to add a little of the trigger back in to see how it affects you. This will really give people the info they need about how their bodies are going to respond to trigger foods.
What worries me is when someone doesn't take this step, and (like you said) just assumes that something isn't bothering them so they keep it in their diet, and keep suffering the consequences.
I think this is usually most common with the foods people really don't want to give up - a juicy steak, favorite cheese, ice cream, solid chocolate, that glass of wine before dinner. And I can totally understand and sympathize here! 
So often with IBS I think it comes down to information being the key - the more you know, the better you can control the problem. But you have to take the steps (not always fun ones) to gain some of that knowledge in the first place, and then you can go from there.
Shanna, I admire you for going through this whole process first (what a time-consuming hassle, eh?) and then making your decisions accordingly. And Belinda, I admire you for questioning your own assumptions and taking action on something that required a real struggle (and I'm thrilled you got such a happy surprise as a result of your efforts!).
You guys are both such helpful and sympathetic voices on this board - thank you for that!
- Heather
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As always,
#30218 - 12/05/03 01:47 PM
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Excellent Response! We will call you Switzerland... 
** Smiles **
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Try the soy versions instead.
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Hi; it is just so much easier when eating out, to be able to order from the breakfast menu. eggs, bacon and /or pancakes. yum!
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Actually when I eat breakfast out, I just get a plate of hash browns. You can get fruit or cereal too.
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Hi; THAT IS my mai n problem. I can't handle dry cereals too much at all.
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The truth of the matter is...we'd ALL be a lot better off without a lot of the ingredients used in foods...period. Not just us IBSers. I just keep waiting for the rest of the world to catch up (hope it's in our lifetime!) 
One day we should all rent out a hotel and insist they make their kitchen IBS safe for us! We'll have a huge convention where we can all meet, eat LOL, and hang out! There would have to be a spa of course, acupuncturists, yoga instructors (we'll let Heather take the time off, right guys!), and many other wonderful, relaxing luxuries. Anyone game?
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