Newbie Questions - Salads?
#338402 - 11/22/08 01:32 AM
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wende
Reged: 11/22/08
Posts: 2
Loc: Chicago
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Hello -
I have just found this site and am very excited by the wealth of information. In the tips and tricks it mentions to eat a salad after your meal so am I correct in assuming that you wouldn't want to eat a salad as your entire meal? Are lettuces an insoluble fiber? Just double checking to make sure I am processing all this new info correctly 
Thanks,
Wende
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Welcome to the board,
Some of us cannot eat salads or any raw or partially cooked veggies. So you will have to experiment. Lettuce is insoluble fiber.
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Depending on your symptoms, salad MIGHT be safe for you as a meal in itself, but to be safe you should include a hefty source of soluble fibre in it, like potatoes, mushroom, beets etc.
Cooked veggies are generally easier on the gut than raw ones, but I find a spinach salad with some sort of soluble fibre and protein in it is tolerable and the spinach seems to help with my C.
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