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I think it's a good idea to start with recipes that are fairly similar to IBS safe ones and then as you get better and better at substituting stuff and learning what works you can take harder recipes and try to adapt them.

The usual stuff (which is on the cheat sheet I believe) is to take 2 egg whites instead of a whole egg, oat-, rice- or soymilk instead of milk, replace most of the oil in cakes with applesauce et.c. You can use corn starch and oat-, rice- or soymilk to make sauces a little thicker. If you have specific foods you can't tolerate that are in the recipe like onions et.c. try replacing them with a veggie you can handle. Not sure if you have problems with cooked tomatoes as that is more common in people with reflux than in people with "just" IBS, but I do, and I try to use a small amount of tomato puree for taste instead of canned tomatoes et.c. since you need such a small amount of puree to get a lot of taste and it's less acidic. It works for me. Sure there are many people who have more suggestions.

/Ulrika, IBS-D

P S Cooking sure is a lot more fun if you think you can eat what you're making without problems.

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