Hi  I suppose everyone is different, but here is him:
He doesn't think supplements work at all, but when it has been bad in the past he has added psyillium husk (same as metamucil, but he doesn't eat refined sugar) to his oatmeal, and sometimes we use it as a binder in baking instead of eggs. He also takes magnesium supplements when we travel, because road food is so unpredictable.
The fruits he loves are bananas (eats copiously), oranges (eats occaisionally with lunch), and raisins (eats a couple tablespoons in his oatmeal each morning, I figure the oatmeal makes them easier to digest?). So no, no peels. :-D We also make smoothies with frozen strawberries, blueberries, and peaches (no peels) but those are incredibly pureed any how. He refuses to eat apples or pears unless I eat the peel first. He'll sometimes eat pineapple after a meal. 'Cause he loves it and thinks its worth the risk.
He can probably eat anything he wants to in small quantities, but refuses certain things. He won't go near asparagus or raw vegetables of any kind. Salads are forbidden in this household (sniffles). He eats spinach, kale, and collards if they're super chopped up. He only eats carrots that are practically mush. He loves broccoli, zuchinni/squash and mushrooms. We usually buy frozen vegetables: broccoli, green beans, cauliflower, bell peppers, peas, corn (he'll usually only tolerate corn once a week). But, like I said, he only eats veggies with other foods, chopped and cooked well.
He eats flaxseeds when I grind them and put it in our oatmeal, or when I make zuchinni oat flax fat free waffles or flax brownies. I find it has to be ground really good or otherwise I feel like Im eating fleas.
The kind of brown rice we buy only has 1 gram of fiber per serving! Husband can eat brown rice fine, though sometimes we mix it 1/2 and 1/2 with cooked white rice when times get tough. We toast it, dry, in the pressure cooker, then add double volume of water and cook it for 12 minutes, then let it sit untouched for 10 more minutes, it ends up very fluffy. We do barley the same way. I think the reason he can tolerate rice and barley easier than whole wheat bread is because rice and barley are saturated with water, and coated in sticky gel (I know that sounds gross, but they really are), while bread is baked and very dry, thus if it goes down on an empty stomach... I don't know. It just seems that way.
Best of luck!
Ruthie
Oh I forgot: It's been awhile, but when he is stuck in the bathroom for over half an hour I'll automatically brew up some peppermint and fennel tea. He'll drink a cup or two and start to *feel* better, but he won't necessarily go. That's the thing: its the routine of good eating that keeps his stomach happy, not the quick supplements or teas.
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