Thank you, everyone! I hate that we are all suffering but it is a blessing to not be totally alone in it! What did we do before the internet? Jen, if I listed everything I couldn't eat you would probably lose your mind immediately. The rest of the ICer's know what I am talking about. When I used to be able to go to restaurants I would try to say, "I have food allergies" and then they would want to know to what. I would say, it's much easier for me to tell you what I CAN eat since that list is much smaller. I guess my frustration is the carb-food as the basis of every meal, fear of trapped gas and bloating from veggies and beans (a former staple of my IC diet), and now a perpetual yeast infection from eating so many carbs on this IBS diet (I've been being really restrictive trying to get my bad, new symptoms under control).
The following list of foods I ate with IC made me capable of creating a lot of great recipes. However, the whole IBS thing has totally lost me! I feel like a carb crazed person and hate it.
FRUITS: gala apples, any pears
SPICES, etc: olive oil/corn oil/canola oil, basil, parsley, thyme, garlic, peppercorns, cinnamon, maple syrup, honey, sugar, allspice
Veggies: Green beans, brocoli, spinach, squash/zucchini, and lettuces. Carrots and mushrooms in minimal quantities.
Starches: Most starches except I've built up an intolerance to white potato and white flour from overeating and can't do whole wheat with the IC. Can't seem to like sweet potato. I eat tons of stuff made from brown rice, a little white rice, quinoa, a little corn meal. I was eating red beans but couldn't do black beans.
Meat: Almost all whole meats like a piece of plain chicken, turkey, pork, eggs, or fish/shellfish except smoked meats and meats with stuff like sausage, proscuitto, etc.
Cheese: Cream cheese in small quantities, ricotta with low vinegar, and mozerella with no vinegar.
Nuts: cashews, pinenuts, almonds.
Drinks: milk, rice milk, pear juice, camomile, fennel, marshmallow, and who knows why - coca cola.
Fats: pure butter, oils as listed above.
If it isn't on this list, I really can't eat it. I also can't have vitamin supplements for B's or C's and have to be careful of fortified foods. I am really sensitive! But, I was living with it well, I thought, before the IBS. Had it down to a science. Then, I thought I could do this IBS thing and then comes the Yeast. I am totally lost!
However, I still thank you for listening, supporting, and sharing with me! It helps A LOT!
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Laura D in FL
Interstitial Cystitis diagnosed 1995 and IBS diagnosed 2008
www.art4ic.com
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