I'm probably not the best person to be answering these questions - like I said, I've gone back and forth a number of times about what's really best for my body. I think the absolute hardest thing for me is that I'm fairly well read and very interested in nutrition, so I know what is recommended to eat to be "healthy." While I also know that most of those foods do not agree with me, I have a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that I need to eat white bread, not whole grain bread, and that I need to cook the crap (and vitamins!) out of my veggies, that I can't eat them raw. Plus, for instance, I think brown rice is way tastier than white, but I don't always handle it so well.
Anyway, that being said, there are a few foods I eat on a daily basis. I eat blueberries almost every day, usually in a bowl of cornflakes. I discovered that they agree with me sort of accidentally, as they are one of the only IC-safe fruits (very low acid). I eat a bit of avocado almost every day as well. Generally speaking I can not tolerate foods with any significant amount of fat in them - they make me more bloated than anything else. However, I also need a little bit of fat in order to have a BM! Avocados are super healthy and actually one of my favorite foods, so I eat a bit almost every day. I eat applesauce as a snack almost every day, and I eat bananas almost every day. I don't eat a lot of meat, but I do eat organic sliced deli chicken sometimes in sandwiches (can't eat lettuce on them!). I eat a lot of hummus and crackers - the artichoke hummus recipe on the recipe exchange index is my favorite!
I don't tolerate soy well, but I'm not sure if this is bowel or bladder related - it can often be a bladder trigger, so you may do better with it. It's a shame, because I actually prefer soy milk to almond milk and I really like soy yogurt.
I hope that helped - I may have given you more questions than answers! Ask away if you have any other questions!
-Alyson
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