Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: Let's try this from a different angle

I'm IBS-D, too, and Heather's approach has made a huge difference for me. I think it can for you, too. It's an adjustment but truly, once you get used to it, it really does become second nature to this way.

As for your roll with butter for breakfast, oh, yeah. Before I found this Website, I ate Grape Nuts with yogurt for breakfast every morning. I'm surprised it didn't kill me.

I'm not sure what you weren't familiar with in the foods I listed, so here they are with explanations:

Decaf Constant Comment is a tea made by Twinings. I'd probably be better off drinking a herbal tea first thing in the morning, but I love this stuff.

The Brown Sugar Banana Bread is from Heather's Eating For IBS cookbook, but the recipe is also on the Website here.

The Pumpkin Apple Spice Bread is also from Heather's Eating For IBS cookbook. As far as I know the recipe isn't on the Website. However, the Sweet Cinnamon Zucchini Bread is and it's yummy, too. (web page)

The Chicken Pasta Grape salad is from the Recipe Board
(web page - it's actually called Almond Chicken Salad)

Sunset Rose is a herbal tea - hisbiscus with a little mint - made by Twining. It makes a fabulous iced tea and is a beautiful color. If you can't find it in the stores - I order mine from Twining - Stash also makes a hibiscus-based tea called "Passion". I think Starbucks carries that.

Pita chips I just buy, although it is possible to make your own. I get Stacy's brand, the Simply Naked flavor. They're a little high in fat, but as long as I eat them later in the day I do fine with them.

There are lots of smoothie recipes. Here's a thread from the Recipe Board with some ideas.

The Chicken BBQ Pizza recipe is from Heather's Eating for IBS cookbook. It's also on the Website (web page) I don't make my own dough, so I just buy the Pillsbury pizza dough. It's in the refrigerator case with the other dough that comes in rolls, like crescent rolls and (sigh) chocolate chip cookie dough.

Turkey pepperoni is usually where the regular pepperoni is, the kind that comes in little bags and is made by Hormel. Not all stores carry it, but ask - I think most do.

Please keep in mind that this is what I eat *now* after being on the EFI Diet for a long time. When I first started out, I was far more heavily weighted toward SF, with very little IF and not much fat. Here's an old post about what and how I ate when I was first starting out. And here's another.

And if you don't really have any desire to cook, take a look at these two posts for ways to eat safely without ever seeing the inside of a kitchen:

I don't cook 1

I don't cook 2

If you want to leave it at that, that's fine - I hope some of this helps. On the other hand, since I assume you were eating such a limited array of foods before Heather's Diet because of your stomach issues, you could try posting what you'd *like* to eat during the day if you didn't have to worry about your stomach. Not a fantasy day, with nothing but cake, ice cream, and fettucine Alfredo (sigh), but just a normal everyday kind of day. Then we could see if we can find safe alternatives, so you don't feel like you're starving yourself.

Take care. Hang in there. Oh, and are you taking an SFS?

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