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Hi Dionne!

Welcome to the boards!

Sorry to hear that your stomach was thrown into such a bad state from the cleanse, that sucks.
I think everyone has given you good ideas so far, but I thought I would chime in with a few too..
First, I would say to definitely cut out all dairy for a while. It's true that some people are able to tolerate it in small amounts, but while you are trying to get stable I would elminiate it completely and give your gut a chance to heal itself. In it's place, I have also have trouble (I'm in Vancouver) but I have found some good replacements..
- Milk = Silk Soy Milk (the chocolate is delicious!)
- Cheese = I use a soy cheese called "Okanagan's Soya Loaf", which I dunno is available everywhere but it makes *great* mozarella cheese for soy pizzas. Soy cheese is sort of a guess and test - some are horrible and some are really good.
- Yogurt = Although I have found quite a few brands of soy yogurt, I have yet to find one I like. But "So Good" makes some you might want to try.
- Ice cream = Tofutti Cuties! OMG, soooo good. Tofutti fudge bars are good, and their other ice cream is good too. I also eat a lot of sorbet which is dairy free (Hagen Daaz Mango is really yummy).
- Sour Cream - Tofutti makes a good one, good for baked pots.
On toast, I use "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter - Light" and I also put this in recipes, for cooking, on periogies, on pasta, on baked potatoes.. Love it!
I also use low fat peanut butter in small amounts.
For rice, I like to cook rice using half water and half chicken broth (make sure it is Fat Free with no MSG) and some lemon juice (or rinds) to give it more flavour.
Pasta is pretty easy as I usually just eat a tomato and herb sauce. If you are craving meat sauce, cook up some ground turkey with onions and garlic to keep it moist and then throw that into the tomato sauce - yummy! Then use some soy parmesan cheese if you can find it, or melt a little soy mozarella... mmmmm.

I personally don't drink vegetable juice because it bothers my reflux and I find the pure veggies make my tummy rumbly. What I do like to do to get my veggies in is make a batch of vegetable soup with a SF base (carrots and potatoes) and have servings of that to up my vegetable intake.

Hope this helps, good luck!

Steph

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~~I'm not crazy, I'm just a little unwell-I know right now you can't tell~~Matchbox 20
IBS-D,pain.

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