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this will have to be quick because it's almost lunch time.

I consider beans and peppers to be Advanced Eating for IBS. I could always eat onions, but some people can't. Also, if your rice seasoning is store-bought, you need to double-check the ingredients. I spent months eating packaged rice mixes and getting sick. I would read the ingredients, see nothing bad, eat it, and feel horrible. I finally ran down every single ingredient listed, including the ones with incomprehensible names, and discovered that MSG goes by lots and lots of different listings. So check the ingredient lists on everything you ate that was store-bought and if there's anything you don't recognize, check it out.

Truly, the safest course for the first little bit after the BTC is to eat stuff you make yourself with ingredients you recognize. Jack LaLanne says, "If man made it, don't eat it" and that's good advice.

Also, eat something in the morning, even if it's just some room temp applesauce or some dry safe cereal. If your tummy gets too hungry, then when you do put something in it, it starts up violently and runs rough. You want to coax it into running smoothly by feeding it a little bit at a time until it's going good.

I don't know if you've ever built a fire, but that's a good analogy. To get a fire going, you have to start if off with small, easily flammable stuff (paper and twigs), then add larger pieces of wood as it gets going, then finally you get to put on logs once the flame is strong enough. It's the same with your digestive system. You're trying to get the furnace going and to do so, you need to start off with small stuff that burns easily - little meals of SF.

HTH.

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