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Hi there! I'll try to help as much as I can.

When I first started the IBS diet, I did a LOT of pureeing. We would make soups that had cooked beans and veggies, and then we'd puree it in a blender to make it easier on me. I eventually found that digestive enzymes (Gas Stop, in particular) has helped me with soy, beans, and veggies. My favorite cookbooks were Sarah Kramer's three Vegan cookbooks. You can look her up on Amazon. There's lots of great soup recipes in those books!

I eat a lot of the same things every day. I always have a smoothie for breakfast: soy yogurt, acacia, frozen berries, and ground flax. Easiest way for me to get my fruit every day. Then I have a PBJ sandwich mid-morning. My afternoon snack is usually soy yogurt with some home-made trailmix or cereal. If I don't have leftovers for lunch, I like the Amy's frozen meals, and tofurkey sandwiches with lettuce and tomato. Lately, we've been using the "Vegan with a Vengeance" (VWAV) cookbook a lot.

Since I've been breastfeeding, I'm able to eat a lot of things I couldn't before. Things like salads, nuts, seeds, I couldn't touch with a ten foot pole before. But now I can eat them just fine. Hmmm....

Unfortunately, I still have a few things to avoid. I recently tried brown rice and it gave me horrible cramps. Still can't do that at all. Oatmeal is a no-no. And green onions for some reason. who knows??? For dinners, we will do things like black bean fajitas, and we like a lot of the fake meats that are out there. Field Grains brand is awesome, you can find them at Whole Foods if you have one. I also love the tofu scramble recipe in VWAV as well as the fettuccini alfredo recipe. We make pizzas using the Gimme Lean sausage (in a tube). Morningstar crumbles are great for adding to spaghetti sauces. We also have a "burger night" every week, and I really like Amy's Texas Burgers and Boca's spicy chick'n patties. we also will do black bean burgers with tomato and avocado.

I do not avoid wheat, but whole grain stuff still seems to give me problems so I stick to white rice and sourdough bread. I'm sure you could order Natural Calm online; Whole Foods carries it so you could probably order from them, or any other website that sells supplements like that. NC has been my "miracle cure" for C. Luckily breastfeeding has also helped with C, but I've noticed that if I take the NC regularly, it prevents my baby from the uncomfortable agony of not pooping every day! Crazy!

Good luck, and let me know if you have any other questions!

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Lisa, IBS-C (Vegan)
Stable since July 2007!
Mommy to Rhiannon Marie (Dec. 13, 2008)

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