You could add lots of good choices. I don't recommend apples, pears, grapes or melons, but citrus, bananas, pineapple, peaches, mangoes are great for snacks. Canned fruit or fruit cocktail in light syrup or juice is great and easily digestible.
For veggies stay away from anything raw for now, and don't do corn, peppers, onions, broccoli, cauli, cabbage yet. Try the green beans in the fresh micro bag in produce, frozen peas and even snap peas, asparagus, well cooked fennel, well cooked greens beyond the spinach you already do, carrots, parsnips, squash, sweet potatoes. Check the frozen dept for quick veggie choices. Make some homemade guacamole.
Also at this point IMO you have to concentrate on getting regular and then the bloating and ickiness that comes with it. You don't, however, want to backlash with too much of the real laxative stuff like prunes, wheat bran, bran muffins, Fiber One products, or anything like that.
Try hot herbal teas and a heating pad. There is something about the hot tea that encourages poo. Also it helps get more fluids in pretty easily. You are getting exercise which is good. I know it is hard to figure out safe foods when you don't cook much and want life easy and normal.
My husband says try a big bowl of cheerios or life before bed.
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IBS-A for 20 years with terrible bloating and gas. On the diet since April 2004. Remember this from Heather's information pages:
"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!
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