Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: New to IBS, really picky eater, having problems

I am not new to IBS but I am also a v picky eater. There are foods which are apparently IBS-safe, such as parsnips, swedes, sweet potato, barley. I simply can't eat these foods as their sickeningly sweet taste just makes me want to throw up. I only relatively recently (2 years ago) developed this revulsion towards them and I have tried eating them again but I simply can't. I am not a huge fan of cooked carrots either (although I do force them down my throat occasionally or carrot juice is more tolerable for me), rice I eat sometimes but not a huge fan again, tomato puree (tomato paste) I simply can't incorporate into anything I eat as it's so sharp and just distasteful to me, but I drink tomato juice for lycopene instead, which I actually really like. I am not a huge fan of meat anymore (I used to eat a lot of chicken breast in the past), although I still eat chicken and smoked salmon, and occasionally shrimp. But these days I try to eat as vegan as I possibly can. Peanut butter is OK but v high in fat so I can only have a small amount at once.
same with other nuts, high in fat, and high in IF too.

Now what do I eat then..? extremely few foods, basically I alternate two types of food:
1. porridge (cooked with water and a bit of cinnamon and cocoa powder) with raw oranges/blueberries (and SF supplement)/ cantaloupe/strawberries when in season.
2. sourdough bread with raw bell-peppers/ a low fat red pepper houmous I buy from Sainsbury's (other houmous I don't like and is also too high in fat) and overboiled soft broccoli that I mash up and make into a paste, ie spread with a bit of salt and low sugar low salt ketchup. Both broccoli and houmous may be problematic though, I tend to tolerate them well enough, although they do cause me bloating. But they are extremely healthy, I love them and I need to eat something. Rather bloated than dead on account of starvation. I eat one commercial type boiled tikka season no milk chicken breast from Sainsbury's and smoked salmon with bread too.

I sometimes eat boiled potatoes and boiled spinach (with SF supplement). But it's generally bread and porridge and not much else - I've been eating like this for the past months. I don't tend to tire of them.

As I said I tried to like the foods I am picky about, but yet to find a way to do so. I have no idea why and would actually quite like to know, as I am a rational person otherwise, yet can't seem to rule my taste buds it seems.

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now: stable through EFI+FODMAP dieting (no lactose/no fructose/some fructans and some polyols)

before: IBS-D(pseudo-diarrhoea), bloating, often unbearable pain esp from too much fat: Apr 2007- Dec 2010

FODMAPs: http://www.todaysdietitian.com/newarchives/072710p30.shtml

[I've tried VSL#3 -> I could tolerate v good amounts of IF (even with less SF), it worked great (but overall I find it too expensive)]

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