Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards

Thanks for jumping in Karin. I know you had mentioned Fenster's books before, and I'm glad you mentioned them here since I couldn't remember the post about it, and you know how searching goes, takes forever. TRADER JOES? Oh my, then you must have gotten my signals. I was thinking I needed to make a TJ run�..the nearest is
1 � hr. drive away. If I ever move it will HAVE to be near a TJ's. Yes, by all means, let me know how the � and � comes out, and if you would, would you email me (address in my bio) the recipe and subs you used? You are a brave lady�quinoa? Oh my, that's tough stuff to work with. I bought some quinoa and amaranth and didn't have much success with either, so I stick to my 3 flour blend, rice flour, potato starch, and tapioca.

Laura, Avoiding gluten/dairy/eggs/ AND sugar is tough. I just don't know what you can make that would satisfy the sweet tooth w/o using artificial sweetener. Every try using Agave nectar?
It's low on the glycemic index table and is super sweet with the consistency of corn syrup.
Can you use an egg sub like Egg Beaters or whites only? That's another tough one if you can use any egg/egg sub product at all. Not that there aren't replacements for them out there, it's just that I don't know what they have since I've never had the need.

For me, unless I'm eating the culprit food on a regular basis, the allergy test can be a waste of money. Over the years of dealing with this I've found the best indicator is how I feel, (and of course the hives and chest tightness) then go on my own personal rampage to find out what's causing it. It's usually whatever I've been eating the most of at the time. I remember, years ago, being into the artificial sweetner..you know, the pink stuff. I started to get severe migraine headaches, so dumped the pink stuff. It took 2 weeks for it to get out of my system but I've not had a migraine since. About a year latter I was watching a med show on women and it talked about just that. Whew, finally validation for what I'd discovered for myself.

I did buy a pretty decent cracker yesterday that is a little sweet, Health Valley Rice Bran crackers. They're little but 6 has only 3 g. fat, 4 sugars, 19 g. carbs, 3 g. fiber, 110 calories.
I figure those would be a good take a long food, like the rice cakes.
Anyone try any of the Pastato products, (from Canada)? They are to die for and taste like the real thing. I can only get the mac/cheese boxes, no cheese of course.

Food as fuel and not comfort?

Nice thinking if you can do it, but there have been just to many studies to prove that certain foods DO affect our psychological well being, and I'm one post-menopausal babe that will vouch for it. When they say chocolate is better than sex they weren't kidding!

I think we need a separate forum for gluten/cocoa deprived folks, what do ya think ladies?

Krazee Kandee without Kocoa

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