Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: A question for hohoyumyum?

I don't look at the EFI diet as being allowed to eat only specific foods. When I'm hungry I ask myself, "What do you feel like eating?", w/o regards to the EFI diet. I just pretend I have no diet limitations whatsoever. Then, after I decide what I want, I just figure out how to modify it. And if I don't like how it turns out, I can always count on the hubby to serve as a sort of living garbage disposal. I do a lot of trial and error to see how different food combinations and cooking techniques will turn out. I've gotten so good at making things up now that it's mostly trial, with very little error. I've spent a lot of time in the kitchen over the last few years.

I didn't always do this. For several months after I started Heather's diet, my menus were pretty limited. There were many nights when I ate nothing but french bread with a fat-free honey mustard dressing to dip it in.

Some of my favorite foods before I stabilized were

-white rice and baked catfish with any combo of the following: garlic powder, Tony's seasonings, lemon or lime juice, dried dill, dried parsley. I'd also throw in a vegetable if I felt like I could tolerate it. A note on this - cook the fish fillet in a small loaf pan, just large enough to hold the fish, and the fish will end up baking in it's own juices, which can then be poured over the rice for added flavor.
-white rice with shrimp sauteed in garlic with a little bit of cocktail sauce (just a tiny bit of horseradish mixed into ketchup w/o HFCS)
-bagels with soy cream cheese
-rice chex or corn pops with plain Silk soy milk
-Heather's pizza recipe (I put Soy-Sation cheese and sauteed mushrooms on them)
-Heather's pizza chex mix (in the EFI cookbook)
-Banana smoothies
-Bagels with "fried" egg whites and soy cheese (I toast a bagel, fry an egg white in a pan with a little canola oil spray, put it on the bagel, lay on a slice of soy cheese and nuke for about 30 seconds, put on the other half of bagel and eat it like a sandwich).

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