Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: How do you become a cook

A lot of Heather's recipes just had too many moving parts for me when I first started her diet. I could cook but I liked to stick to recipes that had no more than five ingredients including the salt and pepper. So my advice would be to start with simple recipes. You can try browsing through the Recipe Index and see if something looks good and doable.

A good way to overcome inertia, though, might be for you to post what you'd *like* to have for breakfast, lunch, snack, or even dinner, and we'll see if can find a similar safe substitute.

For breakfast, I ate a lot of the Baked Bluberry Pecan French Toast with Maple Blueberry Syrup from Heather's EFI Cookbook when I first started out. I never made the syrup - I just used store-bought maple - and if you just want French toast you can skip all the stuff about sprinkling pecans and blueberries and so on over the top. Just get the bread in the pan and pour the egg mixture over it.

You can also try some of the breads from Heather's EFI Cookbook. The Brown Sugar Banana Bread, Simple Sweet Cornbread, and Gingerbread are all relatively simple. There are lots of muffin recipes in the Recipe Index so you might take a look at those.

For lunch, I agree with K2 that soups are always a good idea. You can also have a simple chicken sandwich with sliced chicken breast on white bread and either low/non fat mayonnaise or non-dairy margarine.

For snacks, I ate a lot of sweets when I first started out. Again a cruise through the Recipe Index would be helpful. I'm not sure what cereals you can get there but the Honey Glazed Snack Mix from Heather's EFI cookbook is wonderful.

You can also do a Search on the Recipe Board for words like:
lunch
snack
breakfast

and you'll hit some posts about what to have for those meals.

Here are some links you can check out for simple recipes and food that doesn't need cooking:
Chicken Chutney Mustard - dinner; ridiculously simple and very good

15 Minute Tomato Bean Soup - lunch; quick, delicious, makes a lot

Hybrid Salmon - dinner; I'm terrified of poaching fish on top of the stove so this let's me do it in the oven

Anti-Depressant Brownies - everybody's favorite

IBS-free without cooking (Part 1)

IBS-free without cooking (Part 2)

And don't forget smoothies

HTH.

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