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Because you know what? Coleslaw works just fine without cabbage! We’ve also excluded onion, because it tends to irritate your bowels AND it gives you stinky breath… why bother? Add a side of steak, or teriyaki chicken + rice and you’ve got yourself dinner. Print Recipe FODMAP safe coleslaw (without the cabbage) This is a…
Anyone living with IBS will know the intense fear of being caught without bathroom access… and the dire consequences. Likewise, the quality and availability of toilets wherever you go will be far more important to you than to most. For various reasons (eg not just related to having irritable bowels!), various people have put together…
Quite a few people we’ve come across have found that cutting out sugary drinks have helped their IBS (and their general health, too!). Yes, a balanced diet is the real important thing, and yes, sugar is found in many places, but sugary drinks are entirely unnecessary and do nothing but bad for your health. Why…
After much consternation and worrying, we bit the bullet and went camping. This was our first foray away from the known security of having IBS at home, and quite a scary step. Would there be toilets? Ice for our chilly bin? Supermarkets? We did it, we survived, and now we have a nice list of…
http://fodmapfamily.weebly.com/ Funny how easy it can be to find friends in the FODMAP space! One of ours has their own website full of family-friendly, low-FODMAP recipes. It can be a huge challenge finding food that doesn’t upset your tummy, but also isn’t bland or boring. This site has a great range of meal ideas for…
https://www.theurbanlist.com/auckland/a-list/where-to-eat-if-youre-gluten-free Gluten free foods can be a good doorway into the FODMAP diet. In fact, people we’ve talked to with IBS cite gluten as one of their key triggers. If you’re in Auckland, like eating out, but feel that your IBS and/or FODMAP diet are holding you back, this list might just get you back…
http://www.med.monash.edu/cecs/gastro/fodmap/ Monash Uni have done some really excellent research on IBS and have a wealth of information available in the FODMAP space. Their app is a flagship item, but if you don’t want to pay for it, there’s screeds of other dietary advice, health info, and resources available.
The Beginner’s Guide to a D.I.Y Low FODMAP Diet Diet vs Disease have some really great information around low FODMAP dieting. The whole lot is great, but we wanted to point out this page in particular. It’s a sort of “FODMAP 101”. Definitely worth a look to get some general info around how to survive on…