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Low Fodmap Chocolate Chip and Peanut Butter Cookies

Baking has become the new pastime during lockdown as can be evidenced by the lack of flour on the supermarket shelves. That includes me. I have made Anzac biscuits, ginger crunch and several batches of peanut butter, chocolate chip cookies because they are so delicious and satisfying. Use dark chocolate and a plain peanut butter with no additives including salt and sugar. Make small cookies or…

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How the Covid-19 Lockdown has Affected my IBS

The silent, invisible threat of a virus is like no other. Or perhaps it’s actually a little like IBS – no visible signs to anyone else, and silent because this is a secretive affliction. So, maybe we should understand it better than others – that a threat can be silent and invisible and still be devastating.

Total lockdown at level 4 (the highest of four levels) happened in New Zealand at…

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#Covid-19 #stress with IBS

How to socialize while on the low Fodmap diet

When you have IBS, everything is more difficult. An invitation out with friends induces anxiety, a work conference creates images of tables groaning with food we can’t risk eating, the thought of a cocktail party induces a panic attack. Even a simple family dinner at a local restaurant has us scrambling for excuses not to go.

We can all relate to this. Sometimes it is simpler to stay at home near…

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How things can go wrong with the low Fodmap diet on a walking trek

Me on Great Barrier Island

A couple of weeks ago, I went on a second 4-day walking trek. This time my friend and I joined three other ladies to hike on Great Barrier Island, which is a 30-minute flight from Auckland, New Zealand. In December, we did a similar trip around Lake Waikaremoana and everything went extremely smoothly for my diet. See HERE. This time was a little different.

The…

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My 7 Most Popular Recipes for 2019

These are the seven recipes that were viewed most often during 2019.

Low Fodmap bread

I suppose this one shouldn’t surprise me since most of my clients are fixated on getting bread back into their diets after doing the 6-week programwith me to find their triggers and create a final diet that keeps them safe from symptoms. Many months of experimenting resulted in this bread recipe. If you follow…

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#low fodmap bread #low Fodmap cookies #low Fodmap hummus #low Fodmap pancakes #low Fodmap risotto #low fodmap tomato sauce

How I coped with my IBS on a 4-day walking trip

Te Urerewa Forest

Last week, I went away on a 4-day walking trip around Lake Waikaremoana in Te Urerewa, which is an area of mostly forested, sparsely populated, rugged hill country in the North Island of New Zealand. Here you can find some of the only remaining Jurassic forest in New Zealand. If you loved Lord of the Rings, you will find Frodo behind every tree in this wilderness, which is…

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#holiday with IBS #walking trip

Low Fodmap Roasted Potatoes

Who doesn’t love crispy roasted potatoes! Potatoes are low Fodmap and can be eaten in many different ways. My favourite way is roasted, but they must be roasted well and there are a few tricks to that. Follow my recipe to the letter, and you will have perfectly roasted low Fodmap potatoes for dinner.

You can vary the herb if you want according to what’s fresh in season but don’t add the herbs…

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#baked potatoes #Low Fodmap baked-potatoes #roasted potatoes

Smoothies on the Low Fodmap Diet The internet will tell you that smoothies are healthy, even some low Fodmap websites. However, those of us with irritable bowel syndrome have to take much of what we see and read on the internet with a grain of salt, and this is another case in point. I explain why that is in this video.

#Smoothies #Smoothies on the Low Fodmap Diet

Low Fodmap Pineapple and Pecan Cake

Extra-moist and studded with nuts and dried cranberries, this low Fodmap pineapple cake is delicious. Be careful not have more than a small slice at a time. If you’re making it for a special occasion, you could cover it with a frosting made from powdered sugar, butter, and water. If fructose is a trigger for you, you’ll have to reduce the size of your slice.

PINEAPPLE AND PECAN CAKE Author:…

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#Low Fodmap pineapple and pecan cake

20 Things to Remember if You Love a Person with Irritable Bowel Syndrome Irritable bowel syndrome is a horrid, debilitating condition that can seriously curb a person’s social life and career prospects, let alone relationships.

My 5 Best Low Fodmap Cakes

Unlike what many think, we can eat sugar on the low Fodmap diet.

A certain amount of table sugar is okay on the diet because it has equal quantities of fructose and glucose, and the glucose pulls the fructose, cell by cell, through the lining of the small intestine, so it is absorbed. If there is excess fructose to the glucose as in honey, agave syrup etc. then the excess is not absorbed and goes…

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#carrot cake #chocolate cake #lemon cake #strawberry cake

My Favourite Low Fodmap Vegetarian Dinner Recipes

I eat vegetarian four times a week in order to eat a good balance of diverse protein sources without always resorting to meat. At this point, I have quite a repertoire of vegetarian meals that I default to when I am lacking creativity. Here are five of my favourites:

Spinach and cheese quesadillas

Fennel, brie and walnut tart

Cheese and basil risotto

Spinach gnocchi

Feta and quinoa patties

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Low Fodmap Meat Burgers

Have just one of these juicy meat burgers to stay within safe FODMAP limits. You can add a few more salad leaves on the side, if you like and a side dish of potato chips. If you have reflux, skip the tomato and replace it with extra sprouts. And it’s best not to salt the ground meat until the patties are cooked: they’ll leak out liquid and you’ll get a broiled burger instead of a grilled one.…

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#hamburger #lamb burger #low fodmap burger

Stop removing foods from your diet Those of us with irritable bowel syndrome now know that we can find our trigger foods by implementing the 3 stages of the low Fodmap diet.

#removing foods

Working while on the Low Fodmap Diet Having to go to work every day while on the low Fodmap diet is challenging. But, like with all aspects of your life, it is doable.

#Working while on the Low Fodmap Diet

My 5 most popular low Fodmap recipes

Last week, I listed my 5 most popular videos on IBS and the low Fodmap diet. This week I am sharing the 5 most popular low Fodmap recipes on my website with you.

Low Fodmap bread

I suppose this one shouldn’t surprise me since most of my clients are fixated on getting bread back into their diets after doing the 6-week programwith me to find their triggers and create a final diet that keeps them…

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#bread #hummus #Low FODMAP recipes #potato pie #risotto #tomato sauce

My 6 Most Popular Videos on the Low Fodmap Diet and IBS

I have been blogging for about eight years on my website, Strandsofmylife.com and I currently have at least 100 videos on Youtube on irritable bowel syndrome and the low Fodmap diet. Today I want to share with you the six videos that have been the most popular.

I am surprised at the one that is the number one on the list. Who knew that finding alternative foods to favourites was this high on the…

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#5 foods not to eat on the low Fodmap diet #alternative foods #do I have IBS or not #Low Fodmap Menus cookbook

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