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Post by rainyday on Dec 10, 2008 14:27:48 GMT -5
I am trying to restrict wheat, carbs and meat from my diet including eggs. But breakfast leaves me stumped.
Any suggestions for quick easy ones?
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Post by minnie on Dec 10, 2008 15:23:01 GMT -5
Hi Rainday Try yoghurt and fruit, spelt based cereals hmmmmmmm, getting stuck on what else there is though am sure there is a ton of stuff you can have. I'll think some more xx
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Post by rach on Dec 10, 2008 22:01:05 GMT -5
You can get cereals which are made from rice and corn and soy- ie soy flakes, corn flakes, puffed rice, puffed millet, etc. I have them with soy milk (or you could have oat milk) and some tinned fruit on top.
Another good quick option is to make a smoothie- either with oat/rice milk, fruit (bananas, berries, honey, LSA, ) or with fruit juice and fruit (ie apple juice, pineapple juice, tinned fruits).
I sometimes (as an indulgence) have rye bread toast (its 62% rye and has no wheat but does conatin gluten) with peanut paste.
Porridge (oats contain gluten but not wheat, but you can also get a gluten free porridge made from rice i think) with water or soy/oat/rice milk, honey, dried fruit, LSA, nutes, seeds, etc.
I LOVE buckwheat pancakes. It comes as a ready made, just-add-water packet mix, but you could also make them from scratch easily with buckwheat flour, spelt flour, other gluten free or non wheat flours. I mash up a bannana and mix that in with the mixture, then have yoghurt and berries on top.
Hope this has given you some ideas, there really are quite a lot of options, infact i reckon brekky is the easiest meal of the day!
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Post by rach on Dec 10, 2008 22:01:37 GMT -5
Oops sorry i didn't realise you were trying to restrict carbs as well, so some of the options i gave might not suit.
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Post by anneny on Dec 18, 2008 13:10:01 GMT -5
Rice and beans! I know it sounds like a dinner food, but it's sooo yummy and filling for breakfast.
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Post by Susanne on Dec 19, 2008 5:05:22 GMT -5
I have fruit juice and porridge made from rice milk, rice plakes and brown rice.
Are you restricting all carbs or just the sugars? Fruit sugars too? I tried a huge smoothy for breakfast earlier this week: 3 oranges, 1 grapefruit, 1 lemon. Squees the juice of these. Mix a handfull of cranberries with half an apple in the blender, add the juice: ready. It's SO MUCH that I didn't need anything else until lunch. How about yoghurt? With some fresh fruit and kamut/oat/rice cereals... yummie!!
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Post by Susanne on Dec 19, 2008 5:06:58 GMT -5
oh, I forgot. When I eat egg I only eat the whites and throw away the yolk (no fats, just protein). Works for me!
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Post by soleiri on Dec 23, 2008 23:01:58 GMT -5
I've been on an oatmeal kick recently. Perfect for cold mornings. I have oatmeal with a tablespoon of ground flax seed, approx. 1/4 cup of blueberries, and a generous drizzle of maple syrup.
although it probably has too many carbs for your diet.
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Post by freefromendo on Jan 25, 2009 11:49:59 GMT -5
Hi Everyone
Since we are on the Endo-resolved website i figure all have read the info on endo before coming here. I am also at a loss as to what to do for breakfast as the site does say that the foods we should leave out of our diet are:
wheat (in all it's forms) sugar (in all it's forms which would include fruits high in sucrose content) dairy (in all it's forms including yogurts) gluten Soy (in all it's forms because of the estrogen mimicking effect it has) Rye
and now somone is saying that oats has gluten in it! I am soooooo in the lurch as to what to do for breakfast I am tempted to get back on the no no foods.
Can anyone help!
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Post by Susanne on Jan 29, 2009 12:22:44 GMT -5
Hi Freefromendo,
As I understood the endo-diet the main thing is to avoid wheat and rye and rotate the grains that are related to wheat such as spelt and kamut. The diet is not saying to avoid all gluten, although you can chose to do that of course. Gluten-free is really difficult though. Gluten is in wheat, rye, oats and barley plus the related grains spelt and kamut. Couscous and Bulghur are also made out of wheat. This basically leaves corn, rice and potatoe. A lot of the gluten free stuff is made of soy, so that makes it all the more difficult. You can buy or bake gluten free bread, rice pops for the yoghurt, or corn flakes. The gluten-free flour you can buy to bake bread I also use to bake cakes, works well for me. There is also gluten-free spaghetti and other pasta for sale.
If I were you I would start on wheat and rye free only first and if you don't notice any difference try the gluten free for a few months (3-6 months or so). Good luck!
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Post by rach on Jan 29, 2009 19:10:41 GMT -5
It can be very hard to do this diet, especially if you are not used to eating or even aware of the many alternative foods available. I don't follow it strictly, because i still like to be able to eat out or buy my lunch during the week occasionally, and i still find it hard. My advice and the good foods (that follow the diet) that i eat:
BREKKY: Smoothie- bannanna, high antioxidant berries (blueberries, bilberries and one other kind i dont remember), ice and rice milk. Gluten free toast with avacado and tomato, or gluten free toasted sandwhiches, nice with sundried tomatoes, hommus, baby spinach, etc. Puffed millet, puffed amaranth, puffed kumat, with rice milk, in rotation. Pancakes made from gluten free flour or buckwheat (occasionally). Also savoury pancakes, with a spicy bean mix, or with avacado and baby spinach, or with pesto, etc. Fried tomatoes and mushrooms.
LUNCH: Salads- you new best friend! As well as green salads, try mixed beans salad, lentil salad, rice salad, potato salad, warm roast veggie salad, etc. Add nuts and legumes for protein, a little bit of goats cheese if you're not too fussed about dairy, although i'm a veggo so i've got no advise on meat, sorry! RICE- rice salad, fried rice, rice and beans, chilli/spicy rice, PASTA- ,made from either rice and corn (i find this a bit gluggy though), potato starch, i found one with added quinoa and one with added amaranth, these are really tasty, make a sauce with lots of veggies. My fav is with roast pumpkin.
DINNER sort of similiar to lunch. we also have a lot of stir fried veggies with rice or rice noodles, curries (vegetable, chick pea and dahl), soups, roast veggies, i make burger patties with chick peas or red kidney beans, potato cakes with lemon juice and chilli, nachos, tacos and corn tortilla wraps with a spicy bean salsa....
I hope this helps you out a bit freefromendo, it actually just helped me as it reminded me of all the things i haven't made in awhile! Don't give up, just take it slowly if you're finding it too hard, and try to plan meals ahead of time if you can, so that you don't get caught out, starving at 9pm and willing to eat anything in site!
Good luck!
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Post by cass on Feb 3, 2009 7:31:02 GMT -5
I went and bought some oats (the carmens variety) and im a bit sceptical about starting them as a breakfast option as im concerned how they will interfere with my bowels. Does anyone know if oats given the amount of soluable and insoluable fibre can cause an obstruction?
I ask because i stupidly ate strawberries after my resection and the seeds caused a bowel bloackge and it was the most excruciating pain i have ever felt, and now im scared of introducing new food items.
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Post by rach on Feb 3, 2009 21:28:32 GMT -5
This is what i found out:
Oats contain more soluble fiber than any other grain, resulting in slower digestion and an extended sensation of fullness. One type of soluble fibre, beta-glucans, has proven to help lower cholesterol.
Foods high in insoluble fibre tend to stimulate bowel movement or to increase stool bulk. Patients with partial bowel obstruction are at risk of total obstruction from extremely fibrous foods. Other pateints may find that solube fiber, such as that found in apples, oats and potatoes either helps solidify the stool or has no positive or negative effect.
I'm you're going to give them a try, i guess just try a very small amount and see how it goes. Good luck!
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Post by angel on Feb 17, 2009 7:29:54 GMT -5
If you are like me and can eat oats successfully and are trying to increase calories to maintain weight levels on the diet, I eat porridge every morning with a few adaptions... I add a tablespoon of ground almonds and a tablespoon of mixed ground seeds (pumpkin sunflower & flax) to my porridge made with 1 part oats to 2 parts rice milk. Then I stir in a chopped banana, a couple of chopped dates or other dried fruit like prunes or apricots or cranberries.
P.S Thanks Rach for the meal list, you've inspired me!
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Post by freefromendo on Mar 3, 2009 11:39:42 GMT -5
Hey Rach, thanks for the meal plans. lol. you have given me great ideas girl also Susanne great addition but you know in Jan I made the radical change like I said and had a pain free period. In Feb, however, I got carried away and one week b4 AF came I had cheesecake, multi-grain wheat bread, crackers. Of course I took my vitamins just the same and doubled up on the Acidophulous as well as drinking loads of water.
Can I tell you, it did not help. AF came with a vengeance! The pain was so terrible that I wished I could do a lap that day! nothing I did helped. so I have decided to stick to my vegetarian diet and exclude all the things I listed above.
Thanks ladies for all the encouragement and help.
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