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If you've successfully managed to reduce your dairy and wheat intake, what did you replace those foods with?

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tomovemykids · 05/02/2020 16:06

I have IBS and am trying to cut down on wheat and dairy, but most of the healthy alternatives are fruit and veg, which are triggers. Here's a list of the foods I tend to avoid unless I want bloating, cramps and stinky wind for hours...mostly highly fermentable foods...

Beans, lentils, pulses, legumes etc
Salad
Fruit, esp stone fruit
Veg such as the brassica and cruciferous sorts
Popcorn
Peas and sweetcorn
Brown rice, bread, pasta

So a normal day would be a bowl of Cereal (dairy and wheat), soup or sandwich for lunch with some fruit such as a banana, maybe a yoghurt. Evening meal is normally pasta/potato/rice based with meat. I usually have a small bowl of Cereal for supper too otherwise I wake up hungry in the night.

I do like eggs but only hot/warm, not cold. So I'll have scrambled eggs on toast at home.

Any ideas on what I could breakfast and snack on that's healthy and not a trigger please?

OP posts:
mumofpickles · 06/02/2020 21:17

Also corn flakes, rice krispies, harvest morn Choc crunch and apple cinnamon crunch, oatflakes and oatabix are all breakfast alternatives without wheat. Orange /apple juice is also nice on cereal and is a good dairy alternative.

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