Please help - I need zero-vegetable meals

[RatedDoingMagic]

I am not-quite-vegetarian normally. I eat poultry & fish (no mammals) but DH is fully vegetarian and 95% of the time I eat veggie. When I do eat meat it's limited to eg a scattering of prawns on a veg pizza or adding some chicken into some leftover veggie tagine when there wasn't a full serving leftover.

I have a medical procedure next week in preparation for which I have to eat absolutely nothing that contains fibre for 3 days. Pretty much no veg at all except no-fibre carb things eg skinless potatoes and white rice etc. I can have chicken, fish, cheese, white carbs etc but I have no idea of anything I can do with this other than a bland and flavourless lump of protien on bland and flavourless carb - everything I can think of that gives flavour and depth is on the "not allowed" list. I would love to have some fish with a yummy salsa verde of other veg sauce but I can't. I can have Fish&Chips one night and that will be nice but I have 2 other dinners and 3 lunches to come up with

• any suggestions?

I think it's just going to be really boring for a while.

They should include a sheet with recommended foods along with the prep. It's only for a few days too so it'll be fine.

Lemon juice?

Surely the hospital will have given you a list of what you can and cannot eat?

It may be boring, but it's just for a few days.

Imagine how many people have to be on severely restricted diets for life....

A turducken with halloumi fries.

Tbh it’s a few days so get over it and eat bland food

Could you supplement the bland diet with nutrition shakes? e.g. Fortisip

My child was not allowed to eat anything pink or brown a day or two before the procedure (can't quite remember when now). If that's the same for you Vanilla might be a good choice.

Well clearly it isn't as easy as you seem to think 😂

Possibly because you don’t understand the challenge?

Sliced white pan bread is fine on a low residue diet, so all the toasties recommend above will work. As will pasta. They say no veg as most people cannot separate low and high fibre veg.

www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/recipes/low-fiber-diet-recipes/rcs-20534074

They do and its just a long list of what you cant eat.

Its only a couple of days though. I gave up after a while so just had nothing.

variations of meat/ fish with potatoes/ rice/ bread. Surely you can eat basic for a few days without needing proper recipes.

Are you allowed powdered spices, or soy sauce? That might help with the flavour issue if so. You could have egg fried rice with as much chicken as you can get down you.

If it’s for a SIBO test i did poached or boiled eggs, salt, white rice for a couple of days (vegetarian). It was boring AF, but had to be done.

I would do steak and a few boiled or fried eggs. Maybe some boiled baby potatoes.

Here's a list of low-fiber foods:

https://healthy.kaiserpermanente.org/washington/get-care/additional-services/gastroenterology/colon-diet-low-fiber

Peanut butter and crackers is what I would eat. Everything else sounds blah.

She'll never open her mouth again.

Thats the second Jack Lemmon line I quoted in the last couple of days on here!

Smoked haddock and mashed potato — if potato is fibre-free enough. Butter, black pepper, a squeeze of lemon. Lovely.

Sausages and spicy potato wedges.

Spicy rice with chicken.

All of them tasty. Look for smoked foods or add curry spices.

I had to do the low-residue thing pre-colonoscopy. The diet sheet you get is absolutely the reverse of the high fibre, high colour, loads of variety regime we are told is good for us. My hospital wanted a 48 hour fast, so I had a plain white bagel with smoked salmon and soft cheese for lunch and a clear soup for supper, followed by nothing except clear drinks, boiled sweets and bowel prep the following day. By the time of my appointment, I was eyeing up the taxi driver and thinking he looked a bit tasty. And not in a good way.😁

Ive never been so grateful for tea and toast after the procedure, in my life

Ive had a gastric sleeve so cant eat more than about half a slice of toast (and I dont really eat bread) but I had half a slice, smothered in all the butter and all the marmalade they left. Beautiful it was.

Prawn fried rice- white rice, soy sauce, sesame oil, egg and prawns

Steak or Salmon and Chips with aioli

Omelette with cheese

A charcuterie board with no crackers - basically meat and cheese

Sushi

Apologies- just realised you can have white carbs

Add in sandwiches
cake
Put some crackers with that charcuterie board-
or make it a Camembert with French stick

Honestly I’m gluten free, low fat (gallbladder) and three days of that would make me feel awful- but would also be WONDERFUL

White bread is allowed for colonoscopy prep as there is FA fibre in it (until the fast and purge bit anyway.)

Smoked salmon with scrambled or poached eggs
Omelette with ham
Gammon steak with scrambled egg
Salmon steak with hollandaise sauce
Plaice fillets
Consommé
Cottage cheese with prawns
Sardines or tuna or smoked mackerel fillets on toast
Rice pudding, creme caramel, panna cotta.
Yoghurt for breakfast.

It's only for three days, and it seems you can have a small amount of white bread, maybe for toast or a sandwich.
Lots of luck, and I hope it all works out for you.

Thanks all!