IBS - Anyone got recipes?

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What kind of meals can I give dd for home and packed lunches including snacks?

Any suggestions welcome.

Are you on a strict IBS diet - and are there any food intolerances?
My DS1 is on an IBS diet - the no fried, greasy, spicy foods, No caffeine, fizzy drinks, tomato based foods, 'dodgy vegetables!" cauli, broccoli, cabbage, onions, peppers and lentils. He is also dairy, fructose and sucrose intolerant. Add this to his 2 brothers that are dairy and gluten intolerant - feeding time is quite fraught!
It has taken me since November (when the IBS diet was added by the gastroenterologist) to get a grip on what they can have.
I literally went through everything they normally had and tried to find a suitable substitute. Many of the meals I used to cook went out the window, but we've developed a few new ones.
So really I would go with what she likes and eats now and adapt. For example, baked crisps instead of fried etc. But I would really need to know what foods you are looking to substitute, and the constraints you are working to.
Happy to help you think up a few!

Hi. Thanks for the response. We are trialling the exact diet you have outlined for your ds1 apart from lentils which weren't on our list not to eat. How do you make baked crisps?
Do you still give butter? WHat about cakes, biscuits etc??
She is still having pain despite the diet and although we've been told she is not allergic to wheat or dairy and her colonoscopy was fine I do wonder about an issue with gluten albeit not causing damage.

u know, from my experience, I would rather remove wheat/gluten than anything else, if you research it, there is a lot of evidence that gluten is the culprit

We were told she hasnt got celiac (from blood test and colonoscopy) and she isnt allergic to wheat. I do have celiac and IBS in my family - grandmother and great aunt who both apparently cut gluten out of their diet and were much better so have pondered with cutting gluten.
DH is against this though and would rather wait until advised to do so by gastro.

One more question - is it no just to deep fried food? What about frying in a frying pan where you put a little bit of oil in?

u don't have to be celiac to be affected by wheat, damage is cumulative, thereis no test for gluten intolerance as it's done as a diet trial, but the more you eat the worse it gets, so some time in the future when retested he could show up even as a celiac.
And yes, it runs in the genes so makes sense what you said about a possible family connection. You know, health is not an exact science in black and white sometimes.

try and avoid brown rice and wholewheat bread, really makes my ibs very painful.

have had some success with probiotics, and have smaller meals with less fibre.

for constipation, lindseed sprinkled on breakfast cereal, helps, in small amounts. say a teaspoon at first.

lots of water helps as well, as gut swollen and inflammed.

Thanks. How soon after starting diet should the pain stop?

It depends - some foods can take 6 weeks plus to be completely out of your system.
I would agree with Nightcat re the gluten. That seems to be a real big baddie with my 3 DS and my IBS. Lets just say that after a gluten meal it 're-appears' some 20-30 minutes later
I kept food and stool diaries for my boys and the gastroenterologist said it was highly likely that the gluten was a major contributor to their symptoms.
DS1 is on anti-spasmodics as well to help.
For the first few weeks of the new regime, I was as strict as anything - no frying at all - very bland food tbh. I have added a few bits here and there to see what they can tolerate. Even within the IBS list there are now real obvious no-nos and some that don't seem to affect too much.