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friend's food restricted as undergoing medical tests - what can you make out of this?

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TheArmadillo · 15/02/2009 16:03

my bf is undergoing tests atm next week (luckily only for one day) she has been given a list of things she is allowed to eat - no deviating from list.

I've told her I'll try and come up with some ideas of what to make with it but I am stumped.

Also she lives in a bedsit and so has very limited cooking facilities - she has a microwave and a baby belling thingy (like a counter top oven) and one hob. The oven thing doesn't heat very well. She also has no food processor/blender thing.

The list she has (for full day) is
white pasta
1 skinless potato
lettuce
2 slices beetroot
2 slices tomato
1/4 avocado
1 carrot
clear soup
stock
meat (though she is not a big fan and eats no more than mouthful if she has to have it at all - most of it she won't touch).

I'm trying to think up a way to make a pasta sauce but without much tomato I am stuck. Soups again without a blender I can't think of much cos I would put meat in it (e.g. lettuce and ham) but would need to be blended.

Any ideas? She eats v little as it is (due in part to the health probs) and is reasonably likely to spend whole day not eating if she can't make it palateable.

Um help!!!

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Coldtits · 15/02/2009 16:12

Finely chop/grate and cook the avocado, the beetroot, the carrot and the tomato, and serve it on pasta (with finely chopped meat of choice? suggest ham for flavour)

Ham salad with mashed potato

Sauteed potato with bacon and tomato

thisisyesterday · 15/02/2009 16:12

she could make a basic stew with stock, meat, potato and carrot.

salad of course, with the jacket potato?

if it's just for one day I'm sure she'll survive

TheArmadillo · 15/02/2009 16:23

thanks for the ideas

i think I'm probably overworrying but she's been quite ill for nearly a year and they still aren't sure what is wrong.

One of the biggest problems is her body doesn't absorb much at all from her food and she's lost a lot of weight (but still has a very swollen stomach). She's also not allowed to eat on the day she has the tests.

It's really unpleasant and horrible for her, not to mention painful and exhausting. Not to mention some of the side effects are somewhat humiliating.

I'll pass on these ideas to her thanks.

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