Fibre-maxxing [Okay, just trying to get more fibre into my diet]. Anyone else?

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One of my aims for 2026 is to get more fibre into my diet. I've recently found out this is called 'fibre-maxxing' by cool, young Tik Tok people.

I've swapped white pasta for wholemeal pasta.
I'm eating bran flakes for breakfast.
I'm trying to eat more pears.
I'm snacking on nuts, rather than crisps.
Chia seeds on everything.

Anyone else fibre-maxxing? Or has any tips for getting more fibre into your diet?

Eat more vegetables. Locally grown, seasonal ones are cheapest.

incorporate beans of various sorts. Also, up your fibre content slowly and drink plenty of water, or ironically you can get constipation.

I've always been a pretty dedicated bean-eater.
We've always had bean one pots a few times a week.

Thanks for the reminder about plenty of water. Roger that.

Eat kiwis. Apparently there's something in them which is really good for us which you can't get (easily) elsewhere (says Tim Spector). And you can eat the skin too, but I don't!

Don't bother with wholemeal pasta - it's bloody awful. You can easily get more fibre from adding pulses to your pasta sauce or have a small starter of hummus on wholemeal crispbreads or something. No need to ruin a meal for the sake of a little fibre

Legumes every day. Overnight oats with chia seeds every morning. Don't waste calories on any overprocessed crap. If I feel like I haven't had enough, I have a few grams of psyllium husk in water (you can buy it from wholefoods). I have a very sensitive bumhole so I've been eating a high fibre diet exclusively for over a year now and my GI tract has been exceptionally happy.

Fresh dates are the most delicious form of fibre.

I really like whole meal pasta 😬

Swap your Bran Flakes for All Bran.

My very fussy youngest “doesn’t notice the difference.”

I'm very impressed! None of mine would touch it.

They were very happy with brown rice; I think they assumed the colour difference was soy sauce 😆

I'm not doing a fibre maxxing thing- but then, I'm not young, nor on tik tok!

DH was diagnoses as pre-diabetic, so we have changed to wholemeal/brown things from last year. No kids to feed.

-I too didn't think switching to wholemeal pasta was much different. Sainsburys/tesco also sell wholemeal lasagne sheets which I find great. I add grated veg into my lasagne and pasta sauces too.
-In shepherds/cottage pie, I add a tin of baked beans
-I keep the skin on potatoes when mashing them and try to keep skin on carrots, squash/pumpkins where feasible. I use a scrubbing brush, solely for veg scrubbing before cooking.
-We eat wholemeal bread
-I grow jerusalem artichokes along with alot of other fruit/veg.
-Wholegrain rice. I cook the entire 1kg bag, cool, then freeze into individual portions.

Why do you think you need more fibre?

Because I was getting about 10g which is 1/3 of the RDA for adults.

I have pulses with every meal. I have a very slow bowel.
I've put some oats and chia to soak thanks to this thread 😁

Look up Liam Layton - theplantslant

He loves a good dose of fiber, and is especially partial to beans. IYKYK

Porridge with added oat bran. Lentils. Pulses. Brown bread. Lots of veg of all sorts. I think I read somewhere that pears are high in fibre but I'm not certain. Sticky dates. Prunes?

Oh it’s taken a long time!

Eat lots of fermented food, you want the good bacteria first to help you digest the fibre.

Water and brisk walking, jogging, gym.

I add sunflower and pumpkin seeds to my overnight oats.

I have a porridge mix that I make with oats, chia seeds, ground flaxseeds, pumpkin & sunflower seeds, chopped nuts and then raisins and dried apple chunks. I just make a load up and have it most mornings.

Smaller things are I don't bother peeling potatoes, carrots, parsnips etc. just give them a good clean if needed (this came about out of sheer laziness but I claim it's for the fibre benefits)

My step-mother swears by psyllium husk, but I understand you need to introduce it quite slowly to your diet and drink lots of water throughout the day.

Fibre is an interesting topic, if you half half an hour of YOuTUbe time today I can recommend "What about fibre? by Dr Zoe Harcombe PhD | PHC Conference 2019".

The PHC, Public Health Collaboration, is a UK based charity with the goal of saving the NHS and well worth a google.

porridge oats for breakfast.

Me too. Beans, lentils, chickpeas, veg, fruit. Chia seeds, flax seeds, all the seeds. Psyllium husk if you get desperate.

But drink more water to move it through or there could be trouble ahead.