Hi everyone!
My name's Olivia and I've recently been diagnosed with Irritable Bowel Syndrome and, after seeing a dietician, advised to go on a low FODMAP diet for at least two months. As someone who loves to cook, this is something that hit me pretty hard...no onion or garlic? They're pretty much the base of everything I cook! However, I'm determined to make the best of it and so this blog is hopefully going to be the base for some of my adapted low FODMAP recipes.
A little more about me: I don't eat meat so these recipes will be either vegetarian or fish based. Most of these recipes will be adapted from high FODMAP recipes I'm used to cooking so they're going to be tried and tested before I put them on here!
A little more about the low FODMAP diet: FODMAP stands for Fermentable Oligo-saccharides Di-saccharides Mono-saccharides and Polyols (a bit of a mouthful). Basically these are foods that are poorly absorbed by the gut, causing symptoms such as abdominal pain, bloating, gas, diorrhoea, nausea and constipation. Basically, these foods may be the cause of why you feel like you're in a constant war-zone with your gut whatever you eat. This diet involves cutting out gluten, lactose and a wide variety of fruit and vegetables including legumes and pulses. It's a challenge, but if it makes you feel better it must be worth it, right?
In this blog I'm going to be not only recording recipes but also how much progress I'm making with the diet and whether it seems to have made a big difference to my health or not (don't worry, no TMI inducing posts, I promise.)
There are also a few different varieties of the FODMAP diet varying from country to country; I'm from the UK so will be following UK FODMAP guidelines.
So here goes nothing!
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