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Posted 12/8/2011 6:34 AM (GMT 0)
Have any of you started thinking yet about what you'll be cooking and eating during the festive season?

I'm still trying to get my head around daily meals, so wouldn't mind hearing what you're doing / have done for special occasions.

Thanks heaps,

Ivy

Post Edited (ivy6) : 12/7/2011 11:44:32 PM (GMT-7)

Posted 12/8/2011 4:42 PM (GMT 0)
I'm not a fodmapper, but I'll still be on my elimination diet over the holidays. We're spending Christmas day at my brother's house and his wife is doing all the cooking. I'm planning on making a dish I can eat and taking that for me. It's going to be so hard to resist all the yumminess, though!
Posted 12/8/2011 6:24 PM (GMT 0)
Ivy,
did you see the turkey ball recipe I posted on another fodmap thread? They are a little bit of work but turned out pretty tasty. I made some clam chowder using rice milk that was ok as well. I'm thinking of trying some stuffed potatoes using rice milk for the liquid, and pistachios ground up for the topping instead of cheese. Another thing that is pretty good is very dark chocolate (w/out soy) melted in hot rice milk with a little vanilla and stevia or saccharin for the sweetener. Mint might work in place of the vanilla. Crohn's is a cruel diseases for a foodie to have!!
Posted 12/8/2011 9:17 PM (GMT 0)
I did, thanks, but turkey's not an everyday meat here, so not commonly available, especially minced etc.

The hot chocolate is a great idea. Thanks.

Sounds like others are stumped too: I'll post if I find anything nice.

Thanks again.

Ivy.
Posted 12/9/2011 1:40 AM (GMT 0)
I am just doing the usual english style christmas with hot ham, turkey, roast kumara, spuds, parsnip, brocolli, carrots and peas, then pavlova for me and traditional Xmas pud and trifle for the rest.

cheese board for when we play silly games and probably the odd straw daiquiri made with fresh strawbs

boxing day will be GF waffles, bacon and bananas for brunch with a glas of bubbles

then it will be cold meats, salad and leftovers.

thought I might make some turkish delight if I have time mmmmmmm
Posted 12/9/2011 3:50 AM (GMT 0)
OK. I think I hate you, Kiwi. I can do a meringue shell, but, as I've not been able to handle dairy since I was a teen, I can't do the whole whipped cream thing, so no genuine pav. Ditto a cheese board.

If you ask me, wheat free is dead easy compared to dairy free. Not being able to handle dairy wrecks everything.

I want a cheesecake!!!

My only revenge lies in reminding you, ceaselessly and remorselessly, just how poorly NZ is doing at the cricket. Ha.

atm I'm thinking probably roast beef or lamb with the usual roast root veg, but that's really quite boring, as it really is just a variant of meat & veg, which is a daily staple just now.

How come you can do broccoli? All brassicas are banned on my fodmap info sheet.

I'm dead jealous of you and that pav.

*grump*

Ivy.
Posted 12/9/2011 4:18 AM (GMT 0)
I know this is a dumb question, but what is a fodmapper? I am stumped. confused I have never tried a diet for my crohns my GI just says eat what doesn't bother me. But something can bother me one day and be fine the next.
Posted 12/9/2011 4:28 AM (GMT 0)
"Fodmapper" is my word for someone following the fodmap diet.

You can find more information on it here.

I believe Kiwi found the information on it herself, and I *think* Betty got her inspiration from Kiwi. I'm on it because the doctors put me on it, thinking it might help with some of the gas, pain, and bloating I've been experiencing. THeoretically, my Crohn's is in remission, but it's not acting as if it is.

Hope this helps.

Ivy.
Posted 12/9/2011 4:56 AM (GMT 0)
low blow re the cricket Ivy but then I guess you are still licking your aussie sporting wounds after we won the rugby world cup LOL and please don't mention the hiding your netballers always give us ;P

I do feel sorry for you with the dairy thing - very hard indeed. As for brocolli I have just been trying a few sprigs of new season brocolli and so far so good. Beans and cauli still evil though.

I saw some dairy free ice cream at the supermarket today but don't know what it is like?
Posted 12/9/2011 5:03 AM (GMT 0)
I was making my own ice cream, pre fodmap, but I was making it with coconut cream, which is, of course, banned on this diet, and I've yet to find an acceptable substitute.

I've tried the supermarkets' dairy free ice creams and they're ok, but not really a great substitute for the real thing. Plus, they're packed with sugar and other additives, and I think they'd probably do as much damage, fodmap-wise, as my coconut concoctions.

Forget sport, I'm still smarting from the lightbulb joke!!!!! :-)

I thought I was ok with brassicas, but I thought I was ok on a lot of fodmap-banned foods, and only saw the difference once I stopped them. I might be like you, and introduce them eventually, but I think Christmas will be too early. :-(

*sigh*
Posted 12/9/2011 5:18 AM (GMT 0)
come one it is probably the BEST light bulb joke EVER!

My dietician seems to think small amounts of forbidden foods can be tolerated if you are in a remission phase but I am well aware that if I push my luck it can go dog very easily.

I have a GF brownie recipe that uses ground almonds which is a nice sweet treat - no milk but it does have butter.

Do you think avoiding FODMAP foods is helping or is it too early to tell yet? Hows the foot?
Posted 12/9/2011 5:20 AM (GMT 0)
Kiwi, do you have the Aus Better Homes and Gardens magazine over there? I collect old editions for fifty cents apiece from op shops, and in the Jan 2010 edition (which I found & bought today) there's what sounds like a very Christmassy recipe for five-spice icecream with orange jelly.

Ice cream - milk, star anise, cloves, cardamon pods, vanilla bean, cinnamon stick, egg yolks, caster sugar
Orange jelly - oranges, caster sugar, gelatine

Now, *that* sounds doable, don't you think, and as fodmap friendly as one is likely to get in a Christmas dessert? Pity about all that sugar, but hey, it's Christmas...

Ivy.
Posted 12/9/2011 5:26 AM (GMT 0)
sounds delicious well apart from the milk for you.

must admit I often go on their website - great for all sorts of crafty stuff and recipes so have to admit somethings Australian are very good indeed <very tongue in cheek but don't know the emoticon> haha

I have a recipe for GF almond finger like you use for trifle so if I get my act together I might be able to make a trifle I can eat.

At least we can do strawberries and the season is just getting started here - add a little bacardi and sugar syrup and you have a very healthy and fodmap friendly cocktail ... famous last words!
Posted 12/9/2011 5:35 AM (GMT 0)
There was a recipe for strawberry and watercress salad in the same mag. Swap the watercress for nasturtium leaves (fresher & cheaper) and you could be pretty much set...

Oooooh! Do you have a link for that brownie recipe, or is it on paper?

No probs with the milk - I'll just use rice milk instead. Easy.

I agree about that joke: I thought it was great, and laughed.

If I ever ate dairy, I'd be sick and flaring for at least two weeks, so I don't even try small amounts anymore. How long are you sick for if you break fodmaps? I know you did a wee while ago.

Are you still shaking there, btw?

Ivy.

ps. I've never looked at thee BH&G website. I must, by the sounds of it...

pps. Yum yum; trifle. I'll hate you even more if you get to eat that :-).
Posted 12/9/2011 7:17 AM (GMT 0)
If I break the diet I feel really tired and grumpy and the bowels go crazy again then it takes me about a week to come right once I restart.

Unfortunately I have a bout of SIBO at the moment so back on cipro and flagyll and not feeling too flash on it.

thankfully the earthquakes seem to be settling down, just small rumbles lately but still enough to keep us from relaxing completely. What a year it has been!

will post brownie recipe as a new thread as other might like to try it.

strab and nasturtiums yumyum :)
Posted 12/9/2011 7:17 AM (GMT 0)
If I break the diet I feel really tired and grumpy and the bowels go crazy again then it takes me about a week to come right once I restart.

Unfortunately I have a bout of SIBO at the moment so back on cipro and flagyll and not feeling too flash on it.

thankfully the earthquakes seem to be settling down, just small rumbles lately but still enough to keep us from relaxing completely. What a year it has been!

will post brownie recipe as a new thread as other might like to try it.

strawb and nasturtiums yumyum :)
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