A balanced diet! Any recipe suggestions?

My diet has been consisting of chicken, cheddar cheese, bread, potato, rice, banana, tea w a drop of milk, sometimes meat and sometimes fish for more than 2 years and that's it. Not eating anything except for broth for more than 10 days and the unknown bleeding (reason still not identified) in addition to stopping all vitamins in the signature for more than 3 months left me extremely weak. Add up, both my GI and the GP force me to eat. They refuse to give me fluids or vitamin injections. I always opt for this and that's why they decided to force me to start eating more balanced food. I only drink Ensure but not as recommended. The GP mentioned that she won't allow me to return to work if I do not start eating normal balanced food. I can faint easily.
Since I'm staying at home, I decided to prepare untraditional food and try to add some high fibers but I do not have appetizing ideas.
Do you have tasty ideas that match my restricted diet? I'm still afraid of introducing high fibers into my food but my GI insists that I should at least add apples and pears. Would I tolerate them?
Any ideas are highly appreciated.

Also a daily favorite is a banana smoothie. 2/3 cup unsweetened original almond milk, 1 overripe banana, cinnamon to taste, crushed ice.

If you are that bad off it doesn't sound like your current diet is working very well for you now? Ensure and Boost made me sicker everytime I tried them, and not just the nasty taste but they relly made me physically ill. Is the chicken broth homemade or the stuff from a can or boullion bc even the stuff that says no MSG has MSG in hidden ingredients like "yeast extract" " autolyzed and Hydrolyzed vegetable or soy protein" So it is best to make your own. You Can make a big batch and freeze portions in canning jars or freezer containers. It is as easy as tossing a whole chicken into a big pot of water and adding veggies if you like. If you use much on a rgular basis it is worth it to spend the extra on organic chicken bc the antibiotics are stored in the fat.
If you use salt you can switch to a mineral salt like sea salt, make sure it lists the trace minerals, some just say they are sea salt but everything has been washed out of them.

You like tea, try adding some peppermint leaves and/or fresh grated ginger to your tea, it helps with nausea and inflammation. you can add pure honey which is also a source of vitamins and minerals.

If you are sure you can handle bread then why not go with pasta, it is super easy and you can top it with lots of different sauces, veggies and meats or shrimp. I would add some chicken or shrimp and steamed veggies and put butter and lemon juice or even sour cream as a sauce. you can top the rice with anything as well.
I do sprouts in a jar they are high in protein as well as vitamins, sunflower seeds, mung beans, lentils, fenugreek etc, mix them or do them in separate jars and let them soak in water for 24 hrs draining and rinsing atleast once. then just rinse them atleast once a day. you can start eating them as soon as they are soft and can eat them until they are too big that they don't taste good anymore. They are very high in vitamins and they give me huge energy boosts. I really like green foods so I can eat a big bowl plain like most would eat potato chips. You can eat them plain or with dressing, add them to soups or salads or even smoothies. A Tbs of dried seeds will make several cups of sprouts if you let them grow long enough. And if you store them in the fridge they stop growing and stay fresh longer, but you still rinse them daily.
Greek yogurt (good source of probiotics) with mashed up ripe banana(need the banana for sweetness) and some peaches, or berries whatever you like. If you use frozen fruits you can make a great smoothie with it.
Lemon water is very alkalinizing and anti inflammatory, and helps you to rehydrate as well as cleanse your liver and kidneys.
You can add chia or flax seeds whole or ground to soups smoothies or yougurt, they are high in EFA's

Read the book "Breaking the Vicious Cycle", it gives you all kinds of ideas for a diet to reduce inflammation and tells youwhat foods you can eat and can't eat.

Oh and I'd try and see if you can tolerate avocado - great source of nutrients.

I love 1/2 avocado mashed into 1/2 cup white rice and tossed with fresh lime juice and cilantro.

Post Edited (tacom) : 3/20/2013 2:20:26 PM (GMT-6)

Aw, good luck. You are very welcome!