What to Eat with IBD (book)

Has anyone read this book by Tracie Dalessandro? She's an RN and CDN who has IBD herself and talks a lot about soluble vs insoluble fiber and points out foods that heal vs foods that hurt (vs foods that cause more gas). She also focuses a lot on getting as much nutrition as possible seeing as we're terrible at absorbing the good stuff. Then it has a ton of recipes in the back. It really makes a lot of sense to me without being as drastic or restrictive as the SCD. I just made my first meal from the book - it's a carrot, spinach and pastina soup and it's pretty darn good.

I'm going to try going a month or two on these 'healing' foods and see what happens. If nothing else, it's a lot healthier than the cr@p I eat at the moment (had McD's for dinner last night, bleuuurgh).

Giving it a try is great! I thought it had some good, common-sense info, when browsing int he bookstore.

I own it but haven't really used it. I turned SCD so too many of the recipes are out.

Brenda

I have been doing SCD for 3 years now. It was the best thing I ever did. I was on pred then entocort for a couple of years. The diet get me off all strong meds (I still take LDN and a very low dose of pentasa, covering all bases).

SCD is tough when you start. It is all or nothing. However, after a while it is second nature and really it feels normal. I eat amazing food daily. I had italian sausage and peppers over spaghetti for lunch. I eat curries. I eat turkey, and gravy, with cranberry sauce, stuffing.... What ever you like to eat bread, cookies, candies.... can be made SCD. What you eat will depend on you. I can eat all the above but not too much carbs....

I think eating healthy and more specifically SCD is worth it for anyone to help figure out a diet that can heal

healing thoughts

dave

I make gravy so many ways. I take it on everything. I am a gravy guy.

This weekend, roasted chicken with lots of herbs, sage, savory, thyme, and some other stuff. Put in bowel, added olive oil, brushed.
Added rough cut celery, carrots, and onions. Roasted in oven.

After cooking set veg aside. De boned chicken and made chicken stock. Added cooked veg, back into roasting pan with chicken stock. Added a bit of white wine and deglazed pan. Get all the brown bits from the bottom. Then used immersion blender to blend everything together silky smooth including veg, bits of chicken and stock. Finish with salt and pepper. Nice super flavorful gravy. 100% healthy. Nothing artificial. Looks funny. If I was serving it to non SCD I would dark gravy coloring (made with caramel so not SCD legal).

South Indians use ground cashews and browned off coconut as the thickening base for curries. I do this sometimes. Works fantastic and the coconut is super healthy

Some use egg yolks at the last minute but this has not worked too good for me.

I will cook off tomatoes, chilis, peppers,... and other veg, for Italian or Indian dish, hit it with the immersion blender, perfect "gravy".

I am a bit of a foodie, so if I can help let me know