baby carrots, YIKES

Were they cooked or raw? What happened? I find throughly cooked-until-mush carrots work well for me during a flare but don't dare touch raw ones when I'm in bad shape. I'm sorry to hear you are so food restricted. I finally got to reintroduce veggie burgers into my diet after many years unable to eat them so keep hope! I'm really careful about the ones I choose and what's in them and though I don't feel great, they aren't making it worse.

they were raw, probably had 3 cups w/ spicy hummus and the day before I had a large bag of popcorn at the movies. I was up all night last night w/ cramps and pain. Seems to have gotten alot better now. I will not be eating raw veggies anymore.

I really miss a BIG SALAD. Broccoli, cauliflower, romaine lettuce. MMMM

If you have a stricture or any active disease, stay away from popcorn....it's a killer!

I cook baby carrots and mash them down to basically baby food and they still give me so much trouble! I'm down to baked potatoes and two or three green beans. From a can. Mashed to baby food. I miss raw foods! All I can eat are carbs, it seems. :-P

Raw carrots do seem hard for the body to breakdown. After my first surgery with the the temp ileostomy the ostomy nurse and dietician said Do not eat raw carrots!

Now I can eat them but even chewing them very well there is always carrot in my pouch!!

very high protein diets are not very good as they tax the kidneys
depending on what meds you are you should be careful with getting too much protein especially at a time

baked sweet potatotes/ butternut squash
pureed soups might be good ways to get veggies and fill up on healthier things
can also make veggie soups and just eat the broth, someone else lucky will get all the yummy veggies
also, make your grains as health of grains as you can (if you can tolerate whole grains, things like oatmeal, barley, quinoa...)
eating softer protients (fish, well cooked chicken, ground beef) as opposed to really tough ones might be easier on your digestive tracts