What CAN you eat with UC

I've only been on this terrific forum for just a couple of days but I've done a lot of reading. 

My question is after you eliminate spicy foods, mammal meat, seafood, fresh fruits/vegtables & dairy products,  what can you eat?

Anybody got any links to good diets?

I actually find most spices very beneficial to Colitis

I have uc for about 18 years now. My diets are pretty
much red meat, fry & bake chicken, fish, hot chilli pepper,
cook vegetable and vietnamese pho(noodle soup). I can't
not eat dairy, bakery that contain yeast, multivitamin and
drink products that have caffeine. These stuffs make my poo
bloody.

I eat quite a bit of the things you are not, and I am in complete remission and have been for about 5 months now, after never ending severe colitis had me scheduled up for surgery.(never did get that surgery)

I eat fruits, vegetables, meats, fish, nuts, and honey.
No breads, grains, dairy or corn syrup or other refined sugars.

It works wonders. You can send me an email and I can give you some more details, but it is pretty simple to me.

I eat almost anything.... I eat my vegetables cooked rather than raw if I'm flaring, on the advice of my first GI. I try to stay away from fattier meats, but I do eat meat (have a wonderful tender stew in my crockpot right now.....)

I eat my own homemade chili (which has won raves from the area teenagers) but - I put in only a mild commercial chili powder and let each person add his/her own hot sauce. I also put a can of corn in my chili.... but I'm the first one to say I won't eat corn if I'm flaring. (The few kernals in the chili, well-cooked, aren't as hard on me as popcorn or corn on the cob in summer.)
I take "beano" and gas-x when I have chili and I'm fine.
Same for gassy vegetables.

I eat dairy with no problem.

When flaring, I'll eat regular white pasta and breads, when feeling good, I don't have those limitations.

My hubby peeled and sliced apples a few months ago, baked them with cinnamon and a little brown sugar..... YUM.

We each have to find what we can tolerate. If we took a list from all the threads here and literally took it as a "do not eat" list, there would be nothing left (except possibly purified water from one exotic spring...) So, my advice would be not to assume that all the things everyone has found to be true, to be absolutely true for you. It'll take some experimentation, but you'll figure out what sits better and what doesn't.

Christine hit the nail on the head about this thread giving you a headache! You've really got to figure out on your own what helps and what hurts. I personally don't have to stay away from any foods now that I'm in remission, but I ate low-fiber/low-residue when I was flaring.

I agree. You should eat as healthy as possible and eliminate only those items that you can not tolerate. Keep a food journal, paying particular attention to those foods that have been known to exacerbate IBD symptoms. They are wheat, dairy, gluten, yeast, fructose, and pro-inflammatory foods.

My diet is primarily anti-inflammatory. I eat a lot of mild curries, spinach, bananas, rice, bread, noodles, nuts, nut butters, pineapple, fish, chicken, citrus, berries... I will eat some pro-inflammatory foods--such as tomatoes, milk, cheese, and shellfish--when I'm in remission, but I still keep it healthy and always balance it out with something anti-inflammatory.

Well when i am flaring bad, with loose stools, mucus, pain, urgency, and bleeding, it doesn't make any difference what i eat, as to put it bluntly, it will go straight through me.

When i am not flaring bad, minimal symptoms, i eat a fairly bland diet, of lean meat, potato, well cooked carrots, white bread, stewed apple etc

Yeah it is different for each person, but I find that red meat is something that is good for healing and all, salmon is good too, stay away from too much sugar and carbs. Raw veggies is questionable as well.

What I've learned by experimenting with fasting and the elimination diet is how subtle the effects of these many types of foods are on our immune response.

That is to say, while a king sized Snickers or 2 large coffees after a McDonalds run will cause CLEAR and IMMEDIATE inflammatory response, in the way of major internal bleeding, there are many LESS, but NONETHELESS, offensive foods which, while not causing immediate full blown flare, instead lead to sort of PERSISTENT SIMMERING of inflammation -- the endless bouts I see described so often here.

So, yes, there is a lot to be learned about our body and its specific response to dietary choices, beyond the obvious BACON DOUBLE CHEESEBURGER or MEAT LOVERS PIZZA disaster. There is this subtle range of semi-inflammatory foods that represent a sort of Next Level of learning about our personalized inflammatory response and its triggers.

For me, only by completely cutting ALL food out for a period of days, and then gradually introducing one simple food at a time, and gauging the response, can I discern what foods contribute to that light SIMMERING inflammation, which can stubbornly remain for months, preventing total remission.

I long ago concluded that if I avoided every food that was pointed to on this forum, there would be nothing to eat at all. After much experimentation, I found my UC never reacted to foods. I watch my fiber intake (too much fiber can give a "normal" person diarrhea), but otherwise eat what I want. I even have a rare bacon cheeseburger with no problem to either my colon or my blood lipids.

IPoop is right. it really depends on the person. when flaring i stay away from high fiber foods, soda, spicy food but when i am in remission i can eat whatever i want.