Kale

janey47, i am having a conversation with someone right now about kale and then you posted this! haha how funny. i know what you mean though! it usually comes out the way it looks when it goes in. i think because it's just a rough green. do you cook it down really good or eat it raw?

You do cook it, right? I love kale and have no problems with it. Most people don't eat kale raw.

Hi Janey47,
you will be able to eat kale again after your colon heal a little more, at least the cooked one. I agree with Sara14, it is a little rough raw, especially for us with UC. When my colon was inflamed I could not even eat even Iceberg lettuce, but now I can eat Romaine. I can even eat raw mustard greens and tomatoes, which would just about kill me earlier, if I ate any.
So, do not be upset, it will get better. I love bock choy too with some rice. Just focus more on the cooked veggies and greens that you can eat, they will help your body to heal faster.
Good luck to you!

I friggin LOVE kale chips, although not the kind they were handing out at Whole Foods a few weeks ago, those things were gross. I like the homemade kind with no seasonings of any sort.

The place where I do meditation retreats sometimes makes them. Food always tastes much more flavorful when you're keeping still and silent, so you can imagine what it's like to eat a kale chip in that environment. It's so good it's almost painful.

lookforcure, thanks, I think this is my relatively calm colon warning me off kale, even though I can eat most other vegetables (not corn, though, but can anyone actually digest corn? I think not).

I would expect any foods such as kale to look the same coming out as it did chewed going down.
I don't see that as a bad thing, however.

q

hmmm,

http://www.google.ca/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGNI_enCA464CA464&q=kale

so now you know.

q

I guess it's one benefit of living in the state of California -- where do you live, Sara14?

Sara14,
I lived in KY for 10 years! OY! Imagine, I am Russian in Kentucky. A lot of fun!
Thank God I am in north-central OH now!
So, hi neighbor!

Oh my, that's funny, Sara14, because I thought about adding the following to my inquiry:

I used to date a guy whose family lived in Indianapolis. I stayed at his family's home a couple of times when we went there on "vacation" and the thing that freaked me out the most was that they served ZERO fresh vegetables. I was like, isn't this the BREADBASKET of the US? Don't you people GROW the vegetables that Californians EAT? WHERE ARE THE FRESH VEGETABLES?

It may just have been that family. They used to eat candy and junk food and "special k bars" and then get all emotional and get into heated arguments and not know why. I kept telling my then-boyfriend that he had to be careful about what he ate when he was with his family because the sugar high was freaking him out but he ignored me.

It was completely bizarre. And that's my entire experience of Indiana, so that's a state that was ruined by the odd behavior of one family. Oh also they were friends with that city comptroller who was embezzling. Oh also my bf's brother was a PhD candidate and Notre Dame and was also dating a stripper.

I know that's not all of Indiana but I'm not in a hurry to go back LOL

Just had a similar experience after I went nuts eating arugula salads for two days.....BAD MORNING today. Won't make that mistake again! Would imagine kale to be much the same! Too bad--it's so good!

Haha. Actually, that's not very typical of Indy. It's more hick down here because we're closer to Kentucky. You're kind of what I think of as a typical snobby Californian though. :) You can get lots of fresh produce here in growing season -- May-October.

I agree I never touch grocery store tomatoes.