Any suggestions on food?

If you read past threads about food and UC there are a thousand different recommendations.
The best thing to do is find out what suits your gut.
Start by keeping a food journal and write down what you eat on one half the page and how you feel, what symptoms you have on the other half.

Some foods trigger fast gut reactions and others you might have to look back a day to see what caused it.

My trigger foods are caffeine, chocolate, fruit and fruit juices, multiple BM's result from ingesting them.
Other foods cause constipation such as high fiber the day or night before then C and bleeding happens. Gluten also causes C and bleeding because it shuts my gut down. Other grains (including rice) do the same thing.

Common foods to test are dairy and gluten, then expand and test others. There really aren't any shortcuts because it's all so individual. Potatoes are my gut's best friend along with well-cooked spinach and chicken broth.

But many people eat rice and crackers and other foods with no problems.

Thanks for the suggestions- I'll go back and review previous posts.

I can have rice and potatoes and stuff (just as an example), but I just and wanted something different. Just gets boring.

I've been doing a low carb for the past few months to get "healthy" so now I have to transition back to doing pasta and stuff...and I'm afraid that'll be tough not to mention the colitis stuff.

I've never seen any tangible benefits from adjusting my diet, so at least for me, any food is safe without uc consequences. I know some swear by diet, so, uc is extremely individual. A diet could be a great treatment for you, but then again it might do nothing at all. Always judge any treatment based on its results, and remove/reintroduce a food several times to verify it does in fact give you trouble before avoiding it forever. It's certainly worth a shot as for some it's quite helpful...

Oat bran or steal cut oatmeal has potential to help mucosal healing. You can vary it a bit with different dried fruit, or cinnamon or nutmeg, and use a low-glycemic syrup.

scrambled eggs were always a favorite of mine, and I would often put in some leftover rice.

My girlfriend also has severe diet restrictions. She cannot eat any sulfites, grains or potatoes, (all nightshades have solanine). But she can eat the following three veggies, Yuca (taro), name'(Pronounced nyAH-may), and malanga (coco). Imported from from Central and South America.

One caveat. They need to be boiled before eating. The yuca needs to have the cyanide boiled out of it. The name' and malanga need to be boiled with baking soda to leach out the oxalates. That is what the natives in Africa do where those vegetables originated and are still important staples in their diet.

My girlfriend has suffered severe migraines since she was 12 years old but her 23andme DNA analysis pointed to MTHFR defects that can be mitigated by avoiding certain foods including sulfites. More or less free from headaches now. So these are the food options instead of potatoes:

www.melissas.com/Name-Root-p/1395.htm
www.jctropicals.us/products/malanga-coco
food52.com/blog/12433-all-about-yuca-and-how-to-put-it-to-good-use

When I'm flaring,or on the cusp of flaring, I stick with poached salmon with yoghurt. Not very exciting but it definitely works, or at least doesn't make it worse. For a bit of taste, I smear it with Dijon mustard, put a bit of dill on it, and then wrap it in foil and poach it in the oven. Eggs and proteins such as chicken breast are also ok for me. I don't eat breakfast, and I try and limit lunch when I'm not doing well either just to give my GI tract a bit of a rest

Any of those high-fiber things will kill me when I'm in a flair! And I certainly don't have the ambition for any of those difficult to prepare things.

Easy breakfast ideas
Rice milk with Special K or generic rice Chex. (The name brand is made with brown rice and I cannot tolerate it.)
Soft boiled egg
White bread toast
Leftover mashed potato formed into patties and pan fried
Cream of wheat
Pulp-free OJ

Easy Lunch/Dinner
Tinned tuna, chicken or turkey on white bread
When I feel a little better, add mayo and a little iceberg lettuce
Instant rice cooked with canned broth
If you're feeling ambitious, add very well cooked carrots and some canned chicken.
about 1/4 cup canned green beans
Baked potato
Boiled potatoes
Mashed potatoes

One of the next things I tolerate seems to be acorn squash, just a little.
A tiny slice of avocado...

Hi,
I can get a bit hungry although not terribly so as I already feel unwell so not really in the mood for eating proper meals and I also feel so sick afterwards that it doesn't seem entirely worth it. I may be a bit hungry but I do feel better. I also drink tons of probiotics so all the liquid makes me feel pseudo-full.

or just take one fresh salmon, put it in a baking mold and pour marinade on it. Marinade - mix together 4 TBS of soya sauce, 1 TBS of honey and 1 TBS of grated fresh ginger. Put into the fridge for half an hour and then bake the salmon (with the marinade of course) in the oven (200 C) for 25 min