Help for ideas/MEALS/ for GERD

Forgot to add Fiber One Bars, which were rec by my doc, they seem to work well.  Lots of Fiber.

Help tho, please, I 'm getting gaggy from the above diet!

Oh sure send the fiber bars right on over  LOL

I tried a steak one night, well part of it, and didn't think it worked.  Also had a hamburger last week and didn't feel good.  So we are together on those thangs! 

Kitt, I bought some whole wheat pastas last week, but don't know what to put on them.  We use Smart Balance light, or I did until this.  I tried a baked white potato this week, and also put some Smart Balance on it, but I felt yucky.  I did read where white potatoes are acidic.  So was it the P or the SB or both?

What do you put on your pasta?

I would love to make chicken salad, but what dressing?  Seems to need a dressing doncha think?

I went thru the last 37 pages and came up with some poster's suggestions.

Lentils  ouuuu Chick peas ouuuu 

Spinach  ( not sure if cooked or raw tho)

Watermelon

Peaches & plums

Green peas

I forgot to add bananas to the first list.

As far as brown rice goes, what can one put on it?  It is so dry.

oh I can eat pudding made with Lactaid milk, and I don't know if I need the Lactaid, but that is what I used.  Also Lactaid 1% fat cottage cheese seemed to agree with me.

Well that's it for now.

I hope some other join in here! 

If I feel uncomfy, several slices of Delicious Apple seems to work well for me. 

because i can't swallow solids at all right now, because of - whatever it is - i'm eating babay food to get sustenance - much better than just yogurt.
had a little trouble with the baby-chicken/broth food, but at least i can do the vegetables and cereal.
got filled up last night on a very small portion of each. doesn't have to be processed at all, just put it on plate, mix up in a cup just a little of the baby-rice cereal, and heat, and sit with your family, but don't talk while chewing to stay safe. have some yogurt or blended peaches there in case something's still too dry. plenty of lactose-free milk and water too.
between these things and the Myoplex protein drinks in the blender, and soy-protein mixes, and putting bananas and strawberries in them, i'm at least not as depressed as i was. juicing fresh carrots and celery too, and of course, tomato and creamed soups, strained so the little chunks of meat aren't in there.

talking to the pharmacy about what pills i can crush helps too, as i really need to keep the B-Complex and D and E going down someway, and my normal hormone and BP pills too.

just trying to handle it all.
blessings to you all.
love, maresha
- and i will copy this to the "swallowing-problems" thread to see if it helps anyone else.

hi

i have LPR so not quite the same

i eat all vegies, (not onions etc)  all friut except lemons, limes kiwi and blueberries

coconut milk is great lots of honey, almound butter, lots of yoghurt, flax oil, gluten free breads and crackers, wraps

use almound flour as low carb to make banana bread yummy

edam cheese occasionally

little bit of bacon on occasiions, little chicken and a little fish no red meat

dred friut, nuts, seeds, dandelion coffee, stevia, corn chips on occasion

i mostly roast lots of veigies in a little olive oil and sometimes make a almound satay sauce dip, without the lemon and galric

bascally i mix unsweeted natural yoghurt with lots of almound butter, and a little of tamari sauce and some dreid or fresh coriander and you can add garic or ginger, or chives etc if you toerate it.

i also make mash potato but i use coconut milk. gives it a different flavour,  you can make heaps and then fry the next day in a non stick pan with a little oil and add some mushrroms and dreid herbs its very yummy.

for a pasta sauce you could use pumpkin if you can handle it, baascally its like a thick pumkin soup.  chicken stock/vegie pumkin corander, parsely, salt, tamari sauce and what ever you can handle, you could add celery, chives, spring onions etc

im fine with herbs but i dont use any garlic or onions , i think a little chives are ok........

frozen yoghurt, buy some yogurt freeze it, then whipp it in a food process or whatever, then refreeze

it dosnt really matter what i eat for LPR, as i had a glass of wine in the weekend and no real differnence from my normal aily LPR stuff............but i try to eat very well mostly organic and i balance my day with some low carb food

 

I have a pretty limited diet by choice. It's just easier.

I have trouble with swallowing and choking. If I cook meat in the crockpot I find it gets so tender, it is easy to swallow. This is really good for chicken. I don't do beef. Salmon is easy to swallow but I don't eat much as it is rich.

I eat mashed and baked potatoes. I eat brown rice. I sometimes put white sugar and 2% milk on it. I like frozen yellow squash (heated) as it's easy to swallow. Smashed up pasta is good, but no tomatoes for me.

I also eat yogurt, a lot of Slimfast, Nutri-Grain bars, oatmeal, cream of wheat packets.

I have an applesauce cup twice a day to swallow my meds.

My doctor told me to drink a ton of water. My only drinks are 2% milk and water. No coffee, tea, soda or liquor. No juice.

mary Love said...
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I tried a steak one night, well part of it, and didn't think it worked. Also had a hamburger last week and didn't feel good. So we are together on those thangs!

Not sure exactly what restrictions you have on your diet, but since you're trying steak and burger, why not a stew? Done properly the meat should be much more tender than a chicken breast (should literally fall apart with any pressure).

As for your list of ingredients, how much are you playing with them? THere's about a million different ways to have chicken breasts, different ways to do green beans (try a green bean casserole without the onion ring toppers), other veggies that can be used (asparagus steamed well), and plenty of ways to make meat very tender.

A quick stroganoff to try would be:
ex-wide egg noodles
1 - 1.5 cans cream of mushroom soup
1 lb stew meat
1/4 cup white wine
1 package lipton onion soup mix

Mix the soup mix and meat in a bag to coat. combine meat soup and wine in a covered dish. Bake at 275 for about 4 hours, mixing occasionally. Serve over the noodles. The meat should be able to be "cut" with a slight pressure from a fork.

Maybe that'll add some variety

I also have had a lot of success with cod and talapia.

At the present, I am not on any meds and all of the list in my first post are still AOK!

No matter what med they gave me, it made me it made me sick.

I do use the Braggs apple cider vinegar/honey mixture tho.   2 t of bacv/1t honey in about a little less than 1/2 cup of warm water. 

So for several weeks I had used it after every meal.  Today, I skipped the lunch one, just trying to see if I needed it 3 times a day.  I was fine with out it at lunch time.

On occasion I will take 3 or 4 rolaids if I feel some slight heartburn starting.

Also a t of honey before bedtime.

Let us know what YOU are doing and eating!