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gluten_freeI'm recovering from food poisoning (ugh!) and my gut is really tender, so I need bland foods for a while. When I was a kid, the thing to eat was saltine crackers. Or toast. Or noodles. Why do all these recovery foods have gluten??
I've been eating bananas, plain rice pasta, and chicken broth (Pacific Foods, labeled gluten-free, although it has onion powder, sigh). I need more ideas, please? What do you eat when you're being kind to a tender gut?
ETA: Wow, thanks for all your good wishes and suggestions!
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I've been eating bananas, plain rice pasta, and chicken broth (Pacific Foods, labeled gluten-free, although it has onion powder, sigh). I need more ideas, please? What do you eat when you're being kind to a tender gut?
ETA: Wow, thanks for all your good wishes and suggestions!
Recipes in comments:
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Date: 2019-07-20 02:53 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2019-07-20 02:59 am (UTC)White rice
Plain rice cakes
Boiled potatoes (no skin no butter)
White-meat chicken (no skin)
Plain white fish (flounder etc.)
Silken tofu
Lowfat dairy or equivalent, including plain yogurt (I know a lot of people say to avoid this, but it works for me)
Applesauce (small quantities)
Well-cooked carrots or squash (strain out pulp, or use baby food)
Small amounts of eggs (boiled/poached - you don't want to add fat) or dishes made with them (like custard)
Another thing to avoid except in small quantities is fruit juice. The sudden simple sugar hit can be very stimulating. Diluted pulp-free OJ or apple juice might be OK is small quantities.
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Date: 2019-07-20 03:37 am (UTC)I'd start with the plain starches, though, adding oatmeal to
Wishing you a speedy recovery.
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Date: 2019-07-20 05:29 am (UTC)2.5 cups coconut milk (full fat or low fat, either works, I use full fat), 1/4 cup sugar, 1/4 cup cornstarch, 1 egg, 2 egg yolks, 1-2 tsp vanilla (to taste, I like 2 tsp).
Mix 2 cups coconut milk, sugar, and cornstarch in a pan, and cook over medium heat until thickened (stirring constantly) and starting to boil. Separately, mix egg, 2 egg yolks, and 1/2 cup coconut milk thoroughly, then add 1/2 cup of the hot thick custard, mix thoroughly, then add to rest of custard, stirring lots.
Stir in vanilla.
Pour in cups, and if you want banana pudding, alternate layers of sliced banana and layers of custard (and if you want, a layer or 2 of GF vanilla wafers), chill and serve. I pour the custard into large glasses, since it looks nifty in transparent containers.
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Date: 2019-07-20 06:31 am (UTC)I make rice pudding in the microwave with cooked rice (Chinese takeout rice works fine), an egg, a bit of sugar and vanilla, and some non-dairy milk. It's extremely filling, so I'll keep it in the fridge and have a spoonful or two at a time. If you don't have rice, try bread pudding with any GF bread you have lying around; for sick-person bread pudding rather than dessert bread pudding, I'd halve the sugar and omit any garnish. Sweets are not good for an upset tummy.
Cooking your pasta in broth (vegetable or chicken) will help get more calories and nutrients into you, with no additional effort.
When I had wretched dreadful food poisoning, I lived on smoothies made with soy milk, bananas, and a bit of peanut butter. You can add ice or freeze the bananas if you want, but it's not necessary.
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Date: 2019-07-20 01:43 pm (UTC)Hope you're feeling better soon!
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Date: 2019-07-20 02:44 pm (UTC)Dirty eggs
Date: 2019-07-20 03:25 pm (UTC)One or two eggs scrambled, some leftover cooked rice and some various bits. I use onions a lot (and I know you don't) but there are lots of other bits and pieces that could be added: a mushroom chopped, a few shreds of chicken or tuna, celery!, grated carrot, chopped kale, a scallion or some actual cooked pinto beans. It's all stirred together in a microwave safe bowl and nuked for one or two minutes.
Not a lot of any of these things if you're feeling poorly but part of the appeal should be visual to perk up the bowl so it doesn't look like just bland white rice.
When I'm just eating up leftovers, I might sprinkle it with taco seasoning before or soy sauce after cooking; but for a sensitive stomach I would suggest lightly spicing. Parsley flakes? A dust of poultry seasoning? A few drops of worcestershire with that mushroom would be some nice umami! and if you wanted to try sweet-ish instead of savory, you could do egg, rice, raisins and some cinnamon for a rice pudding effect.
Now we've done it (arms akimbo)!! sigh, I hear the leftover rice and beans from last night's dinner calling me. Time to practice what I preach, heehee.
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Date: 2019-07-20 05:37 pm (UTC)I have to be very careful about eggs on an upset stomach; I usually can't tolerate them. I'm better at handling a small quantity of low-sodium black beans on plain rice, but beans are a regular part of my diet. I wouldn't recommend them unless you eat them frequently. Imagine chicken broth is GF, though I don't know about the presence of onion powder. Non-dairy yogurt might be another option for protein.
I used to eat plain corn tortilla chips as a substitute for the saltine crackers of my youth, though the main thing for me has always been to try to keep as hydrated as I can, so upset stomach doesn't also turn into migraineheim. I just can't only drink liquids due to texture issues and hospital associations. I've since found Trader Joe's original savory thin crackers work really well as a saltine substitute, though I've also tried and liked the Blue Diamond line of plain nut thins. These are all tasty enough to be interesting, but mild enough not to aggravate any stomach issues I'm experiencing.
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Date: 2019-07-20 10:04 pm (UTC)[cn: a medication suggestion follows; feel free to skip/ignore]
If you're at the stage of post–food poisoning hunger where anything in your stomach starts a flood of acid going, and you don't have those easy gluten carbs to sop it up, over-the-counter antacids may help break that cycle and get you to the point where you can eat regularly again. I mention this only because it was vital to my own food poisoning recovery!
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Date: 2019-07-30 08:14 pm (UTC)I was aware that this post might skirt the rule about not talking about health stuff. I hope that was okay.
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Date: 2019-07-30 08:53 pm (UTC)In the future, though, please avoid talking about health stuff and know that it's perfectly fine to ask for recipes that are easy on the stomach, or drinkable, or whatever without explaining why.
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