FODMAP Diet - recipes needed!

Soozy_B

MrT also do a lactose free Margarine (Vitalite) spread at £1 for 500g

maddiemay

Soozy_B wrote: »

Hi there! I am following this thread as my OH has a variety of different intolerance and is also using the Low FODMAP diet.

The one thing for us which we have loved as a garlic/onion alternative is called Asafoetida. The main brand of herbs & spices (the one that begins in S) sells it. It's a great taste!

You can certainly get onion/garlic free stock cubes - we have bought some recently....I will dig out what they are called

Soozy thank you, that would be great. My Osteopath, who has family members with food sensitivities recommended Asafoetida, I am still experimenting with how much to use, but agree it is a really useful item to have.

Soozy_B

maddiemay wrote: »

Soozy thank you, that would be great. My Osteopath, who has family members with food sensitivities recommended Asafoetida, I am still experimenting with how much to use, but agree it is a really useful item to have.

So the brand is called: Massel 7's Vegetable Style Stock Cubes 35g

You can get these on that rather famous online shopping site that starts with A and ends in ZON

They probably seem a little dear as a box that has 10 packs in is £10 - but will certainly keep you sorted for a while. They taste great and have nothing in them that will affect a LOW FODMAP.

HTH

Pop_Up_Pirate

Franalamadingdong wrote: »

I'd find the no onion/leek/garlic aspect the most difficult.
Burgers can be made so easily at home. I grew up with homemade burgers and continued doing so into adulthood. Actually, I made one flavoured with curry powder and it was SO good! You need mince, salt, pepper and I had a squirt of tomato puree. You can replace the salt with gluten free soy sauce. In fact the range of gluten free foods readily available is now amazing.
I also found this blog, link below, when I was searching for how to cook without garlic or onion. Having had a look through she seems to have a lot of recipes and has a lot of experience with FODMAP, in her case due to ibs.

Good luck with your new diet!

https://livinghappywithibs.com

You can't have soy sauce on this diet even if it's gluten free.
Plus, soy is so so bad for a westeners diet

WantToBeSE

Pop_Up_Pirate wrote: »

You can't have soy sauce on this diet even if it's gluten free.
Plus, soy is so so bad for a westeners diet

Do you have a link with evidence for this? I'd love to read it, as i've been wondering about soy products recently.

Pop_Up_Pirate

maddiemay wrote: »

Does anyone know of a garlic and onion free stock powder or cube? this is the area where I am really struggling at the moment, I like to make soups and in the past have often used a little stock powder for flavouring dishes where I have had to omit other ingredients. I don't have the energy to be regularly making my own stock.

I use a variety of herbs, spices, bay leaves, tom puree, etc instead of stock cubes,
A tiny pinch of cumin, for example, gives a soup a warm, rich taste and it doesn't taste of curry Great in tomato based soups,
Chopped parsley and bay leaves are great for other soups.

Worth experimenting with to avoid the stock cubes

Pop_Up_Pirate

WantToBeSE wrote: »

Do you have a link with evidence for this? I'd love to read it, as i've been wondering about soy products recently.

There are loads of sites with information on soy
Heres just one
http://paleoleap.com/dangers-soy/

Soy is fine in an Asian persons diet because what other foods they eat/don;t eat counter balances the problems of soy.
For instance, they would eat a lot of fermented food, whereas we don't do that here.
They also eat far more vegetables and meat than we do.
And they don't use margarine or any type of 'spread' and have very limited dairy.

They also don't cook with 'bad' oils. Most oils available to us are terrible for our bodies.
Vegetable oil sounds great...made from veg so it must be...no!
Has anyone on here ever tried to get oil from vegetables? It's not possible.
Most oils are extracted using hexane. Then they are bleached. Yuk!

On our diets, any soy product is bad for us and that includes Quorn. Even for an Asian, soy would be best avoided too.

dandy-candy

I looked at this thread because I didn't know what this diet was! It's incredibly restricted, surely there must be recipe ideas provided by the NHS or local hospital dietician?
Is it a for life thing or will you re-introduce food stuffs? Good luck with it, I hope it helps!

Pop_Up_Pirate

dandy-candy wrote: »

I looked at this thread because I didn't know what this diet was! It's incredibly restricted, surely there must be recipe ideas provided by the NHS or local hospital dietician?
Is it a for life thing or will you re-introduce food stuffs? Good luck with it, I hope it helps!

It's not as restrictive as you would first think once you get used to things.
I don't follow this diet myself but one very similar and it's great, never felt better.

Shereen

maddiemay wrote: »

Does anyone know of a garlic and onion free stock powder or cube? this is the area where I am really struggling at the moment, I like to make soups and in the past have often used a little stock powder for flavouring dishes where I have had to omit other ingredients. I don't have the energy to be regularly making my own stock.

I don't know about cubes, but blogger Miss South has a FODMAP friendly chicken stock recipe (among other FODMAP recipes) here: http://www.miss-south.com/2016/05/fodmap-friendly-chicken-stock/ It's a slow-cooker recipe, so you could maybe make up a big batch and freeze portions?