Banana Smoothies & More IBS Comfort Foods
Bananas are one of the friendliest, healthiest foods for IBS, and smoothies are a wonderfully healthy, easy and comforting way to drink your fruit as long as you don't use cow's milk. A medium banana has only 100 calories, no fat and a significant amount of Vit. B-6, potassium, and magnesium,
Please see my nutrition information for important IBS foods, and more about the beautiful banana, on page 6.
For the smoothies, use lite soy milk, rice milk and juices (such as unsweetened apple, mango or papaya juices and nectars), or any of those in combination with the fruit - mango and papaya are very IBS friendly too. My personal favorite smoothie is a banana, fresh cut-up mango, apple juice and a little soy milk. Try using canned pumpkin in a vanilla-flavored soy milk smoothie with some pumpkin pie spices and sweetening of your choice for the holidays, and a soy milk smoothie with nutmeg, cinnamon and a brandy or rum non-alcoholic extract flavoring for Christmas "eggnog" the IBS way! Occasionally, I make a peach smoothie with strained organic baby peaches, or fresh/frozen raspberry smoothies (they are the only berries that their seeds don't bother me). IBS-safe Baby Foods (such as banana, banana with oatmeal, sweet potato, and any foods on Heather's safe list of foods at her site (www.helpforibs.com) in general are very friendly to us. Check out her Newsletter dated Feb. 9, 2010 for a list of Safe Snacks and a list of Safe Brand Name Foods.
HINT: When my tummy is being "delicate", I love the ORGANIC strained and junior-type baby vegetables, oatmeal, desserts, apple juice and fruits, often eating the safe ones on our list of safe foods, but including occasionally peaches and mixed fruits (no berries) in the winter.
Please see my page 6 for Nutritional Information on Important Foods for Ibs Sufferers
Here is a list of my own favorite IBS Comfort Foods:
Mashed potatoes made with chicken broth
Microwave baked whole sweet potatoes
Chili made with ground turkey and no beans
Saltines and Graham Crackers
Banana-Mango smoothies
Homemade Chicken Soup with safe veggies
Grilled Soy-Milk American Cheese Slices Sandwich
Roast chicken from the supermarket
Baked Salmon Fish Cakes & White Fish Filets
BLT's without lettuce, but with tomato and turkey bacon
Squash, most types
Beet, Tomato and Avocado Salad
Homemade Soups
Avocado dips, homemade, with corn chips
Prunella's IBS Safe Salsa
Oatmeal & Oatmeal Cookies, Breads, Meat Loaf
Homemade egg white pancakes
Non-dairy Original & Flavored Coffee Creamers
Stuffed Mushrooms
*Soy and Rice Milk Ice Creams
*Soy Milk Sour Cream
*Soy milk Yogurt
Eggbeaters' omelets with turkey sausage and ketchup or my homemade "safe" salsa on top
Home Roasted Turkey anything
Rice Krispie Squares (try them made with chocolate rice krispies)
Oatmeal cookies and a cup of Peppermint tea
Angel Food Cake
Old Fashioned bread pudding
*SINCE SOY PRODUCTS MAY GIVE SOME IBS SUFFERERS MORE GAS AND BLOATING, SUBSTITUTE RICE MILK PRODUCTS, OR JUST TRY THEM IN MODERATION AND/OR TRY USING THEM WITH AN ENZYME PRODUCT LIKE "BEANO" OR THE NEW PRODUCT BY GAS-X BRAND
CHECK OUT MY RECIPES ON PAGE 5
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I DO NOT CLAIM TO BE A TRAINED MEDICAL PERSON NOR DO I GIVE OUT PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL ADVICE
PLEASE CONSULT YOUR PHYSICIAN BEFORE MAKING ANY CHANGES IN YOUR DIET OR LIFESTYLE
.
Please see my nutrition information for important IBS foods, and more about the beautiful banana, on page 6.
For the smoothies, use lite soy milk, rice milk and juices (such as unsweetened apple, mango or papaya juices and nectars), or any of those in combination with the fruit - mango and papaya are very IBS friendly too. My personal favorite smoothie is a banana, fresh cut-up mango, apple juice and a little soy milk. Try using canned pumpkin in a vanilla-flavored soy milk smoothie with some pumpkin pie spices and sweetening of your choice for the holidays, and a soy milk smoothie with nutmeg, cinnamon and a brandy or rum non-alcoholic extract flavoring for Christmas "eggnog" the IBS way! Occasionally, I make a peach smoothie with strained organic baby peaches, or fresh/frozen raspberry smoothies (they are the only berries that their seeds don't bother me). IBS-safe Baby Foods (such as banana, banana with oatmeal, sweet potato, and any foods on Heather's safe list of foods at her site (www.helpforibs.com) in general are very friendly to us. Check out her Newsletter dated Feb. 9, 2010 for a list of Safe Snacks and a list of Safe Brand Name Foods.
HINT: When my tummy is being "delicate", I love the ORGANIC strained and junior-type baby vegetables, oatmeal, desserts, apple juice and fruits, often eating the safe ones on our list of safe foods, but including occasionally peaches and mixed fruits (no berries) in the winter.
Please see my page 6 for Nutritional Information on Important Foods for Ibs Sufferers
Here is a list of my own favorite IBS Comfort Foods:
Mashed potatoes made with chicken broth
Microwave baked whole sweet potatoes
Chili made with ground turkey and no beans
Saltines and Graham Crackers
Banana-Mango smoothies
Homemade Chicken Soup with safe veggies
Grilled Soy-Milk American Cheese Slices Sandwich
Roast chicken from the supermarket
Baked Salmon Fish Cakes & White Fish Filets
BLT's without lettuce, but with tomato and turkey bacon
Squash, most types
Beet, Tomato and Avocado Salad
Homemade Soups
Avocado dips, homemade, with corn chips
Prunella's IBS Safe Salsa
Oatmeal & Oatmeal Cookies, Breads, Meat Loaf
Homemade egg white pancakes
Non-dairy Original & Flavored Coffee Creamers
Stuffed Mushrooms
*Soy and Rice Milk Ice Creams
*Soy Milk Sour Cream
*Soy milk Yogurt
Eggbeaters' omelets with turkey sausage and ketchup or my homemade "safe" salsa on top
Home Roasted Turkey anything
Rice Krispie Squares (try them made with chocolate rice krispies)
Oatmeal cookies and a cup of Peppermint tea
Angel Food Cake
Old Fashioned bread pudding
*SINCE SOY PRODUCTS MAY GIVE SOME IBS SUFFERERS MORE GAS AND BLOATING, SUBSTITUTE RICE MILK PRODUCTS, OR JUST TRY THEM IN MODERATION AND/OR TRY USING THEM WITH AN ENZYME PRODUCT LIKE "BEANO" OR THE NEW PRODUCT BY GAS-X BRAND
CHECK OUT MY RECIPES ON PAGE 5
****************************
I DO NOT CLAIM TO BE A TRAINED MEDICAL PERSON NOR DO I GIVE OUT PROFESSIONAL MEDICAL ADVICE
PLEASE CONSULT YOUR PHYSICIAN BEFORE MAKING ANY CHANGES IN YOUR DIET OR LIFESTYLE
.
