Healthy Food

ChloeS124
ChloeS124 Posts: 7 Member
edited November 20 in Food and Nutrition
I'm a very picky eater and unfortunately cannot eat most vegetables because they upset my stomach. I can eat lettuce, radishes, snap peas, potatoes, beans and corn. I was wondering if anyone had any healthy food options using those vegtables. I also love all fruits. If you have a recipe let me know. Thank you for your help!

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  • ChloeS124
    ChloeS124 Posts: 7 Member
    Side note: I have talked to my doctor about this and he's still trying to find stuff for me.
  • caloriemuse
    caloriemuse Posts: 18 Member
    What are you referring to with 'upset stomach'? It's difficult to make much of a recommendation from that list of things that upset your stomach as it's hard to work out is it fiber, is it starch, is it sugar that is disturbing your GI tract.

    You could just go the straight route in this situation right past vegetables and straight to a solution of eating fruit if you enjoy fruit. There are many fruits that probably match vegetables pretty closely for macros; blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, cherries. Fruits with seeds actually have protein!

    I'm always looking for perspective when solving challenging questions with many matrix's. When I look at my diet and how it's panned out over my 5 months of MFP I'm pretty well settled into much more fruit in my diet than vegetables. I enjoy both. In looking back on this history and how/why it's the case that my diet has more fruit I'd have to say that it would have less to do with my interest in one over the other and more to do with how I've come up with combinations of foods that I eat 'with' my fruits and vegetables.

    I find that an interesting perspective to look at this from, maybe that would be helpful to you; put your focus on eating things that match well (and you enjoy) with those other things you do enjoy eating, less focus on this difficulty between vegetables you like and a simple focus on what you do enjoy eating and whatever else you eat is simply something that goes well with that thing. An example might be that a lean buffalo burger with a blackberry glaze, blueberries go really well with pork. Not a meat eater fine, you can still do the same thing, locate something you do like and sits well in your GI tract and then look for things that go well with that thing. And as exampled by my two combinations of fruit with meat don't be concerned with things that may seem weird.
  • HeidiCooksSupper
    HeidiCooksSupper Posts: 3,831 Member
    edited July 2017
    There are a few veggies that get me (and yes, it was determined by an allergist). Tomatoes, tree nuts, onions, cantaloupe, etc. Trial and error helps. I've learned I can do spinach if I cook and wring it out before I put it in anything and don't eat it more than once or twice a week. Tomatoes and onions can occasionally be snuck in if only in limited amounts, on occasion, and fully cooked. Tonight we are throwing caution to the wind and having tomato and onions in our salmon patties but we won't be eating them again for several days.

    Hubby has similar issues with a different list of foods and, in his case, a hiatal hernia. We sleep on a bed with cinder blocks under the head end (you get used to it) and we take daily proton pump inhibitors (and yes, we're watching the recent findings on ppi's and cardiac incidents).

    Physicians tend to be dismissive of food sensitivities. Glad you found one who takes it seriously and good luck finding your own list of goes and no-goes.

  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    edited July 2017
    Normal meal for me includes a vegetable or vegetables (could be salad), a protein (often meat/fish, could be legumes or eggs), and a starch (I include potatoes and corn and legumes as starches -- yes, legumes are versatile! -- as well as grains (including rice, pasta, and bread)), and I also use fruit interchangeably with starches.

    I'd recommend building your meals around this pattern using the vegetables you can eat, some fruit (to keep it from being too repetitive until you perhaps find more vegetables you can comfortably eat. I'd also experiment with different ways of cooking them -- my sister has IBS and cannot eat some veg raw that she can eat cooked.

    A meal based around, say, some potatoes and pork chops with pea pods and a sauce made with apricots or just apricots on the side would be one idea that sounds delicious to me.

    Generally I wouldn't think of recipes or meal ideas (healthy or otherwise) as involving just specific vegetables, but using the veg that I happen to have on hand (or in your case, that you can eat).
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