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| photo by Charles Earl |
I don’t eat big meals. My stomach feels bloated and sore
if I eat big.
I eat several small meals (meals/snacks) throughout the
day. I don’t like eating one big thing, I like a lot of little
things per meal. I get bored of the same thing all the time. Due to the lack of colon and the scarring, I can’t eat a purely
plant-based diet. I have to avoid seeds, hard to digest nuts, high fibre
items like popcorn. I have always loved nuts. I have to be moderate about my high fibre intake, of
grains such as quinoa, bulgur and barley, which can hurt my stomach. My food aversions are a big issue. My husband and I have a meal kit service for 4 dinners,
eat a fast and easy meal like chicken nuggets for a 5th, and order
in for the other 2. I love Asian food and South Asian food, but just mild spices. I was supplementing small meals with junk food. I was eating a little chocolate every night, a triangle
of Toblerone or a square or two of a Dairy Milk Bar. I occasionally ate candy, such as Twizzlers and Skittles. Chips were a weekend speciality, but I never ate more
than a small portion at a time. I need some kind of bedtime snack. I don’t store food so when
I am hungry my stomach will feel hollow, achy and nauseous. Charles is lactose intolerant, so we have lactose free
milk in the fridge. My main drinks are water and tea, with a little ginger
ale before dinner (one third of a can) and the occasional coke (to try to clear
a bowel obstruction – ER doc recommended! and it can work!); I also drink
Pelligrino Essenza Lemon and Lemon Zest Flavour when having a hot flash – once a
week or less. Seems to help cool me down and feel better for some reason. Hot
flashes sometimes cause nausea. I’ve started to have trouble sleeping after years of
sleeping well and having naps in the daytime. When that happens I will grab a Baby
Bell mini cheese or heat up a cup of milk with honey. I like the occasional
pint of Guiness, glass of Rioja, Chardonay or a small glass of Lagavulin. Sample Meals and Snacks Weekday 5 a.m.: bagel with vegan margarine mid-morning: smoked oysters noon: an air fried President’s Choice bean and cheese
burrito 4 p.m.: a Nature Valley Peanut Butter Bar 6:p.m.: a half serving of the serving per person offered in
a Hello Fresh Meal. Some of the HF meals we have picked are full of butter. They
usually have more starch and veg than meat. Meat is a deck of card’s worth
typically. 10 p.m. Honey and Oat Cheerios with 1% milk or yogurt
(Activia Vanilla, lemon, coconut or strawberry). Weekend 7 a.m. Eggo Waffle with vegan marg and syrup. 10 a.m. Eggs and bacon with white toast 11 a.m. apple turnover 1 p.m. left over Chinese food (Beef and Ginger, Thai
Basil Chicken, Singapore Vermicelli Noodles, deep fried won tons with sweet and sour sauce) 6 p.m. Hello Fresh Meal (favs chicken with gravy, mashed
potatoes, garlic green beans; A Thai inspired meal with shrimp, coconut milk,
basil, onions, peppers and spices. Pasta with tomato sauce and ground meat (chicken,
beef or pork). evening - Old Dutch Potato chips 10 p.m. white bread toast with vegan margarine Further Notes While recuperating from my health crisis, I was on a low
fibre diet. A lot of food just wouldn’t stay down. Since white bread and other
carbs were fine for the diet, I definitely focused on those, especially sweet things
like vanilla pound cake or apple turnovers. Charles made me a New York Style
Cheese cake at xmas 2009 and a roast turkey dinner, a small portion, trying to find
food that I could eat and that I would enjoy . Since then he’s made me the cake
every birthday and the roast turkey with stuffing, corn (frozen) and cranberry
sauce (jelly) and gravy for xmas and thanksgiving, sometimes Easter. Favourite Foods, Sauces and Flavours potatoes seafood and smoked fish (kippers, oysters) Chana Dahl Aloo Gobi Biryani Masala Dosa gulab jamun rice pudding sticky toffee pudding Indian snacks (peanuts, beans, lentils etc covered in
spices with lots of fried bits) Satay Chicken Sticky Rice Dim Sum dumplings (shrimp har gow) sushi, especially unagi and inari, California roll,
tempura shrimp dark meat for chicken and turkey a well done steak oatmeal but eat mostly the Instant kind strawberries, mangoes, raspberries (blueberries too – but
blockage issue), tomatoes avocado bok choy love most greens but am wary about them due to blockage
threats (especially kale) smoothies pastries, especially profiteroles, chocolate mayonnaise
cake without icing pistachio gelato in a waffle cone or any of the ice cream
that Mu Shu Ice Cream makes hors d’oevres, such as mini-quiches, smoked salmon, jumbo
shrimp. Greek and Mediterranean foods, such as stuffed grape
leaves, pita bread with hummus. flavours such as peanut, coconut, ginger. I love crunchy foods. Habits Cheez whiz Quick solutions to hunger: a tablespoon of peanut butter,
a mini baby bell cheese, a handful of crackers. |
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