Through the calls I am doing with people interested in my low Fodmap coaching program, I see there is a lot of confusion about what teas you can and cannot drink on the low Fodmap diet, so I want to clarify that now. Safe Teas These are based on a 1 cup serve. Weak to medium black tea Weak chai tea Weak dandelion tea Weak green tea Weak herbal teas (fruit-based with chicory root) Peppermint tea Teas to Avoid Strong chai tea Chamomile tea Fennel tea Strong herbal tea(fruit-based with chicory root) Oolong tea Coffee, as long as it is drunk with lactose-free milk, is generally low in Fodmaps though it is a gut irritant so you should be careful with it. Hot chocolates made from cocoa powder (3 heaped tsp) are fine but made with carob powder, you could only have 1 heaped teaspoon of it. 2 heaped teaspoons quickly takes you into high Fodmap territory so it could be a good idea to avoid carob and use cocoa if you want a hot chocolate drink. The Recipe This recipe is from … [Read more...] about Jamie Oliver’s Quick Lamb Tagine – low Fodmap & gluten-free
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Double Chocolate Brownie Cheesecake Squares – gluten-free & low FODMAP
And the weekend is over once again. The two free days of the week always seem to disappear like a puff of smoke. Saturdays starts off with the hope that I will get lots done and Sundays arrive all too soon with very little crossed off the to-do list. How can 16-17 waking hours a day seem like two? The answer is beyond me. Yesterday, I read an article by Penelope Trunk here about doing the first thing on your list first and not fluffing around with the minor items. If you don't cross off the big things, you will have no sense of satisfaction at the end of the day even if you have done several minor jobs. So I have crossed off a big one but got very little else done. I am not sure if the sense of satisfaction was greater than if I now had a shorter list. The next big thing on my list is a cookbook review I have been meaning to do for a while. Maybe this week. Just a reminder that my giveaway of a Cuisinart mini processor finishes in less than a day so if you haven't entered yet, do so … [Read more...] about Double Chocolate Brownie Cheesecake Squares – gluten-free & low FODMAP
Crispy Polenta Chicken Caesar Salad – Jamie Oliver’s 15 Minute Meals
It's been quite a while since I have made one of Jamie Oliver's 15-minute meals. This was a good one to start back on because it was suitably low FODMAP with only a few changes. Jamie's choice of ciabatta had to be a gluten-free loaf and I had to remove the garlic but added in a little garlic-infused oil for the taste. It is a simple, tasty meal which was relatively quick to make although it took much longer than 15 minutes. In fact between cooking, photographing the finished dish and eating it, one and half hours passed. If you are on the low Fodmap diet, make sure the yogurt in the recipe is lactose-free. Crispy Polenta Chicken Caesar Salad Print Serves: Serves 4 Ingredients For the chicken 2x200g skinless chicken breasts ½ tsp smoked paprika 2 tbsp polenta Salt & pepper olive oil For the salad 1 gluten-free loaf of bread 4 slices bacon Lettuce 10 cherry tomatoes 2 large jarred red peppers Alfalfa sprouts For the dressing 2 tsp garlic-infused olive oil … [Read more...] about Crispy Polenta Chicken Caesar Salad – Jamie Oliver’s 15 Minute Meals
Bacon-Wrapped Chicken and Creamy Polenta – gluten-free and low FODMAP
Dinner the other night was simple and, more importantly, delicious. I usually cook polenta with water or stock but this recipe uses milk and it makes it amazingly creamy. The sage adds the perfect flavour for this dish. The bacon keeps the chicken moist while it cooks. I served it with potatoes, zucchini and red and yellow peppers, roasted in garlic-infused olive oil for 20 minutes. For the last week, I have been a part of a group of amazing women promoting 30 healthy living e-books, including mine, and I have learned so much in that time from these bloggers. They are dedicated to living authentic healthy lives and eating real food and are all stars in their own right. However, living in New Zealand, I come from a different base point. These bloggers talk about grass-fed beef and organic vegetables from farmer's markets as something unusual, as the meta to reach. But here, these things are not at all unusual. All our cattle eat grass and it is simple to find organic vegetables … [Read more...] about Bacon-Wrapped Chicken and Creamy Polenta – gluten-free and low FODMAP
Potato Fish Cakes – gluten-free and fructmal friendly
Here we are with my second fructmal dinner. I have discovered that people with fructose intolerance like to point out that the term actually is fructose malabsorption because fructose intolerance is something you have from birth and is extremely serious whereas fructose malabsorption is something that can develop at any time. The term is shortened to fructmal which is easier to say. 'Fructmal' and 'malaborption' both get red wriggly lines under them when I type them so I guess they are not in the dictionary yet. That's how new this is. Anyway, from now on, I will refer to it as fructmal. Adriano was yet again away for a race so it was just Dario and me. Three things that are well tolerated are fish, potatoes and spinach but I can't keep bunging them on the plate as is, so I experimented with large fish cakes which incorporated them all. I minced them all up, seasoned, added a squeeze of lemon juice, and an egg and tapioca flour to bind them. They probably needed a little more binding … [Read more...] about Potato Fish Cakes – gluten-free and fructmal friendly
Pita Bread and Mexican Spread – grain-free & fructmal friendly
I had the final food intolerance test today for lactose and I have been skipping all day - I had no reaction at all. Again they took my breath every 1/2 hour for 3 hours and I will hear officially in a couple of weeks but I guess I have my answers already. I am not lactose intolerant but I am fructose intolerant and that sucks big time. It's not like lactose or gluten intolerance, which are clear cut. You eliminate them from your diet and you live well. Not that either of those intolerances is easy but fructose! It is in everything healthy - fruit, vegetables, whole grains etc. It's impossible to eliminate it - you would die from malnutrition. So you manage it. Most people have the fructose in their food absorbed through their stomach walls and that's the way it should be. But we strange folk can't absorb it and so it goes on its way and the bacteria down there sees it as a foreign substance and goes crazy, causing a lot of unpleasantness. Our bodies can tolerate a little fructose not … [Read more...] about Pita Bread and Mexican Spread – grain-free & fructmal friendly