When you have IBS, everything is more difficult. An invitation out with friends induces anxiety, a work conference creates images of tables groaning with food we can’t risk eating, the thought of a cocktail party induces a panic attack. Even a simple family dinner at a local restaurant has us scrambling for excuses not to […]
How things can go wrong with the low Fodmap diet on a walking trek
A couple of weeks ago, I went on a second 4-day walking trek. This time my friend and I joined three other ladies to hike on Great Barrier Island, which is a 30-minute flight from Auckland, New Zealand. In December, we did a similar trip around Lake Waikaremoana and everything went extremely smoothly for my […]
My 7 Most Popular Recipes for 2019
These are the seven recipes that were viewed most often during 2019. Low Fodmap bread I suppose this one shouldn’t surprise me since most of my clients are fixated on getting bread back into their diets after doing the 6-week program with me to find their triggers and create a final diet that keeps them […]
How I coped with my IBS on a 4-day walking trip
Last week, I went away on a 4-day walking trip around Lake Waikaremoana in Te Urerewa, which is an area of mostly forested, sparsely populated, rugged hill country in the North Island of New Zealand. Here you can find some of the only remaining Jurassic forest in New Zealand. If you loved Lord of the […]
Crispy Low Fodmap Roasted Potatoes
Who doesn’t love crispy roasted potatoes! Potatoes are low Fodmap and can be eaten in many different ways. My favourite way is roasted, but they must be roasted well and there are a few tricks to that. Follow my recipe to the letter, and you will have perfectly roasted low Fodmap potatoes for dinner. You […]
Smoothies on the Low Fodmap Diet
The internet will tell you that smoothies are healthy, even some low Fodmap websites. However, those of us with irritable bowel syndrome have to take much of what we see and read on the internet with a grain of salt, and this is another case in point. I explain why that is in this video. […]
