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And cooked/chopped/pureed is more of an "or" statement than an "and" one. I eat cooked green beans, but I don't chop or puree them. I chop up strawberries and put them on cereal, but I don't cook or puree them (well, they get pureed in smoothies, but not cooked). And bananas...well, they just get eaten as is!
Cooking/chopping/pureeing makes things easier to handle, but once you get stable (particularly if you're C), you can live on the wild side a bit more. I eat salads (not iceberg lettuce and not all the time), I eat apples out of hand, etc. The big revelation for me with Heather's diet is that if you have the soluble fiber, fruits and vegetables are no longer the enemy! 
--AC
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I miss lettuce big time I was always eating on everything I was just wondering what kind of lettuce you eat if not ice berg lettuce! Thanks
Emmasmom
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Leaf Lettuce
#304956 - 04/14/07 02:19 PM
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Snorkie
Reged: 02/15/05
Posts: 1999
Loc: Northern Illinois, USA
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I use leaf lettuce instead of iceberg. Note, however, that I was on the IBS diet for a year before I could tolerate more lettuce than just a little on a sandwich.
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I recently had spinach leaves in a salad and was able to tolerate it with some SF. But I can also tolerate iceberg in small quantities so I don't know if that helps you much. I'd be curious to hear what kinds other people think are the most tolerable types of lettuce.
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Originally IBS-D for a million years!
Then IBS-A, Now a transformed slightly C
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To me, the main problem with eating lettuce as a salad is that you end up swallowing a lot of air with it. And my main problem is bloating/trapped. gas. I used to eat a baby-spinach salad almost every day, but now that I'm not doing as well, I'll steam the spinach instead.
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I actually do eat iceberg lettuce - I prefer it over the other types, it has more water and crunch. But I'll second what Snorkie said... I was on the diet for a LONG time before I could tolerate more lettuce than just a few shreds on a sandwich.
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