My husband and I go to my family's house every year for Thanksgiving and Christmas. My family is very big on food and they do not like change. I'm in charge of making the green bean casserole (which I don't care for) and the sweet potato pie. I've been racking my brain trying to think of something else to take that I can eat safely. My mother and sisters are not understanding about my stomach (IBS & UC) problems, even though my mother has very similar problems. She enjoys her food too much to want to change anything. They think I am strange because I don't drink milk. I haven't told them that I am eating an IBS safe diet, as I know they will give me a hard time about it and make fun of it. I've spoke to my father about it and he's very understanding as he has watched my mother go through so much with her IBS/UC over the past 30 years. My mother is very set in her ways, when I told her I gave up drinking soda because I was having so much stomach trouble with the HFCS, she just said something flip and made me feel bad for even bringing it up even though she has the same problems with soda as I do. If I could I would skip out on dinner and just stay home with my husband and have an IBS safe meal. But I would never hear the end of it from my family. I need something I can sneak in under the radar that will pass as something normal. I'm not very good at baking; I've tried my hand at it a few times since starting Heather's diet. Can anyone suggest something that is fairly easy to make and IBS friendly?
I want to make this clear, my family adds fat/butter to almost everything! Veggies are drowned in butter (eew!), lots of butter/milk in the mashed potatoes, and sweet potato casserole is loaded with butter. All pies except for my sweet potato pie are store bought. Even though I can't eat them anymore the deviled eggs have bits of bacon added to them, and lots of miracle whip. I usually don't care for the turkey as they cook such a big bird that it tends to be overly dry. I normally just eat the ham, but I'm pretty sure it's not IBS safe so guess I'll have to chock down the dry turkey this year.
Thanks for any help you can give me.
-Samantha
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IBS-D - Diagnosed August 2002 (No D since October 07!)
Pain (No pain since October 07!), Gas/Bloating (Better)
Mild Ulcerative Colitis - Diagnosed August 2007
Acid Reflux - Diagnosed 1997
Medicine: Acacia (24 grams), Prilosec [Reflux] (20mg), Lialda [UC](2.5mg).
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Holiday's with the Family... What should I eat?
