Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: Ways to Safely Get More Veggies (and fruits)

Since you like to snack, cruise through the Appetizer list in the Recipe Index. It looks like there are some interesting veggie dips (carrot, beet?) plus stuff like baked zucchini sticks. I'm particularly fond of Shell's Artichoke Hummus from the Recipe Board. I've got suggestions in the thread for reducing the fat. There's also the Roasted garlic and green pea bruschetta from the EFI Cookbook. To me this just tastes okay, but I have a friend who loves it.

Also you might consider cooked vegetables eaten cold as a sort of salad - an extension of your carrots. Cruise through the Side Dishes in the Recipe Index and see what looks like it might work cold. Somewhere (maybe not on this site) I've seen, for example, recipes that call for grilling squash with balsamic vinegar, then eating it cold. You could even put it on toasted bread and call it a kind of bruschetta/crostini thing.

There are some nice pasta salads in the Recipe Index - I really like RachelT's Almond Chicken Salad - you can make a half recipe or even a fourth recipe and eat it for lunch for a few days. There's also Shell's Crunchy Tuna Pasta Salad - very easy to make, tastes yummy.

Last but not least, consider soup. There's no law that says you have to eat a whole bowl at a time - try just a half cup as a snack. If you have access to a microwave at work, that's great but there are soups that would be edible cold. You could even play around with creating some kind of gazpacho substituting more SF veggies for some of the IF kind traditionally used - maybe zucchini instead of cucumber, replace onions with onion powder, omit green peppers, and so on.

HTH.

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