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It's pretty easy to shop for food in Italy as I recall (though that was before I got IBS). If you can't cook yourself it should still be possible to find good food at restaurants. Just tell them to be careful with the oil. But Italian pizzas should be wonderful for IBS (if you ask them to do them without cheese of course which might make them raise an eyebrow at you, but you can just tell them you're allergic to avoid having to explain the details). Italian pizzas are NOTHING like regular pizzas. They are thin and crispy and pretty low fat. When eating other things than pizzas you might have to order things in a different way than they are used to. They tend to do crazy things like eating a whole bowl of pasta first, then comes the meat and then the dessert. When I had lunch in Rome with a tourist group we got lasagne first, then meat with some cooked vegetables and 3 tiny fried potato balls (maybe twice as much meat as other stuff) and then dessert. You will probably want the pasta WITH the rest of the food.

/Ulrika, IBS-D

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