Diet heavy with fish and whole grain ideas please

[smitch Profile]

I'll be honest and say dietary changes didn't make a difference to my symptoms. However, from a few Endo groups on Facebook I have seen it has had a positive effect on some people.

My other advice, unrelated to diet, is to make sure your surgeon is an Endo specialist. There is a list of accredited centres on the Endometriosis UK website.

[Joanbunting Profile]

Amy you could try spelt grains. Yes spelt is a wheat but it is often supported well by people who are gluten intolerent. It is used a lot in local cookinh here, the Drench name in epautre though the Provencal name in Spelta. It makes a delicious and very nutritious risotto and is quite often served with fish. I like it even though I can't stand rice served with fish.

If you want some recipe just yell.

[dennispc Profile]

Never had a problem with ground flax/linseed. It does come in self sealing pack - Linwood.

Bread - if you’re not coeliac, Spelt bread is low in gluten as is Millet (didn’t know that until just now)

Flours that are gluten free; Oat, Barley, Corn, Brown Rice, Potato, Gram, Quinoa and Buckwheat.

Made gluten free bread a couple of times using rice flour. To me it tasted more like a crumpet, but coeliac friend liked it. Nice toasted.

OH doesn’t care for pulses, I’m happy to leave them out, e.g. chicken and rice one pot has red beans but is still tasty without.

Gill’s salmon thread should be useful to you - Wednesday I coated hake with a tomato mix - some fish take kindly to all sorts of the same additions, including Sambuca.

Muesli made with only oats has been my breakfast (plus fresh fruit) for many years. No longer weigh anything but add sultanas and other dried fruit, which I chop. Also, nuts but grind them as my ancient teeth can’t deal with them whole. And flax seed, of course.

Rather than use milk I’ve now trained my taste buds to cope with just water.

I’ve done a lot of research on plant based diets - they don’t suit everyone - concluded that processed sugar products, cakes, biscuits etc., weren’t doing me a lot of good.

Cutting down on bread for weight reasons was a real trial, but I’ve survived!

My sympathy to any foodie who needs to eat less!

[Meganthemog Profile]

Amy I am with you on tinned tuna - however have you tried the tuna that comes in glass jars? M&S do a very good one that is nothing like cat food =^^= Waitrose also do one - I can't remember the make but they come in olive oil and are more like a tuna steak. I wish you lots of success in getting well again. I have a friend who has suffered from endometriosis for most of her adult life and I know how debilitating it can be.

[Amyw Profile]

Meganthemog , no I've not tried the jarred tuna. I do really like fresh tuna, so might have a look at the jarred stuff.

Joan, any recipes would be great .

Badgers mate, I love broad beans, didn't really think of those. Great idea .

Smitch, I guess everyone's different with this aren't they. I thought I'd try diet first to give it a go. Just given up smoking a month ago , so fits in with my general health kick. Not one to do anything by halves

[Joanbunting Profile]

Amy -this is a starter example until I can translate some French ones for you

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/132 ... om-risotto

I also found this - puts on tin hat just in case

https://www.thequotidiancook.com/spelt- ... th-greens/

[Pampy Profile]

Well done on quitting smoking Amy - I know just how hard it is. I was a professional smoker for over 30 years (towards the end, was on about 60 a day) and tried many times to give up with no success. On millennium morning, I found myself in hospital with real flu - drip, oxygen, the works. For the first couple of days I was taking the oxygen off and wheeling my drip stand outside to try to smoke! I suddenly had a light bulb moment and asked myself what on earth I was doing, so stopped - just like that! Once I was back home, I had a couple of cigarettes and kept a packet in a drawer for almost 5 years (just in case!) but managed to finally keep off them. I think I managed because I told myself that if it go so bad, I could always start smoking again (hence the packet in the drawer). Because I was telling myself that it wasn't necessarily for ever, it somehow made it easier - I just took each day as it came. And now more than 19 later years later, I'm still off them. I do think that being a smoker is akin to being an alcoholic though - you're never cured, just "recovering" - because I still yearn for a cig. especially after meals.

[Amyw Profile]

I've always joked I'm a part time smoker , as never really been heavy, could sometimes go a couple of days without having one , then smoke a packet on a night out etc. However it was irritating me, that I was starting to have routine fags(e.g. First thing in the morning ) , and use it as a crutch when I was stressed .

No conscious decision, just didn't smoke for a couple of days, kept delaying buying a packet etc and now it's a month later. Haven't needed a vape or anything . My biggest test will be my friends hen party in two weeks, as girl I'm going with smokes heavily

[Otterspocket Profile]

A favourite lunch for me lately is a salmon bowl , either brown rice , couscous or noodles with loads of salad , pickled veg , edamame and some sheets of seaweed a rumpled over the top or sesame seeds.

[Renee Profile]

Amy, very well done for giving up smoking and hope that all goes well at the hen party, although people don't smoke now indoors. Very well done also to you Pampy. It can't be easy and does take a lot of will-power, but I suppose you were helped on your way to giving up when you were very ill. Thank goodness that I never started.

I've been enjoying the jarred tuna recently and have been using it for salads. Watch out for Albacore Tuna, it's lovely. I buy the jarred tuna from Waitrose. It is available in brine and olive oil.

Otterspocket, I love the idea of your lunch. I always have the sheets of seaweed in and have been buying seaweed products from The Cornish Seaweed Company. They have a good website. What pickled veg do you use, or do you make your own?

[Otterspocket Profile]

I make my own Renee , always have red onion , carrot and some sort of bread and butter pickles in the fridge but recently have added radish to the rotation - I’m a big vinegar fan for health reasons so an added benefit to the fact they’re so tasty too

[wargarden Profile]

potato starch, powdered cheese and crushed Kaki no tone make good batter for fish if you can't use gluten flours

[Amyw Profile]

What’s crushed kaki no tone, sounds dangerous

[Binky Profile]

Amy, I can recommend a good book by Ghillie James "Grains Are Good". There are some lovely recipes in there.

edit: ebay has this for 99p. Bargain!

[Amyw Profile]

Thanks Binky will have a look,

[Renee Profile]

I make my own Renee , always have red onion , carrot and some sort of bread and butter pickles in the fridge but recently have added radish to the rotation - I’m a big vinegar fan for health reasons so an added benefit to the fact they’re so tasty too

I have started to become interested too, Otterspocket and also for health reasons. I thought about buying sauerkraut, but read that this has been pasteurised which destroys the benefits and the same with kimchi. Can you recommend a website, so that I can learn more?

[wargarden Profile]

Kaki no tane
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaki_no_tane

[Gillthepainter Profile Website]

Wow, they sound nice. I've got a market store in town that has a Japanese section.

[jeral Profile]

Something similar but probably nothing like Kaki no tane as won't be as brittle, is "Curly" brand "Mexican Style" snacks (made in Germany sold in local East Med shop) which are maize like Wotsits but are flavoured with peanuts and chilli. It never occurred to me but I could grind those up for a coating on veg patties.

[Otterspocket Profile]

I have started to become interested too, Otterspocket and also for health reasons. I thought about buying sauerkraut, but read that this has been pasteurised which destroys the benefits and the same with kimchi. Can you recommend a website, so that I can learn more?[/quote]

Hi Renee , I don’t use any particular site but use a basic recipe of half vinegar to half vinegar and just experiment with different vinegars and additions like herbs , mustard seeds etc.

I would love to try making kimchi but for now I just buy it from local Asian store - have just stocked up this morning infact along with various other bits and bobs.

One thing I really enjoy on the fermenting side is brewing kombucha - it’s so easy and I 100% feel the benefit - have seen my kidney function improve markedly since I started to drink it