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by Lisa McGill (Author)
Welcome to the low-FODMAP diet!
This book will be your information guide, encouraging partner, and useful resource as you begin your journey into the lowFODMAP world.
Starting this diet can be a little daunting when you first hear about it you have to eliminate so many day-to-day foods from your diet that it can be hard to know how you will manage to keep yourself fed during this time. Don't fret! First of all, this book will tell you all about the low-FODMAP diet and how it is NOT a "forever" diet. In fact, if you follow the guidelines in the book properly, it is possible that you could be back to eating your favorite high-FODMAP foods in a matter of weeks!
This book will teach you about all three phases of the diet, how to follow them properly, and how to begin reintegrating higher-FODMAP ingredients into your diet again. We have provided you with a complete and thoroughly detailed guide of the low-FODMAP diet, so you can be as confident as possible as you begin this treatment for your gut symptoms.
In addition to detailing the diet, we have also provided you with information about IBS, its causes, symptoms, and treatments. We hope that you find this extra information beneficial to you in your own IBS journey! Secondly, this book has a wide variety of recipes that will leave you with many options for meals and snacks that also taste so delicious that you'll forget you're on a diet. We have even listed plenty of options for people who are on vegetarian and vegan diets, so don't feel left out! Each recipe has a description, a list of what you will need, instructions for how to prepare the meal, and a few low-FODMAP shopping tips, so you'll always get the best ingredients for your gut. All the meals in this book will also help you maintain good nutrition while you're on the diet.
More tips on how to avoid becoming deficient in particular nutrients are also included in the early chapters of the book. Recipes you can expect to find include:
- Breakfast recipes like smoothies, porridges, and different recipes for eggs. Each of the breakfast recipes will take only 5-10 minutes to make, and some of them can even be prepared the night before. This is for all of you, busy bees!
- Lunch and dinner recipes for our meat lovers that include rice, pasta, salads, soups, and other miscellaneous meals. These recipes are filling and have serving sizes that will help you stick to the low-FODMAP guideline. Most of these recipes will yield more than one serving so you can refrigerate and keep the leftovers for later in the week.
- Snack recipes that are more like treats! These goodies will help you between meals, and, believe it or not, they are all low in FODMAP! Some of these snacks are perfect to nibble on throughout the day, but some of them are a little less healthy, so make sure to pay attention to the serving size for each snack!
- Vegetarian and Vegan meals! We have separate sections for vegetarian and vegan recipes because we recognize that your restrictions are not the same! We also do give some suggestions throughout the main lunch and dinner chapter for making those meals fit your dietary restrictions.
You will definitely not be let down by this book if you do not eat meat or other animal products. We really hope you will choose to buy and read this book because we have worked very hard to provide you with the most accurate information and recipes that have been reviewed by personal dieticians. Thank you for checking this out! Good luck with your low-FODMAP journey, and feel free to leave a review, telling us more about how this diet has helped you!
