Support for low-fat high-fiber diet

I'll have to see if the taste if different with chicken broth. It is saltier. So far salt isn't my problem so I don't watch it except to avoid bloating.



I don't know about that high fiber ice cream. Maybe if it had nuts in it?



One good thing about teenaged boys is you can buy regular ice cream, have a portion, put it back in the freezer, and when you come home it won't be there anymore.

Thanks Theresa,

I checked around again for the cones..No luck. The other night I was cooking my veggie dish, and cutting up some organic spinach, and out walks a ladybug. Now that's fresh spinach.

I don't know if this is a new product or not, but Fiber One from General Mills has 14 grams of fiber for only a 1/2 cup serving and no sugar. It doesn't taste bad either but I'm not too sure of that since I throw fruit and nuts in there also. It just looks strange.

That is a lot of fiber in one serving. I might want to mix that in with my regular stuff.

It was really interesting reading all these posts...will look for Fibre One cereal myself, but what do you all use to wet it? Dairy products aren't supposed to be good for you...I wonder if a little skim milk would matter? I don't like mushy cereal. Might have to look for almond milk.

I grew up on lentil and split pea soup - but always made it with smoked turkey or something. Won't be doing that anymore...

also, (I have to watch salt intake because of Meniere's Syndrom) Campbell's makes both chicken broth and beef broth that has 25% less salt. I also use broth to stir fry/steam veggies with.

I'm looking for a very high fibre muffin recipe so I can whip up a batches and freeze them...something with low fat and flax seeds, etc. in it. I do use my breadmaker and there are lots of fibre breads that you can make...I like a heavy bread...

you can make nice breakfast shakes adding things like frozen raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries - that adds lots of fibre. Also, dried figs, etc. are loaded with fibre. I made these shakes when I had bad mouth/tongue sores from chemo. You can add a tablespoon or so of those diet shake formulas (strawberry/chocolate) to add extra flavour.

Ok....can't see where using 1% or skim mile for cereal would do much harm. I just found a recipe for high fibre muffins that has 6 grams of fibre in each. Will try it out and pass it on if any good. Thanks.

Rose,

That's the first thing I thought of too. Well there goes the calcium benefit of milk. Plus, I always ate first and took the calcium right after a meal. Most of my meals have some kind of fiber in it. Then I found this article:

http://www.freep.com/news/health/diet27_20011127.htm

"You can resume pouring milk on your cereal, says Dr. Robert Heaney, a professor of medicine at Creighton University, member of the board of trustees of the NOF -- and coauthor of the study that showed wheat fiber interfered with calcium absorption. "The good news is, it takes a lot of wheat bran," Heaney said, "and the interference is only partial."

Whew!

I had to give up the flaxseed cereal because I found out it is a natural blood thinner. I'm already on a thinner and I was bruising pretty good.

The interesting part of eating ground flaxseed was the muffin study. They put 2 tbls of ground flax in a muffin and gave it to the ladies to eat each day when they were first dx'd. It usually takes a month from dx to excision and in that month's time their tumors did not grow. That opened my eyes. Of course, I went overboard and had to have it everyday.

On another note of caution with this type of diet is know your cholesterol numbers when you start. I've managed to get my husband's numbers too low...under 100 total. Not good.

And you have to drink loads of water or fluids. 90 ozs, minimum. Don't ask me how I found this out. It seems that I don't wind up in the Dr.s office, he does.

It's the fiber that requires loads of water, not just the flax. I only ate it in the organic flax cereal and that tasted like nothing.



That Fiber One does look strange but it's good. It has no sugar but they use aspartame. I'd rather they'd use real sugar then that. I know nothing about aspartame. I hope it isn't on some hit list.



I'm back from reading about aspartame. This is why they say not to eat processed foods. I also wrote GMills to ask if they'd make the product with cane sugar. I'll let you know if they reply. Back to organic cereals.

All that fiber needs to absorb fluid to keep moving along.

I bought some of that Fiber One Honey Crunch myself. Today was oatmeal day, so maybe tomorrow I"ll try it.

I may have something for that chemobrain problem. I read this and immediately had to have some:



http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=68



Cinnamon's Scent Boosts Brain Function



Not only does consuming cinnamon improve the body’s ability to utilize blood sugar, but just smelling the wonderful odor of this sweet spice boosts brain activity!

That is well hidden on the box. All it says is sugar. I thought they had to list what kind of artificial sweetner they're using. It was on the other Fiber One box, I just missed it.

When I was at Whole Foods this weekend they seemed to have a number of high fiber cereals. I didn't look at the boxes carefully so I don't if they had artifical sweeteners in them or not.

If you took oatmeal or some other high fiber cereal and added bran or flaxseed to it you could probably bump the fiber up yourself. Heaven knows if you used oatmeal it might even save money -- but then who cares about that ?