Mini-Cheesecakes – Gluten-free recipe and low FODMAP
Strands of My Life I am sorry for all of you who are suffering so badly from the cold weather in the US and UK. We are getting terrifying looking photos over here in sunny New Zealand. Yesterday, I...
View ArticleKey Lime Whoopie Pies – a gluten-free recipe and low FODMAP
Strands of My Life Another sweet treat for you all. I read somewhere that the name of whoopie pies came about from the hard-working farmers from the past. Their wives would cook them up these treats...
View ArticleZingy Lemon Bars – a gluten-free recipe and low FODMAP
Strands of My Life Everyone loves lemon, in savoury dishes as well as sweet. I certainly do. I wish I had a lemon tree but I don’t. Not that that prevents me from adding lemon to everything. This...
View ArticleChocolate Caramel Bars – gluten-free recipe and low FODMAP
Strands of My Life Chocolate caramel bars are a classic here in New Zealand bakeries. Every self-respecting cafe or lunch bar has caramel bars. I am not sure if that is true of other countries or not...
View ArticleNeenish Tarts -gluten-free recipe and low FODMAP
Strands of My Life Thank you for the support for my new cookbook, Low FODMAP Menus for Irritable Bowel Syndrome. I am glad it is finally out there for you all to buy and use. Today, I am going to...
View ArticleLemon Curd Cookies – gluten-free recipe and low FODMAP
Strands of My Life These biscuits can be eaten as a plain shortbread or jazzed up the way I have made them by cutting out a star in the middle and sandwiching together a plain one and a starred one. It...
View ArticleBanana Mousse Tarts – gluten-free recipe and low FODMAP
Strands of My Life I have been a absent for a wee while but I really wanted to give the $550 giveaway a good chance by leaving it at the top of the blog for a while. I also have another reason for my...
View ArticleJam Cookies – Gluten-Free Recipe and low FODMAP
Strands of My Life I have another simple cookie recipe for you, using a clever method of activating the properties of the tapioca flour before adding it to other ingredients. This is also a recipe best...
View ArticleAsian-Style Chicken Salad – Low FODMAP
Strands of My Life I had leftover meat from a chicken I roasted last night, and the vege tray in the fridge was full of vegetables so I invented a simple Asian-style salad that could include the...
View ArticleA Crunchy Vegetarian Quinoa Salad – a gluten-free recipe and low FODMAP
Strands of My Life Adriano is away racing somewhere down south and won’t be back until Sunday but I still have to cook for Dario and me but I decided to keep it simple. I don’t use quinoa very often...
View ArticleZucchini Hummus – a low FODMAP dip
Strands of My Life The complaint I hear the most from low Fodmappers is that they don’t know what to eat for snacks. Those of you who work outside the home are probably used to dashing to the nearest...
View ArticleBanana Pancakes – low FODMAP breakfast or dessert
Strands of My Life I have been corresponding with a dietician, Clarice Hebblethwaite, who champions the low Fodmap diet and she has given me some interesting advice on healing the gut while on the...
View ArticleTomato Sauce – low FODMAP
Strands of My Life I get a lot of people on the low Fodmap diet asking what they can do about sauces since so many of them contain either garlic and/or onion. We are kind of brainwashed into thinking...
View ArticlePut Yourself First and Low Fodmap Beef Bourguignon
Strands of My Life I get almost daily emails from women who are desperate to control their irritable bowel syndrome symptoms. They reach out because they have been in pain for years, often decades, but...
View ArticleGluten Intolerant or is it the Fodmaps in food? Plus a Feta & Bacon Dip.
Strands of My Life There’s an interesting discussion on the internet at the moment. As always, it gets taken to extremes and brings strange people out of the woodwork. There is the line of thought...
View ArticleParmesan, Rice Flake Crackers
Strands of My Life I see the question asked often on the low Fodmap groups around the internet of how to start reintroducing foods after the elimination period of the diet. The following is the way...
View ArticleA Connection Between IBS and a Traumatic Event plus a Low Fodmap Recipe
Strands of My Life There is something interesting that I am discovering from my many phone calls with women looking to enter my low Fodmap coaching program. Most of them have told me that they have had...
View ArticleGarlic & Onions on a Low Fodmap Diet and Banana Oat Truffles
Strands of My Life Onion and Garlic – My Enemies When people hear that I can’t eat onions and garlic, they are horrified. They can’t imagine food without what they consider to be the base of so many...
View ArticlePotato & Spinach Soup – low Fodmap & gluten-free
Strands of My Life Webinar I have so many people asking me questions about the low Fodmap diet that I have decided to do a free webinar on the diet. If you would like to attend, please register HERE....
View ArticleCheese Puffs – gluten-free and low Fodmap
Strands of My Life Webinar Reminder This is a wee reminder about my very first webinar on the low Fodmap diet. Anyone with digestive issues really should be there to hear about how to implement the...
View ArticlePolenta Pizza – Low Fodmap & Gluten-Free
Strands of My Life Tomorrow is D-day. The day of my first ever webinar. This has been a steep learning curve and I just hope I don’t mess up with the technology and no one hears anything. I am not...
View ArticleSpinach Quinoa Quiches – Low Fodmap & Gluten-Free
Strands of My Life Webinar Went Well I gave my webinar on the low Fodmap diet a few days ago and it went great. I mean really great. I didn’t freak out and hide under the desk or stuff up too much of...
View ArticleFish Pie – Low Fodmap & Gluten-Free
Strands of My Life A Complex Diet I am super pleased to hear that more and more often healthcare practitioners are mentioning the low Fodmap diet to their patients with IBS but, almost right across the...
View ArticleSpicy Spring Rolls – Gluten-Free and Low Fodmap
Strands of My Life I was thinking about what causes so many people to fail on the low Fodmap diet. As I wrote about in my last post, this is a complex diet and there can be many reasons for failure,...
View ArticleCurry Dip – Low Fodmap
Strands of My Life The women on the low Fodmap coaching program which has just concluded have all had great results, thanks to their commitment and dedication to implementing everything that was asked...
View ArticlePeanut Butter Ice Cream – low Fodmap
Strands of My Life What alcohol can I Drink on the Low Fodmap Diet? I often get asked what alcohol can be drunk of the low Fodmap diet. Alcohol is a gut irritant and we don’t really want to be further...
View ArticleStrawberry Banana Smoothie – low Fodmap
Strands of My Life A Story of Recovery I just have to tell you the story of one of my clients who has just completed the Inspired Life Low Fodmap Coaching Program. I will call her by her first name...
View ArticleA Low Fodmap Dinner Party
Strands of My Life I had family for dinner last night and cooked a completely low Fodmap meal. I know that scares those of you on a low Fodmap diet and you have no idea where to start and think you...
View ArticleThe Symptoms of IBS and Lamb Salad – Low Fodmap
Strands of My Life I am doing a whole series of videos on Irritable Bowel Syndrome and the low Fodmap diet, and this is the first one. It talks about the 8 symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome and I...
View ArticleA Solution to IBS and Low Fodmap Raspberry Ice Cream
Strands of My Life I have made a second video to follow on from the first one about the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) HERE. This one is about the solution to irritable bowel syndrome...
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