At the table nutrition

17/03/2024

GF toastie using wraps from I'm a little addicted to mustard, pickles and tomato sauce combo lately and am having it on everything. Just ham and Philly today.

24/12/2023

Heehee.
Happy Christmas everyone

12/05/2023

A silent condition, chronic and incurable

23/04/2023

It's a fancy cheese board kinda Sunday. We adore Wendland Fine Foods in Toowoomba and get there a few times a year to enjoy the fantastic service and the amazing cheeses. A simple but very delicious array of yummies.

17/03/2023

Why is that????

26/01/2023

Cheeseymite scrolls made with Kiwi Marmite and a Mexican cheese blend from Costco.

14/01/2023

Simple, colourful snack plates for the munchkins.

15/09/2022

All the cheese

Hands up 🙌 if you get me!

In the Monash app cheese is listed as low FODMAP at 40g. But, in the fine print, it also states that "only trace amounts of FODMAPs were detected in this food".

So what does that mean?
Every food listed in the app needs a reference value for serve size so they can say there are X amounts of FODMAPs in this serve size. Monash use the Australian Guide to Healthy Eating for reference value. So, cheese is tested at a 40g serve for this reason.

Once Fodmap have the amount of FODMAPs in the reference value, they can then give upper or lower ratings relative this, to identify where the food becomes high or low FODMAP. This is why sometimes the red serve will be listed first and other times it will be listed last.

When it comes to cheese a good trick to note:
👉 Monash cut off for lactose is 1g per serve
👉 Lactose is the natural "sugar" in milk and dairy
👉 If there are no added sweeteners, the "sugar" content listed directly reflects the lactose content
👉 Most cheese lists sugar as

18/08/2022

If you have entered pre googled the menu are you even eating out?

Hands up 🙌 if you can relate

Eating out is probably one of the hardest parts of having IBS. Here are some tips to make it easier:

Before you go:
🍣 Check the menu online or ring ahead to check what meals are easy to modify.
🍢 Return to your baseline diet to give yourself more room to move before you hit that threshold.
🥟 Have a snack just before you leave so that you don’t get to the restaurant starving and be tempted by that garlic bread on the table.

When you arrive:
🥨 Ask your waiter for advice about what meals would suit you best
🍜 Focus on meals that are easy to modify e.g. fish and salad with sauce on the side. Many “saucier” dishes are partly pre-made and can’t be modified as easily
🌮 Avoid your biggest triggers and things that can’t be left on the side of your plate. It can be super confusing for chefs if they get a huge list of “can’t haves” so your much more likely to get what you need if you can reduce the list to 2 or 3 foods. Also, with food intolerance we don’t have to worry about cross contamination, so you can easily pick a piece of onion out of a salad and leave it on the side of your plate.

Overall:
🍝 Always be polite, staff will bend over backwards for someone they warm to.
🍦 Stress can be a trigger and exacerbate symptoms, so try and use your relaxation techniques on the day, during the meal and the day after.
🥯 Eat mindfully and chew well.

👌 One thing of the great things about food intolerances is they aren’t a game of perfect. You don’t need to be 100% strict all the time. This is because food intolerances and IBS are all about threshold and small “cheats” here and there are seldom enough to upset the apple cart or affect your progress. If you do accidentally go over your threshold and suffer the after effects, just look after yourself, wait for things to pass and then pick up where you left off

09/08/2022

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29/07/2022

You hear a lot of strange things in the diet and wellness world. I must admit I've not heard of negative calories, makes me laugh what some people will do to lead others to their way of thinking. As ways, Dr Crowe puts things into real terms with no nonsense. Listen to real experts not woo money hungry influencers.

‘Negative calorie’ foods are foods that have fewer calories than what it takes for your body to digest them. Do they exist?