Hiya Happy,
I FOUND the book YAY!
I reread your post with the questions you asked me so here are the answers finally!
Below is what is printed in the front of my book:
This diet excludes all those foods which are most likely to cause food intolerance.
The diet must be followed until further notice (approximately 2-4 weeks).
Do not rush your meals, take time to chew food well and eat regularly - 3 or 4 meals per day. Ensure you drink plenty of fluid (8-10 cups daily).
If you need to take medication for headache or other pain use SOLUBLE paracetamol.
Keep a diary during this period recording food eaten and symptoms suffered. Enteral feeds such as 028 remain useful supplements if weight gain is desired or if the full range of recommended foods is not being eaten.
Will give you a summary of the foods etc: All meat, poultry, game, beef and lamb can be eaten. Avoid Pork and pork products and anything processed.
Fish - can have white fish, tuna, in water or brine, oily, smoked and other tinned fish in water or brine. Prawns. Avoid anything tinned in oil or tomato, pastes, taramasalata, scampi or battered or breaded.
Veg - small portions of the following WITHOUT skins, seeds or stalks (maximum of 2 portions a day): courgette, marrow, lettuce, cucumber, celeriac, potato (not cold), carrot, swede, parsnip, cauliflower, broccoli, mushrooms, peppers, asparagus, beetroot, runner beans. Avoid pulses - peas, beans, lentils. Avoid onions, sweetcorn, tomatoes, anything tinned in sauce, tomato ketchup and puree.
Fruit - small portions of the following WITHOUT skins or seeds (maximum 2 pieces of fruit per day). Apricot (canned or stewed), grapes, melon, peach (fresh or canned), nectarine, pear (fresh or canned), plums (stewed), mango (fresh or canned) lychees (canned). Avoid citrus fruit e.g. oranges, satsuma, grapefruit, lemons. Avoid apples, banana, dried fruit, mincemeat.
Cereals - White rice, rice pasta (not cold), rice cakes, ground rice, rice flour, rice krispies, puffed rice cereal, arrowroot, tapioca, sago. Avoid Wheat e.g. bread, cakes, biscuits, pasta, noodles, semolina. Avoid breakfast cereals e.g. weetabix, shredded wheat. Avoid Rye e.g. ryvita. Avoid Oats, Barley, Corn e.g. cornflakes, cornflour, custard powder.
Cooking oils - Sunflower, soya, olive, rapeseed (1/2 teasp per person in cooking). Avoid Corn and vegetable oil.
Dairy products - Soya milk (calcium enriched), Soya yoghurt, Tofu, Milk free margarine 1oz per day. Avoid Cows milk all types, dried milk, tinned milk, sheep and goat milk, butter, cream, margarine, yoghurt, cheese and eggs.
Beverages - Herbal teas e.g. rooibosh, rosehip, camomile or fruit teas. Ribena, fresh fruit juices e.g pineapple, grape juice. Tap or mineral water. Avoid Tea, coffee, decaf of both, fruit squashes, orange, grapefruit, lemon, apple or tomato juice. Alcohol. Coca cola, lemonade.
Miscellaneous - Jams (no seeds), sugar, honey, syrup, salt, herbs, black pepper, spices in moderation, vinegar, tamari, brown rice miso, gravy browning with caramel and salt only, sorbet (not citrus). Avoid Chocolate, nuts, seeds, gravy mixes, yeast and extract, soy sauce, salad cream and dressings, mustard, marmalade.
REINTRODUCTION OF FOODS
If you have no symptoms from your Crohn's after following the exlusion diet for AT LEAST 2 weeks you may start to re-introduce foods slowly back into the diet.
Each food should be TESTED FOR 4 DAYS UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED. Foods should be taken in a large quantity twice a day. If your symptoms do not return you can assume that the food you ate was safe and go on to add another food. If they did return, the new food was probably responsible and should be left out of the diet from now on.
If a reaction occurs it will usually last for 2-3 days, but may go on longer. During this time it is impossible to assess other foods accurately, therefore stick to foods already known to be safe. If the symptoms are very severe, 2-3 days on 028 or similar that you have been having will usually settle them. DO NOT INTRODUCE NEW FOODS UNTIL YOU ARE WELL AGAIN.
Once you have finished reintroducing foods into your diet and identified the foods causing symptoms, it is essential that you have your diet checked for its nutritional adequacy.
PHEW! Didnt think I was going to type that lot LOL ;-)
Happy if you need me to post the re-intro foods just shout ok? The above is word for word from my LOFFLEX book. As you will see peppers are ok. The only thing they say to do is chew food really well, take your time and in places have it stewed or not cold etc. Logic would say that to encourage "solid stools" we need the solid food rather than soft. It did take my tum time to readjust to normal foods again and it did feel a bit alien initially but I would take half an hour to eat a chicken breast and some mashed potato at the start. I still take up to an hour to eat a full meal and hubby has to sit and wait for me when we are out ;-)
Anything else I can help with just ask - wont always have the answers but will try to find them if I dont know!
Asthma is improving but now am reducing pred again (down to 30mg today) am itching like mad and guts are complaining so am going to start into my elemental drinks big time this coming week as its the only thing I have left to fall back on now my remi has been stopped.
Stay in touch. Thinking of you ((hugs))
