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Breakfast 1: Any of the following or in combination: Berries, pineapple, honeydew melon, cantaloupe, blueberries



Do you test your food with iodine? I have found various types of melon to be starchy on occasion.


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Breakfast 2: Or sometimes I’ll have eggs and frozen sausage patties (turkey or pork)



What's in the sausage patties? Any thickeners/stabilizers etc?


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Or grilled fish/chicken/steak with mushrooms and spinach/broccoli, squash)



I have found cooked squash tests positive for starch.


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I snack on nuts (pine and walnuts), seeds (pumpkin, sunflower), raisins, and dark chocolate)



Can't remember which one but either pumpkin or sunflower seeds are starchy (think it might be pumpkin)


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I drink herbal tea with honey and lemon, decaf coffee (often I use Soy milk for cappuccino),



Soy milk can be starchy depending on what they add to it. I once tested some organic soy milk that was only blended soy beans with water and salt and it tested positive for starch. The soy beans (in fact, any beans) are starchy.


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Sugar (brown or in the raw), frozen sausage, mayo, smoked salmon.



Frozen sausgage - what's in it?


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I put carrots in soups but otherwise I avoid them because I’m not sure if they are okay. I also stopped tomatoes and eggplant. I use pickled hearts of palm and artichokes and roasted peppers.



Cooked carrots are starchy. Raw you can probably get away with.

Have you got Carol Sinclair's book The IBS Low Starch Diet? Very helpful when just getting started.

All the best
Chelsea

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