Is a vegetarian diet possible if....

[AquaEyes]

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If I'm not mistaken, tofu is made from soy milk. Can't have soy.

Tofu is made from soybeans. She can't have any legumes.

 

[call ducks]

Hey Girt's,

The sister works for a new camp, for very sick kids. They had a camp called "guts & Glorry" for Chrones and Clities (sp?). So she may have some ideas.

I know one day they did rost chicken dinner (can you eat peas? carrots etc?)

 

[Amigo]

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Meats, Carrots, and other greens. That is a perfect diet.

 

[gritsar]

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Will do Imp. Thanks.

 

[Runt Of The Litter]

a vetetarian diet,is perfectly able-depending on each persons differing food needs,though unfortunately it wont work for all of us.
-woud always recomend seeing a dietician before making such a big diet change,especialy long term as it will at the very least affect iron,vitamins and protein-unless are well skilled on knowledge in how to get those things without meat/dairy etc.

had personaly become very ill from being on a vegetarian diet due to already being severely restricted in food [directly and indirectly by autism],survived on roast or fried potatoes and vegitarian friendly gravy,had the ocasional fish fingers if remember corretly...it really affected health-gave up after exactly one year as had found mum had been secretly stashing meat fat in the gravy so it had all been a big con anyway.
-have been on a prescription liquid food for years called ensure,thats possibly an option for vegitarian americans...
have ever been spoken to by the gastro docs about a high nutritional liquid food? it sounds like are very restricted and something like that might be worth enquiring about to them or a dietician.

 

[Wifezilla]

I think a vegetarian diet is hard enough to do without food restrictions. Since meat provides all nutrients needed except vitamin C, I think it would be foolish to go vegetarian at this point.

As for the colitis...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fecal_bacteriotherapy

 

[gritsar]

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The gastroenterologist is the specialist of choice. I am very particular about my doctors and would prefer to have my internist handle everything but he can't (won't) prescribe or administer the immunosuppressant (sp?) drugs I want to try.

 

[gritsar]

To answer the question asked.... I want to start on a vegetarian diet because of personal feelings. Also, lately meat just turns my stomach; even though I very rarely eat any meat except for grass fed beef, free range chicken and range fed pork.

When I cooked a couple of hamburgers for DH last night I could swear the meat smelled bad. I could still smell it in the house a few hours later and it just turned me off eating. There was absolutely nothing wrong with the meat.

ETA: I'm still learning which foods I can have and which ones I cannot. For example I thought I would be fine the other night eating a calzone (no tomato sauce) while DH ate a pizza. I was wrong. Something in the calzone really set my gut off.

 

[Wifezilla]

If you can't get the meat down, there is something that may be helpful...
http://lesaffre-yeast.com/red-star/
http://www.vitacost.com/Twinlab-Super-Rich-Yeast-Plus#IngredientFacts

Sprinkle the b-12 enhanced nutritional yeast on some coconut milk kefir and you can take care of two issues at once. The Yeast will provide the b-12 and other nutrients you need since you are not eating meat while the kefir can help heal your gut.

 

[goobhen]

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Best advice anyone could give!!
Best wishes, Theresa