I am so stoked that mac loves the new house and that the zmayhems are enjoying juliana's company and the yum of starbelly!

Bob is doing great! He's talking about maybe going with me to bookclub tomorrow night. We're discussing Basketball Diaries so it would be fitting if he went all hopped up on oxy like he is!

I'm trying to figure out low fiber, non gassy making, tasty and vaguely nutritious meals to make him. Any suggestions welcome! It's going to be trial and error for a while.

I am debating whether it would be better to buy in to a CSA that I can't seem to find anyone to split with me, or invest in some of these [link] and try gardening again this summer.

I want fresh vegetables! I grew up next to a farm stand, and with courtesy aunt and uncles who wer actual farmers, and I love fruits and veggies, but not the ones at the supermarket!

Yay bob!

Avoid corn or anything you can, um, identify after the fact? Does the hospital have a dietician or nutritionist who can consult/get a buncha recipes from? Figure you want to minimize possible discomfort from the get go.

Yay Bob is right!

Unfortunately, everything that is nutritious seems to give me gas, so I cannot help on the meal front. Perhaps potatoes? Or, I just made a really good chicken and rice soup by boiing a whole chicken with onion and celery for an hour, draining it, cooking carrots and rice in the broth, and then adding the chicken back in.

I actually waste a fair amount of the stuff I get from the CSA. I need to start taking it into work. It's still worth it because the stuff I do use is great, and a lot of it not stuff I've cooked with before. It's funny - it used to be that I didn't really eat a lot of vegetables. Now, I can mostly make my way through those - though I have no idea what to do with all these fricking beets - but the fruit? Turns out I'm not really a fruit eater. I've got three weeks worth piling up on the counter in varying states of decay.

(My dinner was awesome, by the way. I eat collards all the time but the celery root was a new CSA thing. It was all very Top Chef, with the fish on a bed of celery root puree and all topped with masses of crispy roasted collards. I confess I was shocked there were no celery root recipes in the Top Chef Quickfire cookbook, but I worked it out on my own.)

Yay Bob!

I'm trying to figure out low fiber, non gassy making, tasty and vaguely nutritious meals to make him. Any suggestions welcome! It's going to be trial and error for a while.

Um, chicken and rice is what the vet always had me make when the dog had stomach issues. There's got to be some sort of online source for easily digestible food ideas.

I don't know if cauliflower is low fiber, but cauliflower leek soup is a puree, tasty, and you can up the caloric with butter and other goodies. Basically, 2 leeks chopped fine sauteed in butter and garlic-don't know if garlic is an issue- pepper, salt and nutmeg. Then dump in broken up cauli, cover with chicken or veggie broth, cook till soft, then blenderize it all until creamy. You can add cream and parma, but really don't need to.

But if cauli is high fiber, well...it's good for later?

I have lots of info on what to avoid but not so much on meal plan or yummy recipe ideas. I have a nutritionist at Moveable Feast on the case for me. Yesterday I made peanut noodles with ground turkey and edamame. That seemed to work well. Tonight I made a sort of savory ric porridge with chicken and zuchhini. that seems to be a little gassy making maybe from the onion I put in? Gassy is ok as long as it's not painful for him.

Soup sounds yum Sophia!