food suggestions

Hello

You may want to consider keeping a food diary. That may help you identify what works and what doesn't.

How are you with eggs?
I don't know about you but after my first colonoscopy as a kid the only thing I could stomach eating was a scrambled egg sandwich on buttered toast!
Brocolli can make even the healthiest person gassy! And apples or any fruit with tons of fiber like pears are a no no for me.
It's interesting how you feel ok eating sushi. I lived in japan for years and ate tons of japanese food all the time, not just sushi, but ramen, shabu-shabu, gyudon, tonkatsu, etc, and I felt great! I swear, I could eat japanese food everyday! Most of it involves lean meats/dishes that are low in oil, dairy, and citrus, but their cuisine also includes some raw vegetables which sometimes caused me problems if I ate too many of them.
Have you thought about making your own sushi? All you need is a rice cooker, the right kind of rice (I use Botan rice found in walmart), rice vinegar, nori/seaweed, and whatever you want to add that's safe for you, such as fake crab, cucumber, and avocado like in a california roll or a piece of cooked shrimp. Sushi doesnt have to be perfectly shaped you can just put all your ingredients on the seaweed and eat like a seaweed sammich!
Yumyum! This is making me hungry! :D
I think what you described is a philadelphia roll and it has a salmon and cream cheese. It's not my favorite roll, but I bet it's just as easy to make!
You can even go all out and buy a set that will help you make a tight roll.
http://www.walmart.com/ip/Ekco-PAO-9-Piece-Deluxe-Sushi-Set/5855164

I looked at the box and you are right :( For some reason, they don't seem to bother me and are the only way I can eat a semblance of vegetables, unless I do the blender thing.....Hope you are able to find some other things that work for you

Thank you everyone. I've been offline because of holidays but I really appreciate everyone's answers. I did look at the SCD, I actually printed it all off while waiting for a dietician appt. I really want to get into cooking Japanese food, I recently got some different noodles and a wok and am going to get a bamboo steamer. My mom bought me a cookbook. the dietician wants me to stop all lactose though maybe such a small amount of cream cheese is ok. she said to see if there's a lactose free kind
Unfortunately I cannot eat eggs. not a physical intolerance I just cannot stand.the taste AMD especially the smell. Makes me nauseated. I don't like anything eggy either...like creme brulee.I was sad when she said no broccoli but also asked specifically about white rice and was very happy about that!

I stick to what I think of as lighter foods, which typically means they're easier to digest. pasta, oatmeal, bread, rice, that sort of thing. 'course it's hard to eat the required number of calories if your food tastes like crap so I also make a few allowances for heavier stuff that doesn't seem to bother me as much, like cheese, eggs, and sometimes lightly fried stuff. Gotta be really careful with the fried foods, though.

Food journal is definitely something you should do at least until you have a better idea of what bothers you. And it's helpful after that, but I found it annoying to maintain so I stopped once I got the general idea. I can usually tell if something's going to bother me as soon as I eat it, anyway. I get this... unsettled feeling in my stomach, my guts start rumbling faster than usual, and often they'll twinge in pain.