I have been corresponding with a dietitian, Clarice Hebblethwaite, who champions the low Fodmap diet and she has given me some interesting advice on healing the gut while on the diet.
- Take digestive bitters, ½ lemon juice or 1 dessertspoon apple cider vinegar in a little water before meals to increase acid levels in the stomach.
- Consider including daily fermented/cultured foods. These are foods which healthy bacteria or yeasts feed on. So all the fermenting and production of gas happens over a few days/ weeks and most importantly not in your body! So these foods are no longer fermentable or FODMAP rich. The resulting food is very rich in probiotic bacteria and yeasts which keep your digestive tract and immune system in good health.
- For many with anxiety or increased stress in their lives, relaxation techniques are key. They accelerate healing when we are in our diaphragmatic breath. It is then we actually can repair, digest and heal plus switch into fat metabolism, which is always good.
- If increased gut permeability is suspected, then a 3 month treatment can include:
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- Turmeric (4 g per day) or Resveratrol (4 g per day) and
- L-Glutamine 1/8 to ¼ teaspoon per day and
- Colostrum 2-6 g per day and
- Zinc carnosine 75 mg twice daily
- Cod liver oil capsules daily (for vitamin A and D
If you want to try taking the supplements for gut healing, add one at a time and check your tolerance to them.
Banana Pancakes - low FODMAP breakfast or dessert
Author: Suzanne Perazzini
Serves: 2
Ingredients
- 1 banana
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
- Butter
- Maple syrup
- Raspberries
Method
- Beat the eggs, bananas and vanilla essence together until well blended.
- Melt a little butter in a frying pan.
- Once it is bubbling, pour ½ the egg mixture into the pan.
- Once it is set on one side, flip it over and cook on the other side.
- Slip out onto a plate and keep warm.
- Cook the rest of the pancake mixture in the same way,
- Serve with a few raspberries and a little drizzle of maple syrup.
If you have seen the eggs in the photo beside the pancakes and would love to know how to boil the perfect egg, then check out how HERE.
I’ve just started working with a dietitian as well! Thankfully she is familiar with the low FODMAP diet and has created a plan for me revolving around it. Step 1: heal the gut. I’ve been super diligent about avoiding all gluten and dairy, no raw veggies, increasing protein and adding supplements. So far so good. Step 2 will be to start adding in foods to assess which I’m intolerant to. So glad to have a professional who can help me along in this crazy journey we call IBS. Good luck to you as well!
That sounds like a great dietician to have. Good luck with the diet. Keep me updated on your progress.
Really nice pancakes! I see this more as a dessert, but it’d make a swell breakfast too. I’ve never made a flourless pancake, but I’ll be trying this — thanks!
They are so simple to throw together and they cook up really well and don’t break.
Your flourless banana pancake sounds good. I might try a little sweetened ricotta rolled inside.
That sounds like a great idea, Karen.
Wow, who knew such simple ingredients (and no flour!) could be used to make pancakes. And interesting tips on healing the gut. I’ve heard a lot of benefits of ingesting apple cider vinegar.
It is interesting about apple cider vinegar and the gut. Those with IBS can’t safely eat apples but we can have apple cider vinegar because it has already done all its fermenting outside the body and won’t affect us any longer.
Great looking pancakes and I’m amazed they have so few ingredients. I’ve never made pancakes without flour so I’d be interested in trying these xx
You need to get the proportions right though or it won’t all hold together and the ability of the egg to set the mixture won’t work.
I have a friend who laments that pancakes made with what she calls ‘fake flour’ never suits but I think she’d love these.
Maureen, the recipe for pancakes I used in this recipe here, https://www.strandsofmylife.com/salmon-egg-with-gluten-free-pancakes-low-fodmap/ works really well. Perhaps let your friend know about it.
Banana pancakes are my favorite, these look so good!
They are so simple and do taste great. They are good for a quick snack in the middle of the day too.
These pancakes were AMAZING! Thank you so much! K
They are so simple to make too. I am glad you enjoyed them.
I am “ tickled” by the use of the word “corresponding” in the post. It sounds like it came from a different era where people really did write letters back & forth to each other. I’m sure some of us remember doing just that but it’s fading fast. One of my big delights as I make a scrapbook of my husband’s family are several letters written during “the war” (WW II). One is from my husband’s uncle stationed in the Pacific theater & one is from my husband’s grandmother to her son (my husband’s father) where he was stationed in Europe.
I also have a lot of correspondence called “V Mail” (for Victory) to my husband’s father when he was a POW in Germany in 1944. There’s a lot of interesting history in researching “V Mail” that I never knew.
Sorry to hijack this thread.
I’ve just started on the low FODMAP diet and I find this interesting. Low FODMAP breakfast pancake with no flour! yummy!!
It’s such a quick delicious breakfast.
Oh my goodness-delicious!! Thank you so much!!
And so simple!
How is this low fodmap? Banana is not low fodmap.
You have been misinformed, Donna. Bananas are low Fodmap as long as they are not too ripe. Check the Monash Low Fodmap app.
I just made them so easy and good I was shocked to make pancakes no flour.Im just starting my journey on low Fodmap thank you for helpful information😊
You are welcome, Juanita. I am glad you enjoyed the pancakes.
Thank you for this recipe. Do you know if you can sure them in the fridge or freezer?
Thank you for this recipe. Do you know if you can sure them in the fridge or freezer?
Yes and microwave them for 10- 20 seconds to warm them up when you are ready to eat them.