Quote from: livo on August 08, 2022, 10:16 AM
The surprising recommendation made to both of them was to stop eating fruit.  Full of sugar.  Eat low GI food whenever possible among other things.  They both essentially stopped drinking any alcohol, eating chocolate, carbs etc.  Life without beer or wine???  No chocolate???  Is it really worth it?   

Here I am learning to cook authentic Balti and I can't cook fresh naan!!!  What's the point?   

Could be to limit the amount of sugar that would be feeding any bacterial overgrowth in the gut.

As I mentioned earlier I never tried the Sibo diet but from memory you follow it for a period of time before reintroducing foods previously excluded during the diet.

Quote from: livo on August 07, 2022, 10:08 PM
Thanks T63.  I still have symptoms but avoiding bread and pasta has made a noticeable difference. On a few occasions recently, when I have eaten something flour based, I have had pretty quick reactions so there must be some correlation.  I used to bake bread so I'll give it a try.  My wife has been insisting I only eat gluten free which is really quite a challenge.  It's in everything.

I feel for you as well. I used to work with a lady who had your condition.

Another thing is that I've recently had discussions with 2 acquaintances (a friend and an extended family member), both males and the same approximate age as myself.  They are not known to each other.  Both had recently been experiencing health difficulties with digestion, lethargy, exhaustion at work, headaches and prolonged periods of "brain fog".  Both have now been diagnosed with LGS or leaky gut syndrome.  Drastic changes to diet has helped both of them.

Is it just an age thing for all of us in our 60s or is our food causing these problems?

Sounds like your associates may need to look at the Sibo diet if they have leaky gut. Something I have considered on more than one occasion but have never got round to implementing it.

Hi Livo, sorry to hear of your problems and I sincerely hope you find an agreeable way around your dietary issues. I have had Crohn's disease for 50 years and am currently going through the worse flare up since 1987. I have always suspected that there is a food trigger but have never nailed it down. Shop bought bread bloats me and makes me rough, but home made doesn't.
I have always made our food from scratch to eliminate a lot of the chemicals that go in the processed stuff.Today I cooked a braised Thai pork dish that we had with Jasmine rice, a yellow Thai curry which is in the fridge for tomorrow night and a 500g bag of dried chickpeas for a few dishes during the week.
Avoiding processed food helps keep my condition on an even keel but it doesn't guarantee that I will avoid all effects of the illness.
I wish you well with your food journey!

Quote from: Unclefrank on June 04, 2022, 10:29 PM
Was that the site before this one, i can remember it but cant seem to remember any recipes or members from there, did most of them come to this site.

It was a newsgroup rather than a website and a lot of recipes got posted there. Whilst there was the quest for a BIR, and it was called BIR on the group so I think I'm pretty sure the acronym predated this date, there was also a lot more on traditional recipes.
A lady called Jones, I forget her handle on the group collated some of the recipes here

http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/ejones/ufdi/faq.html

But aside from myself I don't  know of anyone else who joined this website.
You can find some more info here
https://uk.food-drink.indian.narkive.com/

But beware, the latter days of the group it was full of spam and other rubbish with barely a post about curry.

Quote from: livo on May 25, 2022, 10:07 PM
Tempest63 is in there as well as an early bird.

I joined on January 1st 2005 after reading about the site on U.K.food +drink.indian, this was one of the old newsgroups and I was a member there for a number of years.
I was a lot more prolific in my posting back then, especially after the demise of the newsgroups, and UKFDI had attracted some disruptive elements whose sole intent was to put others down as "they knew more" than the combined experience of the group resulting in good people leaving.

I've mentioned this before but any bones we get are frozen until we have enough to go in a slow cooker and then they simmer on low for 48 hours with a tablespoon of cider vinegar in the water to make bone broth. Vegetable's  go in for the last 12 hours. Any longer and they leave a bad taste in the broth.
We use it in curries and anywhere else a stock is needed. It gives a better taste result and bone broth is reputed to be good for IBD, which I have suffered with all my life and which got me onto the bone broth trail.
Our bone broth invariably turns out like a solid when cold, thick and gelatinous, but turns back into liquid when heated through.

https://www.ccyanetwork.org/news/bone-broth-natures-multi-vitamin

Never seen this author before but he currently has three cookbooks listed on Amazon U.K.
The compendium is in hard back and is both the paperbacks brought together under one cover.

The reviews seem quite encouraging. Does anyone know if he is a member here or on one of the other BIR websites?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3ARichard+Sayce

Thanks Phil for your kind words regarding mum.
As for turning out so many dishes most are precooked and just require heating through, or a 20 to 30 minute simmer to finish off. I use the cast iron Le Creuset Balti pans to finish them off and then serve in the same to retain heat. But I had to admit defeat this time and the stir fried veg never got cooked.

We had our latest Curryfest last night.
My Youngest daughter and her partner, his dad and stepmom, my ex-wife, my current wife and me.
started with
baked onion bhaji,
pea and potato cakes,
Dishoom's spicy lamb chops
Kricket's Keralan fried chicken

Mains consisted of
pig cheek Vindaloo,
mutton Rogan Josh,
Pakistani beef kofta,
chicken in black pepper,
paneer jalfrezi,
spicy roasted fish,

Sides were
oven roast aloo gobi,
chickpea pilau,
house black dhal.

Desert was vanilla and cardamom rhubarb panna cotta.

Daughter and Partner announced they are expecting their second child in November which lifted the evening as we lost my Mum on the 22nd March

Quote from: Peripatetic Phil on March 12, 2022, 12:12 PM
Via Amazon, circa £250.  Nisbets are remaindering them for circa £130 + VAT.
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** Phil.

I hope I didn't sound like I was whinging when comparing the two, considering it was a gift.

T63