Roasting bone-in chicken thighs on whatever veggies you can eat (carrots?) also would be very tasty. I do that basically once a week in cooler months. You can add dried herbs for more flavor if that would work for you.

During shelter-in-place (i.e., back when the Math Greek was here and I hadn't transitioned to a vegetarian kitchen), one of my favorite easy meals was getting fresh kielbasa at the Ferry Building market and doing this with various root vegetables.

A favorite meal when I was growing up was pork chops cooked with cabbage and potatoes and sometimes apples.

Also, this, but without the potatoes. Can confirm tastiness without potatoes. However, you'd want to render the pork first and get at least some of the fat out of the pan or it would be too fatty for you I think. Also, note that cabbage is a cruciferous vegetable so maybe that is why people suggest cabbage juice instead.

From what I've been reading a super strict diet isn't always necessary and people can figure out their triggers and then avoid them.

This is a great book for figuring out which FODMAP categories are issues for you and also providing recipes for the initial restriction and then reintegration phases. (That is not why I got it from the library, but strangely enough it made me realize why I have never liked certain nuts--every single one I tend not to eat is a FODMAP nut).

I have no idea what FODMAP means. Maybe I should learn. ETA my library does not have that book but I have been requesting things like mad and it seems like they then get them more often than I expected, so I'll try that with this....

Man, got purple first in Connections but failed on the green and yellow.

Man, got purple first in Connections but failed on the green and yellow.

Exact same here. I had been doing so well before today too. Thought I was doing great getting purple and blue right away. Then bombed.

I got purple first, too. How funny.

I did too, then completely failed on the other ones.

I got the others today. I failed one mightily last week, though.

Also got purple first today.

I have no idea what FODMAP means.

The F is for fermentable and then each other letter is a different category of short-chain carb (sugar). And then there are subcategories (e.g., lactose is under the disaccharides umbrella). Apparently many (most?) people actually only have problems with one or two of the categories or subcategories and this book helps you figure out which ones since it is not intuitive at all which foods might fall in which categories (and there are a lot of bad lists out there). Like, most nuts are low FODMAP but cashews and pistachios are high while almonds are only high if eaten in certain quantities.

Maybe I should learn. ETA my library does not have that book but I have been requesting things like mad and it seems like they then get them more often than I expected, so I'll try that with this....

I mean, if you like rabbit holes... sure. I only got the book because the author is a guest on one of the nutrition podcasts I listen to. But it was sort of fascinating in that, while I didn't have major issues to resolve, and didn't do the elimination part at all, I did end up thinking it explained minor issues I had noticed over the years.

Also got purple first today.

It simply delights me that so many of us saw purple first today.

I am endlessly interested in how my body reacts to what I eat. The nut allergy especially because the things I know are problems are not related and not technically nuts (I don't think) so figuring out what's ok and what's not is just a lot of who even knows? Do I feel like taking chances or playing it safe?