This is a mentality I’ve woven through The Gut Friendly Cookbook by using lots of fresh veggies and herbs to create good simple food for the home cook. Don’t you think this is the best name for a low FODMAP blog, I wish I would have come up with it 🙂 ). The meals would even be great your family so you don't need to prepare a different meal for other members of the family. I ask myself all the tough questions… these recipes are like my babies and I try to love them all equally!

Even if you don’t have any allergies this book will still provide you with easy and delicious recipes so make sure you get a copy! These chapters show the vast experience and knowledge Dédé has for food science and is also shown in the amazing recipes provided. She has included 100 tempting yet manageable recipes for breakfast bowls, superfood smoothies, meaty and meat-free mains and much more! In this book I'll explain how FODMAP friendly living works, and share my favourite recipes with you.Hooray - a user-friendly low-FODMAP cookbook designed to help us keep our gut calm and beat bloating once and for all! The sticky ribs sauce makes a great sauce for a leftover pork stir fry and I love the peanut dipping sauce for anything chicken. I couldn’t have done it without accredited practising dietitian, Joanna Baker from Everyday Nutrition who was our expert FODMAP reviewer, or Allergy New Zealand who have endorsed the cookbook as suitable for those with food allergies.

There is some great information on how to succeed in the kitchen showing how to harness the power of various seasonings and ingredients that can help take a bland recipe to making it the meal of the week that your family can't wait to get their teeth into. As well as containing more than 50 nourishing recipes, this book also includes a grocery list and menu plan, making putting the diet into practice easy. Alongside Alana Scott's quirky and relatable writing is the in-depth medical expertise of certified, practising dietitian Joanna Baker. Theres also some fantastic tips throughout the book and some very useful information at the front on ‘ What to avoid’, ‘What to limit’ and ‘Eating out’. If your doctor thinks the FODMAP diet is right for you then you follow it strictly for 2 to 6 weeks with the help of a dietitian, and then test each of the FODMAP groupsto see which ones are causing issues.I cannot tell you the number of recipes I have tried from all different resources that make like cardboard seem like a fancy feast.