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Eating yummy broccoli. No one at the food bank wanted their broccoli so I got 7 heads of broccoli. People at the food bank are such picky eaters I swear.
Broccoli is so good!!
It is so good, and there’s basically no way to do it wrong. You can bake it, you can sauté it, you can steam it, you can boil it, it’s all gonna come out nice and delicious.
You can even make soup out of it, and it tastes so delicious
Nice haul, broccoli is probably 30% of my diet and makes any meal better
I love broccoli but more than a handful and I get gastric disturbances.
Oh no :(
A handful is usually all you need! I don’t normally eat broccoli raw, but when I do I definitely notice a difference. Same with cauliflower; but when I cook it first it doesn’t mess with my stomach as much. I think it removes some of the things that can cause distress, if I’m remembering correctly. A lot of that depends on the individual, though. Sometimes our bodies just don’t like what we try to feed them, especially when meds and illnesses come into play.
The problem is I’ve been diagnosed with a folate deficiency and the folic acid supplements aggravate my bladder terribly. I thought I would get extra folate by eating extra veg but the gastric symptoms it gives me are too bad. My tingling and pins and needles are getting worse and I’m really scared about it because it seems there’s nothing i can do, and the GP is so useless, she just tells me to take the folic acid anyway.
Could it be that the folate is doing something to the fibroids? And out of curiosity (don’t answer if you don’t want to share) what type of disturbances do you experience?
I’ve had IBS for ages, although it was quite recent that I realised that a lot of vegetables were aggravating it. Wind and loose stools being the main symptoms of that, and caused by many different veggies. And the veggies that don’t trigger the IBS trigger migraines and bladder irritation. The only ones I can eat without any bother are potatoes, carrots and spinach, although apparently spinach can cause kidney stones so I’m hesitant to eat it more than twice a week. It’s just an awful way to live, I would love to be vegan and eat lots of vegetables, I wanted to do Dr Joel Fuhrman’s Eat to Live diet but it’s out of the question.
I don’t think the folate is doing anything to the fibroids, according to google, unmetabolised folic acid gets into your bladder and irritates it, so that’s probably the issue with that.
This is so horrible, especially with the veggies that you want to eat
Well except desserts.