The Low-FODMAP Diet for Beginners: A 7-Day Plan to Beat Bloat and Soothe Your Gut with Recipes for Fast IBS Relief Paperback – October 10, 2017

This book was a fun surprise! I’ve been struggling a lot with stomach issues and my doctor recommended trying the Fodmap diet. I needed some guidance so decided to order this. It had a great list of suggested foods plus recipes. The recipes were easy and delicious! This is for sure a must if you’re new to the Fodmap diet!

This book is so helpful! It's helping me to make a plan to find the foods that are causing pain in my gut! It's got a lot of great information. My brain is happy with the explanations that help me understand it all.

Good quality even though it was bought used!! Excited to try the recipes!!

As others have said, the text is so light it is very difficult to read. I am even using a magnifier ruler with a yellow line built in and it is a challenge. What little I am able to read seems to be just what I am looking for in a FODMAP explanation.If I got it on the Kindle would I be able to read it better? would the text be adjustable to darker and/or larger?AH HA! I got the Kindle version on my big 10 inch Kindle and it is WONDERFUL!! There are great color pictures of the food, the text is nice and black and I can read it without even adjusting the size, so everything fits on one page just like the book. The colors are just right! Maybe this was made for Kindle in the first place. I am very happy now.I highly recommend the Kindle version of this book.

This book as great information for starting an elimination diet and trying to figure out allergies.

TLDR: I would recommend this book, to expand your recipe repertoire (especially for the price) but you can't follow the recommended meal plan to the letter if you're a beginner so it's not what I thought it was and what I needed.The short version is that it has a lot of good info about IBS, FODMAPs and the overall diet and "challenging" process, but my issue is with some of the recipes in the meal plan, which is the main reason why I got this book. I needed some guidance because everything I know how to cook has FODMAP ingredients in it, and I didn't want to have to hunt for recipes and put together a meal plan that worked.The book recommends using the Monash University app to help figure out what is acceptable to eat, because they are the pioneers of the FODMAP diet. However, the book doesn't follow its own advice during the preliminary stages of starting the FODMAP diet, before the "challenge" stage. Theoretically, you're supposed to start with ONLY stuff that is definitely low FODMAP, so that you can cleanse your system out. THEN 3-4 weeks later, you challenge to see what your unique tolerance is for each of the FODMAPs. The problem is that there are several recipes in the book's week 1 starting meal plan that ask you to make something that has ingredients which (according to the Monash app) are only "green" if you have a small amount (cabbage, or unripe bananas), are borderline "yellow" (zucchini) or are actually "red" in the app (blueberries). This makes it really hard to follow the diet if you're a beginner and don't know what your sensitivities are yet and these recipes terrible choices for the beginning stages of the diet, when you're trying to figure it all out. Maybe the author can eat small amounts of blueberries, and cabbage and all that, but not everyone can, so having these in your first week of trying the diet defeats the purpose.Also, a side note, they have ridiculous amounts of food to buy in the first week and it's really expensive obscure stuff. If you're cooking for one, you will end up with tons of food (especially fresh produce that you can't freeze) that you won't be able to eat before it starts to spoil. Then there are tons of leftovers, and you end up eating the same thing for 3 meals. This is exactly what I was trying to avoid because as you may know, high quantities of the same low FODMAP food may shift it from a low to a medium or to high FODMAP if you have "too much" at once. There are also typos in the shopping list. You end up with a couple of items that you will not use and you'll get to some recipes that call for something that wasn't on the list.I really wanted to give the book 5 stars, because it's pretty good in that it has some recipes that are INCREDIBLY helpful and tasty (Fish and Chips, how to make your own ketchup, salad dressing, pesto, etc.). However, some are kind of obvious, and I didn't need a cookbook to tell me how to make (a basic salad, and grilled veggies?? are you serious?). It wasn't too expensive and I would recommend it if you're looking to expand your recipes, especially your sauces, dips, dressings and deserts because the store-bought versions usually have onion and/or garlic in them.

This book has great recipes that are easy and quick to make and the entire family ( husband and two teenage boys) have liked all of the recipes I have made so far! The ingredients are mostly ingredients already on hand and nothing crazy! The quick reference charts are also very useful! Definitely recommend this to anyone new to low fodmap like me!

This book is everything I needed, easy to follow directions with some great recipes. I loved the Greek chicken kebabs, lemon salmon and the Chicken fajitas, even liked the Basmati rice! After 4 weeks, I am ready to reintroduce moderate or high-FEDMAP foods back into my diet.