Sorry if this has been asked before but can anyone say if during the first phase of ‘rebooting your biome’ you are allowed oats?
Thank you
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Depends on your detailed food and symptom diary, form of oats purchased, how you prepare them, how often you include them, portion size.
IF your food diary suggests a potential problem with related grains (wheat/ barley/ rye), OR you currently over-emphasise oats instead of a *really wide variety* of plants, OR you have processed oats (inc. porridge/ instant/ quick cook), you should limit or avoid oats in phase one.
There is the option of including a small amount of rolled oats in the CG nutty cinnamon granola (p.198). But note the granola only features once in the example meal planner (p.261).
HTH!
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Thank you for taking the time to reply. I have the meal planner but I was going to only eat the meals that I really like and leave out the ones I am less fond of so probably would eat the granola a couple of times a week. I made the nutty granola and really love it, in fact I’ve been making it now for over a month and I have already noticed a difference in my gut and my weight 🙂 I’m not embarking on this because I really want to lose weight but because I know that some foods I eat don’t agree with me and I’d like to find out what.
I also have some bad habits – wine, potatoes, pasta, rice and sweet snacks which I have been decreasing but need to stop.
I think I can manage to last for 2-3 weeks before introducing different food groups – I am looking forward to it in a way. Taking control it’s a good feeling.