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If you have been diagnosed with gastroparesis or functional dyspepsia, you know how painful it can be to eat vegetables. Here are two gastroparesis diet tips to help you safely add more vegetables (and more nutrition) to your gastroparesis diet.
Tip #1 Make your own vegetable purees
If you have been diagnosed with gastroparesis, you may have been advised to eat small amounts of baby food for nutrition that is easy to tolerate and digest. However, preparing your own baby food tastes better, is more varied and nutritious. You can start by investing in a powerful blender, like the Vitamix blender, to make your own vegetable purees. You’ll also want to invest in a fine mesh strainer and a rubber spatula to strain purees. It is important to invest in a powerful blender because a powerful blender will make your vegetable purees silky smooth and easier to digest.
Be sure to peel vegetables with stringy skins like sweet potatoes. Then simply boil or steam (most of the nutrients are preserved by steaming) the vegetables until tender. Let them cool, then blend them in a powerful blender, like a Vitamix, until creamy and smooth with a little of the cooking water to reach your desired consistency. Add more or less cooking water as you think it will be easier to digest. Then pour the puree through a fine mesh strainer using a rubber spatula to speed up the straining process.
You can add a little lemon juice (if it doesn’t upset your stomach) and sea salt to add a bit of flavor. Put your vegetable purees in glass containers with lids and they should last in the fridge for about 3-5 days. If you want to freeze your vegetable purees, you can pour the purees into an ice cube tray that you can defrost later to make individual servings.
You can use 1 type of vegetable, such as well cooked and peeled summer squash, peeled broccoli, peeled carrots, peeled asparagus, stemless mushrooms, peeled sweet potatoes, or a combination of vegetables. Use your discernment to choose which vegetables will be the easiest for you to digest.
Tip 2 # Squeeze your vegetables
Investing in a good juicer can help you reap the benefits of consuming raw fruits and vegetables without altering your gastroparesis symptoms.
You’ll still want to invest in a fine mesh strainer to strain your juice and remove any remaining fiber.
Some vegetables that are good for juicing are cucumber, celery, carrots, and beets. Wash and peel the vegetables and pass them through a juicer. I recommend the Omega 4000 juicer for this purpose. Remember to drink your juice slowly and in small amounts to make sure you can tolerate it well.
I hope these two tips help you add more vegetables to your gastroparesis diet, and if you’re interested in the kitchen appliances I mentioned in the article, check out the resources below: