Lunch ideas

Digestive health
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Hello all,

I haven't been on for a while and still dealing with this horrible reflux disease. I tried to eat a tomato on my sandwich today and I'm feeling it now. I like my sandwiches but kind of boring plain. Any ideas for a reflux sufferer for lunch? Or something I can have with my snadwich as a side?

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Tomatoes are one of the worse things to eat with reflux, I've been suffering 15 years with it. They are full of acid. Try egg mayo that's what I eat a lot of x

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For years I avoided tomatoe sauce and similar foods like pizza.  Now I can eat anything I want.  See my discussion, perhaps it will help you.

https://patient.info/forums/discuss/how-i-cured-my-acid-reflux-naturally--402930

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You have to find out which foods trigger your reflux or you do what I do and take a PPI every day and I can eat most foods and then the reflux is not a problem. Why has your dr not put you on a PPI?

if you are worried about the side effects my response is do you drive a car? If so, they kill people daily, PPI don't kill people. Cars are very,very dangerous but we don't seem to worry about them. 

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Yes I take PPI's everyday to. Never had a side effect with them x

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Hello dane, i'm also struggling with this!

I've been living on ham sandwiches or roast pork sandwiches for over a week now. I only eat pork and beef so makes it more difficult.

I did make some rice last week that could be reheated at work though. I steamed some with a veg stock cube, teaspoon of tumeric and half teaspoon of cumin and when cooked added some garden peas that i had cooked and some sweetcorn. Sounds really plain but it was actually nice!

Veg soup is a good one but maybe for when it is colder. I roast butternut squash, carrot, parsnip and about a thumb size piece of ginger chopped up in the oven with some foil over the top for about an hour. Mash it up a bit when cooked and then added to a pan with some water in and a veg stock cube and red lentils. Cook until the lentils are done and it's a hearty chunky soup. I used ot add garlic but i am not having it at the moment until i can get my acid under control.

Any more ideas? Might try the egg mayo suggested

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Omg tomatos are the worst they are very acidic.. i know how you feel though i have acid reflux as well and there's a lot of food we can't have so annoying.. im struggling so much with what to eat

i need ideas as well

Hopefully someone can help

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Yes, I have taken PPI for 2 years but sometimes I do have flare ups. I do feel like these meds have saved my life as I can now eat again. However, last night I woke up with chest pains again. I don't get the burning feeling just the chest pains (indigestion feeling). Its so painful. 

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Try Mayo with less than 2g of fat, honey mustard also ok (if it doesnt trigger symptoms for you). I usually hv turkey sandwich with lettuce spinach mayo. It doesnt taste great but thats the better option for GERD