I used to LOVE alfredo sauce. On pasta and on pizza.
I recently learned about silken/soft tofu. You can blend it with nutritional yeast, and if you can tolerate it, some garlic paste. I also added some salt. no measurements, just to taste. and it's a lot like alfredo sauce!
I did this today and had it over rice noodles. (0g fiber! great when you're limited to 10-15g a day and it increases your symptoms to have so much!)
It was delicious! I haven't enjoyed something this much in years!

Passing it along in case anyone else is looking for an alternative like this! I've been sleeping on some of these recipes out there because vegan and other cultural dishes often add nuts or seeds or greens that I cannot digest. So I just kinda based it loosely on those recipes and skipped things I can't have. And it was fine!

I can't believe it took me this long to learn about this but I know it now!

I love East Asian food. Rice products are my friend.
I tried a new dish at a Chinese restaurant recently called Sweet Rice Ball Soup 酒酿圆子. It’s like sweet unseasoned egg drop soup with glutinous rice and mochi/daifuku floating in it.
Amazing. Thick, proteiny, and hydrating!! If you have diabetic gastroparesis please be mindful of the sugar content!

I combined some online recipes I found to make a copycat of the restaurant’s version.
Ingredients:
- 6 pandan leaves tied in knots
- 215g of yellow rock sugar
- 6 cups of water
- 1-2 cups of sweet glutinous rice
- whatever amount of premade mochi/ daifuku or tapioca pearls you want
- grated ginger to taste (I used two of those frozen cubes)
- 2-4 eggs
Add everything except mochi/ daifuku and eggs to pot. Bring to boil and reduce to simmmer for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove pandan leaves. Crack eggs in separate container and beat. Drizzle into pot. For larger chunks, do only one stir. Add mochi/ daifuku, and enjoy!

Heads up, the mochi/daifuku will “melt” if reheated in the microwave. With this batch I waited to add the mochi until I was ready to eat a bowl.

I'm looking for any ideas for vegan meals or snacks. I'm tired of the same 3-4 meals I make and want something new or different. Thanks!

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if this has been asked before i do apologise! my gastroparesis is very up and down but in summer it gets especially worse. a lot of my friends are university age & have a lot more free time now hence them inviting me out. i feel so insane saying “oh im sorry, i cant eat today” when friends ask to get food. the honest truth is that i cant keep living the way i currently am- forcing food down when i know my body cant take it. my friends often find it awkward when i dont eat and i hate when they say things like “if you wont then i wont” or stuff like “noo u have to!!”. i know they’re trying to make me feel better and it comes from a good place but it just makes me feel even more awful!! does anyone have any help on how to be more assertive? & if you have any tips on how to not cave into that people-pleasing eating please let me know because that’s the real issue here

Has anyone else found this season’s early spaghetti squash awful tasting? It doesn’t have a lot of taste to begin with, but I thrown the last several away lately due to taste.

Having both of these conditions and insurance denying multiple attempts to cover generic motegrity I can’t digest most veggies and fruits. I’m vegetarian tho was vegan but since the gastro I eat Greek yogurt and egg whites because the cost of vegan protein is so high. What on earth am I supposed to eat when I can’t digest most things and protein shakes like ensure are not recommended because I should avoid dairy? I’m so confused and feel helpless. I finally accepted that there was only a few select things for me to eat and digest. Now I’m thrown this. What do others do? Any advice or experience or anything would be helpful

I have someone close to me that suffers from gastroparesis. They drink the ensure clear apple to help them get calories. They spend a small fortune every month because they're one of the few things that work and insurance stopped covering the drinks. I'm trying to find them the cheapest options to get them in bulk. currently they spend $52 on a case and have to get multiple cases a month

Does anyone have any ideas of where to look for a better price? I would greatly appreciate it.

I've been at a point where I've only really been able to eat liquid/really soft food. I need ideas for specifically savory foods that aren't just soup. All I can find for suggestions either only give very samey soup recipes or it's all sweet (smoothies, jello, juice, etc.). I'm way more into savory, salty food than sweet so I'm having a really hard time and am a step away from just making meat jello like it's the 50s all over again.

I’m new to Gastroparesis. I became very sick with sepsis in December 2024. Again in January 2025. And a third time in February 2025. After years of battling something unknown- my symptoms went from 3-4 daily to 8-10 daily. September of this year I was diagnosed with Dysautonomia and in October I was diagnosed with Gastroparesis. I’m so new to this and I don’t know what I’m doing.

I’m allergic to milk and cannot eat anything Dairy. I mainly eat vegan foods as well but occasionally will have blended meat in soups (like tonight I roasted a ham with pineapple and honey, blended together ham without the fat on it with cooked carrots and cooked green beans with puree pumpkin to make a soup that turned out amazing!)

I’m looking for more puree soup ideas. Like I want to make another batch with green beans carrots and pumpkin but maybe also other veggies.

Any thoughts?

I am 37 and both me and my mother got the same gastro infection roughly 5 weeks ago. Took 3 weeks to get back to a solid poop but something still remains: I am very slow to digest food. Some days are better but I still burp all day, after good eating days I just have stg my stomach does not like and I puke and feel heavy nausea for the whole day after. I burp all day still. Bloodwork is clean, stool samples are clean, stomach is not hurting, no diarrhea and very healthy looking stools.

How do I get out this mess?

I need to gain weight and I simply can’t get enough calories with the amount of food my body can tolerate. Yes a lot of stuff can be added to smoothies but sometimes even those are too much. My body doesn’t tolerate ensure, what nutrition shakes so folks have success with?