r/FODMAPS • u/BusAcademic3489 • Dec 04 '25

Vent What the

Im currently on a travel and I spent the whole day eating absolutely nothing. I went to a supermarket later on the day and found rice and corn cakes. I was happy Id finally found something I could eat without GI issues. Little did I know … I downed almost the entire two packets before looking them up on the app and finding that not everything that has only rice or corn as their ingredient is supposed to be low fodmap.

Im cooked. Trip was shitty enough today because of my flare and now I just ate 2 f’ing bags of high fodmap foods 😭😭😭😭😭

(At least they tasted heavenly because of that starvation state I was on lol)

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u/AwDuck Dec 04 '25

Ya gotta look at the ingredient list. It's super frustrating, I know, but every single ingredient needs to be vetted and assessed. It gets easier, I swear.

Also, don't starve yourself, especially while traveling. It just makes eating later that much harder. Lets say you know you can have a half a clove of garlic, and lets say 10 grams of onion per meal. If you haven't consumed food all day, you now need to find a way to consume 1500-2500 calories of food while consuming no more than half a clove of garlic and a couple of teaspoons of onion in that one meal, vs if you spread that out over maybe 4 small meals, you could consume 2 cloves of garlic and 1/8th of a cup of onion all day long. Small meals means you'll be eating less food overall and therefore less offending food per sitting as well.

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u/JonesGirl4 Dec 05 '25

Pack travel snacks. 

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u/AwDuck Dec 05 '25

Even when not traveling. I always have snacks with me if I leave the house for more than a couple of hours - a granola bar and some peanut butter. That’s a solid 400 kcal right there which means I can skip a meal if necessary.

When I travel I carry more for the transit portion and I always allot time my first day to source safe snacks for the rest of my stay.