Cooking for Your Digestive Health
Preparing your own meals can be the best way to avoid food triggers. Knowing exactly what’s in your food is a surefire way to avoid ingredients that disagree with your digestive system.
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Gut-Friendly Recipes
Our selection of gut-friendly recipes helps you reduce stress around meal choices and enjoy cooking! Browse our recipes and discover a world of food that’s right for your dietary needs and personal tastes.
Gut-Friendly Recipe: Quinoa-Pistachio Stuffed Artichokes
Quinoa-Pistachio Stuffed Artichokes Artichokes, are actually the large flower of a plant in the thistle family, and are a fun and hearty vegetable...
Gut-Friendly Recipe: Midwinter Soup
Midwinter Soup Vegan/Gluten-Free/Plant-based “When patients with active inflammatory bowel disease start eliminating food, fiber is the first thing...
Gut-Friendly Recipe: Pureed Parsnips with Olive Oil and Fresh Herbs
This winter, don’t overlook parsnips—a sweet, nutty root vegetable with a flavor similar to a cross between a carrot and potato. Parsnips become...
Gut-Healthy Recipe: Weeknight Ramp and Wonton Soup
Spring may be right around the corner, but it may not always feel like it. This recipe elevates an easy weeknight soup to a seasonal favorite...
Gut-Healthy Recipe: Turmeric Roasted Cauliflower with Almonds and Apricots
Spring celebrations call for beautiful meals featuring bright colors and flavors of the season. Holiday meals must also accommodate the dietary...
Gut-Healthy Recipe: Miso Roasted Sweet Potatoes
While many of us spend March waiting patiently for warm weather, farmer’s markets, and new spring flavors, don’t forget you can still find many...
Gut-Healthy Recipe: Gnocchi with Caramelized Onions and Winter Squash
Every culture has its own version of a dumpling; pasta and delicious filling take many forms. Gnocchi, a popular Italian pasta style, makes use of...
Gut-Healthy Recipe: Arepas with Chicken and Cheese
Naturally gluten-free, arepas are crispy cornmeal cakes that can be customized to suit many dietary needs. Traditionally a part of Colombian and...
Gut-Healthy Recipe: Chocolate Peppermint Pudding—with Tofu
In addition to being a seasonal chocolate-mint treat, this dessert is prepared with a full pound of silken tofu for an almost invisible nutritional...
Gut-Healthy Recipe: Baked Sausage and Sweet Potatoes
While both sweet and regular potatoes are great sources of vitamins and minerals, and often tolerated by those on a variety of diets, sweet potatoes...
Gut-Healthy Recipe: Chai Spiced Apple Oatmeal
With autumn’s chill, warm and comforting, soothing and nutritious food returns to the table. For patients with digestive diseases, some traditional...
Gut-Healthy Recipe: Banana Peanut Butter Smoothie
Banana Peanut Butter Smoothie Back-to-school calls for better breakfasts, and the humble smoothie is a great option for warm early fall days. For...
Gut-Healthy Recipe: Peach Green Tea Lemonade Popsicles
It’s time for peaches, and these delicious fruits are wonderful eaten fresh or added to sweet and savory recipes for juicy note of seasonal flavor....
Gut-Healthy Recipe: Strawberry-Basil Granita
June in Chicago is high strawberry season, and brings multitudes of ways to enjoy these beautiful summertime treats. Courtney Schuchmann, registered...
Gut-Friendly Recipe: Pimentón-Avocado Deviled Eggs
A traditional symbol of life—and rejuvenation, eggs are incorporated into many spring festivals and traditions. This recipe is an easy way to...
Crispy Oven-fried Potatoes
Crispy Oven-fried Potatoes The world’s fourth largest food crop, potatoes contain many important vitamins and nutrients, including vitamin C, B6,...
Very Veggie Smoothie
Very Veggie Smoothie For patients with IBD, particularly those with symptoms or in the midst of a flare, finding easy and healthy ways to eat fruits...
Your Choice Soup
Your Choice Soup In January, many people recommit to eating better and making healthier choices for the new year. Dietitian Courtney Schuchmann...
Super Simple Butternut Squash
From Courtney Schuchmann, MS, RD, LDN - University of Chicago Medicine Registered Dietitian The weather is getting cooler, which means many of us...
Roasted Pumpkin and Pear Grain Salad
October might call for cozying up with pumpkin spice lattes and muffins, but the sugar and fat (and cream cheese frosting!) can offset the...
Adaptable Holiday Recipes by Courtney Schuchmann
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Autumn Gut Health: Meatless Chili, by Courtney Schuchmann
Just in time for the change of seasons! University of Chicago nutritionist Courtney Schuchmann developed this vegan and vegetarian-friendly chili...
Gut Health: Crohn’s Disease Ultimate Snack Guide
We love our snacks. Unfortunately, not all snacks are your friends -- especially when you have GI issues. Wanting to avoid flare-ups can make...
Gut Health: Low-Carb Cauliflower Shepherd’s Pie, by Courtney Schuchmann
St. Patrick’s Day means a lot of booze and heavy foods. It’s easy to lose track of gut-healthy foods while celebrating this festive holiday. That’s...