split peas?

* Gail R *
on 10/15/09 3:15 pm - SF Bay Area, CA
I am hungry for veggies, but timid about trying them. I get full so quickly that I eat mostly protein. So I am looking at the protein content in vegetables and find that a cup of cooked split peas has 16gms of protein. Now I wonder if they will give me terrible gas or upset my stomach? Has anyone eaten split pea soup without consequences??

~Gail R~  high wt.288,  surg wt 274, LW 143, CW 153,  GW164

Crazeru
on 10/15/09 3:53 pm
I eat it and deal with the gas!  I had a can of Andersen's the other night with lots of shredded cheese in it.  It was yummy.

Chris
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happychick
on 10/15/09 4:21 pm - Canada
Go for it!  I made split pea soup with lots of ham about two months out and I took 3 Beano first so no issues.

Cheers,
Mickie



                 

Julie R.
on 10/15/09 10:19 pm - Ludington, MI
I swear, Gail, some split peas give me gas and some don't!  And I love love love split pea soup.
Lentils don't give me gas at all and they are a quick and easy protein source. 
Julie R - Ludington, Michigan
Duodenal Switch 08/09/06 - Dr. Paul Kemmeter, Grand Rapids, Michigan
HW: 282 - 5'4"
SW: 268
GW: 135
CW: 125

Mary_J
on 10/15/09 11:01 pm
I have no problem with homemade split pea soup (I've never had store bought), but I was probably a year out before I had any - so I can't say if they would have given me trouble early out.

5' 5" -  317.5 / 132 / 134  SW / CW / GW


yex1
on 10/15/09 11:37 pm - NJ
last time I was in the hospital they gave me split pea soup and it didn't give me gas. it was actually the best tasting thing they gave me. lol

Kelly

"Nobody trips over mountains.  It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble.  Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. "

"Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.  Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone before."  ~Jacob A. Riis

    
Elizabeth N.
on 10/16/09 12:19 am - Burlington County, NJ
They give me gas, but when I have an appetite for them I just plan when I eat them. Take some Beano before you eat them.
* Gail R *
on 10/16/09 1:07 am - SF Bay Area, CA
I have a big container of homemade SP soup with ham in the freezer that I am going to get out next week. I have to take off for my cabin in the high Sierras. Just got a call from the fire department letting me know that a bear has broken into the cabin and emptied my refrig/freezer and pantry. It pushed the back door in. They have it boarded up for now. It looks like I have my work cut out for me.
I have learned that high altitude blows me up with gas so I don't dare eat anything risky during the trip.

~Gail R~  high wt.288,  surg wt 274, LW 143, CW 153,  GW164

Denise Afflerbach
on 10/16/09 9:37 am - Baden, PA
Take a beano or two and enjoy...it's one of my favorite soups.  I like to melt cheese on top and float garlic croutons.  Also check out Navy Bean soup with ham hocks...yum...but also, take with beano or another anti-gas medication.  I got painfully bloated with them both.  Enjoy!
cujiesmom
on 10/16/09 11:38 am

I ate split pea soup and bean and bacon soup (Campbell;s) early out and didn't have any more than usual gas.  But, I was a big bean eater before surgery.  I was off the beans for about a month and when I went back to them I had gas (but it was "normal" gas not the DS special stinky kind).  I say use the beano and enjoy, beans are good cheap protein.  That's why we ate so many prior to surgery-dried beans, put 'em in the pressure cooker 5 min, throw in some veggies and call it dinner.

I am still throwing frozen peas into everything (chicken salad, egg salad) and doesn't seem to bother. 

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