IBS - cauliflower cheese trigger?

Cauliflower and eggs are a big no no for my IBS !

Thanks. IBS affects us all differently, doesn’t it? Eggs are fine for me, though I limit cauliflower.

My tummy is often upset after eating cheese sauce. I usually use Red Leicester which is quite oily when melted

Yes I am thinking it must be the cheese sauce. I use mature cheddar for flavour and a Red Leicester for colour.

I'm not diagnosed with ibs (although certain "issues" suggest I may have it) but cooked cheese absolutely plays up my hiatus hernia.

I get terrible indigestion, as much as I wish it wasn't so.

I keep well away from cauliflower. I do love it but after eating it I feel like my tummy is going to explode.

Cauliflower is a notorious naughty but nice veg. There are a lot of items I cannot eat without problems, they either give me wind or indigestion. When I was younger I used to eat anything, apparently if you start being selective of what you eat this is what happens.

I can't believe everyone is highlighting my supper.....which we are just about to eat!

No IBS here but definitely a tum which reacts to stress or tension, so I try to be careful. I do have a hiatus hernia which I was told is "mechanical" - i.e. it's something that I need to keep in control by weight watching. If I'm overweight, the problem is quite unpleasant, not overweight and when the pressure is off, I don't suffer any pain from it.

Have you tried Cauliflower cheese in a small quantity and without all the other foods with it? Do you still have the same problem? I'd guess that cheese in a cheese sauce is quite hard to digest for most people, also with cauli, eggs, and potatoes. If you're able to eat these things individually without any reaction, then it's possible that the combination just doesn't work for you.

Our Cauliflower cheese is our own combination. It's cooked and drained for this dish, I make my own cheese sauce with a French 'pretend' grated Cheddar, I use Penne pasta instead of macaroni, and I cook onions and bacon bits together but making sure that the onions are well caramelised because otherwise they disagree with me. The dish is then made up in layers, the top layer being cauli so that I don't scorch the penne, I mix some cream and nutmeg into the cheese sauce which is then put on top. It's then baked in the oven.
In the spirit of some Easter hospitality, I am sending you a trial taste for this evening. Good luck.

Sound delicious, Grandmafrench. I hope you enjoyed it and did not have any ill effects.

“Every week now without fail I get diarrhoea within an hour of eating cauliflower cheese.” —> “cauli [...] is one of my triggers”

I think the OP answered her own query.

It was really good, Cabbie - and I'm upright and able to tell the tale....no ill effects. You make sure you take care of your tum; food allergies or intolerances are a real drag and when you have a bad stomach, you can generally feel unwell all over. Need to stay safe and strong in these terrible times.

Not quite, geekesse. Cauli as a veg does not give me diarrhoea, just makes me a bit bloated. It has to be the sauce. Or maybe just cooked cheese.

Are you ok with dairy products and flour? Do you put mustard in the cheese sauce? DD has severe IBS and that meal would have her in the loo for days - so many things there that trigger her’s.