college food not great for IC diet

[chsch-student]

I have recently been diagnosed with IC. I am a college student and the food here is not exactly nutritious. We do not have a place that we can buy food that we can prepare ourselves, and most of the prepared food has soy in it (I cannot have any soy because I am also on thyroid medication).

Does anyone have any suggestions about how to follow the diet while staying at school?

I have my own frig and I try to buy food on the weekends and make it through the week but that is proving to be more difficult than I thought because the kitchens in the dorms have weird hours.

How does everyone else stick to their IC diets while at school?

[alycat]

It does suck to eat at school, I agree. Especially since the cafeteria can never be exact about what goes into something (as evidenced by the cafeteria nearly killing one of my friends who is deathly allergic to onions by forgetting to list onion powder in one of their rolls). After several bad flares, I started to learn

Try to get things that have been the least processed, and are as close to their natural state as possible. I used to eat hardboiled eggs every day for lunch when I was there all day, because it was one of the only things that didn't have unknowns in it.

Also, try buying a big bag of rice. It's cheap and easy to cook, and one of the gentlest things you can eat (I've subsisted on the stuff a few times during bad flares).

[ICNDonna]

Most schools have an office to assist people with disabilities. I suggest you talk with them to see if arrangements can be made to help you stay within your diet.

Sending warm hugs,
Donna