Can you suggest dates that I can stomach (literally)?

Go for a walk in the park with your date and bring a bottle of water, and snacks that you can eat. Maybe even a picnic?

Seems like you can still meet in almost any restaurant, bar, or coffee house. You can drink water, or tea, or juice from the list you provided us. Order an appetizer or not, depending on if you are hungry. I don’t drink coffee or alcohol or caffeine (although on occassion I cheat on caffeine and have a coke) I still go out. I went or years dairy free, that was not very difficult at restaurants. I still order a lot of things no cheese, and I rarely order anything with a cream sauce.

@talljasperman Good call, but it’s cold for picnics and my contribution would be yogurt and white bread :(

How about taking some Beano before eating anything. Try it at home first to see if you can get it to work with most foods.
You may find this web site helpful in remeding your gas problem so your not so gassy or maybe will help alleviate your problem all together.
You may also want to get check and make sure it’s not the beginning symptoms to something else. My husband start with that and then it let to really painful episodes and cramping and the runs and it turned out to be colitus. It can also turn out to be IBS. So if this doesn’t work than I would definetly talk to a doctor about it.
Oh and you may want to try the following.
Anise tea or peppermint tea to relieve gas
Don’t chew quickly. Your teeth are there to help with digestion.
Eat smaller meals more frequently instead of large meals.
Have some probiotics.

@sliceswiththings Wait, lactose intollerant, but you eat yogurt?

@JLeslie I believe yogurt has some probiotic properties to it if the brand of yogurt contains live bacterial cultures. Not all do. Found this on a web site.
Your body naturally contains a population of beneficial bacteria. These helpful microbes inhabit your gastrointestinal system, where they feast on the nondigestible fibers in the food you eat. In return, these bacteria keep your digestive tract healthy by warding off invasion by harmful pathogens that could otherwise colonize your intestines. Probiotics are useful in the management of digestive disorders such as gastric ulcers, lactose intolerance and irritable bowel syndrome, according to the U.S. Probiotics website.

Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/421951-do-all-yogurts-contain-probiotics/#ixzz1mMcbef3m

@Pandora Interesting and confusing, I had very bad lactose intolerance for about 8 years. It started in college. It seemed to get cured when I took mega mega doses of antibiotics, IV and oral, for something unrelated. I also did take some probiotics during the time to counteract the effects of the antibiotics, but those antibiotics were in huge doses, I got a very bad yeast infection, which is never my problem (and when I say bad I mean under microscope and culture, not a subjective assessment by me) and of course some diahrea caused by the antibiotics. Anyway, sometimes during all this antibiotic usage and also probiotics my dairy intollerance went away. No way to know exactly what cured it, but I think it was one of the antibiotics. I still at times take large doses of antibiotics, but not IV doses, for long periods. Last was 3 weeks of cipro followed by over a month of augmentin, and the lactose intollerance never returns.

How about iced herbal tea? Peppermint is very easy on the stomach.

@sliceswiththings That diet is typical for anyone with digestive issues, food allergies or autism. There’s plenty to do.
One, bring your own food & snacks.
Two, bring a good attitude.
Three, go anywhere your temptation for the offerings won’t over power you.

I have been on a strict elimination diet for sometime. It hasn’t stopped me from going to museums, parks, hikes, movies, bookstores, coffee shops, afternoon tea…the list goes on.

There are nice hot beverages made from Barley, Chicory, Malted Barley, Figs, and Extract of Red Beet.
Coffee-like flavor, very low acidity, no artificial ingredients, non-caffeine

Cafix

Postum also makes a nice hot drink.

You can dilute them with rice milk, which I now use in place of dairy. It is white, benign and non-threatening. I occasionally will add cocoa powder to a c. of rice milk for a very nice hot chocolate drink.

I also sometimes put a pinch of cocoa powder into a cup of hot cafix and a splash of almond milk.

Her doctor “prescribed’ no hot beverages @gailcalled. Which I told her on another thread, I’d never heard before for digestive issues, in my life.

I drink hot water with raw honey, myself. I find it to be quite healing when my digestive tract is unwell.

@SpatzieLover: That does seem odd. What’s the medical condition. IBS? Crone’s? Why limit to no hot beverages to the afternoon only. When does afternoon start?

There is also almond milk.

@SpatzieLover @gailcalled maybe the troubles are in the stomach and not the lower GI tract? Hot liquid is only hot for a very short time in the digestive system. If the esophugus or stomach is inflammed, hot liquids might further inflame the area? Just guessing.

@gailcalled I agree. I have no idea how a hot beverage is different than a hot meal or hot soup…

Milks currently found in my home:
-Flax
-Coconut (chocolate, plain & vanilla…tetra packs in large and small, convenient take along serving sizes)
-Almond (again, all three variety)

@JLeslie No. She’s getting over having crypto

This is definitely a lower GI issue (everyone in my local had this at once). Usually after a couple of months digestion goes back to normal on its own.

@SpatzieLover “Usually,” yes. I’m a month shy of a year of it! But thanks for remembering that it’s crypto!

Anyway, this wasn’t meant to be a question about my stomach issues, but really just about activities.

@gailcalled and others: the hot drink thing is to have one complete bowel movement a day. Hot drinks help stimulate a bowel movement (there’s lots on the internet about this), so if you have a lot throughout the day your system might take the cue and give you a few incomplete BMs rather than your big morning one. I am trying just having the morning cup, and it is in fact helping.

@SpatzieLover Oh. Oy. I don’t know much about suggested treatments for that. Not fun.

@sliceswiththings: That makes sense. What can you eat? Is this a condition that will get better or is it chronic? Crypto is a new one for me.

V-8, fruit juices, stuff that you can juice yourself and carry in a thermos?

What would be a typical day’s meals?