An important way to fight gastritis is a therapeutic diet. A gentle menu will help relieve the stomach and avoid irritation of the walls. The exact list of foods that can and cannot be eaten depends on the nature of the disease and the features of its course.
How do I eat with gastric gastritis?
If the acidity of the gastric juice is low, a diet against gastritis is relevant, which excludes mechanical irritation of the diseased mucous membrane and stimulates secretion. It is referred to as table number 2.
There are also desserts on the diet table for a sick stomach. The list of allowed sweets includes: jams, marshmallows, jellies, soufflés, puddings, unleavened cookies. If you tolerate it, you can indulge in condensed milk or a scoop of homemade ice cream.
What should be excluded from the diet in the case of gastritis?
- excess fat - fried food, rich broth, lard, smoked meat;
- coarse fiber - raw vegetables, legumes, bran, nuts;
- hot spices - mustard, ketchup, horseradish, pepper, garlic and onions;
- high salt content - sausages, canned food, homemade products, marinades;
- Baked goods - pastries, puff pastry, freshly made bread.
Due to the difficult digestion, you cannot eat fatty meat and fish, some cereals (millet, corn, barley, pearl barley).
Soda, kvass, alcohol, strong tea and coffee are harmful from drinks to a sick stomach. Hard-boiled eggs are prohibited for any type of gastritis.
In the case of dairy products, it is not recommended to eat yogurt, kefir or whey if they have a high acid content. A small amount of sour cream and heavy cream is used to season dishes. Spicy and salty cheeses are excluded from the menu.
What to eat during an exacerbation of gastritis
In acute gastritis, fasting is often done on the first day, but after 12 to 24 hours one should not refuse to eat. In the first week, light liquid foods are mainly consumed: pureed vegetable soups, slimy porridge in water (oatmeal, rice).
For 3-4 days of diet with exacerbation of gastritis, you can choose the following menu:
- jelly;
- steamed omelette;
- mashed potatoes;
- Quark soufflé.
When things get lighter and severe stomach upsets go away, you can have steamed meatballs and schnitzel, white bread crackers, cooked pieces of lean meat and fish, and biscuits. After about 2 weeks, meals are organized according to the principle of diet No. 1 or No. 2.
Approximate menu for the day
- First breakfast: 1 soft-boiled chicken egg or 3-4 quail eggs, a serving of oatmeal (if tolerated, you can eat with raisins), oiled toast, a cup of tea with 1-2 tablespoons of cream.
- Second breakfast: several biscuits, a glass of thick apple jelly.
- Lunch: 1 bowl of soup with vegetables, for the second - fish cakes with rice porridge as a side dish, dried fruit compote.
- Afternoon snack: baked apples filled with cottage cheese, a cup of cocoa.
- Dinner: 2 Greeks with minced meat (steamed), mashed potatoes, a slice of dried bread, tea with a slice of lemon.
- Before going to bed: a cup of not cold kefir (replace with warm milk for gastritis with increased stomach acid).
The diet for gastric gastritis is roughly based on this menu. However, the absence of unpleasant symptoms is checked individually.
Complaints or feelings of heaviness after eating cannot be ignored. It is worth reducing portions, revising the diet or recipes for preparing individual dishes.
Menu for gastritis for a week
For a gastritis diet, recipes with gentle processing of food are selected. Meat, fish and vegetable dishes are cooked and steamed. Baking is allowed, but no hard crust. Most likely, such a diet will last more than a week. The diet relieves the stomach and helps it to recover.
Monday:
- 1 breakfast: milk buckwheat porridge, poached egg on a slice of yesterday's white bread, a portion of warm cocoa.
- 2 breakfasts: 2-3 steamed cheesecakes, a cup of fruit compote.
- Lunch: a plate of potato soup, 2 pieces of chicken and carrot puree, a glass of weak tea.
- Afternoon snack: rose hip boil with dry biscuits.
- Dinner: fish meatballs (steamed), garnished with a portion of rice porridge, a slice of toasted bread, non-sour jelly.
- At night: a cup of kefir or milk.
Tuesday:
- 1 breakfast: 150 g of pureed sweet cottage cheese, a plate of oat flakes in milk, tea with a lemon wedge.
- 2 breakfast: a piece of omelette, a cup of cocoa.
- Lunch: a portion of chicken soup with noodles, zucchini with sour cream, 1-2 slices of yesterday's bread, homemade fruit jelly.
- Afternoon snack: milk jelly, 3-4 croutons.
- Dinner: Greeks with minced meat (steam), 100 g carrot puree, a glass of weak tea.
- For the night: a vitamin broth made from wild rose, several unleavened biscuits.
Wednesday:
- 1 breakfast: boiled soft-boiled egg, a good portion of semolina, toast with butter and a slice of cheese (mild and unsalted), tea with milk.
- 2 Breakfast: Baked apple (choose sweet varieties for gastritis with high acidity), a cup of cocoa.
- Lunch: rice soup, 2 steamed fish cakes, a slice of dried white bread, rose hip jelly.
- Afternoon snack: zucchini and carrot casserole (cover in the oven with foil to prevent frying).
- Dinner: a small serving of mashed potatoes, steamed chicken soufflé (you can use the recipe to cook in a slow cooker).
- For the night: a glass of kefir or milk.
Thursday:
- 1 breakfast: steamed omelette, milk porridge with noodles, a portion of cocoa.
- 2nd breakfast: buckwheat jelly.
- Lunch: soup with hake slices, zucchini in sour cream, 3 croutons.
- Afternoon snack: Quark soufflé, fruit compote.
- Dinner: risotto with pumpkin and chicken, 2 slices of dried white bread, fruit jelly, a cup of weak tea.
- At night: boiling rose hips.
Friday:
- 1 breakfast: oat milk porridge, boiled soft-boiled egg, 2 toasts with butter, tea with milk.
- 2nd breakfast: Baked apple with cottage cheese, cocoa.
- Lunch: potato soup, 200 g steamed beef soufflé (can be eaten with white sauce), carrot puree, dried fruit compote.
- Afternoon snack: rose hip jelly, some cookies.
- Dinner: steamed zander dumplings, rice porridge, fruit jelly.
- For the night: a glass of kefir.
Saturday:
- 1 breakfast: a plate of milk porridge with buckwheat, a portion of jellied tongue, toast, a cup of tea with cream.
- 2nd breakfast: 150-200 g sweet cottage cheese puree, kefir.
- Lunch: vegetable soup, 2 fish cakes with boiled rice, a slice of dried white bread, fruit jelly.
- Afternoon snack: cocoa, steamed omelette.
- Dinner: 200 g potato casserole with minced meat, beet salad with vegetable oil, berry jelly (for gastritis with a high acid content, replace with milk, for example).
- For the night: a cup of rose hip broth, 3 crackers.
Sunday:
- 1 breakfast: semolina, poached egg, toast, cocoa.
- 2 breakfast: a serving of jellied fish.
- Lunch: pumpkin puree soup, meatballs and mashed potatoes, a slice of toasted bread, compote.
- Afternoon snack: rose hip broth and a few crackers.
- dinner: pasta with cottage cheese (you can eat with jam), tea with cream, a couple of dry cookies.
- For the night: a glass of non-sour kefir.
The above is an approximate weekly menu for people with stomach infections. Any diet against gastritis should be agreed with the treating gastroenterologist. Take into account the individual intolerance to certain products, allergic reactions of the patient and other diseases in the history.
Several diet recipes
Steamed fish chops.
For gastritis, lean fish are used in nutritional recipes. It is useful to eat hake, cod, and pollock at least 2-3 times a week. You can buy ready-made fillets. Otherwise, you will have to cut the fish carcass.
- 200 g fish fillets;
- 50 g white bread pulp;
- 3 tablespoons of milk;
- 1 egg white;
- 15 g butter;
- Salt to a minimum.
Stir the pulp soaked in milk into the fish fillet. Salt the mass, scroll twice in a meat grinder. Add protein to the ground beef and mix well. Form small patties and steam. Pour melted butter over the bowl before serving.
Steamed omelette.
Quail eggs are a great alternative to eggs in an omelette. They are considered to be very useful and also turn out to be more sensitive.
- 10 quail eggs;
- 3-4 tablespoons of milk;
- 2 teaspoons of flour;
- a pinch of salt;
- vegetable oil (for greasing the mold).
Whisk several times and mix the eggs. All other ingredients except oil are added. Many gastritis recipes allow the use of finely chopped herbs so that dill can be thrown in for the smell. The mass is lightly beaten and poured into a greased form, boil on a steam bath.
Baked apples with cottage cheese.
This recipe is also suitable for people with acute gastritis. In the event of illness, especially in the first few weeks, the list of permitted fruits is small. Usually these are baked bananas and apples. The dessert is easy to digest and contains pectin, which improves digestion.
- 3-4 apples;
- 100 g of low-fat cottage cheese;
- 1 egg yolk;
- 2 tablespoons of powdered sugar;
- 10 g starch.
Wash the fruits well and cut off the tips in the form of "lids". Using a small spoon, carefully remove the seeds and some pulp in a circle. The apples must have walls of at least 1 cm.
Mix cottage cheese with powdered sugar, egg yolks and starch in a filling mixer. If available, add vanilla sugar. Firmly fill the apples with the sweet mass and place them in a side dish. In the oven, turned on in advance at 200 degrees, the dessert must be kept for 20-25 minutes. Pouring some water on the bottom of the baking sheet will make the baked apples more tender.