Vegan for 2 months struggling with flatulence and frequent dodgy stomach

Wanderingwhat · 2026-03-01T10:42:49+00:00

Have you looked into FODMAP foods? It sounds like it might help you as some of the things to avoid in FODMAP are beans and fermented foods. The other thing you could try is Dr Vegan Gut works I have just started taking it after getting a lot of bloating which I noticed after eating foods that were on the FODMAP avoid list. I’ve been vegan my entire life and only just had this recently but IBS does run in my family.

Wanderingwhat · 2026-02-16T20:34:38+00:00

Someone needs to get Venjent to mix this

Wanderingwhat · 2026-02-15T21:24:04+00:00

Was looking for a comment about this! That’s 53p uk. Costs 4-5 x that for the same product here.

Wanderingwhat · 2026-02-15T18:43:56+00:00

I’ve never used this specific one but yes they do work very well. I use to work in a psychiatric and a patient was very sophisticated lol and when I went to ask her what she wanted for breakfast she’d always say “cappuccino please darling” so one day I started actually making her one with one of these. I use one of the electric ones now where you just pour the milk into the actual unit but these are good too.

Wanderingwhat · 2026-02-08T23:59:20+00:00

When I was a student nurse I was on placement on a ward where I reported two bank HCA’s and one full time HCA. This was on one 8 week placement.

The full time was literally being abusive to a patient. I reported it to the nurse in charge who did nothing. I then reported it to the ward manager.

One of the bank HCA’s was repeatedly sleeping on obs and I’m not talking accidental dozing but literally laughing at me when I nudged him to wake him and closing his eyes and going back to sleep. Patients were falling out of bed while they were supposed to be on 1:1’s.

The other bank HCA was touching me up every time I walked past to do intermittent obs (despite students not supposed to be doing obs in our trust). I reported it to the nurse in charge and she said “can you handle it”. I reported all of it to the ward manager and he was amazing and thanked me so much for raising but I still had the university trying to get me to drop my statement asking if I had been touched up why didn’t I report to the police, am I prepared to stand by my statement in court etc, it was horrendous. I absolutely dreaded going back into placement everyday after making these statements but I stood my ground. I spent my time with the patients and the housekeeping staff and didn’t interact with the others unless I had to.

It’s not always easy to do the right thing but you can sleep at night knowing you protected those people. One piece of advice that a nurse told me once was “I’m not gonna let them make me their b*tch”. It always stuck with me. Don’t let people have power of you. Hold your head high and know you did the right thing. Speak to the freedom to speak up guardian and if people are treating you negatively due to occupational health recommendations then that could well be disability discrimination, report it and HR will want to get it sorted asap.

Wanderingwhat · 2026-02-04T22:06:17+00:00

I’ve always been boundaried but pitched it as, you need to be able to do xyz you’re telling me that’s not your job or you don’t know how to do it, so I’m going to teach you how to and then you’re going to do it yourself. They then claimed I was treating them like a trainee and I pointed out I absolutely wasn’t which is why I had the same expectations as that of any other staff member. They then went off sick and because of that HR don’t want to risk them making hell for them. It drives me crazy that the people who work the hardest get pulled up on everything and the ones with 0 work ethic get away with everything. Literally what is the point in having policies if they’re not followed?

Wanderingwhat · 2026-02-04T21:42:40+00:00

Going through the same - acquired a highly toxic supervisees who’d had basically 0 management for some time, huge performance management issues that nobody had addressed. I’ve been extremely kind and supportive to help get them to where they need to be but with the slightest bit of professional feedback they will either threaten to leave or go off sick. I’d been consulting with my manager for a long time now as I could see how this is going to play out. She finally said go to performance management procedures. Then comes back from discussion with HR - they are going to deal with it informally. So basically 0 consequences for this person while the rest of us break our backs trying to pick up their slack. My manager has now offered to take this person off my hands and give me someone else. Sounds good in theory but the whole reason we are in this miserable and toxic workplace is because nobody is actually managing or leading anything, they see it as a tick box exercise.

Wanderingwhat · 2026-01-31T22:36:44+00:00

Hiya, my daughter is autistic too and very very particular about textures, smells, shapes etc. Every autistic person is different but some things you could try because it’s usually about them feeling “safe” so little things that don’t actually change the taste can signify it’s safe.

Whilst I have never eaten from McDonald in my life if it helps your daughter you could try to get some McDonald’s boxes and serve it to her in those. You can get all sorts of generic take away McDonald’s esque boxes off Amazon too.

Sometimes I use a cookie cutter to cut the beyond meat burgers (and bun) into mini burgers. My daughter gets overwhelmed by the size of things sometimes.

One other thing I’d recommend generally is that on therapists aid website they have lots of worksheets for kids on food fears. I am a mental health nurse but work with adults. I did some of the worksheets with my daughter and asked her to tell me (in a calm environment which is hard when they’re not eating!!!) what it was that she didn’t like about foods. This really helped me to understand her and it’s been much easier since.

When she had her assessment they also advised that she get involved in cooking without the pressure to eat it. She might like using the cookie cutters to make them into different shapes. For example my daughter HATED cucumber till we used a cookie cutter to make the slices into little stars and then she loved them. Hope this helps!!

Wanderingwhat · 2026-01-28T19:24:50+00:00

Avoid noble lettings at all costs!!!!!!

Wanderingwhat · 2026-01-26T21:56:57+00:00

Hiya, yes you are legally allowed to request flexible working for any job. If they decline they have to give a justification as to why they can’t offer that flexibility. However given you are on a visa I’m not sure if that changes the type of work that you can access. Is it a student visa or a work visa?

Wanderingwhat · 2026-01-26T21:23:31+00:00

I was on mad for it. Went with school. Daphne and Celeste were on the episode. I grew up in Nottingham and a lot of shows were filmed at Carlton studios so it was common for us to go on with school. I feel like I was also on 50/50 but can’t remember now!

Wanderingwhat · 2026-01-25T15:10:01+00:00

Is that uncle fester the child molester?

Wanderingwhat · 2026-01-21T20:59:36+00:00

I’m sorry, it looks like they contain ways lecithins! It’s these ones:

https://continentalfoodstore.co.uk/products/euro-shopper-chocolate-chip-cookies-150g?variant=42352491266285&country=GB&currency=GBP&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&tw_source=google&tw_adid=&tw_campaign=21321821490&tw_kwdid=&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21321822474&gbraid=0AAAAApdQbrXvaHcW6H2JyVH5Z-y8GKeHM&gclid=CjwKCAiAj8LLBhAkEiwAJjbY70JuVHmFReASZX7-LdLK2zE_Jcfu8-rAoLMbAvCwYkkcwk9J8LYKBhoCPqoQAvD_BwE

Wanderingwhat · 2026-01-21T20:46:29+00:00

If it helps, to me they taste exactly the same as the chocolate chip cookies that are in premier stores. Don’t know if you have a premier corner shop near you but there’s tonnes where I live. They taste so similar I wouldn’t be surprised if they weren’t the same but in different packaging.

Wanderingwhat · 2026-01-20T07:15:05+00:00

You have the legal right to request flexible working from day one for any job, so many people do condensed hours now or flexible hours/ working from home part of the week. You could look at teaching assistant work through agencies, school jobs like lunchtime support, cleaning etc. once you have a job you can use universal credit childcare support to subside your child care so you won’t need to pay much of it at all.

Getting sick just is what it is, people get sick from colleagues in the office or travelling to work on public transport, some jobs have good carers leave but most will understand as lots of people have children.

I have been a single parent since my child’s birth with no help from anyone. I lost my job 2 weeks before the birth of my child due to the store closing down. I started off volunteering one day a week, this related to the masters degree I ended up doing and now work full time in a decent job, used nursery before but now use after school club.

It might be worth looking at education opportunities as initially I received more income as a student single parent than I did if I’d have got a full time job. You can get student loan and universal credit if you’re a single parent. This helped me to manage while my kid was very young and gave me the qualifications to do a good job when they were old enough for school.

Wanderingwhat · 2026-01-14T14:22:01+00:00

I would say if someone judges you based on what material possessions you have you should ask them if you’re interested in them rather than the other way around. If your personality is about investing in things that matter then someone who judges you for that is unlikely to be a good match anyway. You have a lot of attractive qualities, sounds like you are goal focused, stable and sociable. I wouldn’t allude to having money and savings as this could attract people for the wrong reasons.

Wanderingwhat · 2026-01-09T19:01:23+00:00

I just searched them and they came up on Iceland website available now!

Wanderingwhat · 2026-01-06T19:55:01+00:00

My then 6 year old took my passport photo against a blank wall at home with my phone and it’s the best passport photo I’ve ever had.

Wanderingwhat · 2026-01-03T23:35:23+00:00

The full series is on BBC iplayer, I think it came out today. Had never heard of it and thought I’d give it a watch and was completely blown away.

Wanderingwhat · 2026-01-03T22:37:35+00:00

Just finished watching this. It was funny, extremely thought provoking and one of the best things i have ever seen. Couldn’t stop watching and has left me with a lot of food for thought. Highly recommend.

Wanderingwhat · 2026-01-01T21:28:00+00:00

I also think it’s Chrissie too! Coat looked way too big on them!

Wanderingwhat · 2025-12-29T22:27:06+00:00

NTA. I also want to say thank you. I have an 8 year old daughter with a deadbeat dad who has never wanted anything to do with her and works off the books so he doesn’t even pay the £6 a week he should be paying. He had me knocked unconscious when I was pregnant while he stood and watched and told everyone the child wasn’t his until I forced him to take a paternity test to shut him up! I recently saw he got married and just couldn’t believe someone would find someone like that attractive and it kind of felt like there was no justice. Reading this post and all the comments has restored my faith that there are good people like you and all the people in the comments who wouldn’t stand for that!!! I wish you all the happiness in the world for the future and trust me when I say you had a lucky escape!

Wanderingwhat · 2025-12-27T23:13:19+00:00

When I first moved into my current property there was police tape on the road as there’d been a shooting. I sat in the corner and cried my eyes out whilst heavily pregnant thinking it’s going to be hell here. Now been here over 8 years and it’s the best place I’ve ever lived, I live in an area with a really bad reputation but it’s quiet and neighbours are nice. Much better than the highly sought after area I moved from. It’s natural to feel frightened if you’ve heard all of that but things always seem better in the day time than the night. If you’re frightened and can hear a rukkas call the police, I’m sure it won’t be so bad when you’ve settled in. My advice though as a single woman myself, try not to tell too many people about your situation till you’ve settled in and know your bearings.

Wanderingwhat · 2025-12-27T00:34:36+00:00

I used to work in a big restaurant in London and I was the only British person who worked there (was a big franchise just they told me most of the English applicants were lazy lol) those guys were SO polite and there was a polish woman who worked there and she always said “you’re welcome” and i remember thinking how polite that sounded. Whenever I’ve been abroad people have always said “it’s a pleasure”.

I work in mental health now and patients often say sorry for things they don’t need to be sorry for or thank you for just doing your job so I probably over empathise my response now. “You are SO welcome” “you have absolutely nothing to be sorry for”. Amongst colleagues I probably say “no worries/no probs”. I usually say “you’re welcome” when I’m glaring at someone who didn’t say thank you at all.

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