Guides
The situations food pages can't answer on their own: the first weeks after diagnosis, the flare diet and how to get off it, restaurants, travel, and working out your own triggers instead of inheriting someone else's list.
Just diagnosed with UC? Start here
What actually helps in the first weeks, from someone who just went through it.
The UC flare food list
Every food on this site that's usually tolerated during a flare, in one table.
A UC-friendly grocery list
A printable staples list built from the flare-friendly foods in our database.
The low-residue diet, in plain English
What to eat during a flare, how long to stay on it, and how to come off it without losing nutrition.
Reintroducing foods after a flare
A six-stage order for getting your diet back, one food at a time.
A food diary that finds answers, not guilt
What to record, what to ignore, and how to turn three weeks of notes into a real trigger list.
Eating out without dreading it
How to read any menu, four sentences that do all the work, and cuisine-by-cuisine picks.
Crohn's vs UC: what changes about food
The five places Crohn's advice differs from UC (strictures, fat, lactose, kidney stones, B12) and the diets studied only in Crohn's.
Traveling with UC
What to pack, what to eat on the plane, and what to sort out before you leave.