Bland Diet

Bland Diet: Easy to Make & Easy on You

Doctors often recommend following a bland diet during chemo or after certain surgeries. A bland diet, consisting of plainly cooked, low-fat, low-fiber “white” foods, is also a great idea if you suffer from... gastrointestinal problems such as nausea or acid reflux, or if you’re simply feeling under the weather. While we normally recommend whole, high-fiber foods for cancer prevention and healthy survivorship, on occasion your body needs foods that don’t have too much fiber and are easy to digest. Our founder Ann Ogden Gaffney ate these dishes for a month after the doctors removed her cancerous kidney, leaving everything inside sore. Being prescribed a bland diet may seem like being assigned to a life of dull, tasteless meals, but as you can see from our recipe roundup below, there are still a lot of delicious dishes you can enjoy while being kind to your body when it needs it.