1 Add a tablespoon of ground flaxseed to your hot or cold breakfast cereal. 2  Add a teaspoon of ground flaxseed to mayonnaise or mustard when making a sandwich. 3  Mix a tablespoon of ground flaxseed into an 8-ounce container of yogurt.  Bake ground flaxseed into cookies, muffins, breads and other baked goods.
A low-residue diet is designed to limit your intake of fiber and other undigested materials to minimize the production of solid waste in your colon and rectum. Some foods you can typically eat as part of a low-residue diet include. 1  White bread, refined pastas and cereals, and crackers.  White rice.
Patient Education. diet and nutrition. Low-Fiber, Low-Residue Diet. Low-fiber and low-residue diets may be recommended for. patients with diverticulitis, ulcerative colitis, Crohnâs disease. and bowel inflammation. These diets also are used when. there is narrowing of the bowel, before or after major surgery.