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.
In disease and conditions in which the colon has the potential to be inflamed, a low residue diet may rest the colon. The low residue diet limits the amount of work the colon has to do in forming feces because most of the content of the diet is absorbed and less waste is required to be eliminated.