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.
A low-residue diet, also known as a low-fiber diet, typically follows the full liquid diet in continuation of bowel rest during an episode of acute diverticulitis. The low-residue diet adds low-fiber foods, including cheese, white-flour breads, crackers and pasta, white rice, applesauce and canned fruits, well-cooked vegetables, poultry, fish, eggs, mayonnaise and smooth nut butters.