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.
After some types of intestinal surgery, a low fiber, low residue diet may be used as a transition to a regular diet. A low fiber diet is also used for a period of time after a colostomy or ileostomy is performed. This diet is also used after a colonoscopy if your doctor had to remove a polyp from you colon.