Recipe #6: Low Fodmap Sloppy Joes

Growing up on a farm, with a busy family, and lots of beef in the freezer, we used ground beef or hamburger quite often for a quick and easy meal.  My mom taught me a quick version of Sloppy Joes, where you basically just brown the meat and dump everything in!  I am sure it was originally derived from the old Betty Crocker Cookbook.  I have developed this recipe as a great home cooked treat now that the products from Fody have come out.  These Fody products have literally changed my life!  Buy these products at http://www.Fodyfoods.com.  They have an almost full line of great products that are low FODMAP in nature.

I have gone from having to eat plain meat and vegetables all the time to actually being able to make things like Sloppy Joes, tacos or nachos and avoid the ingredients that bother me (primarily in Ketchup) such as onion powder, garlic powder and high fructose corn syrup.  Although, to be fair, you can buy many ketchups w/o HFCS now as well.

Here is my recipe for Sloppy Joes

1 pound ground beef

1/3 cup yellow or red pepper, diced

1/3 cup Fody Low Fodmap ketchup

2 Tbsp brown sugar

1Tbsp mustard (be sure no garlic or onion powders)

1/4 cup water

1/2 tsp sea salt; 1/2 tsp coarsely ground black pepper

Cook and stir ground beef and peppers in a 10″ skillet until beef is brown; drain fat or liquid if there is excess.  Stir in remaining ingredients.  Cover and cook over low heat 1-15minutes or just till peppers are tender.  Serve with the grain of your choice that you tolerate best.  I either use a high quality sour dough bread as this works well for me.  You can also use Gluten Free buns or even Kettle chips as a starch.

Author: ruthmfisher

I am Registered Dietitian who has a long love-hate relationship with food all my life. Starting out as a farm girl who loved to cook and eat-to an IBS/SIBO sufferer to a dietetics professional. This is my guide to eating grains and carbs without suffering and a tribute to my mother and grandmother along the way. It's kind of a "Julie and Julia" type of project to preserve my legacy of family recipes while adjusting them to meet my own dietary needs. View all posts by ruthmfisher