Hi I'm Michelle the irritable vegan hello hi that's me here to take the bs out of IBS
one day one meal at a time today I'm so excited
to share my new blog with you and take you on a little walk through to
show you some of the features I'm most proud of
and the things I don't want you to miss when you head over there to take a look
for yourself my intention for the blog is it will
take you from pre-diagnosis to personalised eating
with as much information and inspiration as possible
along the journey i've tried to make it as intuitive as possible
to find what you're looking for and I'll be adding more and more recipes and
content each week eventually it'll be a home to all my
written recipes videos and everything useful I've
learned the hard way on my own IBS journey so let's take a closer look
to give you a feel for it so welcome to the home page and the
first section features links straight into the detailed guides for
each phase of the low fodmap diet then there are the latest featured posts
from the written blog and the latest featured videos to scroll
through and this area will automatically change
each time I add a new post then comes the all-important email sign
up and if you want access to our private got guts vault
then this is where you need to sign up to get in there's a summary and links to
my latest instapost and at the bottom of every page you'll
find a way to search for the post without having to scroll all the way
back up to the top and also links across the bottom to the
main pages from the navigation bar back to the top and a place where most
people are going to want to head first is the start here tab this is where
we're going to take you step by step right back to the basics of
getting diagnosed with IBS and all of those niggling questions that
you might feel too embarrassed to ask we go into detail
about the process of getting diagnosed explain some of the technical terms and
tests that your doctor might mention and even discuss getting your doctor to
take you seriously and here's the bit I'm really pleased
with i've painstakingly gathered together links to research
data scientific journals reports and references that go more in depth on
IBS and getting diagnosed there's a long list of further reading
from reliable sources to help you inform yourself and feel
more in control of your condition rather than present you with an
overwhelming list and leave you to it I actually include corresponding
reference links within the page to help you make better sense of all
that information and put together my jargon free
explanation alongside the clinical in-depth research
I've used the same format for all the main sections
so as you progress from diagnosis to the low fodmap diet and beyond
I'll walk you through the process step by step in a simple
easy to understand way but cross-reference back to the relevant
research from reliable respected sources that you
can dive deeper into honestly the science geeks are gonna
love it and I think it's quite an unusual feature of a blog to offer such
detailed references that you can use to do your own research
and if after all that you still have questions i've included some of the
frequently asked questions that I hear most often broken down into sections
so if you have a specific answer that you're looking for you can jump straight
to the most likely section and search for it there rather than
scroll through the whole page again I include lots of helpful
links here directly within each Q&A to help you
find answers and information as quickly and
easily as possible now onto the recipe section which I know
is what most of you came for but I just want to show you a few
navigation tips for finding your way around
so that all recipes page will feature the most recent batch of recipes
from every category for you to see at a glance
you can also browse the archives by meal type or
type in any search term in the search bar
you can see here that I search for fructose free and that brings up recipes
tagged with fructose free so it's a great way to search based on
your personal tolerances and restrictions
which is not something I've seen very often on a recipe blog
of course you can also search more traditionally by ingredient
and again see a full list of options for you to explore
and as you'd expect from the main menu you can search by category
I chose meal type as my main navigation then taking a closer look at a recipe
post and something I'm thrilled to finally have been able to
work out is how to add the jump to recipe feature which
was highly requested so it's a typical minimalist recipe blog layout with a few
extras one being this clever little plugin that
lets you print email and save the page as a pdf and this is a
really cool feature and I just wanted to show you how you can tailor the amount
of information you decide to print or include by deleting any images or
sections that don't interest you or as a way to save on paper it's a
really clever feature another requested feature was to
list the ingredients in order of use which I was happy to incorporate
I've included a free from panel with specific notes where necessary
we've got cook's notes for getting the best out of each recipe
and the all-important FODMAP notes which again is a feature that you don't see
very often here I'm going to break down the fodmap content
per portion of each recipe just to help you better understand how a meal
balances out and how to avoid fodmap stacking this is
followed by a general fodmap info panel and a detailed
breakdown of the ingredients safe servings and fodmap notes which all
help you create recipes that are safe for you
moving on you'll find a nice big video window that plays the recipe videos
right in the page so that you don't have to leave the blog
for all you Pinterest fans there's a dedicated pin to add to your boards for
later and I've got zero shame in plugging the
handy shopping list which includes affiliate links
to some of the more FODMAP specific ingredients that you might not always be
able to find in the shops and then the tags area
is yet another way to navigate around the site
finding similar content specific to whichever tag that you click
each blog post has got a comments area and if you want a quick and detailed
answer to a question then moving forward this is going to be the best place to
get my attention back up to the main navigation there's a separate blog tag
which displays posts chronologically and although it seems a bit repetitive
at the minute whilst I concentrate on getting the recipe posts up
eventually this is going to be the home not only to the recipes
but to my non-recipe content that I share
again something else I'm pleased to offer is the free from information
right here in the preview box so you can see
at a glance if a recipe is going to be suitable for you without ever leaving
the preview page an important feature for me is finally
having somewhere that I can host and sell my ebooks directly without
going through a third-party site and I'm really excited to show you the
brand new IBS journal that I've been working on for months
to coincide with the launch of the blog it's a six-week
printable pdf that's perfect for documenting your low fodmap journey
and a creative but thorough way of tracking your food
mood and poop you can see a detailed preview
along with previews of my more recognisable got guts editions
and I really hope you consider supporting the blog and my work
by investing in something from the collection
another feature I love is being able to display all of my video content directly
on the site you can watch the latest video at the
top of the page and just like the recipes you can search the videos by
topic or free type into the search bar
what I really like about that is that it searches the whole blog to show you
every post video recipe or tag that contains your
search term so that you can see content you didn't
even realise you were looking for the videos are also archived by date so
we begin with a summary of the most recent posts
but you can also search further back through my video collection
each section includes a brief description of the time frame and an
overview of the content and then a few suggested videos that sum
up that season finally there's a link to the full
archive so that you can explore and discover videos that you may have
missed in the past and last but not least we've got our
secret got guts vault which includes free relaxation audios
pdf downloads cheat sheets and more but to get access to the goodies you'll
need to head over to the blog yourself and sign up with your email to join our
pleasant little community and there you have it I really hope you
enjoyed taking this sneak peek at the blog
and I can't wait to hear what you think it's live now at
www.theirritablevegan.com and I'd love it if you could take a look
I'll be over there waiting for your feedback
and I look forward to seeing you all there bye for now