Books, meal plans and community
- The BookThe full patient guide to pancreatitis, PDF and EPUB
- The KitThe book plus the printable Kit
- Free 7-day meal planA free week of low-fat meals, download it right away
- The 7-Day Meal PlanThe full printable meal plan with shopping lists
- The Mediterranean Cookbook14 days, 70 recipes and 14 drinks, the fat counted on every plate
- The PancreasZen communityA place to talk with other patients
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Tips
- “Low fat” is not a number, and that is the whole problem
- Batch-cook a week of safe meals in one afternoon
- Build your own dried-vegetable pantry
- Can I drink coffee with pancreatitis?
- Can I eat bread with pancreatitis?
- Can I eat cheese with pancreatitis?
- Can I eat chicken with pancreatitis?
- Can I eat eggs with pancreatitis?
- Can I eat rice with pancreatitis?
- How to eat at a restaurant when your pancreas runs the show
- How to get every gram of fat off a soup or stew
- How to read a food label for fat in ten seconds
- Is this a flare or a full attack? Learning to tell
- Keep a flare log your doctor can actually use
- Pack the hospital bag before you need it
- Pumpkin spice season: how I order a seasonal coffee on a fat budget
- The 2 AM question: can I eat eggs?
- The discharge papers said low-fat. Then what?
- The flare-day shelf: what I keep stocked for a bad day
- The mocktail-hour survival kit
- The scan your gastroenterologist probably did not mention
- Why I eat at 10:30 PM and never at 3 AM
- Your enzymes might be fine. Your timing might be the problem.
Recipes
- Avgolemono: the Greek lemon soup that tastes rich and isn’t
- Berry and Basil Sparkling Refresher (mocktail)
- Chamomile and honey iced tea
- Chicken pho
- Chilled Cucumber-Yogurt Summer Soup (low-fat, no cook)
- Cinnamon Breakfast Sprinkle (sweet spice blend for oats and yogurt)
- Cranberry and apple spritz
- Cucumber-Mint Spa Cooler (mocktail)
- Cumin-lime chicken and black bean bowl
- Healing Chicken and Vegetable Soup
- Hibiscus-Pomegranate Party Spritz (mocktail)
- Leek and potato soup, no cream and no butter
- Lemon and pea barley, no butter
- Lemon-oregano baked chicken with potatoes
- Minestrone, built for flavour without the oil
- Mushroom and rice soup, built on dried mushrooms
- Oyakodon: chicken and egg rice bowl
- Plain Oatmeal with Banana and Cinnamon
- Plum and cinnamon compote
- Pumpkin spice steamer with real pumpkin and low-fat milk
- Roasted beetroot and apple salad with lemon and dill
- Savoury oats with grated carrot and herbs
- Spaghetti al pomodoro that doesn’t need olive oil
- Steamed Cod with Lemon and Dill
- Virgin Ginger & Lime Sparkler (mocktail)
- Warm spiced apple infusion
Journal
- A fish in a zen garden: what PancreasZen means
- About 645 a day: the new US pancreatitis numbers, and who actually gets it
- Chinese medicine has no pancreas. Here’s what it says anyway
- Eating Mediterranean on a fat budget
- EPI explained: signs your body still isn’t absorbing fat, even on enzymes
- Flare vs attack: how to tell the difference
- Gallstone pancreatitis: why they want the gallbladder out, and why the timing matters
- How I travel with a difficult pancreas: enzymes, food and flights
- How to actually take your enzymes
- MRI, CT, ultrasound, EUS: what each pancreatitis scan actually sees
- Parties, buffets and other people’s kitchens: eating out with pancreatitis
- Pasha just turned 17. She had pancreatitis before I did.
- Putting weight back on after pancreatitis without triggering a flare
- Smoking and pancreatitis: the risk multiplier that gets ignored
- The anxiety nobody discharges you with
- The ginger lemonade story
- The question every pancreatitis patient gets, drinker or not
- The vitamins nobody checks after pancreatitis: A, D, E and K
- TPIAT: the whole pancreas out, the islets back in
- Type 3c diabetes: the after-pancreatitis diabetes nobody warns you about
- Why they feed you sooner than they used to
- Will my pancreatitis turn chronic?
News
- 184 recipes, no dish twice, and the illustrated book is out on Monday
- A new pancreatitis guideline came out. Most of it is about you.
- EPI in chronic pancreatitis: why your result depends on which test you got
- Hope in the pipeline: the drugs being tested for pancreatitis pain
- How doctors are taught pancreatitis, in 12 minutes
- New on the site: a free fat budget calculator
- No cause found? What new organoid research means for idiopathic pancreatitis
- Ozempic, Mounjaro and pancreatitis: what the research really says about people like us
- Pancreatitis research roundup, August 2026: a first-of-its-kind approval, enzyme supply, and when they let you eat again
- Pancreatitis research roundup, October 2026: a second triglyceride drug and a new number for EPI
- The enzyme shortage: what to do when you can’t get your Creon
- The illustrated edition of Living with Pancreatitis is out
- The triglyceride number I check now, and why a new approval put it back in the news
- What’s changed in hospital pancreatitis care
- What’s free in our pancreatitis community (and how to get it)
- What’s new on PancreasZen, and the three numbers I got wrong
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