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Foods allowed on a low fibre diet include white bread, and toast, plain biscuits, white pasta and rice, sago, arrowroot, cornflour, white flour, breakfast cereals such as Rice Krispies, Ricicles, Sugar Puffs and Cornflakes, and plain cake, for example Victoria sponge. All meat and fish are allowed. All drinks are allowed, unless you have been advised to avoid alcohol by your doctor. The only vegetables allowed are potatoes without skins. Dairy products allowed include milk, cheese, eggs, cream, plain and flavoured yoghurts. Miscellaneous foods include sugar, honey, clear jam or marmalade, clear jelly, boiled sweets, ice cream, chocolate, Marmite, Bovril, stock cubes and clear soups. Foods to avoid on a low fibre diet include wholemeal and granary bread, high fibre loaves, wholemeal biscuits such as digestives, biscuits and cakes containing fruit or nuts, wholemeal pasta and rice, wholemeal flour, bran cereals, All Bran, Weetabix, Shredded Wheat, Muesli. Avoid all fruit and vegetables including beans, lentils, pulses and salad. Miscellaneous foods to avoid include marmalade, jam with pips or peel, nuts, fruit or muesli yoghurt, chocolate with fruit or nuts and vegetable soup. In normal circumstances and when the bowel is working properly, all of these sorts of foods would actually be encouraged and included in the diet regularly.