The bland diet is a loosely defined collection of diet restrictions that may be prescribed following gastrointestinal surgery or as management for gastric distress (e.g. nausea, vomiting, and/or diarrhea). When thinking about bland foods, it’s hard not to conjure up mental images of boiled chicken breasts and olive-colored string beans on hospital trays, but you can actually eat so much more. You just need to be informed about what you can and cannot eat plus how you can tweak ingredients to…