That depends on when I eat something (in the morning on an empty stomach, in the evening after a full meal...)

What I eat ( just fruits or just yogurt or just meat or a mix like a sandwich or meat and potatoes)

What I drink with it.

Fruits on a 'morning stomach' take 20-30 minutes.

Yogurt on an empty stomach takes 1hr.

Sandwich on an empty stomach takes about 3hrs

Anything on a full stomach takes twice as long...

Sharon

It really depends on what I eat. Fruits and vegetables go through much faster than anything else. Strawberries only take 30 minutes from start to finish. My husband doesn't believe me, saying that it wouldn't even get through my stomach that quickly, but I keep threatening to show him proof next time... 

No matter what time of day, if I eat an apple, it's out in about an hour or two. Same with steamed veggies. 

I can pretty much say goodbye to leafy greens. They go through so quickly that my nutritionist says I'm not absorbing anything from them.

Generally I would say everything takes about an hour from entry to exit.

Sometimes I can go in the morning (8 am) and then not go until the afternoon around 4 pm. So the food doesn't always go straight through in a set time. Often though an hour or two is common for something that doesn't settle perfectly.

I think the two biggest factors in transit time are probably time in stomach and time in pouch. Most of us have healthy stomachs, and the stomach is brilliant at storing food. Fatty food has a very strong effect, and tends to slow down the release of food from the stomach quite a bit. This is why peanut butter at bedtime helps some people sleep through the night.

Time in the pouch is most affected by how long your preferences and health cause you to wait to empty it. A healthy pouch can store contents for quite a while - folks who empty their pouch 4 times per day are waiting an average of 6 hours to empty, and I typically stay off the toilet 7-8 hours at night. Problems like pouchitis, though, can create urgency when even a small amount of poop enters the pouch.

If I eat fatty food at 6 PM I might not see some of it until 7 or 8 AM the next morning. The easiest food to see is, I think, peas, and lettuce is a close second for me.

Can any of you eat raw vegetables and fruit?  I have to east everything that is cooked.  Raw gives me problems.

Raw fruits and veggies give me problems too, but it's not unbearable like it used to be. I've had my pouch for almost two years now. I eat raw produce if I WANT to have a BM quickly. Cooked veggies are still the best bet for me to get any sort of nutrition from produce. 

I eat raw fruits and veggies every day. I don't notice a problem, as long as I don't gorge on them. Heck, overdoing it will send a coloned person running to the bathroom. 

I do eat everything that is cooked  I don't want to go thru any problems lol   I totally wish I could eat raw fruit and veggies but I can deal with it.  What I miss the most is a nice salad.  It has been 6 years since my surgery.

Just to be clear, the contents of my salad are recognizable in the toilet, and stools are much less cohesive/formed. I can't think of a reason to care about either of those things. Unless there's urgency I don't care what's coming out of me.

I eat raw fruits and veggies daily...I am just somewhat careful of what I eat my fruits or veggies with.

If I eat my fruits on their own then I have no problem...They run through me in 1/2hr and I move on to other things after that.

I dissociate my meals eating either protein meals or carb meals...I can eat veggies with either without any difficulty (unless I overdo it..."everything in moderation including moderation")...for me I feel that it makes my digestion easier and I have less gas or bloating that way...

Sharon

I usually have to use the bathroom about 20 minutes to 1/2 hour after I  eat.  I have found that what comes out is usually what I had 2 meals ago, unless it's something that moves through faster.  Now that I type that, it seems weird that I pay so much attention! LOL

Interesting comments showing that our clocks are all different and affected differently by the types of foods we take in.  My experience is that most meals find their way through my system in about 8 to 12 hours.  I am on the toilet more frequently though - about 4 - 12 times daily.   As I eat, the newest foods push the other food through my system.   No surprise there.  But in general my "conveyer belt" is about 8 to 12 hours long.   Yours will likely be different.  Try something like cooked beets and record the time you eat them and the time you send them on their way to the sewer.  Trust me, you will see when that happens

Mine vary with what and how much I eat sometimes it's an hour and sometimes if I get lucky it's 3 hours before I have to go 

Right after my surgery, I was not prepared for how different things come out.

I would see some really weird colors and wonder what did I eat or drink? I had to think about it.  I don't think about it now however.   Grease goes though me in no time flat. Grapes, I just don't eat.  I will be in bathroom pronto.   It just varies for me and it may depend on if I have immodium on board.  It could be 5 min or 5 hours.

Speaking of Imodium, you may already know this but in case not, you can buy Loperamide (the generic) at Costco (perhaps Sam's Club too) for a lot less than Imodium.  I recently  paid $5.49 for 400 pills at Costco.   Also, a couple of years ago when we thought Costco might stop carrying them (false), I bought a year's supply of Loperamide through Amazon at a good price. (don't remember the details but it was lower than Imodium.  I take 3- 4 pills every 3 - 4 hours so I really go through them.  My surgeon said it was OK to exceed the recommended dosage.  I still have leakages but not nearly as bad as without  the pills.   I also buy my VSL#3  caplets (probiotics) there.