I'm a firm believer in foods as triggers. It's something doctors overlook and just give you drugs to mask symptoms, but why not actually control things before they happen and not need the doctora at all?

Salt is a good one in terms of bloating, but if it's mood that you're worried about, try sugars. They send up insulin spikes that affect you in different ways. I mean ALL kinds of sugars, even the ones masked in foods like meat marinades and sauces and things we buy prepackaged and don't even consider that there might be sugars in them. And since your body processes carbs into sugars, be careful of things like breads and pastas.

Soy is another one because of phytoestrogens. Soy is used in a lot of products as a filler, so, like the sugars, you have to do some research to find out the words that manufacturers use on lables to identify them.

I know it all sounds very hippie-dippy-trippy, but once I put the work into it, I found that my PMS went away and just on a general basis I could sleep better and was a happier person when I started really controlling what I ate.