A Brief History (#Glutenlessfood)
The Good...
I am lucky to have some experience in the catering industry. After studying for 3 years I worked in a restaurant to improve my skills. I believed it would be very easy switching to a gluten free diet.
The Bad...
I have more recently began struggling with my digestion. Wheat (obviously), potato, rice, tomato and citrus are the main culprits (this reduces the amount of standard gluten free food I can eat by a huge percentage, as the usual substitutes for wheat are potato starch & rice flour.) The list of food I can eat is becoming shorter.
The Ugly.
Oh, I forgot to mention, I also suffer with anaphylaxis (an acute allergic reaction to an antigen (e.g. a bee sting) to which the body has become hypersensitive. -according to Google)
In plain man's English:
My throat begins to close
There is usually a great deal of swelling around my face (especially my lips and eyes)
Angina is a pain in the... Chest
& Itchy is not the word!
These reactions happen if I am exposed to an item of food i'm allergic to. These foods include:
Pulses (Soya, lentils, barley, peas, chick peas, beans, peanuts, and any product containing a trace of any of these items such as pea fibre or pea starch which can often be found in breaded items such as chicken kievs or goujons or fish fingers and in some ice creams and ice lollies.)
Nuts (hazelnuts, pine nuts, walnuts, almonds... the whole shabang)
Other grains (buckwheat, quinoa, rye, spelt, millet)
Soya flour, ground almonds and other grains are used a great deal as the ingredients in gluten free meals and snacks
This seems to leave a small amount of substitutions...
Coconut (flour, sugar etc)
Oats (flour, jumbo oats etc)
Maize (flour, corn etc)
Lets see what I can do in the kitchen, using only these substitutions
#GlutenlessFood
In plain man's English:
My throat begins to close
There is usually a great deal of swelling around my face (especially my lips and eyes)
Angina is a pain in the... Chest
& Itchy is not the word!
These reactions happen if I am exposed to an item of food i'm allergic to. These foods include:
Pulses (Soya, lentils, barley, peas, chick peas, beans, peanuts, and any product containing a trace of any of these items such as pea fibre or pea starch which can often be found in breaded items such as chicken kievs or goujons or fish fingers and in some ice creams and ice lollies.)
Nuts (hazelnuts, pine nuts, walnuts, almonds... the whole shabang)
Other grains (buckwheat, quinoa, rye, spelt, millet)
Soya flour, ground almonds and other grains are used a great deal as the ingredients in gluten free meals and snacks
This seems to leave a small amount of substitutions...
Coconut (flour, sugar etc)
Oats (flour, jumbo oats etc)
Maize (flour, corn etc)
Lets see what I can do in the kitchen, using only these substitutions
#GlutenlessFood