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Tuesday 18th September

If you were supposed to avoid wheat, you know… bread, flour, that sort of thing, and you were in the supermarket looking for your wheat-free supplies, where is the one place you would not look?

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September 18th, 2007 at 2:31 pm

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  1. You must be in TESCO, and the answer is, opposite the BREAD, next to the FLOUR.

    sweavo

    18 Sep 07 at 2:45 pm

  2. oops, the image just loaded!

    sweavo

    18 Sep 07 at 2:45 pm

  3. I tell you, I definitely liked it better when the TESCO layout people were on their old drugs.

    sweavo

    18 Sep 07 at 2:46 pm

  4. Haha… yes… the old drugs were much better.

    /me waits for the inevitable “Tesco are evil” comments…

    stu

    18 Sep 07 at 2:52 pm

  5. They are though.

    Rich

    18 Sep 07 at 3:15 pm

  6. I couldn’t agree more, Rich.

    stu

    18 Sep 07 at 3:21 pm

  7. what about fig rolls? you can have them, can’t you?

    henry

    18 Sep 07 at 5:15 pm

  8. Fried rice. That’s a good gluten free food.

    Sarah

    18 Sep 07 at 5:38 pm

  9. Evil, yes, but maybe they have a sense of humour, too.

    lordhutton

    18 Sep 07 at 5:59 pm

  10. Fig rolls? I don’t think so.
    Fried rice? Yes, as long as it hasn’t been made with soy sauce or MSG (like most restaurant/takeaway stuff has).

    stu

    18 Sep 07 at 8:33 pm

  11. Make it yourself! More satisfying and you can make as much as you can eat. And put big chunks of meat in.

    Sarah

    19 Sep 07 at 9:07 am

  12. I generally do! I found a great ‘catering’ type of soy sauce from Thailand in my local chinese supermarket… bought by the litre for the price of a small normal bottle, and gluten-free too! Woohoo!

    My exercise my wok more :)

    stu

    19 Sep 07 at 9:16 am

  13. Haven’t tried this recipe personally, but wanted to offer my support to you. Everything is better after a brownie (or petting a goat)!

    Gluten-Free Diet: GF Recipes: Brownies

    Ingredients

    3 eggs
    1 c sugar
    1/2 c oil
    2 T unsweetened cocoa
    1/2 c potato starch
    1 c nuts, chopped

    Directions

    Beat the eggs and sugar until light and fluffy. Gradually add the oil, then the cocoa and potato starch. Blend together. Stir in the chopped nuts. Pour into a lightly greased 9-inch square pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Cut into squares.

    Debster

    19 Sep 07 at 11:31 pm

  14. I will then offer a recipe for a really good goat:

    take baby goat
    let frolick for a couple of years
    name him Mads and make him your best pal

    there, best goat you could ever ask for. And gluten free too!

    plume

    20 Sep 07 at 8:58 am

  15. Stu: you can heat the rice on your cooker. also if you open the door underneath it has an “oven”. Also potatoes are a relatively well known foodstuff that do not contain flour.

    Uh oh. Why did the word “tagine” jump into my head on reading plume’s post?

    sweavo

    20 Sep 07 at 11:09 am

  16. </sarcasmoverload>

    sweavo

    20 Sep 07 at 11:11 am

  17. My other half has bad poos if she eats gluten, so we’ve spent a few years working lots of this stuff out - hope this helps:
    Those Bakewell tarts in the bottom right of your picture are the best sweet things you can find (look for the Alpro soya custard to go with them), but the chocolate cake bars (Tesco and Sainsburys) and the blueberry cereal bars (just Tescos I think) are close to being real food too.
    Porrige is your breakfasty friend.
    The best bread is the packet mixes that Lakeland sell http://www.lakeland.co.uk/product.aspx/!10437_10436 - but if you can’t be arsed with that then the English Muffins from Sainsbos are pretty good, but benefit from some toasting.
    Tesco’s own free-from pasta is the best, but polenta (from packets) is well worth learning about.
    Tesco free-from sausages are OK too.
    If you can work out how to use the hot cupboard thing that Sx mentioned then http://www.joyofbaking.com/ChocolateAlmondTorte.html is better than most gluteny chocolate cakes.
    Get used to carrying a packed lunch - especialy if you’re somewhere that Jacket Potato stands aren’t common.

    Mikey

    20 Sep 07 at 11:33 am

  18. Ah yes, maybe I didn’t make it clear, I’ve been living with a gluten-free diet for over 10 years now… I’m very good at knowing what I’m meant to do, just not very good at doing it.

    Until the last few days which have been marvellous.

    stu

    20 Sep 07 at 10:29 pm

  19. Those pounds getting cut in half for some reason strike me as terribly cute, I must say. (Nothing whatsoever to do with gluten, sorry…)

    But hey, I’m cutting out all dairy for a few days to see if I notice any improvement in my general health/well-being… it’s something I’ve been meaning to do for a while. I’ve wondered (aimlessly) about lactose intolerance and the possibility that that might be what’s giving me such a weak stomach. :p So far, though, I’ve only discovered that I have quite a (probably unhealthy) fondness for vanilla-flavored lightly sweetened soymilk. The almond-drink stuff is pretty good, too.

    Hmm. Deprivation is such a trendy hobby these days :)

    lindsey

    28 Sep 07 at 6:03 am

  20. Hi Stu

    I too have been g-f for 10 years now, together with having been insulin dependent for 45 years; could’ve been worse though, the gene which causes both of these conditions can also trigger something called PKF. Up to a few years ago if you developed this (usually within the first few months of life), then you were in for a very short stay!

    However, I digress.

    If you go to http://www.querfood.de (it’s a German company), they have the most wonderful selection of gluten-free foods you could wish for - I love the Dr Schar and also the Valpiform foodstuffs and must get round to trying some of the others. There is also a section for ‘fresh bread’ - Brot & Geback Frisch. This bread is from a baker’s in Poensgen, which seems to specialise in baking for people with food allergies. Over the Christmas holiday period I received a GF Stollen, which I cut up and froze and use as a treat! It was to die for.

    One point to note, this site does not translate into English, although they are more than happy to ship over here, so what I would suggest you do is have their website open in one window and http://www.altavista.com/babelfish open in another. You can then copy and paste from the Querfood website into Babelfish and get a rough translation.

    Dr Schar have got a range of foods called Solena which I think are fab. One of the main ingredients is lupine flour (weird I know, but hey we tend to think that things like Teff and Potato flour are okay). The Solena bread is the closest thing I’ve come across which tastes like black bread.

    There is also a French site, http://www.gourmetsansgene.com. This site can be viewed in either French or English; again they are happy to send goods out to the UK.

    Hope you find this info to be of assistance.

    All good wishes for the future.

    Angela

    19 Apr 08 at 7:17 pm

  21. To Lindsey

    Sorry to hear that you might be lactose intolerant - nightmare!

    However, if you too go to the http://www.querfood.de website they have a selection of foods which are gluten and also lactose free and you might find this of help - (German - Laktosefrei) and there’s a picture of what might be a milkchurn!

    Hope you’ve found the deletion of lactose from your diet has helped.

    Regards.

    Angela

    19 Apr 08 at 7:23 pm

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