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I was cutting out most grains anyway, as part of my efforts to reduce carbohydrates in my diet, but since I've never really thought about coeliac disease in relation to me, I hadn't considered that whatever oats were in black pudding and whatever wheat rusk was in sausages, would be a problem. A while ago I did realize that bread was causing problems, but I thought it was something to do with yeast, or the rising process that was an issue, so stopped eating bread. That did help a bit, but it's only in the last few days that I have seriously considered coeliac as a possibility. This is because my sister-in-law has been diagnosed as coeliac for some years now and we were discussing symptoms.
I should be able to avoid gluten if I don't have any processed products. The black pudding and sausages were about the only 2 processed products I ever use these days.
Today, of course, is different. GP said to reintroduce gluten products for the next few days so that the blood test will have something to check out. I do have some wheat flour in the cupboard but that is the only wheat I have, as far as I am aware. But will do something with that later.
Only tea so far today.
Unfortunately, for a GF diet to be of benefit it has to be totally GF (unlike those avoiding dairy who can benefit from various levels of reduction, as well as exclusion).
I'm afraid introducing gluten into your life for a few days isn't likely to make a significant shift in your antibody levels. For strict coeliac testing the requirement is for a number of weeks, if not a couple of months.
When discussing my own challenges with the Endo who told me to go GF, his view was there was no benefit to me by deliberately stimulating inflammation when it was perfectly evident I was gluten sensitive. He likened it to hitting one's thumb with a hammer to see if it hurt. We talked briefly about biopsy, which I elected not to pursue, bearing in mind any diagnosis would lead to the same outcome - a strictly GF lifestyle.
The benefits of a definitive diagnosis are of course that certain foods may be available on prescription, and that condition would be in your medical records, should you ever require hospital treatment long enough to need to be fed.
I can live with that, or my food processor can - but then washing up the food processor is a bore.It’s very good, it does actually go crispy. Grating or finely chopping the chorizo is a bore though.
Can I ask what DD stands for, please?
Can I ask what DD stands for, please?
Early dinner so we are cleared up and ready for the football this evening.
Lunch was Romaine lettuce leaves filled with low fat cottage cheese snd Turkey breast slices.
Dinner is another hake fillet with the DD crispy topping of chorizo, Parmesan and ground almonds. Tonight it’s served with baked aubergine, mushrooms and a spoonful of kimchi.
Might have a glass of wine later, I’ve been TT all week.
Hi @DJC3 - Which recipe was the cripsy topping from, please? Sounds like my sort of thing.
Anything containing chorizo wins in my book.
Today was home made creamy yoghurt, with some home grown stewed rhubarb. Lunch was a cheese salad, around home grown lettuce and also homegrown rocket. Being super-hungry today, dinner was early and was large portion of curry with a very small portion of rice (c 1 tablespoon) with home made raita and home grown coriander.
Do you think I might be going a bit Earth Mother here?
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