Going Wheat Free

Emmi_ wrote: Soy sauce has gluten in it but not wheat (they arnt mutually exclusive as others have said)

Which soy sauce do you use? Any ones I've looked at contain wheat.

It is a huge undertaking when you first switch to a wheat free diet, but once you get your head around it it's not too bad and most foods these days have a wheat free alternative.

I went to our Binn Inn and bought a heap of different flours and did my own baking, it wasn't quite the same as regular flour food, but pretty good really.
My tip - splurge and buy your bread. I resorted to making it to save money and it just wasn't the same, and turned mouldy and stale by the following day

Yeah I agree on the bread way easier to buy.

Saw this thread so had to have a quick look, very interesting reading.

My DP likes to be gluten free, doesn't have to medically, but finds he puts on weight when eats too much breads etc containing gluten.

We make our own bread and find the "Laucke" brand to be fantastic, its the first gluten free bread we have made that you can cut into slices like normal bread, tastes great toasted, not so good un toasted. We get ours from the 'Gluten Free" shop which is also online, box costs $10.00 and you get two quite large loaves for this.

The Gluten Free shop also has a bakers mix for baking, and you just substitute the flour content of all baking for the bakers mix (note though, does seem to contain some sort of raising agent so you don't need to use as much of that).

For sauces etc, I just use cornflour which is also gluten free.

Bin inn is really good for gluten free stuff too, randomly. I have somewhere the primo mix of all the wheat free flours - like you can get potato flour and corn flour and all kinds of weird stuff which used by itself isnt quite right but if you mix them in the right ratio it works wonders. I will dig it out when mom gets back. Also very weirdly not all cornflour is wheat or gluten free. Anyway, more encouringly, it will probably only take a few shops until you know what brands are good and it has a bonus as then you end up with a 'set' shopping list which is great for budgeting...going off on a tangent now!

Also I Found out recently that Cookie Time gf cookies have wheat fibre in them. The gluten has been removed but they still contain wheat .

There have been some really good articles in Healthy Food Guide about food intolerances - they talk about how to do elimination diets, as you may think you have "x" but actually, it's something related, and you may end up cutting out a whole pile of stuff that you shouldn't/don't need to be cutting out. TBH, I would suggest talking to a nutritionist or dietician first (don't know if the lady in the health shop was one).

fire_engine wrote: There have been some really good articles in Healthy Food Guide about food intolerances - they talk about how to do elimination diets, as you may think you have "x" but actually, it's something related, and you may end up cutting out a whole pile of stuff that you shouldn't/don't need to be cutting out. TBH, I would suggest talking to a nutritionist or dietician first (don't know if the lady in the health shop was one).

Yeah I honestly think for me the main things are bread and cakes/scones etc those are the things that give me wind pain, other things dont, like sauces etc. I'll see how I go, Im still eating the things I should be, just no cakes and crap...so good really lol

Wow so I have been wheat free since...Tuesday night, and I had a fruit bar thing this afternoon without even thinking(felt sick so just grabbed it) and with in half an hour I had awful wind pain(still got it), so wheat/gluten definitely doesn't agree with me!

Im loving the baps with an egg on top though, yum!!!!