Gluten free!

im just starting out and im hoping foir some meal plan ideas and suggestions. im also trying to avoid milk as is the white liquid not all dairy. thoughts, suggestions and ideas are welcome and appreciated!!

I'm 100% gluten and dairy free, among other things like rice, oats, corn and vegetable oils... Its not too bad once you get a few good meals to fall back on. You can still eat all the naturally gluten free foods out there. Meats and seafood, veggies, fruits, oats, quinoa. My kids love rice pasta (the brown rice type) and you can get *most* sauces and things GF. Some things there just aren't replacements for, like canned soup and ranch dressing, at least that I have found. Check out Paleo or Primal recipes, even if they are too "restrictive" for you, you don't have to eat them all the time. There is nothing wrong with having a Paleo meal here or there without committing to that type of diet all the time.

As for milk - just repace it with something else. There are tons of options for people who just want to cut out milk itself, it doesn't get hard until you try and get rid of cheese/butter/sour cream etc. There is rice/coconut/soy/almond, all tasty.

I'm gluten free (aside from the occasional slip up). I've got IBS and find I feel much better without it.
If you want substitutes I find brown rice flour and mung bean noodles are really great. Gluten free bread is rubbish and made from rubbish too. Spelt flour is lower in gluten and makes good home made bread. Gram flour makes amazing pancakes and pie crusts, as does almond flour.

I don't tend to substitute most of the time, and instead eat a lot of sweet potato, cauliflower rice (you can eat regular rice), veg. I dont see how meals NEED gluten in them. You can make stews, chilli's, curries etc. Not everything needs bread or pasta.

This is interesting. I have IBS too. You feel better without the gluten? My doctor recommended cutting out gluten AND dairy. Dairy I find I can't really live without. I have yogurt every day as a snack for protein, when I don't have yogurt I starve at my desk at work and then go to the candy machine for a snickers. It's horrible. I also adore cereal and milk.

So obviously going gluten free you'd cut out bread, but what else? All pastas as well?

Ive previously cut out and re-introduced dairy a couple of times and not noticed a difference, so I do consume dairy. I dont eat bread, pasta, oats, cous cous, barley....and so on. I eat eggs for breakfast, they keep me fuller for far longer. Its made a big difference for me, I get so swollen and feel really sick after eating certain things, so its worth not eating them. I snack on nuts, sometimes fruit, protein shakes and usually ham or some sort of meat.

There are lots of us who aren't average, however lol. And yes, for some of us, gluten DOES cause eating impulsively ... because of chronic malnutrition and a desperate attempt for the body to gain nutrients which end up not absorbed.

Thank you! You know I had this light-bulb moment a few days ago. You know I never put together I was chronically malnourished, but looking back on it, being unwell every second day and having very low calories on those days, made me make bad choices on the days that I felt better.

Now that I am aware of what happens, I hoping I will observe a lot more and make better choices long term.

It's interesting that a lot of migraine sufferers have found relief...I found this article the other day that was quite helpful <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/02/010213072604.htm">here</a&gt;

It's interesting that a lot of migraine sufferers have found relief...I found this article the other day that was quite helpful here: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/02/010213072604.htm

I've suffered from chronic migraines and chronic daily headache for over 7 years now, and none of the medicines or therapies that the doctor has tried are working. I've heard about some people having success from cutting gluten so that's what I'm trying now. I'm starting by just lowering my intake. It's hard for me to cut it out entirely because I already have trouble finding things to make that I like and aren't too expensive since I'm vegetarian and lean vegan (my boyfriend has a severe dairy allergy so I try to stay away from it too).
I have been feeling a little better though since I've been cutting down my gluten intake. *fingers crossed*

No. Because if gluten has been damaging your insides, and causing malabsorption and malnourishment, and you are able to heal up the villi by not subjecting them to a daily gluten-bath, then your villi start working again. Their job is to absorb nutrients. If nutrients are being absorbed, your body knows when to stop eating.AND


I couldn't believe how "FILLING" gluten free bread was when I started making it. I was stuffed with one slice -- in the past I never felt full eating normal bread.


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well put it this way- all my trigger foods have gluten in them

But if you ate the gluten free versions of bread, cakes, pastries, pies.... would you still eat compulsively?

Probably.

HAVING to be gluten free makes me seriously pissed off at people who are "doing the gluten free thing"

that is all.

HAVING to be gluten free makes me seriously pissed off at people who are "doing the gluten free thing"

that is all.

why?

If you were lactose intolerant it would be all dairy foods that would upset your stomach. Cheese, ice cream, yogurt, milk, etc. You're most likely NOT lactose intolerant, your stomach just doesn't agree specifically with MILK.

False.

^this

Four people close to me are lactose intolerant and this is TRUE for all of them.

So, false to a doctor? Perhaps. True in my experience? Yes. Sorry if that rubs you the wrong way.

It's plain not true, not all cheeses have much lactose in them, the more aged, the less lactose. Science dear, can't refute it, no matter what your friends say.

Allergy to milk protein, whole different ball game

I second the recommendation to try a Primal or Paleo eating plan (marksdailyapple.com is my favorite website that includes lots of ideas and recipes that avoid wheat/gluten and dairy).

^ What he said. Mark's Daily Apple is where I began. There's also many books on the topic. Google is your friend, in this case. I'm also Paleo, and you will definitely see a difference in how you feel.