One of the side affects of being a coeliac, when you eat gluten you can have some rather bad wind! Now I know this might be taboo but it's a side affect and you need to have a good laugh sometimes!
I might be pushing 30 but I still find fart humour amusing. It's hard sometimes when you're a teacher and your trying to chastise an 8 yr old boy who has just 'let one rip' and you have 26 little people laughing and holding there noses, I've tried to be serious but many a time I have just started to laugh with them! Yes I am a child!
I remember talking to a girlfriend when I was waiting for test results and asking about coeliac, she had some family and friends who had it and she said you have really really bad wind! Now I wasn't as close to this friend as I am now, and I didn't feel comfortable saying 'oh god yes! That's me all the time!', I just nodded my head, interested, pretending that I didn't have that at all!!
But yes, yes, yes that definitely is me! I'm not talking a bit of a smell, the farts of a coeliac are potent, wipe you out, gas you out, make you gag! And not just for a minute, when you get the first whiff, I'm talking it lingers for ages!
My husband has walked into the bedroom and I could have let a sneaky one go at least 20 minutes prior and the smell is still lingering. He will refuse to come to bed until the smell has disappeared.
I think sometimes he forgets how potent they can be, and he will think that he can win in a farting competition. I remind him that all it takes is for me to have a mouthful of bread and I will win hands down!!
The good news is that the stinky farts go away when you stop eating gluten! And if you accidentally eat gluten the farts are usually a good indicator that you have eaten something that you shouldn't have. Unfortunately not eating gluten doesn't diminish the need to fart, that is a normal bodily function!
Apologies if my fart humour isn't to your taste, but I bet it made you smile a bit!
The recipe for the day will be posted later in the main meal section, I am a clever duck!
Thursday, 2 June 2011
Wednesday, 1 June 2011
Ask before you eat
BD (before diagnosis) I would enter a party, baby shower etc, and go straight for the food table and nibble away at the food, without any concerns (obviously it would effect me later if there was gluten in it, but I didn't know, so ignorance was bliss!).
Now when I enter a party etc I do still gravitate to the food table and peruse the food to see what, if anything I can eat. I ensure that I take some gf food, as it may be the only food that I can eat.
At this particular friends baby shower, I said my hellos to everyone and gravitated to the food table armed with my gf brownies. I scanned the food table to determine what I could eat. I soon spotted some rather yummy looking thai fish cake balls (I'm sure its not the correct name), they looked sooo good! I asked the sister hosting the party if she knew who made them and if there were breadcrumbs or flour in them. 'Ahh no I don't think so'.
Now logic should have prevailed and I should have found the lady who made them to double check.....But.... I just wanted to eat them and I was taking any little hint I could that I was able too! They were delicious and I must have had about 5 or 6 before I wandered up to the cook to ask what was in them. I was having fun guessing the different ingredients until she told me there were breadcrumbs!!
Holy Crap!!!!!
I'd just ingested a fair amount of gluten filled food, particularly considering a previous reaction I had to 1 chicken nugget, I was crapping myself!.
After the initial period of stressing, I figured there was nothing I could do about it but wait for the reaction.
Amazingly I only had a mild case of the puffer fish, with no massive ramifications! Very lucky for me.
The morale of the story, no matter how much the food looks good, check the ingredients with the cook before indulging!
Now when I enter a party etc I do still gravitate to the food table and peruse the food to see what, if anything I can eat. I ensure that I take some gf food, as it may be the only food that I can eat.
At this particular friends baby shower, I said my hellos to everyone and gravitated to the food table armed with my gf brownies. I scanned the food table to determine what I could eat. I soon spotted some rather yummy looking thai fish cake balls (I'm sure its not the correct name), they looked sooo good! I asked the sister hosting the party if she knew who made them and if there were breadcrumbs or flour in them. 'Ahh no I don't think so'.
Now logic should have prevailed and I should have found the lady who made them to double check.....But.... I just wanted to eat them and I was taking any little hint I could that I was able too! They were delicious and I must have had about 5 or 6 before I wandered up to the cook to ask what was in them. I was having fun guessing the different ingredients until she told me there were breadcrumbs!!
Holy Crap!!!!!
I'd just ingested a fair amount of gluten filled food, particularly considering a previous reaction I had to 1 chicken nugget, I was crapping myself!.
After the initial period of stressing, I figured there was nothing I could do about it but wait for the reaction.
Amazingly I only had a mild case of the puffer fish, with no massive ramifications! Very lucky for me.
The morale of the story, no matter how much the food looks good, check the ingredients with the cook before indulging!
Tuesday, 31 May 2011
A day dream
I often dream of the day where I can go out somewhere to eat and I will be able to find something at the first restaurant/cafe I go too and not have to traipse around the 2,3,4 different places finding something that I can eat.
I went out with some friends today and had a hot chocolate to start with, the girls had raisin toast but as there was no gf options, I just stuck to the drink. After some chatting and catching up we decided it was time for lunch, I went to ask what gf lunch options there were. My first choice was the soup of the day, they had run out of soup and the only other option I could have was a salad (it was freezing cold, so not my first choice!), they girl did actually suggest at the gf cakes, the entire 2 that were available! Not actually something I would eat for lunch!
The next cafe we asked had pumpkin soup, my first question was did it have stock in it, the reply was I'm sure it doesn't but I'm not really sure??? WTF!!! I wasn't going to take the risk.
I ended up having sushi, always a safe option and opted out on the soy sauce (I'm pretty sure the little fish have gluten in them). The Sushi was great as it always is, at Narellan Town Centre for the local readers, always made fresh.
The annoying thing is its really not that hard to provide gf food, if you can do gluten sandwiches and wraps etc just buy some gf bread, charge more for it if you have too, but just to have that option would be fantastic!
It's embarrassing when you are the one who has to make everyone move around from cafe to cafe finding somewhere you can eat something at. My friends and family are very considerate and understanding (even more so since reading my blog) but I still feel bad that it is me making everyone move from place to place.
The scary thing is in Australia in the last few years the availability of gf products and food as greatly increased! I often think how fortunate I am to have been diagnosed only last year, when it is something that is understood to some degree by the general public and catered for at various supermarkets, restaurants etc (even if only to a small degree).
I went out with some friends today and had a hot chocolate to start with, the girls had raisin toast but as there was no gf options, I just stuck to the drink. After some chatting and catching up we decided it was time for lunch, I went to ask what gf lunch options there were. My first choice was the soup of the day, they had run out of soup and the only other option I could have was a salad (it was freezing cold, so not my first choice!), they girl did actually suggest at the gf cakes, the entire 2 that were available! Not actually something I would eat for lunch!
The next cafe we asked had pumpkin soup, my first question was did it have stock in it, the reply was I'm sure it doesn't but I'm not really sure??? WTF!!! I wasn't going to take the risk.
I ended up having sushi, always a safe option and opted out on the soy sauce (I'm pretty sure the little fish have gluten in them). The Sushi was great as it always is, at Narellan Town Centre for the local readers, always made fresh.
The annoying thing is its really not that hard to provide gf food, if you can do gluten sandwiches and wraps etc just buy some gf bread, charge more for it if you have too, but just to have that option would be fantastic!
It's embarrassing when you are the one who has to make everyone move around from cafe to cafe finding somewhere you can eat something at. My friends and family are very considerate and understanding (even more so since reading my blog) but I still feel bad that it is me making everyone move from place to place.
The scary thing is in Australia in the last few years the availability of gf products and food as greatly increased! I often think how fortunate I am to have been diagnosed only last year, when it is something that is understood to some degree by the general public and catered for at various supermarkets, restaurants etc (even if only to a small degree).
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