Gluten Free?

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The only thing I've done diet wise is that I use Vanilla Soymilk in my cereal instead of regular milk. It actually tastes better and doesnt taste so weird. However chocolate Soymilk tastes bad and I love regular chocolate milk. It doesn't taste as weird to me as regular milk does.

I cant do anymore with gluten free diets cause they only sell that kind of stuff in Health Supermarkets were everything's too expensive.

Plus I am VERY addicted to cheese. I'll eat like 5 slices a day!

[quote="Morgana"] I have a lot of recipes which I created myself. Let me know if you want any- (do you cook or bake?)
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Hi Morgana,
would love to share recipes (I'm a chef). Here is one I've been working on perfecting recently.

Quinoa Pancakes

2 c quinoa soaked and sprouted for 1-2 days
1/2 c sunflower or coconut oil
1/2 c agave
1 egg (or for a vegan version use 1T ground flaxseeds or 1/2 c applesauce)

Blend all ingredients very well in vita mix or blender
then add

1T baking powder
1/2 T baking soda

use as you would regular pancake batter, you can keep this in a jar in the fridge for up to a week, and just use it as you need it. It also works well in a waffle iron, just oil very well.
The texture of these pancakes is amazing, very light and fluffy.
I'm working on developing muffin and cake recipes with this batter, several disasters, muffins fell today, but I did make a really good flourless chocolate torte.
Will post more recipes if I make anything good.

I have a ton of food intolerance, especially gluten, wheat, fructose, lactose, MSG, etc. I have a ton of physical symptoms when I eat those things. I get diarrhea, nausea, stomach aches, headaches, and fatigue. I even get colds constantly and my immunity gets bad, so i have to avoid those foods. It also affects my moods and thinking. I have struggled in the beginning, especially emotional because I loved those foods and I was already too thin and I am being accused of having an eating disorder because of it. Plus, every time I am with family and others, The are frustrated and so am I because we can not really go out to eat, because of my intolerance. Even if they had something on the menu I can have, i have to be careful because one can never know if that food was cooked in the same pan that had an intolerant food in it. Some places just use the same pan and/or grill without cleaning it before the put the new food on it. I had problems like that before and I am very sensitive.
It turns out I had these all of my life, but I had struggled lifelong constipation with it instead of diarrhea, only with lactose I had the diarrhea in my 20's. But because my parents and no one else knew back i when i was younger(I was born in 1978), I struggled with it. My colon end up dead and stopped working and I had it removed in August 2008. After that, when i ate of the intolerant foods, i got diarrhea and all of those symptoms instead. That is when i did a whole elimination diet under a doctor and that is what was discovered.

Then take it slow --- just take food and things as they are!

The almost constant dizzy spells I kept getting seem to have been the result of gluten. I've been mostly gluten-free for a few months now, but once in a while I'll eat a slice of toast or something, and the next day, I get a dizzy spell that lasts a day or two. So, I'm pretty sure there was a connection. I've never been official tested, because by the time I figured this out for myself, I was so fed up with doctors and health care insurance, that I want nothing to do with any of them.

I don't understand the fuss about finding special "gluten-free" food. You don't need to replace foods with special gluten free varieties of the same thing. Like on "Snow Cake", where all she has in the house are some nasty little gluten-free crackers. Why not have some tortilla chips (which, to me means a good brand, not something overprocessed like Doritos, which probably have some kind of gluten-containing seasonings.)

I eat rice and potatoes instead of pasta. I miss French bread and crackers, but that's not the end of the world. Instead of having a plate of cheese and crackers, I have cheese and apple slices. There are plenty of traditional diets throughout the world that don't involve any gluten. Well, certain candy bars do, like Twix.

I'll just fry up a bunch of vegetables in olive oil, with some chicken or something, and put that over rice. There's not gluten in any of that.

I don't eat ice-cream with chunks of cookie in it. I drink cider instead of beer. (That one is tough, because here in the US it's hard to find hard cider. A lot of people have never even heard of it. It's just a matter of time before the one grocery store I have access to decides to stop carrying it. ) And thank goodness chocolate doesn't have gluten.

In other words, a gluten-free diet isn't hard if you just keep it simple. Don't buy packaged foods with ingredients lists a mile long. Fruit, vegetables, meat, eggs, milk, non-gluten-containing grains....that's all you need. And some of that you don't even need.

I miss cold cereal, like Life, but you get over it. That stuff is too expensive anyway.

The hard part, for me, is that I have 3 other people in my family, 2 of whom will eat nothing but bread and chicken nuggets.

Has anyone read a good book on gluten-free diets? Right now I'm paging through "The ADHD/Autism Diet" by Barrie Silberberg. This is the first time I've read about or tried this diet, but I feel like it's a good idea. Anxiety causes major problems in my life. People get weirded out because I look tense. I really wanted to not be gluten-intolerant, as I already cut out dairy, but I reluctantly began noticing that wheat makes my throat itch.

If you're gluten-free, how long have been following this diet and has it helped you? If so, how?

Thanks.

Rice seems to be a lifesaver of sorts.

And... I am having rice every day..

I am getting ready to try this GFCF diet with my 4 year old. From what I've read it helps more than half of ASD people who try it.

Here are my questions: I hear the milk products tend to cause more problems/symptoms for people than the wheat products... True?
(I'm thinking of taking my son off casein 1st...)

If you are following the GFCF diet are you following it super-strictly? I mean, if you buy a pre-packaged product and the 6th or 7th ingredient down on the list is milk (or a milk product) and it is baked into the product (like a cracker, cookie, etc) do you still avoid that completely just as you would avoid, for example a glass of milk. (I have heard this diet is all-or-nothing, you have to be super-strict with it or don't even bother... does that seem true?)

Also, if you are buying multi-vitamin supplements, I assume those would have to be gulten & caseing free too... right? (Our pediatrician just recommended one - I think accidentally - because when I got home with it, it had both wheat and milk in the ingredients.)

Thank you to anyone who answers these questions. My 4 year old isn't going to be able to tell me whether he feels better drinking rice milk vs. cow's milk and so on... I'm relying on y'all...

I've been on the gluten free diet for 2 years and lactose free diet for 5. It has been so far worth it to do so. I have to be very strict about the gluten part especially. Even a crumb or yes the traces of wheat in vitamins will affect me. It's changed my whole life to do this change.

My symptoms are:

-Extreme pain (especially at that time of the month)
-Excessive mood swings
-Harder to focus
-Harder to speak
-Lost sense of time

Often, from what I've read, the worst of the symptoms (pain) is something that generally occurs at the adult stage and/or at a time of high stress. Mine came on at 19. I figured it out at 22. I make a lot at home but without an oven anything baked is mostly out of the question.

it's extremely easy to hit malnutrition on this kind of diet.
I believe anything you feel from it is within the placebo range.

either case gluten and casein sources are pretty much staples for me. and I had extreme allergy as a child to certain things well along with asd i guess.
nothing of this now. never were on a gf/cf diet.

I'm allergic to gluten and lactose intolerant. I've noticed no psychological effects from eliminating them from my diet. Going gluten-free, did, however, bring an end to 20 years of increasing gastrointestinal trouble. That made me feel better psychologically.

The adjustment to a gluten-free diet wasn't particularly difficult, since I already ate lots of rice. It took time to find good substitutes for the bread I was eating for breakfast and afternoon snack. It took even longer to find the hidden sources of gluten: soy sauce, anything Korean. After 6 years, my intestine finally healed itself.

I have read in several places that after you are gluten free for awhile you will be able to digest dairy with no problems. It just makes more sense to me to go gluten free first and give it enough time to see results and then you could decide if you need to remove dairy or not. That's what I'm doing. I am going to get a lab test also, just worried the doc will make me eat gluten again before the test. ugh. I think I ate something with gluten in it last night as a restaraunt and literally an hour later I was extremely tired and sluggish and this morning I feel like complete poop. Ever since being gluten free I have not even needed to drink coffee in the morning. I have had so much energy it's ridiculous and I can think a lot clearer and I'm way less clumsy and super focused. Today I do not feel ANY of those things. ugh. A part of me is hoping that the test shows I have no allergy to gluten but I get a sinking feeling that is not going to happen. But even if the test is negative and I feel better not eating gluten I might still do it. I am already a vegetarian and a really good cook so I think I can get even more creative with my diet with practice.

I did read some interesting things about the Gluten free diet but I was/am skeptical about it.
So I asked my psychiatrist if he would/could look into the scientific medical findings/facts concerning this particular diet in relation to A.S.
I am curious about his findings and will here them next Wednesday.
When positive I may give it a try.

try this site as well http://www.fedupwithfoodadditives.info/

the main allergies listed(and the ones i test to) for ASD are:

Gluten(wheat, rye, barley etc...) causes an opiate effect and damages intestinal lining
A1 beta casein(found in all dairy and some processed products, except A2 product see http://www.a2milk.com.au/) causes opiate effect
Soy- similar in structure to gluten and casein
Peanuts(possibly to do with yeast)
Yeast(candida in the stomach is a huge problem)
Chocolate
Sugar
Citrus
Salicylates http://www.fedupwithfoodadditives.info/
food colours
artificial flavours
preservatives


consider taking enzymes they really help
and a multivitamin
and omega 3 fatty acids


try orgran or freedom foods for cereals
there are pastas like buckwheat or amaranth
rice noodles are good and cheap
fruits and veg are gluten and casein free
wallnuts and avocado and flax seeds are omega 3
pears and bannanas are really good
beans lentils chickpeas quinoa are good proteins

eggs are the wonder food for ASD they contain over 20 nutrients those on the spectrum are deficient in


hope this helps