Thoughts on organic diet vs gluten free?

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Tell HR you have an eating disorder and you're being discriminated against.  It's a sad world if adults need HR to understand basic manners and boundaries.

Cooking your own food allows you to omit any problem ingredients.

I think a lot of food is unpalatable because it isn't cooked as well as it could have.

Including so-called Nutritionists. They're full of rubbish and don't know what they're talking about (From my personal experience with two: One was a friend of a friend, the other paid for). If you want diet advice, ask a dietician. They are qualified and not filled with candida diet nonsense. I had a nutritionist lecture me about diet even though she made assumptions about certain foods (i.e. That all Waitrose branded food wouldn't have additives in them) cos she was arrogant. She kept forgetting what allergies I had and sent me recipes including them as part of the main ingredients. She also told me, "I don't know what autism is but it's no excuse for you not to work". She never "cured" me of my "candida". It turned out in the end my bad eczema was an allergic reaction to eggs, not candida like both nutritionists said.

Rant over.

Had to inform sister-in-law if these types of issues regarding her little boy: she was getting frustrated with the length of time the due process as conducted by a dietician and a paediatric gastroenterologist was taking and was searching online for something quicker... had to tell her too shut her wallet and run away when she asked me what I thought of a site that purported to be able to diagnose any and every food allergy from a pinprick of blood (for a hefty fee of course)

I'll be honest here: I don't know how those allergy tests work. My sister had allergy testing when she was little (Her allergies were so bad at one point, all she could eat was potato, and even had a birthday "cake" made out of potato). I've never received allergy tests, but since mine are food related I was just told to keep a food diary. The proper way to do it is to eat a basic, very plain food like plain boiled white rice. Then one at a time, every 24 hours introduce one food at a time that is only one ingredient.

What happened with your sister-in-law's son in the end?

... And I'm too realistic to think I'm going to regularly bake my own...

Thanks for the replies all!
However I seem to have fallen at the first hurdle as the supermarket didn't have any organic bread.
And I'm too realistic to think I'm going to regularly bake my own.
I might have to seek out a specialty shop for it.

I'd be really interested to hear from anyone who's tried gluten free and/or organic diets and your opinions on my thought bubble.

Bear with me with a little background?

Every now and then, when I've been having a hard time with illness and mental health and seemingly escalating autistic issues, I ponder whether there might be a dietary solution. The trouble is, I'm really not one to engage in diets (especially the strict types that cut out whole food groups). It's a combination of lacking time and energy, the need to cook meals acceptable to my kids, plus a natural skepticism as to whether benefits are anything more than a placebo effect. Plus, you know, coffee and doughnuts.

Anyway, I was feeling bad enough to consider what would be involved in cutting gluten (often mentioned as an autism treatment for kids) - but it all seemed so hard. No wheat, rye, oats, bread, pasta, biscuits... Besides which, it always seems a bit weird that so many of us should be suffering from gluten sensitivities, when our forebears had no such issues - and our cultural cuisine was based on a 'healthy' dose of daily bread.

With a bit of reading and further consideration, I'm wondering if the main culprit might in fact be pesticide residues? Isn't it the case that a lot of pesticides act as neurotoxins? Nowadays we know that the gut is like a 'second brain' and produces even more neurotransmitters, so it's easy to imagine that pesticide residues in food might affect it badly. Are these the root cause of the modern malady of 'leaky gut', which is allowing those nasty glutens and caseins into our systems?

So here is my thought bubble. Maybe by eating organic produce as far as possible, and in particular organic staples like bread and pasta, this could prevent 'leaky gut' - in which case I could still enjoy bread and milk (aka coffee and doughnuts) - in organic form.

Or is this just wishful thinking?
Discuss...

My gripe with 'gluten-free' products is they're so expensive...