Poll of the Day > Give me a list of gluten and sugar free meals I can make.

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I keep eating shit but I don't want too.

ok, hear me out... get a giant stockpile of gluten-free pasta and just eat all of it; do you feel better?

Or - buy some vital wheat gluten from the store and make FORTIFIED pasta with extra gluten and see how that treats ya!

scrambled eggs with cheese

Don't you have student loans?

You don't need to avoid gluten if you don't have celiac disease.

Beef Jerky

There are all kinds of things you can do with rice.

HelIWithoutSin posted...

Don't you have student loans?

lol

Steak

Meals or snacks? Meals are easy, especially if you're doing the cooking yourself, since you pretty much just need to avoid pasta/bread and use cornstarch instead of flour if you need to thicken something. Just watch out for anything processed that you buy, since gluten makes its way into those things surprisingly often (sausages and soy sauce being two noteworthy examples that people often don't think of). Snacks can be trickier, since most typical snacks are either sweet or bread-based (crackers and the like), but you can make your own potato chips if you've so inclined (consider an air fryer to simplify the process), and snacking on fruit is generally pretty healthy because the fibre content helps to offset what their fructose content would otherwise do to your blood sugar.

Beef Jerky good snack. Expensive tho and need lots of dental floss

Revelation34 posted...

You don't need to avoid gluten if you don't have celiac disease.

quite a few other reasons to avoid it that isn't just one specific disease

ConfusedTorchic posted...

quite a few other reasons to avoid it that isn't just one specific disease

Gluten itself is only harmful for those with celiac, but avoiding wheat can be beneficial in other ways, and "gluten-free" works well as a proxy for "wheat-free."

most foods that have gluten also are high in carbs, which is undesirable for a large portion of the population since diabetes is a thing

Yep, that's how avoiding wheat is beneficial. Wheat in particular has a very high glycemic index, even in whole wheat products, so limiting that for anyone trying to keep their blood sugar under control is a good idea. That's still not gluten itself, though, just using "gluten-free" labels as a convenient proxy to help avoid wheat products.

Wheat or grain? Cuz I get lots of non wheat pasta such as teff/sorghum

On the plus side, those with celiac disease (my SO's father and her sister) have a much easier time finding gluten free things now.

shadowsword87 posted...

On the plus side, those with celiac disease (my SO's father and her sister) have a much easier time finding gluten free things now.

On the other hand, though, restaurants are sometimes less cautious about cross-contamination or otherwise don't take the issue seriously because they know so many of the people claiming to be gluten intolerant are just jumping on the bandwagon, and that can make it less safe to eat out. By and large, though, celiac is indeed much easier to manage now than it was before GF became a fad.

Amaranth, arrowroot, buckwheat, corn & hominy, flax, millet, plantain, potatoes, oats*, quinoa, rice & wild rice, sorghum, sweet potato, tapioca (cassava), teff, and yam are all gluten free starches.

Avoid anything with wheat, barley, rye, or triticale. Wheat has a number of different names, including bulgur, durum, einkorn, emmer, farina, farro, kamut, khorasan, semolina, and spelt.

*Use caution with oats; while they are gluten-free, they are frequently contaminated with wheat during processing. Stick with a brand that actually advertises they are gluten-free.

adjl posted...

On the other hand, though, restaurants are sometimes less cautious about cross-contamination or otherwise don't take the issue seriously because they know so many of the people claiming to be gluten intolerant are just jumping on the bandwagon, and that can make it less safe to eat out. By and large, though, celiac is indeed much easier to manage now than it was before GF became a fad.

Yeah, thankfully the dad vomits and the sister has horrific headaches (and was losing hair). Not deadly just an awful time.