The beauty of a gluten free diet

The really good news is that we can throw away all the foods which are bad for us chips, cakes, biscuits, bread, burger buns, hot dogs, (half of our) chocolates, sandwiches, beer, lager etc.

We never have to eat them again.
We (nearly) always get better meals than everyone else.
We certainly get better foods, though UK food processors are getting better.

We can create our own menu for example filled with a:

• good breakfast for example egg and bacon with tomatoes and mushrooms; or boiled eggs with cold meats / cheeses; or kippers or smoked haddock with poached egg; or quinoa porridge; or scrambled eggs with a slice of smoked salmon; (we need to keep the grellins happy)

• substantial lunch sardines with salad and potatoes or cold meats with baked beans and jacket potato

• light evening meal with for example a small portion of pasta, new potatoes with poached fish and ratatouille, and

• particularly puddings for example fresh fruit or with yoghurt or crème fraiche; yoghurt with honey; crème caramel; baked apples. pears etc;

We can lose weight

Then you get the new flavours:

• wine vinegar, rice vinegar, balsamic vinegar

• cakes made with GF cake mix and including courgette with lemon or rhubarb with ginger

• chutneys based on wine vinegar

• mint sauce with red wine vinegar

• quinoa flake porridge with linseed, sultanas and molasses

• gravy made with cornflour

• a huge range of foods all exclude gluten

And if you need something which is similar to flour, then:

• Gram flour is used in good Indian restaurants

• Lentil based dishes are great (Spanish and Indian)

• Other flours include Cornflour (from Maize, sweet corn,) Potato flour, rice flour,

There's a vast choice of foods waiting for us. I find Tesco's has the greatest range of GF foods, the list is huge, twenty five pages of good news in the Coeliac Food & Drink Directory.

PLUS all the fresh vegetables, fruit and meat.

What more do you want!!

Cheers