Does anybody have any tips on the hea... - Gluten Free Guerr...
Does anybody have any tips on the healthy side of being a Coeliac? There always seem to have far too much sugar than normal foods.
Meat, fish, veg, rice, potatoes and fruit- healthiest diet going and all you need! Yoghurts (soy or milk), and fruit and nut help with a sweet tooth.
I agree with Abby and would add quinoa to her list, you cook qunoa like rice and it is a very healhty nutritious food.
It makes me laugh some foods in the free from section as I think free from what? I know its wheat/gluten and dairy but here's Mrs Crimbles Bakewell slices
Ingredients:
Sugar, margarine [vegetable oils and fats (palm, coconut, rapeseed), water, emulsifier (mono and diglycerides of fatty acids), acidity regulator (citric acid), colour (beta- carotene)], rice flour, strawberry filling [sugar, straw berries, water, dextrose, invert sugar syrup, citric juice, thickeners (pectic, sodium alginate), modified starch, elderberry juice, flavouring, stabiliser (calcium citrate), preservative (potassium sorbate)], eggs, apricot jam [sugar , apricots, glucose-fructose syrup, water, stabilisers ( pectin, sodium alginate), acidity regulators (citric acid, asorbic acid), anti-oxidant (calcium citrate), flavourings, preservative (potassium sorbate)], coconut, potato starch, almonds (1%), rice starch, glycerine, raising agent (sodium bicarbonate), stabilisers (locust bean gum, pectin), water , dextrose, fructose, flavouring, salt, sorbitol, xylitol, glucose syrup, preservatives (potassium sorbate, sodium acetate, calcium acetate, calcium propionate), acidity regulators (citric acid, potassium
Nutritional Information
Per 100g: Energy 1692Kj/405kcal, Protein 3.0g, Carbohydrate 49.1g, of which sugars 29.8g, Fat 21.8g. of which saturates 13.1g. Fibre 1.9g, Sodium 0.078g
As Jerry & Abby say the best way is to eat naturally. All the Free From aisle products are stuffed with sugar, salt and fat to make them taste better. Sadly healthy eating hasn't reached the free from aisle yet. Lots of fruit, veg and beans for fibre as well are key for coeliacs. You can eat Free From items if you find you can tolerate them but I'd agree - do check the labels. I know if I indulge in a GF cookie I bloat up but have no pain as the sugars affect me. As with much in life - the knack is all things in moderation.
Well actually a free-from diet is not that unhealthy if you moderate the foods from the free from aisle. Meat, fish, veg, fruit especially if home cooked is a good mix. Just need to ensure you have replacement carbs (rice, potatoes, quinoa, etc).
Key is home cooking, rather than processed meals. I get dismayed when going around supermarket and see pre-prepared mashed potatoes, peeled potatoes, etc on sale...
I did a lot of work in Brazil a few years back and its very interesting - a very poor country, yet their poorer people tend to be nutritionally quite healthy (they may get other diseases given tropical climate). I asked them what they considered to be a luxury item? They replied "a microwave meal" which was very expensive. As they eat so much fresh fruit, veg, fish, meat and have comparatively less sugar a lot of the ailments that plague western countries (heart disease, etc) don't affect them.
So coeliac diet, although limiting, is not a bad diet.
Hi, I bought the Mrs Crimbles bakewell slices and couldn't eat them!! far to sweet!! gave them to hubby. M&S do a couple of "to die" for cakes, a chocolate cherry one and a Lemon sponge both gluten free and taste like they are not...I am new to all this and felt a bit lost..but have decided plain meat, fish, salad and vegetables. plus fruit is the way forward... with GF bread, cakes etc on rare occasions. potatoes and rice provide carbs. the less processed a food is the better...I usually start the day with fresh fruit and a yogurt, lunch is DS gluten free crispbread with Samon and Cucumber, or cream cheese, or a DS ciabatta roll ( these actually taste pleasant)..dinner is meat or fish with salad or veg sometimes a rice salad..using wholemeal rice, with chopped peppers spring onions sweetcorn and a garlic dressing (crush garlic with rock salt to make a paste then add teasp mustard, and teasp white wine vinegar, 6 teasp extra virgin olive oil ) mix in the dressing to the rice while rice still warm..then add peppers etc and some saltanas and chopped apple delicious and filling. hope that has helped xx
