Hunger

[teresad]

Hi All, do you find because you are basically eating salad, salad, salad and salad for lunch that you are constantly hungry? Even if cheese added, ham etc. Sorry also what do people get for lunch when you are constantly on the road?

[Mia1057]

I make myself a brown rice salad or a gf pasta salad with peppers and feta cheese and onions and anything else i want and some fruit and a yoghurt. If I am on the road I always have fruit, nuts, seeds to keep me going and rice cakes. The secret for me seems to be to eat little and often.

[meanioni]

You need to include some carbs as it is these that provide the energy; your body may be telling you it needs some carbs. Salad does not have appreciable amounts and cheese/ham is mainly protein. So suggest including some boiled potatoes, GF pasta, GF bread or rice

[Hidden]

Hi Teresad, do you visit the same places in your travels, because you can google gluten free and say Exeter and this comes up teaonthegreen.com/about_us....

Then there's this for Plymouth, its living gluten free:

liveglutenfree.co.uk/busine...

Here's the coeliac map for other cafe's restaurants:

coeliacmap.com/

I've got a car kettle and thats great not just for making tea but soup and Heinz sell these squezze and serve soups I like the tomato and I often visit South Devon and have lunch on the edge of Dartmoor in the middle of knowhere and I have home made bread rolls with salad and soup in the winter.

heinz.co.uk/ourfood/soups/s...

You can also make potato salad which will help fill you up, supermarkets sell ready made potato salad you can buy Sharwoods poppadoms and they say Gluten free on the packet.

Onion bhaji's are made with chick pea flour and should be gluten free. There's Clives gf pies just make sure that they are cooked first and eat them cold.

On come dine with me this lady made individual quiches in ramekin dishes with diced fried potato and a normal quiche mix and they looked really good and great for travelling. I make quiches with mashed potato instead of pastry and that's easy peasy to make and travels really well.

If you come to Bristol in your travels just let me know and I'll send you a list of cafe;s that serve pancakes made with Doves farm gf flour or make gf meals and snacks, there's a pizza parlour in Clifton who make gf pizza's. I buy gorgeous falafels from a shop cafe near me so there's many gluten free options out there.

Between us we'll have you eating like a goodun' LOL.

[freelancer]

If I'm out (in the city not on the road so may not be useful) apart from salad I sometimes get slices of tortilla (Spanish omelette) for lunch, which are very filling. M&S do them (not sure about other supermarkets but worth looking) and there's also a Spanish cafe near work that sells them.

And I eat a lot more bananas than I ever have in my life...

[Lynxcat]

Hi Teresa, I am probably the only one here who doesn't eat salad - I find it totally undigestible. I do tend to take things out with me, if I'm out and about .. just in case. I also usually carry plenty of walnuts and almonds and always, always, bananas.

Having seen tonights Great British Bake-off when for the first time in my life learnt that a torte was a tarte like cake made without using wheat flour and usually using nut flours .... I will be tempted to take something like that next time I'm out and about! Lol!!

[marylou85 in reply to Lynxcat]

Hi Lyncat. You may be pleased to you i also do not eat any salad. But i also cannot agree with fruit meaning what i can have on the run is very limited! Can i ask how you get the goodness other people get from Salad as i am aware i am seriously limiting my nutrients! I do tend to get ill quite alot due to a low immune system. When i was little my mum just thought i was a fussy eater and tgen i was diagnosed with CD 3 yrs ago and determined i would start eating better but no matter how hard i try i cant make my self like it and sometimes im physically sick trying

[Lynxcat in reply to marylou85]

Hi Marylou, Regarding food and nutrients - in the West we have a tendency to eat far more than our bodies really need. This is often pushed at us - in the format of the requirement of eating large amounts of vegetables of varying colours to get all the nutrients that we need. If we look around the world the most healthiest of peoples are usually those who eat quite sparsely - exercise extremely moderately - never eat grains or sugars ..

So perhaps the best thing any of us can do to take in nutrients is to eat fairly simply.

If you take a look at some of the articles that Zoë Harcombe has written they are useful in explaining food and how it words - for instance there are two types of vitamins - fat based ones and water based ones - carrots contain vitamin A but in order for our bodies to make use of it the carrot needs to be cooked and requires some fat in our food to help to extricate the vitamin A. So if it is cooked in a casserole, stew or simply served with a little butter then your body can use this vitamin A.

zoeharcombe.com/blog/

So if possible and it is not against your principles eat meat, (including liver and kidney which are high in vitamin B12), fowl, fish, game, eggs (all varieties chicken, turkey, goose, duck, etc), vegetables and fruit in season, dried pulses, grains such as quinoa and millet well washed before cooking to assure of their safety, milk, yoghurt, cream, cheese, herbs, spices and light seasoning ..

[Lynxcat in reply to Lynxcat]

Oops!!!! Should have also added nuts and seeds: my favourites are almonds, Brazils, walnuts, cashews, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds - occasionally pumpkin and of course coconut.

[Lexy]

Hi Teresad - are you sensitive to potatoes? As mentioned earlier, a small pot of potato salad is very filling. I tend to have baked potatoes when I'm out: either with a tuna filling, or if you can tolerate something like cottage cheese that would be an option. If there is grated cheese I would ask if they grate it on the premises as sometimes pre-packaged grated cheese comes with flour added to keep the cheese from sticking together. Other things are good too: little pots of hummous (most supermarkets sell them) are great with either vegetable sticks, or gf crackers/ricecakes. Easy to cart around, like a small pot of potato salad. Just some ideas for you! Good luck

[Laura78]

I find the Paleo diet to be a great way to eat for energy and fullness. Make sure you have a great breakfast and always include a decent amount of protein. some paleos don't eat dairy but i eat some good live yoghurt and good quality cheeses. Eating grain free becomes easier with time and the hunger should subside while your body changes the way it uses energy - taking it mainly from the protein rather than carbs. We are all used to the modern diet of carbs on top of carbs when actually it's not that natural to eat that way. Unfortunately in our fast paced lifestyles this carb munching is quick and easy but it also makes us fat. If you can get through the first few weeks of the paleo diet then you won't have to worry about all the substitute gluten free expensive and unhealthy packaged stuff that we are conned into buying. I was very hungry everyday when i started paleo and it took a few weeks of eating massive breakfasts, lots of poached eggs and kippers etc now i have a very steady hunger i can even get away with fruit, nuts and yoghurt and be full for ages as long as i don't slip back into old habits of basing my diet on high carbs.

I have now become sensitive to carb intake so I have to eat healthy low GI carbs and i'm fine.

It keeps you slim without any effort too!

good luck x

[Hidden]

I used to take a pot of cold small new potatoes that had been tossed in a little butter to nibble at...used to stop all hunger pangs

[BellaC79]

I do find I was suffering from hunger greatly too, I find i have to eat little and often every 3-4hours otherwise i feel like I am going to pass out. I find we need to educate ourselves on nutrient intake on gluten free diet getting the balance right will definately make a difference.

I bake all my own scones, welsh cakes, banana loaves for mid morning snacks and find seed bars/popcorn /nuts great to snack on mid afternoon.

[deltauk]

Not being rude, but if your eating salad, salad, salad, on the road or not, then you need to research more , prepare more and learn what else is out there.

I do eat salad - because i like it, but my diet is far far more varied than that.

Good luck with everything