What makes you go "Doh!!!!"?

[meanioni]

My favourite, after explaining to someone about gluten and which grains contain it, is when they ask: "Can you eat potatoes?" (how many times have you heard that?)

Yeah, because as we all know, potatoes are made from wheat.... <slaps head>!!!

[Jacks]

Hi Meanioni, Oh yes! I had one particular friend who asks me the most bizarre coeliac questions - potatoes was one of them, beans, chickpeas, even carrots. I used to tell nicely, [yes there was a time ] about the BROW foods - barley rice oats and wheat. I once make the mistake of saying "good job too or we'd have to eat cardboard, or perhaps not because the glue might contain wheat" (then the barrage of questions came - as though I would be eating cardboard - though I sometimes wonder at some of the gf foods! I'm lactose intolerant too so try not to mention that because that really becomes a mind-blower!

This sort of conversation either (a) makes me feel that there are so many foods I can eat or (b) makes me feel so exhausted that there is nothing out there for me to eat!

However my food questions are pale by comparison to the comment by the nurse taking my blood at my last visit - "I wish I had that coeliac disease - I might lose some weight".

[Hidden]

You certainly become the expert when you have a condition and if we are honest how much did we know before then about cross contamination of foods with gluten in them? Lets just educate them and bring our friends on board.

[shirley64 in reply to Hidden]

That is so true, i had never heard of celiac before diagnoses, and found the whole thing to be rather overwhelming.....

[Sappho]

It gets me when you give them the whole explanation then they still offer you some cake/whatever saying that just one bite won't hurt you because its birthday cake....as if that makes a difference. They often say that being Celiac is why I am fit and in good shape.....no, its all the time in the gym that does that....doh........