York Test Results

[Lou C]

:( Got my results back today.....no more cows milk, wheat, yeast or gluten/gliadin.....oh happy days.....NOT!!
Looks like me and Zac are gonna be sharing food!

[Copper]

Oh poor you.

:hug:

Looking on the bright side, you should feel much better on your new diet.

[linny]

Sorry to hear that Lou.:(

Did you suspect any of these results?

[goose]

That's not so good to hear Lou, at least your up to date with the relevant foods to eat. May be easier to adapt

[paranoidangel]

Oh, Lou, that's really harsh. I've got all of those apart from yeast and that's hard enough. At least you know a bit about what you can and can't eat from having to feed Zac.

But as Copper says, give it a few weeks and you'll feel so much better.

[Lou C]

Hi, Thanks everyone.....

You're right that it will be easier now as I know what foods to buy and what to avoid.....It's funny how you go to loads of trouble for your kids and can't be bothered when it comes to yourself!

Linny a doctor I saw about my M.E. privately a couple of years ago said that my medical history suggested to her a posibility of dairy intolerance and she suggested I cut it out she also suggested cutting out wheat....can't remember why exactly!! Being 2 major foods and having no "proof" it was too much like hard work, while feeling ill all the time, to cut them out.

I just hope that this will make me feel better.......Gonna start cutting things out gradually...then go for it properly once Paul comes home......not long to go.:D

One of the things I will miss which I really LOVE is really rich thick gravy! :( And how am I gonna make bread in my breadmaker without yeast???
MATT, WHERE ARE YOU.....I'm sure you'll have the answers!!!

[Copper]

Lou you can thicken your gravy with potato flour.

I make an edible bread in my Panasonic breadmaker. The Panasonic has a special setting for gluten free baking. I use Orgran gluten free easy bake bread mix (white bread). This costs £2.95 and you just add water and vegetable oil. It is everything free. PA will tell you that it is the best tasting bread that she has tried (wheat and gluten free). We did try the bown version but that was weird - it oozed moisture and after a day was very wet.

The Orgran has been described as the Rolls Royce bread mix. It takes just 2 hurs to make in the Panasonic.

[matt]

you called!!!

right firstly my normal cynical..oh what a suprise the yorke test came back with all those hits... i've yet to meet the person who came back all clear.!

right bread. doves farm wheat free flour and wheat free bread flour.
then make soda bread. bicarb of soda as the raising agent. or go for a sour dough version where you allow it to ferment from the yeast that is all around us in the air. impossible to go completely yeast free as it's in the air.

can dig out recipes.

gravy. either use corn flour or arrow root to thicken both are very good.

the M.E. is likely to because if you are caeliac then you aren't absorbing nutrients as the intestines are buggered. no nutrients no energy hence duplicates the main symptom for ME.

[Copper]

My friend has just been diagnosed as coeliac (NHS). His main symptoms were aneamia, weight loss and agonising stomach pains.

I have told him and his wife that he will not starve on his new diet. He will miss the staple things in his life - cornflakes, bread and whisky :lol2:

My challenge is to find somewhere for a group of about 12 friends to eat out next month. One is a vegetarian who likes lots of choice, one is dairy free and one is now coeliac. I will let you know how I get on.

[goose]

Oh good luck Copper, sounds like you got your work cut out.

[matt]

i recently ate at "The three tuns" in bransgore, just north of new milton.

lovely pub and happy to cater for my wheat and dairy free. not the cheapest place but worth the extra.http://www.threetunsinn.com/

[Copper]

Thanks for that Matt. I will tell Chris my coeliac friend. My friends going to the gathering in December live around Poole and Wimborne so I don't think that they will want to go to Bransgore. Some of them have to get up early the next day and go to work.

Maybe we could have a summer gathering too and then we could go to Bransgore. Teachers/lecturers have some time off in the summer.

[paranoidangel]

In a couple of weeks I'm going out to dinner with a group of friends. Catch is, they're doing a sponsored 'free from' week, so they're living either milk or gluten free that week. So, it could be an interesting meal...