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Gluten-free Glutening?!?!

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Fiddle-Faddle Community Regular
Fiddle-Faddle
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Well, I found a store that sells lots of gluten-free stuff, so I bought $40 worth of gluten-free stuff, and for lunch I had a sandwich on gluten-free BREAD (tasted okay) and a kinnikinnick glazed chocolate doughnut which was delicious. Thing is, I'm not used to those heavy carbs anymore. I felt dopey and sleepy (2 of the 7 dwarves!) all afternoon, and had major diarrhea just before dinner.

The ironic thing is, I never had these problems with real gluten-just bloating and that durn rash! So does this mean I can't eat the gluten-free substitutes either? :angry::blink:

Oh, well, back to corn tortillas and fritos!

(Whoops, I menat to put this under "Coping with Celiac," sorry about that.)

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key
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Kinnikinnick is in a dedicated plant I believe and I eat it all the time without problem. Maybe it was just a fluke thing. I love their products and have had way too much of them lately. I had a chocolate glazed donut at breakfast, their mini pizza at lunch and grill cheese for supper on their bread. Was not a very healthy day for me, but I go back and forth between very healthy and not so healthy.

Hope you feel better.

Monica

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Felidae
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Kinnikinnick doesn't even let their staff bring gluten containing lunches to work. It is very safe. However, I find if I eat too many new gluten-free foods at once I get kind of sluggish. It could be the unhealthy aspect, like pies, cookies, and bagels. Now I try to only eat only one or two types of gluten-free packaged product a day such as one bagel and some tortilla chips and I try to keep whole foods as the remainder. It could be the carbs or something you ate with them like dairy or soy.

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Carriefaith
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What brand was the gluten free bread?

Mahee34 Enthusiast
Mahee34
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sometimes i react to certain gluten free foods just because they are a lot heavier in substance than my body is used to, especially the breads. i've noticed too with a lot of gluten free products they try to make up for taste with massive amounts of sugar, which can also have an affect on the body if you aren't used to that much sugar.

i know if i get too much sugar i feel pretty dopey myself :)

penguin Community Regular
penguin
Posted

I can feel kind of yucky with the gluten replacement foods, even Tinkyada makes me dopey if I have too much of it. I think a lot of it is because rice has at least a medium glycemic index.

I had a gluten-free carrot cake yesterday and half way through the piece I went, "you know what, I don't really like cake!"

Which is true, I don't, and didn't before going gluten-free. I don't buy a ton of replacement breads etc. because I didn't really eat them to begin with (talk about listening subconsciously to your body). When I have, though, they do make me a bit dopey. :rolleyes:

They're heavier and use exotic grains my poor war-torn digestive tract doesn't like to process regularly...

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