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5 Days To Gluten Free

lob6796

By lob6796
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lob6796
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In 5 days I go for my biopsy. My blood tests already showed positive for celiac so as soon as I have the biopsy I am going gluten free (not waiting on results). I do NOT plan on ever cheating, so I would like to get in all my fav's before the 5 days are up. If you had 5 days to eat anything, what would you eat? What is just NOT the same once you go gluten free? Looking for fun ideas :) I'm gonna be so sick to my stomach, but I don't care, lol - I'll make up for it by never cheating on the gluten free, hehe. So fire away! What's teh one thing you miss the most? You can live vicariously through me!

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jmengert Enthusiast
jmengert
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Two things: a krispy kreme donut (preferably a hot one if they have a bakery nearby)

a pan pizza from pizza hut with extra cheese.

i can't do dairy or gluten, so these are the things that i just can't replicate. eat them and relish every second for me!

gf4life Enthusiast
gf4life
Posted

French Bread, Croissants, oh and fresh baked starter bread hot right from the bakery oven! Yummmm.

ptkds Community Regular
ptkds
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I did this before going gluten-free. I ate chinese, pizza, doughnuts, big juicy cheeseburgers, fried chicken, pastas, etc. I had a hard time giving it up, but I don't cheat either. Whenever I consider it, I think of how the food will only last a few minutes on my tastebuds, but it will take me DAYS to get over it! So I dont' cheat, but I am tempted. :P

tarnalberry Community Regular
tarnalberry
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croissant or strawberry shortcake (the light, fluffy kind). or anything from phyllo, really. :)

oh, and oatmeal. nothing tastes the same as steel cut oatmeal! :) (I think I react to it.)

SunnyDyRain Enthusiast
SunnyDyRain
Posted

Pizza. Extra- no FOUR Cheese SICILIAN Pizza.. the kind you chew four hours andthe grease run down your arms...

Pasta... Fetichini Alfredo...

CinniBon

Chinese food, general tso's, from the seedyest non english speaking place you can find.

Cheesecake!

Just enjoy going to a restraunt and ordering off the menu following your taste buds without worrying what you are eating. enjoy not worring about your waiter being smart enough to understand your problems or being nice enough to care.

jmd3 Contributor
jmd3
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In 5 days I go for my biopsy. My blood tests already showed positive for celiac so as soon as I have the biopsy I am going gluten free (not waiting on results). I do NOT plan on ever cheating, so I would like to get in all my fav's before the 5 days are up. If you had 5 days to eat anything, what would you eat? What is just NOT the same once you go gluten free? Looking for fun ideas :) I'm gonna be so sick to my stomach, but I don't care, lol - I'll make up for it by never cheating on the gluten free, hehe. So fire away! What's teh one thing you miss the most? You can live vicariously through me!

Papa John's pizza - A big fat jelly donut w/a cuppicinno - or a chocolate gob - or a loaf of just baked french bread, half w/bruschetta, and half w/butter - or maybe one piece of kfc original receipe - good blue cheese salad dressing on lettuce hearts w/walnuts

However - as sick as I was and still am, I would never knowingly eat wheat ever, ever again

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LisaJ Apprentice
LisaJ
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A Big Mac! Boy do I miss Big Macs. That's really about the only thing I *really* miss.

iluvbread Newbie
iluvbread
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Wow... I went gluten-free 3 weeks ago, and gave myself 10 hours.... I GLUTTONED and by 11:30 (midnight my 'glutonline') I just could not put down one more organic 'Oreo'. I was so nasty feeling. I envy you and your 5 days, it might have made this so much easier for me. I did it for my breastfeeding son, not myself (knowing *I* would never be able to go back either, but in realized denial :unsure: ), and so once I decided I did it quick.

Sigh, what I would give for another slice of my husband's homemade slowrise bread. :(

Oh, and breadsticks and a Guinness and the honey glazed pastry type rolls that (the now defunct) Hops used to give out.

pamelaD Apprentice
pamelaD
Posted

I would fly to San Francisco and eat as much sourdough bread as humanly possible!!

JNBunnie1 Community Regular
JNBunnie1
Posted

Garlic toast! I have been able to recreate almost everything with gluten free flour, except for that light, crispy-edged, buttery garlic toast they give you in restaurants. Wah.

StrongerToday Enthusiast
StrongerToday
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Bacon egg & cheese biscuit from McD's. Pizza hut stuffed crust pizza. The gnocchi sorrento and garlic bread from the little Itallian hole-in-the-wall near me that I used to visit weekly (he probably thinks I died or moved!). Chocolate lava cake. French fries right out of the fryer. ONION RINGS. Crab Rangoons.

And while my mouth is drooling at the thought of all this, my stomach is like "whoa! not again" ... so no, I don't cheat - not worth it.

Karen B. Explorer
Karen B.
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Garlic toast! I have been able to recreate almost everything with gluten free flour, except for that light, crispy-edged, buttery garlic toast they give you in restaurants. Wah.

I made that recently for my Celiac group using GFP French bread made in my french bread pan. It was crispy-crunchy and vanished like the wind.

The combo of the GFP French bread and the french bread pan makes a MAJOR difference in texture. So much so that a co-worker asked me to make her a couple of loaves for a dinner party she was having (with a Celiac guest). She wanted to make bruschetta and everyone there raved about it.

Karen B. Explorer
Karen B.
Posted

Kentucky Fried Chicken

Popeye's Fried Chicken

Popeye's Fried Shrimp

Jack in the Box tacos

I've been able to recreate the taste of most things but these are the junk food items I still can't get right.

and one non-junk food item -- Premium Saltine crackers

eleep Enthusiast
eleep
Posted

2nd on the croissant -- actually, pretty much anything from a bakery involving really good baguettes and/or puff pastry (heck -- I'd buy a package of puff pastry in the freezer section and wrap it around everything I could see...). Asian dumplings -- potstickers. Pizza from the best local pizzeria I knew.

Really good dark beer.

stephanie19 Newbie
stephanie19
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I second lots of the things already mentioned: cinnamon rolls, fresh warm artisan-type bread, pizza...the list could go on and on!

I would also suggest any homemade recipes you love. For me, that would be grandma's butter roll recipe, mom's cinnamon sour cream coffee cake, etc. While you'll be able to find satisfactory replacements for lots of commerically-made foods, you may not be able to perfectly replicate these things that you have special attachments to. I think these are the things I truly miss, because I have such specific and complex memories of them that they're just not the same with modifications, whereas I can get used to, say, corn tortillas instead of flour.

Just a thought...

Enjoy your last couple of days!

TrillumHunter Enthusiast
TrillumHunter
Posted

My husband's hot-from-the oven biscuits covered with his sausage gravy. *sigh*

Two hot glazed Krispy Kremes

ETA: A pitcher of cold draft beer. I know you said "eat" but :lol:

UR Groovy Explorer
UR Groovy
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Pizza, Pizza, Pizza (Papa John's), garlic bread - mmmmm, pizza, fried chicken, pizza, pizza, cinnabon, pizza

alamaz Collaborator
alamaz
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my great grandmothers homemade noodles and chicken (yummmmm)

my grandmas pumpkin pie

my grandmas chocolate chip cookies

a gigantic cheese burger with a gigantic side of cheese fries and a newcastle beer

a whole pizza from my fav. mom and pop pizza place

three of my favorite chocolate fudge brownie sundaes from the ice cream shop........

Worriedwife Apprentice
Worriedwife
Posted

The tandori bread they serve in Asia, a restaraunt in the Bellagio in Vegas. We will REALLY miss this.

jkmunchkin Rising Star
jkmunchkin
Posted

Another vote for that croissant. In fact I would have a croissant with turkey, lettuce and tomato on it. And a chocolate croissant too. There was this place in the Stamford (CT) mall that I used to get those 2 things all the time when I was a little kid. It was my favorite. They had the best croissants.

Two of the last things I ate before going gluten free where a oreo cupcake from Crumb's bakery and a gyro. I'm not entirely sure where the gyro came in because it wasn't even something I ate often before, but I just wanted it; and it was great!

Crystalkd Contributor
Crystalkd
Posted

Drink a Kilian's Red for me! I wish I had thought to slurge before I went on the diet but I was in so much pain the day before I started that it wasn't hard to do without reservation and just the thought of feeling well agian kick started it for me! I could think of so many other things I want but my stomache hurts just thinking about them.

Darn210 Enthusiast
Darn210
Posted

The only thing my daughter still gets weepy about: Panera Bread's cinnamon crunch bagel.

If anybody has a good substitute/alternative for this, I'd love to hear it!

Janet

JessieFree Apprentice
JessieFree
Posted

biscuits and pie!]

In 5 days I go for my biopsy. My blood tests already showed positive for celiac so as soon as I have the biopsy I am going gluten free (not waiting on results). I do NOT plan on ever cheating, so I would like to get in all my fav's before the 5 days are up. If you had 5 days to eat anything, what would you eat? What is just NOT the same once you go gluten free? Looking for fun ideas :) I'm gonna be so sick to my stomach, but I don't care, lol - I'll make up for it by never cheating on the gluten free, hehe. So fire away! What's teh one thing you miss the most? You can live vicariously through me!
happygirl Collaborator
happygirl
Posted

papa john's pizza with garlic sauce, choc chip bagel with cream cheese, auntie anne's pretzels, chicken nuggets, mcd's cheeseburger, pokey sticks from gumbys, chicken quesadillas from applebee's, smirnoff ice, and a peanut butter and jelly sandwich :)

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