New To Gluten Intolerance

[erintroy25]

Im young...25 yrs old. I still live home with the parents & my mom keeps things in the house that I cant eat, Im always temptated to eat what I cant have and lately Ive been finding myself sneaking those things. Its sooo hard.

My other problem is lunch. Im a semi picky eater and when I first found out that I had this problem I ate grilled chicken & salad for lunch...theres only soo much of that that I can eat. I cant eat cold cuts. What else can I eat? Some one please help me??? Ive lost 15lbs in 3weeks.

[Marz]

I can share what I make myself for lunch? Depends on where you spend your day and have lunch - is there somewhere you can keep food in a fridge/warm up in a microwave? If that's the case, you can just take supper leftovers for lunch and that opens up your lunch to anything! Are you dairy free as well?

I felt spare taking a tupperware of food to lunch at work, since we are supplied a (non-gluten-free) lunch at work; now I see several people have started doing the same as me, so I don't feel so weird.

For snacks - fruit, nuts, carrot sticks, Fritos chips, Lays, chocolate in order of healthiness Rice crackers/thins with anything spread on them - peanut butter, jam, gluten-free Marmite if you're into that stuff, cream cheese.

You could bring tupperwares of yoghurt with you, makes for a nice snack.

If you can go home and cook, you can make yourself anything really - fry up some bacon, eggs, or zap some veges in the microwave?

How about a tuna salad? I mix it up with some onion, lettuce, cucumber, bit of mayo, cheese, salt/pepper.

[srall]

Before this (self) diagnosis, I had perfected my pizza crust, and my spaghetti recipe. (And muffins and cookies...sigh) Haven't quite figured out an edible pizza crust yet (mostly because I'm only 5 months in and my system can't handle a lot of the flours) but I made my spaghetti sauce with rice noodles and it tasted the same!

I'm still sticking to whole foods, but I can make minnestrone to die for, that's really easy...just a couple different kinds of beans, diced tomatoes, veggie broth, garlic, carrots, celery and oregano, cumin and basil...simple and you can make a lot and store it.

Fish and salads I have the most success with as far as feeling good. Personally I think you are going to have to learn how to cook (if you don't already know) and experiment with some new foods and spices. I hate the inconvenience of this diet, but I'm loving the food I can eat.

[miles]

If you look in the baking and cooking section of this forum you can find many ideas and recipes.

If you look at peoples profiles many have blogs with even more recipes and ideas. One that is very worth checking out is irishdaveyboy

[sandsurfgirl]

Lunch was a pain for me even before gluten free.

I either have leftover from dinner or I bring a bunch of foods, not a "meal" per se.

Today I had chicken breast, cut up carrots, a banana, an orange, an apple and a bag of almonds. I don't eat a lot of bread but if I do have bread, I often prefer it with some honey rather than a sandwich. Glutino has some very yummy crackers so I will bring some of those. I also like Kettle baked potato chips, labeled gluten free. I'm trying to lose weight so you could have regular not baked if you need to gain.

Costco has ham steaks that have no nitrates etc in them. I fry one up in the morning and bring that for a protein. Or hard boiled eggs.

I buy a bag of nuts and pack servings in those little snack size baggies so I can grab and go. Throw some Ghirardelli chocolate chips in there and you have a nice treat.

Sometimes I bring salad but they are such a pain to make.

I make my own salad dressings. Here are my two faves.

Balsamic vinaigrette= balsamic vinegar half cup, half cup olive oil, tbsp mustard, 2 tbsp honey. Adjust to taste.

Citrus vinaigrette- half cup OJ, 2 or 3 tbsp lemon juice, half cup olive oil, basil if you have it, preferably fresh but dried is okay

Lemon juice, honey, olive oil and salt is good too.

Add minced shallots to any dressings and it really gives a nice flavor.