Hi there its ME........time for another list - Monday, 30th December, 2013.

Here we are, on the night before New Year's Eve, with another list for you - on the Gluten-free products to be found on my store cupboard shelves.

For years, I've had a problem with wheat, causing flatulence and bloating, frightful nausea and other horrid symptoms.   My diet has always contained a great deal of flour in bread, puddings, pies, biscuits, pastry, suet puddings, scones and all manner of delicious baked goods. Its just the way things have been, our national diet, for the filling, warming and comforting qualities such food items have provided.

These foods are still very much with us, still part of the normal daily diet of the nation, still loved and required, needed and, at times, positively yearned for.  The comfortableness of such items simply cannot be denied and are not only yearned for, but most frequently sought, for their moral boosting, confidence and life enhancing attributes.

However, personally imbibing too much of the above delicious nourishment can, and indeed does, sadly cause problems for the human digestion, leading to all manner of health issues.  Too much of a good thing is simply not good for one....oh dear!  Too much wheat adds too much gluten to the diet, and it is the gluten, which really gives us the many difficulties associated with a diet heavily addicted to wheat

However, the problem of too much wheat, has long been studied and researched and today we have a whole range of gluten-free foods, mixes, additions and enhancements to use in our kitchens and homes everywhere, for those constitutions sensitive to wheat consumption.

Here's my present list of gluten-free items -

Doves Farm Gluten and Wheat Free - Plain White Flour Blend / Brown Bread Flour /
Gluten-Free White Self-raising Flour Blend /
Gluten-free Rice Flour
Gluten-free Gram (chickpea) Flour
Doves Farm Organic Gluten Free Pasta
Doves Farm Xanthan Gum - a wonderful product which helps the product crumb and keeps the food item stable.

It's not a long list, is it?  Well, just in the last few weeks or so, I've discovered all the naturally gluten-free food such as, meat, fish, veggies , cheese and so on...   And, all the time I thought they were just are normal food items eaten?

I've no real handle on a Coeliac diet yet but, give me time...!

So, if you have a problem, or think you might have a sensitivity to wheat, go see your doctor, then explore the shelves of your favourite supermarket, and find the foods you can eat without incurring nasty problems.

Let me know how you get on...?

Daisy

PS  I'm also going out to see what other gluten-free products there are to discover - and try them - for some, I've discovered, are not personally gluten-free....?

PPS  do have fun xxx