If you are gluten free what you eat in a day?

[RJB73]

I have suffered from gut issues for almost 30 years, it has become so much worse the older I get.

I have tried everything over those years to try to help myself, literally everything. I follow a low fodmap diet and avoid all of my triggers (caffeine, dairy, certain veg and fruit, high fibre, artificial sweeteners).

I find bread really hard to give up and so eat sourdough bread which is allowed on the low fodmap diet (although I often fall of the low fodmap wagon and eat crackers and regular bread at times too).

So many people say their gut issues improve after they have gone gluten free.

I don't suffer from coeliac disease and I know it is more than likely the fructans in the wheat upsetting me rather than the gluten but I do often wonder if non coeliac gluten sensitivity may be a thing?

I would like to go completely wheat/gluten free for a while just to see if there is any improvement in my issues but my problem is that I find most of the gluten free products either taste disgusting or they have so many nasties in them to make the even slightly resemble gluten products that they really upset my tummy. The other problem I have is that I am actually addicted to bread, I can not go a day without my sourdough toast. Somehow I need to find some tasty alternatives to help during this trial. However, I can't tolerate much corn or rice and high fibre foods wreck my gut. I also have issues with dairy so avoid that too!

So, what do you eat in a day if you are gluten free.

Both my son and me are non coeliac gluten sensitive, confirmed by tests and elimination diet, and have been gf for 18months.
Trial and error on the bread, but the best I've found is genius hand crafted tiger loaf and Warburton thins. Tesco gf brioche rolls are lovely toasted. Unfortunately gf bread is expensive, but in my opinion, the cheaper versions are like cardboard.
The pasta is ok, and a similar price to normal pasta...just don't over cook it as it goes mushy. It's also very sticky if saved for left overs the following day.
Crackers are good too, and the biscuits and generally all other treats. Although I really miss a good doughnut!!
The other 4 members of the household aren't gf, but almost all meals I make are gf so we all eat the same. Exception for the occasional pizza or my sons chicken nuggets.
But there are lots of foods that are naturally gf...meats, rice, quinoa, mash, chips, fruit and veg, popcorn (I love the gf onion rings!). We certainly don't go hungry! And home baking cakes is fun and very tasty. Look at Becky Excell...her cook books are my bibles!!
I didn't find it that hard to be gf, but I home cook most days and there are almost all substitutes (gravy, soy sauce, Worcester sauce etc). I do imagine it would be difficult and expensive for people who have a different cooking style though.
Being non coeliac is a little easier than true coeliac I think, as we can eat (and don't seem to react) to 'may contain'. We don't eat anything with gluten as an ingredients and yes the reactions are obvious.
Both of us have never felt better.
Try it, but I would allow yourself a good month or so to see the difference.

I’ve been gf for about 5 years. I rarely eat gf bread as it’s mostly vile and heavily processed. I eat oats, chia seeds, pea pasta and potatoes. I eat a shit ton of fruit, veg and meat. I steer away from rice as that doesn’t seem to suit me either. Oh eggs, I eat lots of eggs.

I have had to go gluten free about 6 months ago, had over 60 years of eating whatever I wanted. What I eat now:

Breakfast - gf oats/gf Tesco multi grain loops/yoghurt fruit. All with chia seeds and seeds. Schar white bread is delicious for toast.

Lunch - 2 eggs with potatoes, mangetout, salad/potatoes with ham or baked beans plus salad/Rice salad with ham.

Dinner - Rice/gf pizza/gf quiche/chicken/tandoori lamb kebabs/sweet potato fries/prawns in curry sauce with rice/gf fishcakes/cheese and onion crispbake - so many choices, mostly M&S or local butcher. DH non coeliac has same except for normal quiche, pizza, fishcakes.

Biscuits Teaco free from choc digestives and choc wafer biscuits are lovely. Schar custard creams etc good too.

I have coeliac disease and been gf for almost six years. Before diagnosis, pretty much my whole diet was gluten heavy stuff so it was a massive change for me (made worse because I am a silent coeliac).

My advice would be to swerve all gluten substitutes for a good while and just base your diet on naturally gf things. The gf alternatives of things like bread, pasta, cakes, biscuits, pizza etc are rank and you need a space to 'forget' what the proper stuff tastes like. It took me a good year before I could use gf bread and pasta but biscuits etc will never be good.

If fructans are your issue gluten free alternatives won't be helpful they add extra suger to a lot of it

Tonight I've had gluten free fish fingers they were quite sweet and my stomach is rebellious over it they also add fibre and apparently my stomach hates this too good job I'm not planning on going far tomorrow

Best off sticking to plain non processed stuff (I'm aware I'm being a hypocrite) see how you go

If you are sensitive to artificial sweeteners you may also be affected by the preservatives in bread and cakes (E280, E282). I recommend M&S bread and cakes, most of which don’t contain them although their flaky pastry things do.

For carbohydrates I also eat rice and potatoes, plus gluten-free cereal, crispbread (Schar) and cookies from M&S, Tesco, Sainsbury’s or Waitrose. G-f biscuits tend to be too hard/dense, I find,

I’ve had stomach issues since last august and dropped on a great locum who was a gastro surgeon previously and he said so many people will be wheat intolerant these days.

If I was to eat hovis white or pastry or many other things I’m in agony with ibs symptoms so I stick to pretty much the following;

breakfast - ready break or cornflakes with honey and banana/strawbs

lunch spinach, toms, spring onion, cucumber and either chicken, cheese or tuna

dinner - mainly rice/jacket pots with chicken/fish/bean.cheese etc

weirdly, ciabatta and Crosta & molloca pizzas aren’t too bad for me and I eat a big bar of Lindt cho each day too!

edited for many typos - obviously Prosecco doesn’t contain wheat as I’ve had too much!🤣

I've tested negative for antibodies for gluten but know that flour makes my gut swell up & I have unpleasant wind & diarrhea so I think something commonly used with it triggers it.
I eat porridge with nuts for breakfast, and other meals are a lot of fruit, veg, eggs, meat, yoghurt & loads of potatoes, (baked crisps, homemade wedges, jacket potatoes, sweet potatoes). Chocolate and ice cream for pudding.
I haven't eaten bread/cake over the past month and feel much better for it.

Long time coeliac here, I mostly eat a naturally gluten free diet, the only exception really is gluten free pasta - but that is mostly just rice and/or corn so not nearly so heavily processed as the GF breads, cakes, etc.

Breakfast is natural yoghurt with fruit and nuts, or flour less pancakes or boiled egg with buttered corncakes or corncake with peanut butter and banana.

Lunch is a big bowl of salad or soup with corncakes, cheese, etc. If I am out and about I might have a sandwich on gluten free bread but that's rare enough.

Dinner is rice or potato or GF pasta with whatever sauce, meat, vegetables etc. Dinner is extremely easy, I cook a common meal for everyone and there are no complaints. Chili, stir-fry, curry, Mexican food, lasagne (GF) roasts, bacon and cabbage (I'm Irish), stews, etc.

I'm hugely wheat intolerant but can eat gluten so must be one of the other proteins.

I avoid most gluten free stuff as it shite. Instead eat
Yogurt, honey, cherries and walnuts for breakfast.
Homemade soup or omelette for lunch eat oatcakes and occasional gf bread.
Then rice dishes, potato dishes, quinoa, buckwheat, sweet potato, celeriac etc for carbs. With normal stuff to go with it. My life is 100% better as a result

Love thd schar products.
My gut is agony these days if I eat bread or white processed