Wheat allergy ... Help please

[crystaltips]

I was told by my Kinesiologist that my back pain was due to a wheat intolerance ... She told me to cut it out for 3 weeks. I have duly done this and there is a definite improvement in the pain that I was suffering.

I have decided to try an continue with this approach ( can't hurt can it ? )

What I do want to know is can I have cous-cous ? Does anyone know ?

And also ... when will I start losing all this weight that others seem to find !

Cous-cous is bulgar wheat I think. It definitely is out of the picture for ds who is gluten intolerant.

pants !

couscous has to be avoided, sorry. May not exactly hurt avoiding wheat but according to this page anyone with a wheat problem may also have a gluten problem.

www.waitrose.com/food_drink/nutrition/specialdiets/factsheetsandlists/wheatallergyfactsheet.asp

Total pain to try and avoid that as I've been discovering recently. Still you may want to see if it improves the pain further. Think how much weight you lose may depend on how good you are at finding alternatives. I lost several pounds because I didn't eat any bread, cake or biscuits apart from the occasional rice cake. As rice cakes taste like cardboard I didn't eat many of those! Now I've discovered you can get xanthum gum in Tesco's I may not lose any more weight

thanks tatt - what is xanthum gum ( sorry to be so thick ! )

tatt-have you tried corn thins? they're like rice cakes but made of corn instead,and are much nicer.im gluten,wheat and yeast intollerant and find it really hard knowing what i can and cannot have.
i mainly eat chicken and veg,but find it really difficult to cut out all the naughty stuff like cakes,bread and rolls.also things like ketchup are gluten free,but not yeast free too,so that can be a pain sometimes.also cant have gravy.

no I hadn't, bubbaloo. Are they easily available? I was going to try making my own bread. Had a go at a date slice with some buckwheat flour and it was more like a biscuit. I ate it but no-one else would I'm going to try a different flour next time, probably rice. Should have read up on flours more before buying some

crystaltips xanthum gum is a gluten replacer. Its supposed to make bread and cakes taste more like the usual stuff. My first attempt as using it wasn't too succesful but I'm not a good cook and was trying to do it in a few spare minutes after making the rest of the family an apple cake. You have to be careful about raising powder too apparently but the one I had in the cupboard turned out to be gluten free anyway I'm half hoping going gluten free won't help me as it is expensive being gluten free

tatt-you can buy the corn thins in the supermarket.i get mine in sainsburys and they're next to where the rice cakes are-in a blue and yellow packet.i have mine lunchtime with either cheese and tomato,cold meat and cucumber or just sliced banana on them.
must admit your'e very adventurous with the baking.wish i was too,but im a bit lazy when it comes to making my own breads etc...

thanks, I'll have a look. I'm not adventurous just desperate and broke.

Have any of you read these books?

The Gluten-Free Gourmet Bakes Bread : More than 200 Wheat-Free Recipes (Paperback)

I have her other one: The Gluten-Free Gourmet Cooks Fast and Healthy : Wheat-Free and Gluten-Free with Less Fuss and Less Fat (Paperback)

I like the way she lays things out and explains what gluten can do to a sensitive system, although I have to admit to buying prepackaged bread mixes, etc.for the most part.