I am giving up wheat/gluten and need help.

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Coeliac blood test negative but more and more irritable every day (currently on the loo after delicious garlic bread).

Help! Where do I start/stop? Everything nice and virtually my entire diet is wheaty. No more pasta, cake, beer etc.

I know I can just eat vegetables but I can see that getting tedious after a week.

What about oats?

Is there a definitive list somewhere of gluten free foods and/or a list of foods with gluten in?

Oh lord. Can I have ?

Can you ask to be tested for wheat allergy? You can be allergic to wheat but not coeliac.

I went GF last autumn and it became second nature after about 3 months. Eating out and on the go is a little harder, I tend to make sure I have nuts and something sweet on me. Jacket potatoes are ok though.

Basically I've found (expensive) alternatives to everything I used to eat . It does involve shopping around a bit and nosing in health food shops as well as scouring the 'free from' section of large supermarkets.

If you're looking for a decent biscuits replacement then Prewetts triple chocolate cookies are just as good as normal choc bics.

as Addicted said - the Coeliac Society will have all the answers, they produce a booklet every year giving all the processed food brands which are gluten free, and they have recipes, and research etc,

my dn is a coeliac, she doesn't bother with the readymade gf bread/flours she says they don't taste that good, are expensive and fattening - she says she ends up putting loads of butter on top of a slice of gf bread just to make it edible- so instead she cooks from scratch, never buys processed food, and she eats bananas, quinoa, potatoes, nuts, rice, polenta - we're conditioned to eat bread and pastry, but there are lots of healthier and nicer things out there.

Try out different things like quinoa, buckwheat (not anything to do with wheat despite name), millet etc I'm sure there are many more. Have a look on Holland & Barratt or similar to see what's around. You can get most of these in whole form or as flakes which you can use in muesli/porridge type things.

Rice, spuds, lentils, beans, split peas etc could all form your carb type thing.

You can get rice noodles, and I believe japanese soba noodles are made of buckwheat?