A New and Excellent Source for Recipes

[SketchUp Guru]

Here is a site with some great recipes. Only problem is I get hungry every time I look.

 

[Steve Maskery]

Wrong link, Dave! It just points back to here...


S (cooking Paella tonight)

 

[SketchUp Guru]

Right link, Steve. :wink:

What time will dinner be served?

 

[Steve Maskery]

D'oh!

It's Tuesday.
S

 

[studders]

D'oh!

S

You're not doing too well this week are you.

 

[Steve Maskery]

You're not doing too well this week are you.

Tell me about it. And a warning-sore-throat today to boot.

S
PS and I got that from Dave on Skype the other evening, too!

 

[SketchUp Guru]

Sorry Steve. I didn't mean to pass it over to you.

 

[wizer]

Don't, I'm just looking at wheat free recipes. We just went to Tesco to look at their Free From range. Lots of variety, lots of money too! If it does turn out that I'm Wheat intolerant, I'm going to have to get back into the routine of cooking my own bread often!

 

[Racers]

Hi, Wizer

My god is there any bit of that works? :wink:


Pete

 

[lurker]

If it does turn out that I'm Wheat intolerant, !

:roll:

Wheat intolerance is extremely rare

Stop reading womens magazines

 

[wizer]

Well I'm left not knowing what's wrong with me but feeling terrible. They have hinted that I might have crohn's, but that's it until they do more tests. So I have to try to find out what (if anything) is making my bowels inflame.

 

[lurker]

That'll be the vindaloo curries :lol:

 

[wizer]

It might be Jim. I litterally grew up on curry when my Mum left home. Me and Dad practically lived in the curry house

Saying that, I've been off curry and a lot of foods for the last few years, this is why we are looking at food intolerances\allergies. With no help from the NHS it's up to us to find it. I wanted to go straight onto a liquid feed but my wife and doctor disagreed. Which I really do think is wrong.

 

[lurker]

I think you want to listen to your GP (he/ she is the professional and should be able to spot all these "alternative medicines" scams a mile off).

And also your wife - it would seem she is the one with the brains in your house.

 

[wizer]

mmm Liquid feed is a common option for Crohn's sufferers during severe flare ups. It's also used when trying to find what foods one is intolerant to. It's not an alternative medicine. You can only get it on prescription (or on dodgy internet sites). But of course, you knew that, did you Jim?

I wouldn't assume my GP is worth her salt. She's too busy high fiving me when I walk in to her office and writing me prescriptions for pain killers before I've told her what's wrong....

 

[StevieB]

Wheat intolerance is not that rare - my son has it, and its common enough that all the major supermarkets stock 'free from ranges'. It is rarer that Coeliac disease, but not so rare that supermarkets cannot make a profit from it. Believe me, given the price of these ranges the womens magazine reading hypercondriac brigade soon decide they are not wheat intolerant after all. Now if only they would stop messing with the recipies (and adding egg to everything that is wheat free :evil: ) it would be a bit easier to manage. Once a year we have to take our son to hospital for allergy testing (blood tests and skin RAST tests) - nobody would put a 4 year old through deliberate testing if they didnt have to. We also carry adrenaline epi pens everywhere as he is allergic to a range of substances including not just wheat but nuts, pollen, pet hair, egg and soya amongst others. He has dietician appointments quarterly, consultant appointments monnthly, and we have the GP's number on speed dial. He has to have childood immunisations and vaccinations at hospital (cultured on egg you see) and cannot have some others as there is no current alternative (swine flu vaccine).

Wizer - you can try cutting things out of your diet sequentially eg ALL dairy, all wheat and so on, or you can switch to a very limited diet (in severe cases brown rice only) and then introduce food groups one at a time. Both are very slow going and sometimes not very defined in terms of their specificity and sensitivity. You can also get antibody tested for some substances (allergens mostly, although there are specific antibodies produced against gluten as well) but this will cost unless you GP refers you.

Steve

 

[wizer]

Thanks Steve, It's all guesswork at the moment. I'm going to try the wheat free diet for a week or two and see if there is any improvement. You are not wrong about the prices! We bought enough bits and pieces to last us a couple of weeks. Most of it where treats, I admit. But it came to nearly £40! I bought the wheat free flour and xamtham gum to make my own bread, which was the most expensive thing and tasted ok but extremely dry.

 

[Smudger]

Don't, I'm just looking at wheat free recipes. We just went to Tesco to look at their Free From range. Lots of variety, lots of money too! If it does turn out that I'm Wheat intolerant, I'm going to have to get back into the routine of cooking my own bread often!

Would that be a new slope?

 

[studders]

you can switch to a very limited diet (in severe cases brown rice only) .......

Steve

Ahhh.... the Boiled Rice Diet...... Been there, done that(often), etc etc.
Was diagnosed with IBS many years ago and it took an eternity to evaluate what I should or shouldn't eat. Every time I had a bad flare up it was back on the rice diet until things settled down; oh what fun.

 

[wizer]

Don't, I'm just looking at wheat free recipes. We just went to Tesco to look at their Free From range. Lots of variety, lots of money too! If it does turn out that I'm Wheat intolerant, I'm going to have to get back into the routine of cooking my own bread often!

Would that be a new slope?

I hope not!