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public school boy

public school boy

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Feb 15, 2009
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I want to pick the brains of you gorgeous folk on NSC about Gluten free diets. My friend and long time partner Selwyn is doing his nut and has spent the whole day cleaning out the larder, dressed in his new floral patterned pini, convinced that I've turned into some kind of freak just because our friend the Doctor has advised me that I have to change my diet. Can any of you advise me.
Love, hugs and kisses xxx
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Goldstone1976

Goldstone1976

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Apr 30, 2013
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I use this site when planning meals for two of my kids who are gluten free diets:

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/gluten-free-diet/my01140

You will be amazed (and dismayed) by how many things you have to give up - beer as a starter. Also, many foods contain gluten that you will be surprised do - crisps often do, for example. If you're going to be strict about avoiding gluten you'll need to spend 3 months reading the ingredients on prepared foods you buy to be sure. Rice, corn and quinoa are your new friends!
 


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somerset

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Jul 14, 2003
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I have sympathy like I do for anybody who has specific dietry or medicinal requirements,.... however I do find it strange, and mildly annoying, that coeliacs get their GF food on prescription on the NHS, in fact they get all their bread, pasta, pizza bases, biscuits, flour, sauces etc etc ( and for their family) on the NHS. Those people who are seriously allergic to nuts etc, and many other foods, don't get such an easy ride c/o the tax paying public, generally like most of us, they just avoid those things that may harm you.
 


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Brovion

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Jul 6, 2003
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somerset said:
I have sympathy like I do for anybody who has specific dietry or medicinal requirements,.... however I do find it strange, and mildly annoying, that coeliacs get their GF food on prescription on the NHS, in fact they get all their bread, pasta, pizza bases, biscuits, flour, sauces etc etc ( and for their family) on the NHS. Those people who are seriously allergic to nuts etc, and many other foods, don't get such an easy ride c/o the tax paying public, generally like most of us, they just avoid those things that may harm you.
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Blimey, do they? No wonder the NHS is short of money.

My wife's got a gluten allergy but she's not a 100% full-blown coeliac (although her niece is) and like you say she just avoids foods she knows are 'bad'. This was a lot harder when she was first diagnosed nearly thirty years ago, but now with all the helpful allergy advice on packets not to mention the massive GF sections in all supermarkets it's a piece of piss.
 


Questions

Questions

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Oct 18, 2006
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I didn't realise that beer contained gluten. That would explain me feeling bad the following day after drinking 10 pints of it.
 




public school boy

public school boy

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Feb 15, 2009
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Up some woman's front bottom
Thanks Goldstone1976 and Somerset. I had a quick rummage in the local Asda this afternoon and was helped by a rather dashing assistant called Morris. I was rather tempted to ask him for his number but then remembered that I'm spoken for and you know how tongues wag! I was unaware that one can get GF food on presciption. I'll need to seek the Lord's guidance on this matter xx
 




Mad as my Mother

Mad as my Mother

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May 21, 2013
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I have Coeliac Disease, an auto-immune disease that can only be managed but a completely gluten free diet.
If you are diagnosed by biopsy as I was, you get 18 units of food (Bread, Pasta, Flour) prescribed per month.
As for planning meals or finding out what you can or cannot eat there is the absolute must go place online .... http://www.coeliac.org.uk/
Sign up and you will receive a 'bible' that will tell you what you can eat, the site will provide recipes and many other things including support and a forum.

If any of this is fixtures, please forgive me, for some reason I cannot read any post in this thread just the title.. odd. Anyway I hope this info helps in some way.


Edited to add: The site I have given you a link to is the only site that my NHS specialists recommend, infact I would go so far as to say they explain it as a must to use.
 




beorhthelm

beorhthelm

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Jul 21, 2003
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Brovion said:
Blimey, do they? No wonder the NHS is short of money.
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the bill for coeliac is astronomical as the NHS sell (or refer you to sellers) gluten free items at substantial premiums to what the supermarket sells, hundreds of % more. i think the coeliacs are rather embaressed by it tbf.

anywho, some good news i recalled there is some gluten free beer. no idea how they do it, but St Peters is the name and available from Ocado.
 


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Slippery Seagull

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Jun 24, 2010
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beorhthelm said:
the bill for coeliac is astronomical as the NHS sell (or refer you to sellers) gluten free items at substantial premiums to what the supermarket sells, hundreds of % more. i think the coeliacs are rather embaressed by it tbf.

anywho, some good news i recalled there is some gluten free beer. no idea how they do it, but St Peters is the name and available from Ocado.
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My wife is extreme coeliac, a slight trace and anaphylactic shock. Trust me the beer tastes bad enough to warrant becoming teetotal!!

Ps - those silly comments about the tax payers footing the astronomical bill are nonsense. A registered coeliac is allowed 18 units per month from memory. They taste bad and the prescription works out works out more expensive that buying gluten free food from the supermarket. Hence most coeliacs don't use the service.
 


public school boy

public school boy

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Feb 15, 2009
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Going for tests next week. Have stopped bread and eaten gluten free for the last two days. Feeling less bloated but still getting stabbing cramps. Used to wake up during the night and be sick. No more Amex pies, Macky Ds or any other junk foods including pasties. GF foods seem expensive in the shops. Can one order direct from suppliers?
 




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dougdeep

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May 9, 2004
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Exchange beer for cider. Job done.
 








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sams dad

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Feb 7, 2004
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The Hill of The Gun
somerset said:
I have sympathy like I do for anybody who has specific dietry or medicinal requirements,.... however I do find it strange, and mildly annoying, that coeliacs get their GF food on prescription on the NHS, in fact they get all their bread, pasta, pizza bases, biscuits, flour, sauces etc etc ( and for their family) on the NHS. .
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I don't know where you got this information from, but I can assure you that in my neck of the woods this certainly isn't true. I'm a coeliac, and when I was first diagnosed, I was able to get some GF food on prescription. However, the monthly allowance was quite small, ( nowhere near enough to last a month) and I certainly couldn't get any food for other members of my family. Also the food wasn't free, the prescriptions had to be paid for. After a couple of years most of the GF food available on prescription was withdrawn, and all that was left was GF flour.
Of course, this may not be the case in all areas.
 


public school boy

public school boy

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