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Apr. 30th, 2007 06:56 pmToday is a beautifully sunny day, and I have spent all of it wrangling with the Post Office (car tax), Orange (long story) or medieval explorers. BUSY BUSY.
Er, other than that I have nothing to talk about, not really. Thank you for all your words on the last post - I actually feel loved. Seriously, dudes, I love you guys. *clings* I am trying very very hard now to actually make an effort to tackle The Gluten Thing. Since it doesn't seem to affect me in small doses, which suggests that I am, you know, just quite sensitve to the stuff, I'm not going to get too anally retentive about packaging and so on, but I am cutting out the big offenders. Pasta, bread *sobs* and the obviously cakey things. *sobs harder* Today was horrible. I went past a man eating a Fisher and Donaldson fudge doughnut and then I wanted to cry.
So I went shopping yesterday. I spent an abhorrent amount on fruit, vegetables, things like that, for my Exciting Meal Plan this week. I know at least one recipe for delicious and tasty gluten-free things - my patented Mars Bar Sqaures that I normally mess up the amounts and texture for but it's always tasty - and we can go from there. My baking is notoriously pants, but I have all summer and relatively forgiving parents when it comes to me and food (now I'm over eighteen, anyway) so I can work out how to make, you know, nice things. It's just going to be bread that's the problem, but, well, we'll see. I might be able to keep limited amounts of bread, as long as I curb it to about a slice a day. I need to keep some sort of tolerance for the stuff, given that I have an exciting Italian holiday coming up. (Although![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sevenhelz is the Queen Of Knowledge on this and assures me that the different ways they make it mens I should be peachy). I have stuff in the fridge and freezer that I need to eat up - pizza is the main offender - but if I mix and match with a good potato filled day, then I should be fine. North Point does gluten-free stuff, I know, so I can still go for a cup of tea and a snack with friends.
It's a good thing I like potatoes so much. And roasted vegetables. And stir fry. And curry. And stews. Ah, see, this'll be easy. I CAN EVEN HAVE LASAGNE. I made gluten-free lasagne once, and it was lovely. Honest.
I was debating keeping a recipe list on here for anyone who's interested: would anyone or do you simply not care? (You can say 'yes' by the way.) I have some ideas for the next few weeks, so, you know, we'll see.
I also have an essay to write in the next four days, but I am sort of handwaving this right now. More importantly, I got out the DVD of Gladiator today, so I can watch a bad, historically inaccurate film and relax a bit. Which I've been doing for the last three days. Sssh!
Er, other than that I have nothing to talk about, not really. Thank you for all your words on the last post - I actually feel loved. Seriously, dudes, I love you guys. *clings* I am trying very very hard now to actually make an effort to tackle The Gluten Thing. Since it doesn't seem to affect me in small doses, which suggests that I am, you know, just quite sensitve to the stuff, I'm not going to get too anally retentive about packaging and so on, but I am cutting out the big offenders. Pasta, bread *sobs* and the obviously cakey things. *sobs harder* Today was horrible. I went past a man eating a Fisher and Donaldson fudge doughnut and then I wanted to cry.
So I went shopping yesterday. I spent an abhorrent amount on fruit, vegetables, things like that, for my Exciting Meal Plan this week. I know at least one recipe for delicious and tasty gluten-free things - my patented Mars Bar Sqaures that I normally mess up the amounts and texture for but it's always tasty - and we can go from there. My baking is notoriously pants, but I have all summer and relatively forgiving parents when it comes to me and food (now I'm over eighteen, anyway) so I can work out how to make, you know, nice things. It's just going to be bread that's the problem, but, well, we'll see. I might be able to keep limited amounts of bread, as long as I curb it to about a slice a day. I need to keep some sort of tolerance for the stuff, given that I have an exciting Italian holiday coming up. (Although
sevenhelz is the Queen Of Knowledge on this and assures me that the different ways they make it mens I should be peachy). I have stuff in the fridge and freezer that I need to eat up - pizza is the main offender - but if I mix and match with a good potato filled day, then I should be fine. North Point does gluten-free stuff, I know, so I can still go for a cup of tea and a snack with friends.It's a good thing I like potatoes so much. And roasted vegetables. And stir fry. And curry. And stews. Ah, see, this'll be easy. I CAN EVEN HAVE LASAGNE. I made gluten-free lasagne once, and it was lovely. Honest.
I was debating keeping a recipe list on here for anyone who's interested: would anyone or do you simply not care? (You can say 'yes' by the way.) I have some ideas for the next few weeks, so, you know, we'll see.
I also have an essay to write in the next four days, but I am sort of handwaving this right now. More importantly, I got out the DVD of Gladiator today, so I can watch a bad, historically inaccurate film and relax a bit. Which I've been doing for the last three days. Sssh!
