I make no bones about how difficult I find my dietary restrictions sometimes, but the realization that I’ll never again have my auntie’s treacle gingerbread loaf with a cuppa tea strong enough to strip lead paint, has just hit me, and I’m going through the seven stages of grief in rapid succession.
bad enough I had to give up haggis and treacle scones and tattie scones, noooo, fucking boady had tae take my childhood wi it too. Fucker.
Maybe I can find a way to recreate it gf… but then I cannae have the treacle cause it’s so highly sulfited… maybe if I only had a wee bit it wouldnae be so bad… like maybe once in a while on a blue moon, when the planets were aligned…
It occurs to me that I was initially kidding about going through the seven stages of grief, but apparently not.
In which stage of grief does the Scottish accent come out?
All of them.
I am proud of you for actually avoiding your trigger foods. I’ve only managed to cut out a few things and just accept my slow, painful death for most things.
Like, I’m not supposed to eat any starchy foods like potatoes, rice, or bread, but I’m too poor to not. I absolutely refuse to avoid garlic and onions– my husband is Cuban, it’s just impossible.
I do make time a few times a year to eat an entire loaf of fresh sourdough and then spend 3 days in bed. I don’t know man. Food is one of the things that make life worth it. I’d rather dose up my meds and live a little, y’know.
Oh don’t kid yourself, I used to do something similar until my body just got sick and tired of my shit and decided straight up murder was the only solution to get me to stop.
I love bread, and I miss all the foods I can’t have anymore, but I want to live 😂
Can you eat rice? I just stumbled across a recipe for rice bread that has like rice, water, a little salt, and yeast or barm, and sent it to my cousin, who can’t have bread, and she says it’s boring, but it feels like bread.
Can’t have rice or yeast, thanks for trying though ❤
Hmm…have you tried potato or nut flour? My grandma has a really good recipe for potato rolls, so if you want I could ask her for that, see if it has ingredients that wouldn’t work
Allergic/intolerant to both, sadly. Thanks though.
And just before anyone else chimes in, lets just assume I’m allergic lol
My diet is limited, and that’s okay. It’s better than it was a year ago when I was living on bone broth (chicken, cause I’m allergic to all red meat and red meat byproducts) oatmeal and water for several months. Trust me, I am living my best life, simply by being alive at this point.
Everybody with food intolerances/allergies needs to be really careful. If you keep exposing yourself to the foods you react to, your reaction can and will get worse. Not only that, you’re causing more and more damage to your body. My mom has celiac and now has permanent nerve damage and an assortment of other food intolerance because of the damage it caused before she went off of gluten. In addition, if you have an intolerance and stop eating a food, your body starts to calm down because the “infection” it mistakes the food for is gone. If you eat the food again, your body thinks the infection is coming back and totally freaks out trying to get rid of it.
Trust me on this. No food is worth lasting damage and a longer list of things you can’t eat. If it is at all possible, stop eating those things.
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