Tummy Healing - Gluten Free Style

I have come up with a few suggestions for coping with this sore, bloated painful tummy that persists after eating anything at all with gluten in it, so here are my thoughts on controlling the tummy and perhaps dropping a few pounds in the process:-

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Tummy Healing - Gluten Free Style

Breakfast:

Fresh fruit porridge ( for one):

30gm of dry weight gluten free oats

One glass of water and semi skimmed milk

Half a teaspoon of mixed spice

A good handful of either raspberries, blueberries or other fresh fruit

Pinch of salt

A desert spoon of organic honey

Method:

Put all the dry ingredients in a microwavable bowl, make a well in the middle, add in the liquid and fruit but not the honey.

Cook for 3 mins on full. Take out and add the honey, mix well and if its too stiff add some more water.

Pop back for one min on half heat.

Stand for one min and then serve.

Alternatives 1:

Two slices of brown gluten free toast, with light spread, with a poached egg, add seasoning to taste.

Small glass of fresh fruit juice

Black coffee or black tea or fruit tea

Alternative 2:

30gm of Gluten free honey puffed oats (Rude Health)

Semi skimmed milk

A small glass of fruit juice or add some fresh fruit to the cereal.

A cup of tea or coffee.

Alternative 3:

2 scrambled eggs on brown gluten free toast

Tip…spread a little marmite or vegemite onto the toast before adding the scrambled egg.

A small glass of fruit juice

One cup or tea or coffee (you could have this first thing when you wake up and then just have the juice with breakfast)

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 Gluten free lunch:

1.     A sandwich made with two slices of brown gluten free bread, warbertons now make a very nice one! Use either slices of low fat meat or cheese.

A fat free fruit yogurt…..Mullar now makes some very nice thick Greek style ones. Or a Shape far free yogurt.

Fresh fruit: either one apple, banana or a pear, or a small bunch of grapes, an orange.

Drink a glass of chilled water with your lunch and try and drink several glasses of water a day!

2.    Soup: Veg, ie any combination of veg with two teaspoons of gluten free stock, add in a handful of red lentils tip…..avoid adding too much potatoes as they absorb all the stock and the soup tastes very bland…..you end up adding far too much salt!

Either some fresh fruit or a yogurt (fat free) Or both!

3.    Four slices of rye crispbread (completely rye is almost gluten free) with low fat spread, use some low fat cheese or marmite/vegemite or if you eat meat try a slice of cooked ham. Or one packet of corn crispbreads, these are gluten free!

Sugar free jelly or fruit or yogurt (fat free)

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Dinners:

You can eat a fairly normal dinner, smaller portions than normal and more veg, avoid too many peas as apparently these are a little higher in cals.

You could have meat/fish or completely vegi meal, potaotes, or gluten free pasta.

Snacks:

Give yourself one, two finger chocolate gluten free wafer (Kit Kat look alike) a day and you could have two cookies, or a Naked Bar. Or you could choose to have a bag of low salt crisps or a packet of snack a jax.

So that’s two treats a dayJ Or you could have the equivalent in chocolate if you want.

Drinks:

Lots of water, plenty of black tea or coffee, fruit tea and herbal teas are fine also.

Avoid ‘sweetened’ drinks if possible because the chemicals in the sweetener can do damage to the nervous system over a period of time. You are far better off drinking black tea or coffee or take a small amount of semi skimmed milk each day.