Originally Posted by
Doggramma
I feel bad for your husband. A few months ago I was having "issues" and tried gluten free to see if it helped. The hardest part was giving up real yeast bread. And it makes it more difficult for eating out because there seems to be gluten in everything, even soy sauce and Miracle Whip!
I know, I feel for him too - I have diet limitations too and I really, REALLY miss some of the things I'm not allowed to have anymore! (Coffee...oh how I miss coffee.)
DH is actually in pretty good spirits about it, though. He was worried that something really BAD was wrong with him but finally went to the doc after months of misery and stress (typical man) and found out it's not cancer or anything really horrible and he can fix it with diet. He already feels a lot better on this new diet after just a couple weeks, so he's actually pretty okay with giving up a lot of favorites in exchange for feeling better. He still misses stuff of course, but it doesn't seem to really bother him.
I honestly think he has a worse time cutting back on sugar than gluten as far as cravings go, but he's still allowed SOME sugar so that's OK too. His palate will adjust, just like it did a few years ago when I cut us both back on our sodium intake! Now so many things I used to like are just tooo salty. Funny how that works!
Thanks for the tips on Xanthan gum...I've seen it listed in ingredients but had no idea it would help with the crumbling issue with gluten-free stuff! I will have to read up on that. You guys are awesome!