A lot of people are finding gluten-free to be good for their stomach issues, even if they aren't coeliac like me. Apparently, especially in Australia, things are mostly wheat based, whereas in some countries, like Canada, a lot of things are also corn based. From my research, wheat has a lot to do with gut permeability problems...well too much wheat anyway.
Being gluten-free in Australia is actually not as hard as you may first think. Our food labelling laws are among the best in the world. The new food laws say that if an item has wheat or gluten in it, it MUST state it in the ingredients list on the product. Finding gluten-free items has become easier (believe me...7 years ago I really struggled). You can find great Orgran products in Coles or Woolworths, and there are often gf bickies etc. The hard part for me (and you) is that we don't want dairy either. Natural Health shops often have products that are good and there are more and more products out there (including gf apple pies that are pretty safe for the IBS diet too). Two ways to find out what is out there if you can't find the stuff in the health shops: 1) do a google search (Australia pages) for gluten-free and you should get a lot of online gf grocery stores. Some have higher ship rates than others and you may have to ask about the ingredients for IBS-issues. 2) subscribe to the coeliac society magazine (which isn't too expensive) as it gets a lot of advertising of gf products with phone numbers of the manufacturers. If they won't let you subscibe because you haven't been diagnosed as a coeliac, then I'd be happy to give you some information, just let me know what you are iterested in. By the way, I don't like to bake, but the gf muffins listed on this site are pretty good. If you are after a gf pasta the Orgran "ris 'o mais" is pretty good. I can get it at Coles, Action and Woolies in Queensland. There are Eskal gf pretzels, but they seem to give me nausea, even though the ingredients seem safe. Can't work that out. Rice thins, rice crackers...lots of rice bickies...Orgran has a new chocolate chip cookie that hasn't got egg or dairy as well as gluten that are nice. There are even gf cakes and muffins (pre-made). I have rice noodles for breakfast.
I still haven't really found a safe soluble fibre supplement here....what do you use? I tried one and got d more, even at lower doses.
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