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April 30, 2008
It holds things together
Seeing all the stuff my mom's able to eat is making me feel better about the possibility that I'll also have to give up gluten one day.
Gluten's the stuff that holds bread together, it's a key component of wheat and pasta and most soy sauces and a huge number of foods in my diet. Eating it makes my mom very, very, very sick. Sometimes this intolerance runs in families, and often it does not manifest until later in life.
I love bread and Cheerios and beer and spaghetti so much that the thought of life without them kind of scares me. But my mom has stir fried veggies with rice, corn tortilla-based enchiladas, eggs, rice-based breakfast cereals, potatoes, and all kinds of other yummy food.
There's no gluten in butter. There isn't any gluten in most cheeses. Vegetables and beans and fruits are all gluten free. Popcorn, too, I think. So I'll probably be OK in the long run, whatever happens. Until then, I'll eat my fancy breads and drink my fancy beers and revel in the pleasure that they bring to me.
Posted by Courtney_Sherwood at April 30, 2008 09:18 PM