ok heres the deal.
Dairy Intolerant as hell, but pretty controlled with pills. I can handle small amounts of the stuff just fine with a pill
then just for fun, a couple years ago I decided to stop digesting Soy products. if you havent kept on on the latest in food, soy is in everything.
and then recently just because I decided to try fucking WHEAT intolerance. yeah wheat, no beer, no bread, no pasta.
so what I am looking for here besides a bit of a rant is foods I can eat/drink.
evidently bud light is made from rice instead of wheat making it the beer of choice…yeah I have to give up Mack & Jacks African Amber for that swill? I think I just gave up beer.
I know there are other foods out there, there is pasta from something other than wheat and stuff like that.
The barley substitution might be a bad idea depending on the nature of this allergy. I know that people with celiac disease (not an allergy per se) typically react poorly to wheat, oats, barley, and rye. The majority of beers contain barley, and no wheat - though weiss/wit/wheat beers have some wheat added in with the barley.
I think I’ve seen “rice milk” marketed under the brand name Rice Dream.
For beer, since distribution of beer brands varies widely, try googling “gluten-free beer” and find out what brands are available in your area. I wouldn’t bet on Bud Light being all-rice (or all-corn) at all, so please don’t chance it.
In fact, googling “gluten-free” in general will help you find recommendations for pasta and other products that might be helpful.
I have been drinking rice milk for years, it works well enough. to be honest I will survive without beer but I just nailed this latest food issue this week so I am still in the “Damnit!! I cant eat X EITHER???” phase.
I am used to doing my own cooking but you cant always cook for yourself and as sweet as it would be I dont have a fridge/microwave in my car.
I would love to see a doctor over this, but I am mostly unemployed and broke atm so that is out of the question right now.
I am mostly looking for dopers who have been in a similar situation with some ideas, I have used Google on some of this but with my weird list of cants its a bit hard to find everything in one place or recipe. like I said I can live with some dairy but the other 2 are out.
I haven’t looked for your particular issues, but have you been to FAAN (http://www.foodallergy.org/)? If nothing else, they can warn you when manufactures mislabel a product.
You might be better off with a consultation with a nutritionist. It might be less expensive than a doctor, and would probably be more helpful. A doctor can tell you what kind of allergy or intolerance, but may not be all that informed about what you can eat for alternatives. In the meantime, you might try going to a Whole Foods or similar store and asking if one of their customer service people would meet with you and recommend some products. It would be a good customer loyalty move for them.
For the lactose intolerance thing, allow me to heartily recommend Lact-Aid. It comes in 2-quart sizes just like regular milk, comes in different brands (Dean’s, Kroger, etc.) just like regular milk, is sold right next to the milk at Kroger and Wal-Mart, cooks just like regular milk, goes on Cheerios just like regular milk…You get the idea.
If you felt ambitious, you could even make your own yogurt, ice cream, and, conceivably, cheese with Lact-Aid.
I’m really sorry to hear of your restricted diet. I obviously don’t know precisely what you are going through but as IBS sufferer I can relate to the notion of sometimes regarding all food like it is a scorpion that might sting me. So, some things worth considering from my many years as an IBS suffererer under the care of doctors and consultants. Upfront I acknowledge that some will not be relevant to you and so apologies for that in advance.
Firstly, be really sure you are intolerant to wheat. How have you reached this conclusion? I am not for a second doubting your symptoms but it is worth ensuring that it is defintely the wheat (as opposed to some other common factor) causing the problem. If you haven’t done so already, it is crucial to keep a food diary for two weeks, noting how you feel both with and without the wheat. Again, not doubting you but being fully intolerant of wheat is such a pain, it is worth being sure.
Secondly, bear in mind that intolerances can often mean you can still eat the offending food - just not every day or in such large amounts. Again, a food diary can be helpful here. By the way, eating smaller meals in general helped reduce my symptoms massively.
Thirdly, this is just to consider and you may find it a bit new age-y or it may make you angry but hear me out. Think about whether you are holding onto any painful unexpressed emotions. This is the theory that the body is struggling to absorb something unpalatable, causing it to be expressed bodily in the form of IBS and related conditions. I have mixed feelings abline of thinking because my symptoms are very real and physical, but I couldn’t deny that there may well be something in it in my case.
Along these lines - I’m currently awaiting testing for an as-of-yet unidentified food allergy; I have had two allergic reactions and unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be much in the way of common ingredients between the two meals. It could even be an unlisted preservative, or some substance produced during cooking the food due to a combination of ingredients.
My allergist said that it may not even be an actual allergy to a food, but it could be a cross-sensitivity from an environmental allergen that my body thinks a particular food or foods shares a similarity with. For instance, some people who have birch pollen allergies can react when they eat an apple. I’ve been told to take a regular antihistamine until I have my battery of skin tests to hopefully determine what this might be.
According to my two celiac friends you need to be careful about corn meal because it may have been milled using flour. My friends eat a fair amount of rice-based pasta - everything from vermicelli to lasagna noodles. They also seem to eat a lot of the meat, rice or potato, two vegetable type meals.
You can find celiac cookbooks, and if you like that sort of thing, frozen meals that are gluten free.
I have been under some pretty heavy stress lately but the problem has been going on for quite awhile. that and the part where I have done this with Dairy and Soy already makes me pretty sure.
for every one else, thanks for the pointers, some stuff was great to hear (like the cornmeal being ground someplace they grind flour) and all of it is great info.