Having multiple food allergies isn’t as awful as most people assume — actually, it’s only really difficult when other people respond by expressing horror at all the life and living I’m missing out on. Then I start to feel sorry for myself. But in general, I still get to eat lots of delicious foods, with a few small exceptions. Here are the foods I have missed the most:
1. Cheese. I miss cheese. And though it’s a selfish and petty thing to say, I really think more scientists need to be working on an acceptable non-dairy cheese alternative. Because really, the stuff that is available is just wretched.
2. Beer. Again, there are gluten-free beers. They taste like a wrung-out dishrag.
3. Pizza. The tragic combination of gluten and dairy. If you can find a cheeseless pizza, it has a gluten-ful crust. If you can find a gluten-free crust, chances are it has cheese. Everywhere I turn, heartbreak.
Which is what makes the rest of this story so gloriously triumphant. Yesterday, I made gluten-free pizza crust from scratch… and it was delicious! And though one of the pizzas had goat cheese (which I can eat, sometimes) they were otherwise free of all the things I can’t eat. Plus, one had tomatoes and basil from my garden. Look how pretty!
So does it help when people just make fun of you? Because that has been my go-to tactic.
I can’t make fun of that pizza though. It looks awesome!
Have you tried Bard’s Beer? Bard’s was the first gluten-free sorghum beer on the market and the only one that malts the sorghum in its recipe for traditional flavor and aroma. Now in 37 states and parts of Canada.
I hope, as you say, they make a good alternative to dairy cheese which I’m not supposed to eat for reasons of blood pressure and cholesterol. But since I love heavy doses of it in macaroni and cheese (which I eat about once a month), I can’t stop.
me and my sister are both allergic to Gluten and we were always on a gluten-free diet ever since we were teenagers. “