Ep 44 – 5 Things Everyone Should Know About the Gluten Free Diet
Let’s start the blog with the Show Notes for this episode:
This week was a bit different – I spoke about a video I felt compelled to make about the
5 Things Everyone Should Know About the Gluten Free Diet. Here’s the link –
http://bit.ly/5ThingsAboutGlutenFree
I was quizzed so many times while I had the bakery about the diet and questions surrounding those on it, I felt that maybe a video might answer those top 5 questions as follows:
Who needs to eat a gluten free diet?
How much gluten is too much? – A tiny bit of gluten makes a huge difference.
What happens when someone who shouldn’t eat gluten eats some?
How can anyone be sure they’re eating gluten free?
How can I prepare a meal for someone eating gluten free?
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My Thoughts –
Not too much to add to about my thoughts on the 5 questions – I did that in the podcast. What I can share was the difficulty in translating the answers to simple video segments.
I love M&M’s (almost too much) and I remember sitting around the kitchen table with my girls when they were young playing simple math games with a small bag of M&M’s. How many of each colour, add colours together and the ever-popular subtraction (in our mouths). I thought this might work, so after counting out 94 M&M’s without red or yellow, I added 1 red and 5 yellow. I dropped them a few times onto the white surface before I got all of them to stay together. Afterwards – you guessed it, I played subtraction.
Parts per million as a concept is tricky to illustrate in video. I didn’t even want to estimate a million of anything. Crumbs were the answer, and everyone has them in their toasters. In our house we have two matching toasters one black for wheat products and one white for only gluten free. It wasn’t hard to find or show crumbs on a white background.
Even more difficult than parts per million was to show what happens when someone eats gluten. I didn’t want to get graphic, and everyone’s pain and discomfort is different. My main goal with this segment was to show the effects lasted for days and that ingesting gluten is nothing one gets over quickly.
How can anyone eat gluten free – this one was easy – Labels, Labels and Labels. We all, over time, get used to it. Odd to watch others in a grocery store, never reading a label. It’s second nature to me now.
Lastly, I wanted to illustrate eating simply. I normally have a big salad or some homemade soup for lunch. Often on a restaurant menu the only thing we can eat is a salad (to be safe), but the truth is most of us (celiacs) love salads. I noticed this when feeding a summer camp of celiac kids – I could never make enough salad. That’s a good thing.
The challenge I’m left with after uploading the video is to have people watch it. You can help me by sharing it, especially with those around you who either need some education on the subject or just some reinforcement of what you’ve already told them. Then my job will be done!