Gluten Free Fast snacks tips

[mohsin_107]

Hey everyone...
I live in Pakistan, and have just been diagnosed for Celiac disease, it has been hard so far,, but i have managed the 3 meal a day, but the problem is that coz i only drink milk for breakfast, and rice for lunch and dinner, i get hungry again very fast and during working ours i don’t have any thing to eat nor i can get any thing from the market(like snacks and all) so is there any energy bar or something like it, which i can make in bulk and store it for week or month.

Do also share how, you manage all these type of problem

Thank you all..
Mohsin

[peony77ja]

If you go to Google and just put in "Gluten Free Recipes" you will find a ton of things you can make easily at home, muffins, crackers, bars, cookies.  Also you say you drink milk for breakfast.  If you are truly gluten intolerant, you may have a problem with the Casein in the regular cows milk.  Not sure what kind of milk you drink.  Raw milk is better but I don't know about it in foreign countries.  It is a difficult thing but it is so worth it if you can get off of gluten.  

[Lynn_C]

When I first went gluten-free I felt like I was starving all the time & I had to eat every 2-3 hours, so I know how you feel. I was even waking up at 4a.m. to eat -- and I've lost 15 lbs. since going gluten-free even though I eat 5-6 times a day. It was particularly bad for the first 6 months, but my appetite has since leveled-off a bit. Snacks are difficult because you generally can't run to the corner store to grab something to eat.

Basically, my 'snacks' are just small meals that I bring with me to work. I found that I felt more sustained if I ate some kind of protein with a good fat (try extra virgin coconut oil) every few hours (mini-meals). I would pack my lunch for work and create a second or third smaller version of my lunch to eat at 10a.m. and 4p.m. I also eat a lot of fruit, hard-boiled eggs, almond butter spread on celery, carrot sticks, sometimes g-f lunchmeat on g-f crackers, and potato chips. I try to always carry some kind of snack with me in my back-pack if I am away from home for more than a few hours. Protein bars are really difficult because they usually have gluten in them or dairy (which I also avoid) or lots of sugars.

Good luck -- I know that it is difficult at first. Because your body will be doing a lot of healing at first, you really do need a lot of protein. Try to eat protein with every meal for the first 6 months (even breakfast) if you find that you are hungry all the time.

[mohsin_107]

Hey thanks for your valuable info.... I did Google "G-F recipes" but most of them had ingredients which I have never heard before, and were unavailable in the markets (since this problem is not common here) even the plain rice flour had wheat in its ingredients…....

you mentioned I can also be allergic to milk, please tell me how to confirm this, coz I am already running out of options….

[mohsin_107]

Hey thanks a lot for sharing you experience and your easy solutions, it really helps a lot, I have started acting on you advice, and now I am eating boiled egg in breakfast, eating fruit and vegetable after lunch is again a good doable advice, and now I am searching for other protein rich food…

One more thing I needed to ask was that, what is the easiest way to gain my weight as I am I am extremely under weight, because I had tragedy during my diagnosing time, I changed 6 doctors in 3 months, and finally the 7 doc, was able to tell what had happen. And those 3 months were the worst of my life…..

Hope to here other useful tip in future,

Nice talking to you all….
Mohsin

[JenB12]

Hi Mohsin!

To gain weight you're going to need to eat more protein then you are getting right now.... Do you eat meat because it didn't sound from your post that you eat any meats....? If you do, try eating chicken and other meats that are high in protein, animal fats will help you gain weight.  Simple carbohydrates such as food containing processes sugars will help. The other foods you can eat to help gain weight are starches such as potatoes, cassava and other roots. Nuts have a lot of good, natural fats in them as well.

In order to gain weight you're going to need to eat more then what you burn off during the day, so try doubling your portions during your meals! :)

Gook luck to you!

[mohsin_107]

Hey thanks for your advise.. ya and ur rite i dont eat much meat.. and the eat more part.... ppl really laugh at me,, when i say i cant eat.. cause normally ppl have problems in stop over eating... well i guess it will come in time... no worries.. and lets hope for the best...

[Anu17]

Hi Mohsin,
you have a lot of food choice you can take anything with rice so for snack dosa,idle ,biryani ,khaman dokla you have a lot of snack you can think of chick peas floou is o.k ,rice is o.k, their are so many glutin free flour that you can use and about breackfast you can take egg ,rice pancake ,milk is fine if that works for you then its o.k.
tak care

[lcarter6]

I know eating GF can be a challenge in different cultures. But, since rice is a big staple in Pakistan, it's good to know that natural brown rice is much more nutritious than white.  [With a food processor or grinder you can even make your own brown rice flour for baking if you can't find it in markets - add with other GF grains, like millet, to make traditional breads].  If meat is expensive, you can add lentils and beans to rice to make whole protein dishes.  Nuts, dried fruit and seeds are good portable snacks to take in your backpack [mix them together to make what we call "trail-mix" to nibble on when on the go].  Let us know how you are doing with your new diet and especially how you are adapting it to foods available in Pakistan. Best of luck and good wishes!