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  • Terrible. Worse than pasta; more surface area. Some people get schizophrenic symptoms from gluten. It makes me smell terrible the next day. It can also be highly addictive. Gluten is regarded as the third most common food allergen behind pasteurized cow's milk and eggs. There is a reason why you cannot give it up. Expect withdrawal symptoms if you quit. Try eating almonds during the transition period.

  • gluten is the main reason, also salt in it and most of the time you don´t even know what else they put in it and if it´s even vegan

    go for corn pasta or wheat pasta instead in my opinion, bread once in a while is not bad but definitely not as a staple, also corn bread is healthier than wheat bread

  • Bread without salt tastes like ****.  Your addiction is likely to the salt, not that bread itself.

  • i used to eat bread like my life depended on it. i once ate an entire loaf of bread by myself in one night. my first job was at bertuccis and i had access to free and unlimited bread rolls. it seems impossible to give up bread if you're really hooked on it. like life will never be the same (i'm not kidding i actually thought this at one point). but trust me, if you go long enough without it you don't even miss it. the temptation is honestly 100% gone, provided i'm not absolutely ravenously starving. 

    i hear when we digest gluten it produces "exorphins" which bind to opioid receptors in the brain and make you high. its basically a drug in that sense and is also highly addictive.

    getting over gluten is really hard but it is so worth it! it'll get easier and easier the longer you go so keep trying :) if you need to talk to anyone my inbox is open

    *edit it may be helpful to tell someone that you're trying to not eat gluten. people you live with, friends, anyone you eat around too. it really helps to have a second pair of eyes and someone to say "hey, i thought you were trying to give that up?" 

    • Thank you for your story. I'm sure it'll help me. 

  • yeah it always comes down to money and resources. you could be somewhere and suddenly you're hungry and forgot fruit.  better to eat something then in the meantime.  i experimented with rice every day and it sucked.  dehydrated me so bad and made my joints achy.  my backup plan is dried potato flakes mixed with water. i dont even cook them. im just afraid to know what temperature they dry the potatos at.  i also have organic NO SALT NO OIL added popcorn that i found at wholefoods. i really want to live in tropical area.  i like not being limited to like 5 different kind of fruits. staples always seems to be mangoes bananas unpasteurized oj dates and grapes (along with celery, lettuce, tomatoes, and cucumbers). theres tons of tropical fruits i have never tried b4. im scared to just pack up and move.  im sick of cold and snow. i just dont want to move alone.

    • Yeah, my plans for the future are pretty similar. I want to move somewhere hot or at least all year long warm. It doesn't matter whether I'll do it on my own or with someone. 

  • It's a tough one to let go of, Zuza, that's for sure. I enjoy baking, especially breads and buns, and half the joy always came from eating the finished products. Now I just make them for others and get my joy vicariously through them hehe.

    I agree with banana - boy -- if you're carb'd-up, you'll find the desire for it diminishes.

  • 30 bad should pay more attention to this, cause gluten are garbage, and all this rice eating and so on is imo not in line with nat hygiene nor 30 bad. Pomping gluten in your body. all grass bearing seeds have gluten -

    • what then would you suggest as a  back up food if there is no ripe fruit? instead of rice / potato corn etc

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