| In this article be prepared to be given a real treat | | | | gluten free food which increases your energy |
| food wise. Maybe I'm over stating it, but feel | | | | levels as you munch into your pita bread. And |
| there will be many reading this who feel as I have | | | | what is it? Well it's a food we vegies depend on |
| when attending a bistro, or to go to a function, | | | | to replace the protein in meat. Not just replace |
| where foods you once relished are now taboo, | | | | but increase in protein. Yes you've guessed it, it's |
| due to wheat gluten allergy. | | | | soy! Now don't turn up your noses its not tofu, or |
| Well GI friends I have some really exciting news. I | | | | mashed beans, but comes this time as a grit. |
| say exciting, because for me, when I was | | | | Once it is soaked, it swells up and does, I think, |
| diagnosed I felt so left out when preparing food | | | | look like its wheat counter part bourgal. But |
| for family lunches etc, and could feel myself fast | | | | surpasses it as health supplement hands down. |
| turning into a food voyeur, while picking at my GI | | | | Falafel I'm happy to say now comes in a gluten |
| bread with a makeshift filling. | | | | free package. And also passes my stringent |
| But no longer, because one of those meals was | | | | additives checks, along with the food company |
| my favourite health shop special. Tabouli and | | | | check, which in my understanding is probably the |
| falafel balls with tahini paste, all rolled up in a pita | | | | most important, thereby negating any |
| bread. | | | | contamination from supposed low gluten flours. |
| Okay, first ingredient in tabouli mix (which is | | | | And to add to this incredibly tasty healthy GF |
| entirely taboo for GI people) is bourgal, a wheat | | | | tabouli it all comes wrapped up in GF pita bread. |
| grain. Well, here is where we step from a food | | | | Bye till next time. Isi. |
| that is just okay energy wise, to a replacement | | | | |