After finding out recently I am allergic to wheat – I have finally realised how this little grain is in absolutely everything!
I found out two days before I went on holiday to Santorini – not knowing when we booked the continental breakfast – this would practically leave me with nothing. Instead of being down in the dumps – I opened my eyes to see how much this little grain is used and that the primary source of its exposure is in crap food… carb lovers look away I am about to dissect!
1) Continental Breakfast – each morning we sat down to a freshly cooked breakfast consisting of Croissants, Baked bread, cheese pastry, Greek yoghurt and fruit. This was quite a revelation to me as I tucked into my fruit salad that if I had not known I was allergic to wheat and had tucked into this beautiful food I would have eaten about 800+calories mostly made up of refined carbs and sat fat!
2) Lunch – You can take away that fresh bread and butter – adding 200+cals on to the meal before I have even started
3) Poolside – crips – mostly covered in wheat flavouring – no thanks
4) Supper – oh hello bread and your +200cals – keep walking – oh and you mr pudding and your 500+ calories – I can’t have you and do you know what I am actually full – thanks but no thanks!
So this was the first holiday I actually lost weight – all these superfluous calories I had not even noticed until I could no longer have them.
But… and there is a but! Plane food – oh my goodness what a debarcle that was…
The menu was:
- Bread roll – nope
- Ham crepe – nope
- Chocolate covered biscuit – nope
- Pretzels – nope
- Fruit
Rather than have an almighty strop – I realised that I had learned that this world is made of wheat and bought a banana and a peach on the plane – so i did my best with my plastic knife and the utensils provided to make this masterpiece…
Where there is a will there is a way…!
