Chinese food is one of those things I miss being a Celiac. You’d think it would be a good cuisine for Celiacs: Lots of rice, plenty of stir fried vegetables in a variety of sauces, little bread . . . but as much as I miss pork dumplings, the bigger problem is the soy sauce (with wheat) in every dish. So once again I am forced to learn to cook to get what I want. Fortunately the grocery stores in London tend to have a decent choice of international foods and sauces, so it’s not quite cooking from scratch.
Oddly enough I managed to have a stir fry for both lunch and supper yesterday (one of the reasons my diet was so low in fat). I regularly make shrimp or prawn stir fries for myself (my husband is allergic to shellfish) with either a sticky plum or oyster packet sauce, though I am more likely to serve it with tinned lentils than sticky white rice. However my husband then had a craving for Chinese for dinner, so we ended up having chicken in a lemon and ginger sauce, courtesy of Uncle Ben’s, with instant white rice vermicelli noodles, and prepared fresh Asian style vegetables (found in the produce aisle among the baggie salads) which only take five minutes in wok to cook. The stir fried bean sprouts and Bok choi certainly felt Asian, as did the water chestnuts added to the sauce. Actually the lemon and ginger sauce was really good, heavy on the ginger and not as sticky sweet as the sweet and sour sauce we usually get.
Even if I manage to escape the soy sauce, I still haven’t found a substitute for the other wonderful floury foods the Chinese have created. I worked with a Chinese Canadian girl one summer and she would regularly take me to this hole in the wall Chinese bakery to get fresh dumplings for lunch. I know it made me sick but what I remember is the taste! Anyone know of a Chinese place doing gluten free food in London?
The Score:
| Calories: | Protein: | Carbs: | Fat: | Alcohol: | Fibre: |
| 1788.25 | 100.39g | 239.19g | 45.53g | 0 | 28.47g |
| 23% | 54% | 23% | | ||
| Calories burned through exercise: | Rest Day | | |||
What I ate:
| Time | Item | Amount |
| 10:00 | Vitamins - Centrum Advance A to Zinc, 400iu of Vitamin E, 1000iu Vitamin D3 and 500mg Glucosamine sulphate | 1 each |
| Cold water | 200mL | |
| Whole Scrambled egg with 2 egg whites | 3 eggs | |
| Heinz Beanz, reduced sugar and salt | 175g | |
| Mushrooms | 100g | |
| in butter | 5g | |
| Raw tomato | 115g | |
| Sainsbury’s pressed apple juice | 200mL | |
| 11:00 | Black Tea | 450mL |
| 13:45 | King Prawn Stir Fry with Oyster Sauce | 310g |
| Merchant Gourmet tinned puy lentils | 105g | |
| Dole pineapple slices in juice | 70g | |
| 14:30 | Green Tea | 200mL |
| 17:15 | Waitrose Ploughman's vintage farmhouse cheddar | 35g |
| Mrs Crimbles's Cheese crackers | 6 crackers | |
| Waitrose Caramelised red onion chutney | 34g | |
| Orange, mango and cinnamon tea | 250mL | |
| 17:45 | 2 Clementines (Mandarin oranges) | 158g peeled |
| 19:30 | Chicken breast | 125g |
| and water chestnuts | 37g | |
| in Uncle Ben's Lemon Chicken stir fry sauce | 125g | |
| Instant rice vermicelli noodles | 1 nest | |
| Essential Waitrose Fresh Vegetable stir fry | 75g | |
| stir fried in vegetable oil | about 6mL | |
| Lindt Excellence 70% cocoa dark chocolate | 20g | |
| 21:30 | Ellactiva Chocolate Calcium Chew | 1 chew |
| 500mg Glucosamine sulphate | 1 pill |
Plus 500 to 1500mL of cold water sipped from a water bottle throughout the day.
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