Becoming glutenfree and milkfree

Making a life commitment to eating without gluten or milk-products in my diet may possibly make some shrug their heads, while others becomes eager to hear the weight-benefits from this change. To me its a choice that changed the way I live and the quality of my life.

I did not know that changing my diet would in so many ways change my life. However, I would not recommend this change for someone who is "only" seeking to loose weight. Despite the fact that the change have had an impact on my weight, I would under all circumstances choose an easier way to loose weight. Because for me it is not just about loosing weight, it is to a greater extent about whether or not to spend hours in a bathroom later on. For so many years of my life I spend in embarrassment  regarding things I don't even want to elaborate on. Only the fact that I at times was not very pleasant to spend time with. I was embarrassed and thought that there was something wrong with me. Instead I found that there was something wrong with the food I loved the most. 

Despite my great love for whipped cream, I have not regretted saying goodbye to that and many other food-loves in my life for the life I have now and if I knew the benefits before hand I would have done it previously. 

If you think you might have the same problem, I urge you to seek a doctor or a nutritionist. Do not make the changes on your own!   

Amazing and easy diary-free ice cream!

I have literally tried any type of diary-free ice-cream, but non as good as this one. It is one of the Danish Fitness / healthy food-guru's that made this in TV the other day, and I just have to share this recipe with anyone who wants to listen! IT IS AMAZING. If you are a Dane - look here. To those of you who don't understand Danish, I will translate. It is made by Michelle Kristensen and she has a lot of amazing ideas and easy recipes! I loooove this!

3 frozen bananas is put in a blender together with 0,5 dl almond milk, 2 fresh dates (remove stone) and 1 teaspoon peanutbutter. Blend it all and eat!! It is amazing and I simply cannot get enough! The other day I included some frozen berries and it did not destroy the ice-cream.

Hopefully you will love this ice-cream as much as me.. and do check out her site! She is amazing!

Lækre Glutenfrie og Mælkefrie Amerikanske Pandekager

Jeg elsker amerikanske pandekager og specielt dem her. De er nemme at lave og lækre luftige. Der skal ingen sukker i og kan steges på en pande uden fedt, hvis man er i besiddelse af de der smarte pander hvor man ikke behøver sådan noget som fedt for at lade pandekagerne slippe. Så der er minimeret på det usunde, så man kan fyre godt under siruppen når man spiser dem.

Ingredienser:
3 æg
1 tsk salt
1 tsk bagepulver
2 tsk vanille.
100 gr boghvedemel (eller andet alternativ).
1,5 dl plantemælk (Soya eller mandelmælk).
Evt 1 tsk kanel og skiveskårne og skrællede æbler.

Fremgangsmåde:
Del æggehvider og æggeblommer ad. Pisk æggehviderne med saltet til skålen kan vendes på hovedet uden at indholdet falder ud. Bland æggeblommer, mælk, bagepulver og vanillesukker sammen i en skål for sig. Vend melen ind i den til den får en flydende men ikke for flydende konsistens og herefter vender man æggehviderne i blandingen. Vend dejen til æggehviderne bliver en del af dejen. Til sidst klatter man dejen på en pande, vender og værså god - så er der amerikanske pandekager.
Hvis du er til lidt ekstra muf og mums kan man med fordel vende 1 tsk kanel i og evt 1-1,5 æble (skrældet og skåret i tynde skiver) i dejen og stege dem på panden. Det gør dem også monster gode!


Alt jeg har tilbage at sige er: Velbekomme.

The Life of a Person With "Coeliac Disease and Milk Allergies"

I do not eat gluten or diary products. Not in some insane attempt to loose weight. I’m sorry if that offends you, but I just find the change insane if there is nothing wrong with you besides a wish to loose weight. I eat the way I do, because my body told me to. My quality of life has just improved and simple things, that I before was “just the way they are”, changed because of my diet-change.
However, my change of diet has caused some problems around me, especially in situations where someone doesn’t know me very well, so I honestly just wanted to clear some air on two small matters. Maybe, if you have a friend that is in the same situation, these two things might help you, help her or him.
 
First: Now, it would honestly be a whole lot easier for me to say that I am a vegan that eat meat. It seems to me that people just don’t understand the difference between not eating diary products because the diary makes me sick and not eating diary products because the lactose makes me ill. People, THERE IS A DIFFERENCE. When I say I don’t eat diary products – it is because I don’t eat them. Don’t just assume that I then eat lactose free products, because at the end of the day I still have to spend an hour or two in the bathroom – and not to just wash my face and freshen up. In rare situations I eat them, because there wasn’t anything else on the table or because I was too good of a person to brake it to someone else, that what they have made for me, I still can’t eat. The fact that someone makes the effort just makes me so happy that I’d rather pick the time in the bathroom over correcting someone trying to make me dinner.

Second: It is OK to tell me that I have to bring my own food because making me dinner for your party is relatively difficult. I understand! Trust me. The same way it is rumored that you see your life before you die, I saw all the food that was banned for lifetime for me, when I found out that this might be a problem for me. It took me a LOOOONG time to come to terms with it and learn all the things I could eat from all the things I can’t. So trust me when I say, I UNDERSTAND. Just say it in advance and maybe also what you have planned to make for dinner, so that I can match the dinner as much as possible. Please do not expect that I will be able to figure it out a day in advance, because I can't. I'm not superwoman. I'm just generally busy!

Generally, it is not because I don’t understand. What I am simply trying to say is that it can pay of to be specific! If you are in doubt leave it out – or call a friend.