Kaycee's Blog

3rd July, 2006

Celiac.com Sponsor (A13):
Another day, not as cold as yesterday. Forecast is for snow tomorrow, so that could be exciting.

Me and dad went visiting a few of his friends.

In the afternoon, we went to visit a friend of his who has coeliac, and has been living with it for 10 years. I was a bit apprehensive about going to see him to start with, as he is quite a bit older than me, about my dad’s age, in his 70’s, and sometimes I think, (I probably am being ageist), but that maybe they are not all up to scratch about the disease. but the minute I saw him, I was rest assured, he knew what he was talking about and takes it all so seriously. In a lot of ways he just backed up what I had been thinking all along. It was like two old friends meeting and having to catch up, and we both shared the same passion. Food! He was so lovely, while talking he showed me how he makes his bread, he loves cooking and knows what is what, and then gave me a fruit loaf and the loaf of bread he baked. Also gave me one of his homemade pies, which I will have one night soon. I was so blown away, he didn’t have to do that, but, I got stuck into both loaves later on when I got home, and they were both so awesomely lovely, a bit like having a bit of bread after going without for a long time, which is precisely how it is. The bread did not have yeast in it, so I guess it was more sconey, but the texture. Mm it was much finer than my attempts. I will definitely make it when I get home again. But for now I will have bread. When I get home it might be different, and I might not eat so much bread, but for now I’m on holiday so I will eat a lot of bread. And it is cold down here, I need the bread. My dad tried a piece of both, and he was quite pleased with the taste. Of course he preferred the fruit loaf.

But it was just so wonderful meeting someone who I can talk to about coeliac and the food etc. Unfortunately we are both married to other people. Dad spent all his time talking to Lyndon’s wife, while I talked to Lyndon. I think dad is getting a bit bored about the constant talk about food from me. In some ways I want him to understand, but I just get a bit carried away with the talk. I will try to cut down on the food talk tomorrow and find something else to talk about.

I have not come across any problems with the food down here. My stomach has been behaving. So far I have managed to keep away from soy, except maybe a bit that was in the frozen chicken pieces we had for tea tonight. Fancy that, frozen chicken pieces have soy and gum in them. Maybe that is what makes it chewy! Lol.