I don't know what I was thinking, or rather why I was NOT thinking but I managed to give myself a good dose of wheat induced BLAH a few days ago in NYC.
Mental note - Buckwheat is just like wheat. Apparently, I hadn't actually craved or eaten buckwheat aka kasha since I've gone wheat free and well... yeah. Sad. I was so excited to have a big plate of the stuff and a proper bowl of borscht. It was as good as chocolate cake once I realized that it was something that I won't be eating again.
Goodbye dear kasha, how I will miss you.
Mental note - Buckwheat is just like wheat. Apparently, I hadn't actually craved or eaten buckwheat aka kasha since I've gone wheat free and well... yeah. Sad. I was so excited to have a big plate of the stuff and a proper bowl of borscht. It was as good as chocolate cake once I realized that it was something that I won't be eating again.
Goodbye dear kasha, how I will miss you.
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Re: DOH!
Mon, October 15, 2007 - 5:42 AMActually, buckwheat is nothing like wheat.
www.whfoods.com/genpage.php
"While many people think that buckwheat is a cereal grain, it is actually a fruit seed that is related to rhubarb and sorrel making it a suitable substitute for grains for people who are sensitive to wheat or other grains that contain protein glutens."
I'd consider whether it was something else you ate that made you ill, or whether the buckwheat came from a source where it was likely to be contaminated with wheat (like a bulk bin at the health food store, or the kitchen of the restaurant it was cooked in). -
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Re: DOH!
Mon, October 15, 2007 - 8:44 AMyeah bex, what else was in that?
buckwheat should be fine -
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Re: DOH!
Mon, October 15, 2007 - 9:59 PMKasha usually has bowtie pasta with buckwheat balls around it. Definitely wheat in there~
Buckwheat is not the culprit. -
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Re: DOH!
Tue, October 16, 2007 - 10:11 AMyou are thinking of that jewish dish.
you can get kasha just as a grain, some places sell it like a rice dish.
but yeah, the problem ain't kasha -
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Re: DOH!
Tue, October 16, 2007 - 10:51 AMit was just the plain and simple buckwheat groats themselves.
maybe how they prepared it or maybe it was a different strain of kasha than i've eaten in the past, it was a little smaller than the stuff that i've made and eaten.
not sure - there wasn't any wheat in the borscht so... yeah.
i'm stumped and avoiding it for the time being. -
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Re: DOH!
Tue, November 20, 2007 - 6:24 PMif its the insulin-raising properties of wheat + grains (as opposed to celiac-type gluten intolerance) that negatively affect your system, than borscht could easily put you into that food-coma type of reaction, as beets are way high on the glycemic index, literally nature's candy, like doug funnie used to proclaim... full of naturally occurring sugar. i know a dish like that can make my head swim in sugar-high food-drug euhporia (and all the lows that follow) -
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Re: DOH!
Wed, November 21, 2007 - 6:56 AMgood point!
bex
are you by any chance hypoglycemic?
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