Well, It has been a month. A month of falling and trying again, each and every day. I guess nothing is new then. Anyway, I started eating gluten free around July 10th. I’ve been doing ok. Actually feeling sooo much better, to my delight and surprise. Then my husband started asking when I was going to bake bread again. I usually bake six to eight loaves at a time, stick them in the freezer then we eat them for about a month. They are made with organic unbleached wheat flour and whole wheat flour I get in bulk fifty pound and twenty five pound bags I got from the local food Coop. So far this has worked great. Last year I used a fifty pound bag of flour in a year, I keep it in the freezer to keep it fresh

But now I can’t eat the lovely soft smelling good bread that I bake. But I am human and weak so I baked the bread and ate a little, I felt not too bad. OK even.

Then a few days later I baked a loaf of delicious gluten full banana nut bread for the Realtor tour coming through the house the other morning. It smelled sooo good. I was strong. I held out. I sliced the bread up, left it on a platter. A big carafe of coffee and mugs and paper towels nearby for ease of eating. We went to the park, I resisted the muffin version I had made for the girls that they gobbled down at the park. Naomi scarfed down three despite eating oatmeal at home.

Then we went home. The half loaf that was left was calling to me, so soft and lovely smelling. I grabbed a piece and ate it. Sooo good. I was ok until the next morning I woke in a fog with a headache that took a whole day to go away and yet another resolution to stay away from gluten. The headache was almost worth it though.

Here is a picture of the gluten free bread I made with sorghum flour, rice flour, corn flour, and some other stuff. I got the recipe here at The Gluten Free Cooking School. She’s got lots of recipes I haven’t tried yet but the bread was good though no one else would eat it but me. It was springy and edible and stayed moist for a week in the fridge.

So, I am back to gluten free again after a day of possibly gluten induced yuckiness. I haven’t actually been diagnosed yet so . . .but I do feel better gluten free.