Wednesday, August 25. 2010

Why aren’t there any wheat allergic or coeliac TV or film heroes?

Seriously though, do you ever see someone sitting down to a meal in any of the soap operas, sit coms, reality TV etc saying they can’t eat wheat, or checking the meal is gluten free?

In Stargate SG1 did anyone have to risk offending the hospitality of an alien species by asking if it was gluten free?

In the film Chocolat did anyone with a wheat allergy ask if the chocolate truffles were wheat free?

Has anyone gone into the Queen Vic and instead of a pint say “I’ll have a coeliac beer please?”

Just seems to me that food allergies are something that TV or film characters don’t get. Okay so realistically Garfield couldn’t have gluten free lasagne and Homer Simpson couldn’t have coeliac beer, but what about humans on screen?

Couldn’t Rambo have eaten gluten free? Or Booth in Bones go without pie in the local coffeeshop? Or maybe House have to check that his Vicodin is celiac safe?

I guess it would just be nice if TV or films didn’t always show that everyone can eat everything, everywhere. It’s something that I, and millions of other food allergy sufferers miss, the ability to sit down anywhere and eat anything at anytime.

So how about a coeliac Dr Who at the next regeneration?

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Posted by Helen Fletton in wheat blog at 14:14 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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hey there, I'm new to this wheat free thing and it's next to IMPOSSIBLE to avoid it.

I'm calling on my wheat free bros and sisters for some advice.....what are some good wheat-free staple meals that i can make at home?

also, i tend to avoid meat as well (double whammy). thoughts?

your input will be much appreciated!

Wheat free D
#1 DB on 2010-08-27 22:21 (Reply)
It depends on why you are going wheat free. For me it's an actual wheat allergy, which means that if the Celiac association has determined the trace amounts of wheat or type of wheat present in something do not contain enough GLUTEN to trigger a Celiac attack, they'll give it a thumbs up BUT if you have a wheat allergy, you could still get sicker than a dog off it.
#1.1 AlbertaRose on 2011-02-10 09:37 (Reply)

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