In this article be prepared to be given a real treat food wise.
Maybe I'm over stating it, but feel there will be many reading this who feel as I have when attending a bistro, or to go to a function, where foods you once relished are now taboo, due to wheat gluten allergy.
Well GI friends I have some really exciting news.
I say exciting, because for me, when I was diagnosed I felt so left out when preparing food for family lunches etc, and could feel myself fast turning into a food voyeur, while picking at my GI bread with a makeshift filling.
But no longer, because one of those meals was my favourite health shop special.
Tabouli and falafel balls with tahini paste, all rolled up in a pita bread.
Okay, first ingredient in tabouli mix (which is entirely taboo for GI people) is bourgal, a wheat grain.
Well, here is where we step from a food that is just okay energy wise, to a replacement gluten free food which increases your energy levels as you munch into your pita bread.
And what is it? Well it's a food we vegies depend on to replace the protein in meat.
Not just replace but increase in protein.
Yes you've guessed it, it's soy! Now don't turn up your noses its not tofu, or mashed beans, but comes this time as a grit.
Once it is soaked, it swells up and does, I think, look like its wheat counter part bourgal.
But surpasses it as health supplement hands down.
Falafel I'm happy to say now comes in a gluten free package.
And also passes my stringent additives checks, along with the food company check, which in my understanding is probably the most important, thereby negating any contamination from supposed low gluten flours.
And to add to this incredibly tasty healthy GF tabouli it all comes wrapped up in GF pita bread.
Bye till next time.
Isi.