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How to cope when your diet is different to everyone else’s and it feels like you can’t eat anything.
Living with long term food sensitivities isn’t easy. It’s navigating your way in a mine-field where your body seems to betray you at every turn. It can be depressing and extremely frustrating. It can also be lonely, especially if you are surrounded by friends with apparently cast-iron guts who have absolutely no way of empathising or understanding your unique stance on food.
Buckwheat is another of the Pseudo-cereal super-seeds that are often confused with being a grain because of the grain-like way they are cooked and used.
At least once a week, I get an email from someone saying something like "hey, isn't quinoa a grain?" or "my doctor told me quinoa was a grain".
Quinoa is the seed of the Chenopodium or Goosefoot plant.
In Australia, pototo starch and potato flour are the same thing: a very fine white powdery pure starch.
Actually, potato flour and starch are different things. The flour is made from the entire dehydrated potato whereas potato starch is made from the starch only. As I have never seen actual potato flour anywhere in Australia, when I say potato flour I actually mean the starch. Sorry to confuse anyone who actually has the two different types in their pantry.
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