Casein, the milk protein, is structurally similar to gluten and a lot of people with NCGS seem to react to it, as do I.

And yes, it’s super annoying because there’s really no good alternative. I haven’t found any decent or even really that edible vegan cheeses.

Because it ruins me being able to have pizza.

I didn’t get breathing problems too badly, yeah, I ate a gluten free lactose free panini again the other day, and observed carefully. I don’t wish to describe the feces in any more detail, but I could. Mudslide should suffice. So the gassiness wasn’t as bad but clearly my body reacted and didn’t work properly and in the long term it prolly stacks issues,

So the diet is GFCF, gluten-free casein free.

I still wish I’ll outgrow the casein intolerance or both, but I’m not gonna try again right now.

Thanks.

Yeah rice noodle have been great. Rummo glutenfree pasta made with care is also pretty nice. They’ve put effort in.

I’ve been using the butcher’s a lot more, I can tell you.

I also realised why I always preferred Haribo candies to some local ones like aakkoset or Pantteri etc, Haribo is made with gelatin, no wheat, as opposed to the others.

Yeah it’s not a huge challenge finding some, but it’s not like theyre on every small grocery store shelf. Although this does make me cycle to better stores, sometime annoying but also rewarding. Sometimes just feels so restrictive walking past 90% of the products in a store.

Butcher’s for like horse, reindeer, elk, deer. A few beef steaks as well, although beef isn’t as moral, so to speak. Beef tallow next when I find some, to replace butter in some dishes.

You can make a cake out of almond/nut flour, carrots, whipped honey and whipped egg, and it’s darn good. Also fills you up after a single slice.

Sounds delicious. I’m still not yet into baking, trying to manage the cooking part first. Could do both, but I’m just so lazy at cleaning I do the necessary one and I think that’s actual nutrition. Although I have had problems finding proper breakfast pastry gluten free, but there’s some delicious dark chocolate gluten free dairy free cupcakes. Kinda expensive tho.

Yeah there’s different level of insensitivity, but that’s what the word allergy means imo, an over-sensitivity. At least the two worlds are interchangeable in Finnish more or less.

Celiac’s disease is an autoimmune reaction, and while I’ve had my duodenum biopsied in the army, either it was a false negative because the procedure waa fouled (the instructions didn’t get to the army the day I was to leave for the procedure, so no-one told me I’m supposed to tell my superiors that I’m not allowed to have breakfast so off to breakfast I went as ordered), but ofc eating like 2 hours before an endoscopy of the stomach prolly makes it a bit harder.

Anyway it was negative.

And now I finally managed to get a blood test after the intensive evidence I’ve had to gather on my own (I’m Finnish, public healthcare is free but the free ones aren’t especially well managed ones so its kinda shit every often, depending on the thing).

I literally complained about my stomach being agonising ever since I was a kid. No-one ever suggested a restrictive diet to see. They did an ultra first and found a kidneys defect. Which really wasn’t causing any trouble, two ureters on one kidney. But they starred focusing on that and as a kid I didn’t known enough to definitely say it wasn’t what was causing the issue. But I knew the pain I complained about wasn’t there. They didn’t listen.

And the it took like 26 years after that for me to figure out that I need to go without gluten or dairy. And now for the first time in my life I don’t feel a weird sense of guilt 247. Because it’s not guilt, like the “butterflies in your stomach”. That sort of ache. ALL the time for the first 3.5 decades. Well, fluctuating in intensity and aside from fasting 70+ hours which felt great but then I needed fuel and always crashed hard because I’d eat something with gluten or dairy.

Point being I’m sort of annoyed that no-one did anything as basic suggesting a different diet as a kid. Sorry for the rant.

Yeah there see products well enough nowadays. I just have to read every label, even when a product is clearly labeled “gluten-free”. And often here in Finland there’s gluten and lactose free, but not gluten and dairy free. And I’m so sore about not eating cheese, but it doesn’t give me anaphylaxis, just a mudslide. Even totally lactose free ones. And slight anxiety.

Yeah, I’ve started spending quite a lot more on the stuff I buy from stores. But on the other hand, I never order in, I don’t trust any because of cross contam. (I did try and would so like to order a pizza but…)

Oh I wasn’t aware of that glyphosate correlation, thanks. But I’ve had this issue since the late 80’s (ie as long as I’ve been around). I remember having a celiac classmate and the food they had often looked pretty gnarly. But there’s tons of nice naturally gluten free things.

You might wonder how I managed so long, but I really didn’t, but I would point out that the breathing difficulties are uncomfortable, not deadly, and once I started taking out gluten, any exposure to it had a stronger reaction. As in my body had just gotten used to the constant exposure over the years but the problems never went away, I just got very used to them. Never stopped complaining about them though.

Not even now when I think I’ve solved it because can’t afford good private doctor.

Sorry for the rant. Can’t have beers anymore… Kukko gluten free seemed alright for a while but I cut it out as well. Now this is basically the mildest thing I drink.

Yeah the quality of my foodstuffs and cooking has rather gone up actually. Can’t have basic spaghetti so I improved the sauce to go with gluten-free ones. Because Rummo actually makes a decent enough gluten free spaghetti whenever you make a really good nice home made redwine tomato sauce / ragu with some nice horse /deer meat.

Or a proper steak with fries. I never knew I enjoyed meat actually, because people grilling it always ruined over well-done. Ew. Now with temp meter actually medium-rare, mmm.

Sorry for like food blogging at you for this much lol. The cider may have gone into my head, that wasn’t my dinner from tonight tonight I may be a bit empty stomached. Better go to the store to pickup some more (cider) food (cider).

I do like that the gluten free “fad” happened. I’m sure some are just on a health craze but clearly there’s people like me. Literature on NCGS (Non-celiac gluten sensitivity) is quite new.

And it can have quote serious symptoms. This is honestly what convinced me the most and gluten+dairy free has done more for my mental health than 20 years of doctors and a world array of legal and illegal therapies and medicines for the mind. I always kept asserting the problem was not psychosomatic, but the other way around. And now I’ve solved it myself. And I want

(thanks for bearing with me sry for the rant I should start a blog)

There are different levels of allergic reaction, and while mine doesn’t require an epipen to treat, it’s still very much a hassle to only have like 40% of your breathing capability.

Know that scene in Deadpool where he gets his powers?

That’s why I have to avoid even products with possible trace amounts; if I don’t I’ll get symptoms strong enough to be uncomfortable and completely prevent me from resting or eating, but not strong enough to warrant something like an epipen. No no, my body just produces all that epinephrine itself. When I was 18 my pediatrician told me I had the BP of an 80-y old woman, couldn’t fucking believe it. And that’s what I end up feeling like when I don’t follow a diet as restrictive as I’m on rn.

I know what the markings mean. I even know what the umol/mml limit is and how much it is in mg/kg, but through experience, I’ve noted that most of the products which “may contain” do causes me issues. Not every time when I have them, but enough for me to start avoiding them.

Some companies are more lax with their hygiene, others less so. So every time I ingest a “might contain traces of” product, I’m gambling with the next 12-40 hours whether I’ll have breathing troubles at first, then trying to cope with the physical side of the immune reaction (bp dry mouth throat shut, stomach pain, tenseness) and then eventually a mudslide or a shotgun blast of floaty poop.

You get more exposure by standing in the middle of a bakery shop.

Which is why I can’t go into them.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc063112

You can literally get a reaction from just breathing it in. I didn’t want to believe it. But I’ve tried. And retried and reretried the diet. And the only things that affect me are casein and gluten (casein is milk protein and structurally similar to gluten proteins).

They’re not putting things in there, they can’t 110% rule out that some flour particles made it over from one production line to another.

I never said they did. I understand the limitations of industrial mills. Which is why I buy certain brands which source their stuff from mills that only work on gluten free grains, so there’s no risk of cross-contamination.

There’s also “gluten-free wheat” nowadays, as a process exist to hydrolyse the gluten out of wheat and thus have it be “gluten free” as it will test below the <1mmol/ml ~ 20mg/kg limit. But I definitely can not have that. I mean I can, but I’ve always reacted. Much less than actual gluten buns but clearly I have. Like as in I had the reaction then looked for what could cave caused it and realised I hadn’t properly read a label on a “glutenfree” product.

So while I would’ve definitely agreed with you a few years ago that I must be some delusional gluten-free fad believer who’s just experiencing psychosomatic symptoms, thinking he can tell, I have a food diary now from almost a year, along with pictures of my feces. So I can prove what I’m saying.

Sorry if this was offensive, I’m not attacking you, I’m attacking the rhetoric, because I know how much more believable it is than my story, but I also know which one is true.

Kinder has like a thin shell of overly sweet milk chocolate on it, and then some plastic waste. The chocolate is good, but I’d rather buy a kinder-bar than an egg. Can’t have them anymore though.

These are amazing because they’re both gluten- and dairy free. (Suitable for vegans.) D’you know how hard it is to find any proper chocolatey products without either gluten or dairy? Some of the dark chocolates are, but most have the “might contain traces of gluten-containing…” and I’m very strongly avoiding both, so.

Probably explains why I always enjoyed them as a kid.

I think I’ve had like a dozen this year. That includes the two currently in my fridge such which I’ve yet to eat.

I don’t know why Fazer doesn’t sell this nougat in bars, but guess it would lose it’s appeal, idk.

They cut a little hole at the bottom, like they size of a pinky tip, then empty and clean the egg, fill with nougat and close it with a sugar cap.

https://www.fazer.fi/reseptit-ja-ideat/sesongit/paasiainen/mignon-muna-tehdaan-kasityona-alusta-loppuun/

Hands of my eggs, Trumputler.

Btw these are egss which are safe to eat raw.

And around easter we get these sort of eggs as well:

Solid chocolate/nougat in real eggshell. Handmade. Delicious.

I’m not an expert. It’s think the name might just be derivative, but obviously with the time it takes for a name to change, their aspects might change as well.

It is a fascinating site.

Yeah kaliningrad oblast came like as a surprise to me as well some years back. Like what the fuck is a piece of Russia doing there?!

Estonia is a EU and NATO country. It’s not part of NORDEFCO but we still have exercised with them extensively I believe especially after joining NATO.

Finland is the backbone of the Nordic defense.

And that’s my favourite role. In the army we won the rope-pulling contest with me as anchor. The other teams wore fucking boots while we had sneakers on (because dress code says no boots with exercise gear) so they broke military dress code and accused us of cheating.

I know I wasn’t the strongest member of our group (we had one EU judo champion who could toss a 10-20kg exercise ball to the ceiling of a sports hall like 10m high), but I was the most unyielding one with the most spirit and anger and that’s infectious.

I like to think I channeled the spirit of Óðinn:

As mentioned above, Odin’s name can be translated as “Master of Ecstasy.” His Old Norse name, Óðinn, is formed from two parts: first, the noun óðr, “ecstasy, fury, inspiration,” and the suffix -inn, the masculine definite article, which, when added to the end of another word like this, means something like “the master of” or “a perfect example of.” The eleventh-century historian Adam of Bremen confirms this when he translates “Odin” as “The Furious.”[1] Óðr can take countless different forms. As one saga describes Odin, “when he sat with his friends, he gladdened the spirits of all of them, but when he was at war, his demeanor was terrifyingly grim.”

https://norse-mythology.org/gods-and-creatures/the-aesir-gods-and-goddesses/odin/

(as a side note odin was way gayer than ppl think and slightly genderfluid and I respect all lgtb and im not a racist, it’s just something you have to mention when talking about norse myths)

And thats wholly tangential but it’s what I bring to the table… Let Vanja fucking try opening up another front.

“Silmien Välliin” - Finnish Anti-Russian Song

Bet.

We ready bruv

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Russia had experience in trying to invade Finland. Hasn’t gone well for them since… well, since the idea of nations to begin with.

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And who does that benefit on the large scale?

This isn’t Trump being a greedy idiot. This is systematic destruction of the US from inside out. Can’t say Russia didn’t warn you though:

“We will take America without firing a shot. We do not have to invade the US. We will destroy you from within.”

— Nikita Khrushchev January 18th, 1956

It’s so fucking boring being right

I think youre underestimating the amount of toddler minds behind all this. But yeah, the main two most visible ones.

There just a lot more of those toddlers, lot greedier and almost even intelligent idiots behind them curtains who don’t want to be known in any association to the the two most prominent toddlers