When I first went on this gluten-free diet (March 2007), I was telling my dad about it and how much better I felt. He thought maybe he should try it too after realizing he had a lot of the same symptoms I had had before going gluten-free.
I called him the next night and asked how the gluten-free diet was going and he said, “It’s too hard. I don't know what I’m supposed to eat for lunch if I can't eat sandwiches.” He made me chuckle, but he’s right. Lunch without sandwiches is quite an adjustment and requires some planning.
People ask me all the time how I eat sandwiches without bread or what I do for sandwich bread. My answer is I don’t really eat sandwiches. Gluten-free bread is high in sugar, fat and calories and also extremely expensive. And on top of that, it usually doesn’t even taste very good -- at least not compared with regular bread.
I have used corn tortillas or lettuce to roll things up in or sometimes just roll up a piece of ham and cheese together as a snack. But generally speaking, sandwiches are not on the menu at my house.
For lunch at work, I usually take a salad or left-overs from dinner the night before. I really don’t miss sandwiches, but that's probably because I wasn't ever really a big sandwich eater -- since bread made me feel so bad. I've never been a big bread eater for that reason. Long before I’d ever even heard the word gluten, I knew bread didn't agree with me, so a sandwich was rarely on my meal plan. I guess that’s why it’s so much easier for me to adjust to life without sandwiches than it is for my dad.
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