TRUfree Blog

I have recently started a new job and seem to have become my team’s designated lunch provider! I didn’t mind to start off with but now it’s becoming a bit of a sore point.

Funnily enough, being wheat-free wasn’t so bad when I was a student - I just bought my own food and fed myself at home so I was never particularly tempted by forbidden fruit. Now, I get packed off at lunchtime with a list the length of my arm including things like “hot meat ciabatta - no onions” and “turkey, bacon and emmental – toasted” written on it.

The local sandwich shop has cabinets full of tasty looking sandwich fillings and rows of different kinds of bread behind the counter (cheesy bread rolls being my weakness). There I am ordering pannini after pannini and bringing back lemon drizzle cake for everyone else and all I can have is what looks like a very disappointing tuna salad! This just adds insult to injury after the morning toast rounds that make the office smell unbelievable, whilst I sit here with an orange and a banana.

Another thing that I think will test my willpower this year is going to be the Christmas markets which have just opened up all over Manchester. I have the feeling they are going to become our new Friday evening after-work ‘haunt’ - I love the festive atmosphere of them and can’t help but wander in every time I go past.

Unfortunately, before I had to go wheat-free, one of my favourite things was hot roast pork sandwiches with apple sauce and now the smell of these roasting away in the markets just makes me drool!

I just know that my workmates will find great pleasure in teasing me by scoffing away while I warm my hands with a mulled wine and a “pork roll with no roll please”. Who needs the bread, the best bit is the filling anyway!

So, as the nights start to draw in and the need for comfort food deepens I think my blasé attitude to how easy it is being wheat-free is going to be truly tested.

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