Hey! I’m Hattie, a second year food science student and lover of all things creative. Welcome to my food blog where I post new gluten free recipes every week.
Fussy eater
As with everyone, my journey with food started a long time ago. However, mine was a little rockier than most. Little Hattie's first word was “NO” and it quickly became her favorite. Soon I became a very, very fussy eater, truly believing I didn’t like the foods I was saying no to. Not only would I not eat ALL fruit and vegetables, but also chocolate, ice cream, chips, most bread, every meat other than gammon – most people’s favourite foods. Now, I could psychobabble for hours about why I think I did this but, I will try to keep this short and save that for another time. I lived on a diet of pasta, butter, ketchup and cheese, with a little porridge every now and then, until about 14 years old. Towards the end of this time I also threw in the odd mushroom, a little couscous and chocolate (maybe be quite a bit of this). Then, along came Annabel Karmel with her ‘hidden veggies’. Other than my issues with this meaning my parents were lying to me about what I was eating, I could also tell what was in the food and I was quite happy to go hungry. With relentless further attempts from my parents to broaden both mine and my sister diets, I was back to cooking our own meals, something I had done from a very early age. It was cooking that made me interested in food, allowing me to explore food, making it less ‘scary’. I gradually started to eat more foods. And, at the grand age of 16, I took on the challenge of eating 2 litres of ice cream, a task previously undertaken on a regular occasion by my boyfriend. Meaningless to say I failed, but I found a new food I liked and more importantly, I found the fun in trying new foods.My allergies and intolerances
During my GCSEs, I had severe stomach pains after eating, was constantly tired and had random rashes. This caused me to have very disordered eating and when my mum took me to the doctor to have allergy tests, gluten intolerance did not show up because I had not consumed gluten within the last two weeks, not being aware of that at the time. Although I was actually diagnosed with idiopathic urticaria (roughly translates as ‘you have allergic reactions, we don’t know why, go away and live with it’), the doctor could only guess that I was gluten intolerant. This was considered likely because it is hereditary and my dad is intolerant to gluten and dairy.
Refusing to eat gluten because of the pain it caused, I had to broaden my diet. However, I didn’t expand it very much until I got to university, where for some reason, all of a sudden, I ate vegetables. Actually, not only was I eating vegetables, but meals that were just vegetables. Yes, I study a lot of nutrition in my course and that was not the best Idea but, I was catching up on my years of not eating them. Most students when they go to university, consume copious amounts of alcohol, I consumed copious amounts of vegetables, not really sure what that says about me.
One year on, I still eat a lot of vegetables and try to include them in my recipes as much as possible (but, you’ve got to have a few classic comfort foods sometimes). My diet is gluten and dairy free (see my 'Why I haven't posted in awhile' post) and I am trying to reduce the amount of sugar in my recipes because I have such a sweet tooth; particularly reducing the amount of refined sugar because I get hyper so easily. But, Carbs are great, I love carbs, everyone should eat carbs, don’t cut carbs, they are not sugar. I will try to upload a new recipe every week again but, next year I hope to post at least once a week, and share a little more about my life and my crafty makes. I have a lot of exciting news coming up for next year which I hope to share shortly.
Thanks for reading my story, I hope you enjoyed finding out a little more about me. I would love to hear back from you and hear about some your journeys with fussy eating or your journeys with food allergies and intolerances.
Hattie xx
Refusing to eat gluten because of the pain it caused, I had to broaden my diet. However, I didn’t expand it very much until I got to university, where for some reason, all of a sudden, I ate vegetables. Actually, not only was I eating vegetables, but meals that were just vegetables. Yes, I study a lot of nutrition in my course and that was not the best Idea but, I was catching up on my years of not eating them. Most students when they go to university, consume copious amounts of alcohol, I consumed copious amounts of vegetables, not really sure what that says about me.
One year on, I still eat a lot of vegetables and try to include them in my recipes as much as possible (but, you’ve got to have a few classic comfort foods sometimes). My diet is gluten and dairy free (see my 'Why I haven't posted in awhile' post) and I am trying to reduce the amount of sugar in my recipes because I have such a sweet tooth; particularly reducing the amount of refined sugar because I get hyper so easily. But, Carbs are great, I love carbs, everyone should eat carbs, don’t cut carbs, they are not sugar. I will try to upload a new recipe every week again but, next year I hope to post at least once a week, and share a little more about my life and my crafty makes. I have a lot of exciting news coming up for next year which I hope to share shortly.
Thanks for reading my story, I hope you enjoyed finding out a little more about me. I would love to hear back from you and hear about some your journeys with fussy eating or your journeys with food allergies and intolerances.
Hattie xx
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