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posted by [personal profile] bugshaw at 11:55am on 16/02/2006
I sent off the excess postage and received the underpaid item today - a TWP apazine, which did indeed tip my scales at all of 252g - and it only had postage enough for 250g. I don't know why it was underpaid - a problem with the scales at the other end, I guess.

Boy, do my joints ache today. They were getting bad yesterday, my ankles and bunions, but they're much worse today and my wrists have joined in. There was some amusing contortionism involved in getting my socks on this morning, I can tell you. Now that term has started, I am getting a regular fix on vegan (i.e. non-dairy) chocolate flapjacks, so they are suspect #1. I wonder what it is in them that I can't tolerate? Oats, maybe. Gosh, this will be fun if there's another thing I can't eat. Bah. I shall not eat any flapjacks for a couple of weeks, and then do an Experiment.

Maybe I'll have just one while I'm in work today - I foresee a lot of waiting. I am provisionally mentoring a student 2:30-3:30, then supporting another one in a seminar on Strategic Management Accounting and Project Management. "You'll find it droll," said the student: "It's a man who looks like an accountant, talking about accounting." Way hey! Just my sort of thing. The only thing better was when I went to a workshop at SPSS, and one of the facilitators had a shirt which, when you looked at it closely, had the pattern of 1mm graph paper. Swoon! Now if it had been log-log graph paper, I might just not have come home ;-) (Note to self: buy Simon a shirt based on this pattern)
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posted by [personal profile] drplokta at 12:11pm on 16/02/2006
A cynical person might wonder if the non-dairy flapjacks are quite as non-dairy as they claim to be.
 
posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 12:19pm on 16/02/2006
Not all the flapjacks in the range claim to be vegan, so I'm inclined to trust the ones which say they are. I also get a problem with beer and [livejournal.com profile] yonmei's home-made bread made with a live sourdough starter.

I could be wrong about the veganness (veganity?) of the flapjacks, but I'm not cynical so I'll assume the label is truthful ;-)
 
posted by [identity profile] bellinghman.livejournal.com at 12:45pm on 16/02/2006
All beers? Or just some?

If all beers, then that's yeast, barley and possibly hops to worry about. And the sourdough starter will be wheat, yeast and lactobacilli, plus whatever the loaf is made from.

Oats, wheat and barley? That'd be a nasty mixture to avoid. What are you currently avoiding (apart from dairy, obviously)?
 
posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 01:07pm on 16/02/2006
I had no beer for five years, then I had a half pint of Landlord or Pedigree or something at Novacon. And the next day I was in agony. Joints I never knew I had were inflamed. I intend to do another beer experiment at some point, to make sure. I don't like beer though, so it's no great hardship to avoid it ;-)

I am only avoiding dairy at the moment; I suspect yeasty things may be a problem. I've been gobbling bread, pasta, and cereals for yonks with no problems, though I eat a fair amount of potato and rice so I'm fairly balanced.

I could experiment with porridge, and marmite, I suppose (but not both in the same bowl!)
 
posted by [identity profile] bellinghman.livejournal.com at 01:26pm on 16/02/2006
Well, if the bread and pasta and cereals are all OK, then you've not got wheat or gluten intolerance. So that's good. And you'd probably have encountered the various non-wheat graisn as well (maize and oats in cereals, possibly rye in bread).

And yeast intolerance could give you occasional problems with bread, so unless you have it sufficiently mildly that the beer tips you over, but bread never does ...

Hmm, I wonder if it might be maltose that gives you problems? That's the sugar from barley malt, but it might be used in interesting breads and flapjacks as a sweetener.

Hmm, do you have the ingredients list for those flapjacks. Or a [livejournal.com profile] yonmei's bread recipe?
 
posted by [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com at 01:55pm on 16/02/2006
The interior of the delectable Brazil Nut Cluster features:
Oats (44%)
Partially Inverted Sugar Syrup
Hydrogenated Vegetable Margarine (Vegetable Oils, Hydrogenated Vegetable Oils, Water, Salt, Emulsifiers E471, E322 (Soya); Colours E160b, E100, Nature Identical Flavourings)
Dark Chocolate Topping (10%) (Sugar, Hydrogenated and Non Hydrogenated Vegetable Fats, Cocoa Solids, Emulsifier (Lecithin (Soya)), Flavouring)
Glucose Syrup
Brazil Nuts (6%)
Natural Lemon Flavour

Suitable for Vegetarians and Vegans.
Wheat and Whey Free.
This product contains Gluten and Brazil Nuts.

Doesn't look too dangerous, but I have rather gone off it now!
 
posted by [identity profile] bellinghman.livejournal.com at 02:11pm on 16/02/2006
I don't see anything in common with a pint of Pedigree there at all. (Well, excluding water, and I'll make the arbitrary assuption that that's not your problem.)

Maybe it was something else. Or maybe there's more than one thing you have a problem with. A friend was a vegetarian for at least a decade, because he suspected meat. In the end, it turned out to be dairy and wheat (note, not gluten) that were the problem.
 
posted by [identity profile] bibliofile.livejournal.com at 05:35am on 17/02/2006
Going through some old clothes, I found a cotton shirt with a sort of graph-paper grid on it--only it's in black, not the green or blue of standard graph paper. It's far too small for the current me, though, and 100% cotton (thus needs ironing), so it's going into the "to charity" bin. I suspect it's a woman's size 12 (14 UK?) or thereabouts.

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