Having blogged a few times about the mystery of Jamie’s ongoing tummy aches, despite my keeping of a thorough (I thought) food diary, and trying every remedy under the sun, I thought I should update you.
It was the tomato ketchup!
And yes, I have to take full responsibility and yes, I have been on the world’s biggest guilt trip ever since.
It was at teatime the other day: we were having gluten free cottage pie and the kids wanted tomato ketchup as usual. Myhusband made a comment about it being ‘full of sugar’ and I checked the label to see just how much sugar it contained… and was horrified to read “contains what and gluten” in the allergy box! And there it was, poured liberally over Jamie’s dinner.
It is only one supermarket’s own brand ketchup that contains gluten and I think that’s where I went wrong. When Jamie was first diagnosed with celiacs I checked every label (including ketchup) and bought it from a different supermarket (no gluten). When that ran out I simply bought another bottle, without realising it was from Supermarket B, and having it in my head that ketchup is safe.
It so brought it home to me that I just have to check everything!
Anyway, we reverted to the safe Supermarket A ketchup and after a week or so the tummyaches stopped completely. Jamie has forgiven me and I have just about forgiven myself.
Moral of the story: check everything! It could be ‘safe’ from one shop and full of gluten from another.
