there's amazingly limited information on gout on the internet, and what little there are are ads for cookbooks and contrasting views on what a gout sufferer can eat and can't eat. no online recipes. its aggravating.

am making dinner for friends tomorrow in order to empty the fridge but as it turns out, one of them has gout. i'm told by a doctor friend that he can't eat anything with proteins and from the internet i learnt that its the purines in them causing the problem. because it converts to uric acid or something like that and when there's just too much of it, uh oh. the eventuality is that the poor chap suffers from some form of acute arthritic pain. doctor friend says the big toe very painful.

so with his big toe on my mind, i have a challenge ahead of me. esp since its not as simple as avoiding meat... because, apparently, some veggies have purines as well.

erm.