Finally, worker hygiene as well as production and storage area sanitation practices play a critical role in minimizing the potential for contamination
of GF foods.
My daughter has a gluten allergy which requires me to
serve GF food when she visits.
It is nice to be able to bake
GF food good enough that no one knows the difference.
So much of
prepared GF food has no fiber or has high sugar content, and the specialty flours are expensive!
This will prove more difficult, as consumers have raised the bar with each generation or version of
new GF foods.
Even my friend that wrinkles her nose to
GF food wanted to try it cause it looked so good and then she wanted seconds!
I'm thrilled that I've been able to help you
see GF food as accessible.
Come and eat
amazing GF food together at independent venues, run by passionate people.
I'd see if you have an actual allergy first, otherwise you will be paying out the nose for
GF foods without any benefit.
While I do bake and test recipes for other bloggers, as well as try out things I see come onto the market,
processed GF foods are not the center of my meals.
You are right to be frustrated with the cost
of GF food.
I've been making my own
gf foods for a couple of decades and for the last 2 yrs, paleo as well.
«GF version 1.0 was satisfied with free from gluten, version 1.5 wants improved texture and taste, while version 2.0 expects added nutrients, vitamins and fiber (elements that often are lacking
in GF foods and consumers» diets),» explained Peirce.?
De-lurking to say that I think you're rad, and really appreciate how you're helping to
make GF food accessible and unintimidating.
Recipes that focus on naturally
GF foods not only helps us stay healthier, for those with little knowledge about real foods, it educates them on flavor profiles, what herbs and spices go well with what fruits and vegetables.
Also so nice to have this site for ideas on
healthy gf foods, restaurants and ideas where it's not just omitting half the menu / ingredients and really looking forward to having a cook book where I don't have to earmark the pages I can eat!
Terrifric for those who are not use to shopping for
GF food items.
page, but what I really want is to give you these tools to make
yummy GF foods your own — so that you aren't left wondering how jeopardized your recipe is because you didn't have teff flour on hand or really can't stand the taste of chickpeas or trying to figure out if a packaged all purpose mix will really work for the recipe you want to make.
For those of you that don't know, the Gluten Free Ratio Rally is a group of gluten free bloggers that strive to find or utilize ingredient ratios in
creating GF foods.
Even though chefs typically have a working knowledge about gluten as a protein in cereal grains, they are often not as familiar with the processes they need to put in place at their food service to ensure that
GF food preparations are safe.
I'm sure the list goes on but I'll leave it to you to figure out your favorite
GF foods when Trader Joes opens.
I have celiac disease and love to cook so, always looking for great recipes to add to my arsenal so my sceptical of good
tasting gf food family will be won over.
My son was diagnosed w celiac on 6/1/09
so GF fooding is new to me.
Ditto on your first two, but I'm going to choose some
different gf foods... I love Amy's gf and dairy free balsamic vegetable pizza, Udi's pizza crusts, Aleia's Italian breadcrumbs, Udi's vanilla granola, and Whole Foods chocolate cupcakes with chocolate frosting.
Hi Jenn... I think reaching out to help any one in need is great, but since you are gluten - free I thought I'd let you know that the Red Cross does not
supply GF food to people.
I don't think it'll be a complete disaster if you use it but you may need to adjust the amount & it's possible the rolls will have a firmer texture that's more apt to fall apart like
GF foods tend to do.
As a health coach at a wellness center, I spend many hours educating patients on how to go GF, and convincing them that the healthiest and most budget - friendly way to do that is to find
naturally GF foods and recipes.
As a result, in addition to establishing that all ingredients are GF, precautions need to be taken when preparing, storing and
serving GF foods to avoid the potential for cross-contamination.
I completely agree about wanting to
make gf food that people love and compliment without conditions.
Got 48 good size muffins, I like to have muffins on hand for when I have go shopping so will always have
GF food for a coffee / tea break.
I understand where you are coming from, and I think gluten free cookbooks can be marketed to different GF audiences — the gluten free crowd is large enough that there is room for different types of GF books, and so I see a place for both books that do include naturally GF recipes (which I might call a GF lifestyle cookbook for an all around book with a variety of types
of GF foods), and books whose purpose would be to focus on the more technical recipes of replacing gluten.
I think people forget the place of naturally
GF foods because they simply replace processed GF foods for processed gluten foods.
Maybe some don't view naturally GF recipes as enough of a recipe development accomplishment, or maybe it's simply that others don't need to learn about naturally
GF foods and are only interested in the baking component (especially those who are more experienced).
I try to base most of my recipes around cheap ingredients and naturally
gf foods.
I absolutely agree that naturally
GF foods are important in books and on blogs — as you said, they are often cheaper and sometimes in our zeal to convert recipes, we forget the basics.
, but if there were a one - stop book for healthy and whole (naturally)
GF foods I would be ecstatic.
In fact, there SHOULD be a cookbook out there for naturally
gf foods.
However, it is important to remember that once packaging is opened,
a GF food product is exposed to the risk of cross-contamination.
Secondly, the food service needs to recognize that preventing food contamination requires safety measures that encompass all aspects of the procurement, processing and delivery of
the GF foods.
Would love to go to
the GF Food Expo.
All GF food for Christmas day / Boxing day has been bought and been eyed up by me most days!
They absolutely LOVE to hear when I bake something that I haven't been able to eat for so long, but they're halfway across the country now and don't really get to enjoy them (though my husband «taste tests» everything and USUALLY prefers
the GF foods.
I am travelling to Europe next week and I always hit up the pharmacy to see what they have from Schar (
all GF food is in the pharmacy because if you are Celiac, your food is provided to you at no cost or low cost via the pharmacy in most countries, not all I suppose).