My son was diagnosed w celiac on 6/1/09
so GF fooding is new to me.
Not exact matches
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!
I haven't heard of any of these companies but crave decent Gluten Free
food — as someone suffering from Hashimotos, I find that a
GF diet drastically reduces my antibodies AND I feel
so much better — superb.
Thanks again for all you do
so we can satisfy our sweet tooth (and other «normal»
foods) while remaining LC and
GF.
So much of prepared
GF food has no fiber or has high sugar content, and the specialty flours are expensive!
When I look though
so many
GF blogs I get the feeling they focus mainly on recreating the
foods they miss instead of enjoying and emphasizing the great
foods they can have.
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.
You have been
so generous with your time and expertise to the LC -
GF community, and now with a
food bank donation.
The nice lady taking our order told us apologetically that it would be a half hour wait for the hot
food so I ordered a blackstrap molasses cookie ($ 4) and
GF raw cocoa brownie ($ 4) to tide us over.
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.
My absolute favorite treat
so far, as i have just started going gluten free, is
GF granola (vanilla caramel flavor from nonuttin
foods) mixed in to vanilla yogurt.
Our family has been
gf for years and we feel
so much better though we are now searching for more whole
food type recipes
so we can eat even healthier!!
Bought vegan breakfast patties can be
so expensive, and these satisfy the fast -
food - like horrible / lovely cravings just fine I made them gluten free by subbing the flour and wheat bran with just over 1 and 1/2 cups of my usual
gf flour (1:1:1 of chickpea flour: arrowroot flour: almond meal + about 2 Tbsp ground flax meal + scant 1 / 2tsp xantham gum for every 1 cup of mix) and they turned out fantastic!
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.
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.
Great post, my
gf is now more serious with her health
food, over the last few years
so we are constantly in local fruit and veg markets, vegan restaurants and even the odd vegan bookshop.
I used the remaining 2 1/4 c 1:1
GF flour mix that I bought from Wal - Mart... I don't know the brand (I repackage my flour because we're backed up to the woods and a stream... we battle ants and mice
so I try to keep them from contaminating my
foods) anyhow... I was short
so I used 1/2 c
GF pancake mix (cuz... what else do I do to try to make this happen in a pinch?)
I replaced the oat flour for a
gf floor (cause i don» t have a
food processor) and was afraid they'll be too... hard, but after finish them in the sauce they were
so soft and perfect, i loved them.
I'm gluten intolerant
so I look for
GF easy meals all the time and we also eat whole
foods, reduced salt etc..
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 added a page focused on running with celiac disease last year but in a nutshell, I avoid processed
foods as much as possible when I am training for races, I use Nuun tabs, which are all
GF, as my electrolyte replacement, and I have been using Picky Bars as an energy source for the last 6 months or
so.
Thanks for your reply Shawn, and yes your situation may indeed require special attention to being
GF; however as I mentioned to others, it was not my intent to get everyone off their special diets if they truly needed to be on them, and especially if that the case with your doctors advice, but rather to remind us that we must not throw the grain baby out with the bath water, remove the almond flour as what's become the king of the
GF craze, and too look to the time when with healing we can return to eating all the
foods so wonderfully taught in Nourishing Traditions.
Also,
SO many of th»
gf»
foods aren't nutritionally worth it anyway, as they are just processed rice flours, etc. while these
foods can be helpful in certain cases, you can just get good, old - fashioned meat, veggies, and fruit and do Very well.
It's
so hard to find good, easy Real
Food desserts (that are also
GF and DF, and low sugar)... thanks for the recipe.