Gluten free saturday!

[graceanne]

My family is gluten free all organic diet. If you need any recipes, I have just about everyone. Bob's Red Mill has great soy flour that works in almost every thing you'd normally eat wheat based product.

The lifestyle is very easy once you get accustom to making the change.

If I can find gluten free stuff that's yummy I'd like to switch the whole family, this making noodles for us and then some for her thing is for the birds. For one thing it's hard to convince her to eat her noodles when we're eating ours. But I'm really struggling to find yummy gluten free foods. So far it's all a bust. Well - I found some good cereals. She's not thrilled with them, but she'll eat them. She's also lactose intolerant. I suspect celiac - mostly cause she loses weight when we're not careful with her diet. I don't want to get her officially diagnosed, though, cause it could make getting health insurance difficult when she gets older.

 

[graceanne]

No problem - though I have to admit my wife was the main motivator in setting my daughter's diet, but I've picked up some things and can always pass on queries to my better half if need be.

Well, since it looks like we're gonna hijack thisthread - do you know of any good gluten free breads? I'm at my wits end.

 

[RawHumor]

Well, since it looks like we're gonna hijack thisthread - do you know of any good gluten free breads? I'm at my wits end.

I don't know of brand names, but the local health food store in my area sells breads made with rice flower.

 

[graceanne]

I don't know of brand names, but the local health food store in my area sells breads made with rice flower.

Yeah, she won't eat it. *sigh*

 

[Xelebes]

Such a diet would kill me. I can't even eat my meat without some flour. I try to go easy on the corn and rice though...

I try to believe that I am a thoroughbred caucasian in this regard.

 

[LadyAria]

If I can find gluten free stuff that's yummy I'd like to switch the whole family, this making noodles for us and then some for her thing is for the birds. For one thing it's hard to convince her to eat her noodles when we're eating ours. But I'm really struggling to find yummy gluten free foods. So far it's all a bust. Well - I found some good cereals. She's not thrilled with them, but she'll eat them. She's also lactose intolerant. I suspect celiac - mostly cause she loses weight when we're not careful with her diet. I don't want to get her officially diagnosed, though, cause it could make getting health insurance difficult when she gets older.

Bob's Red Mill makes a wonderful brownie and chocolate chip gluten free mix that cooks up great with soy milk. The soy flour can be use in just about any recipe you have. It is a straight substitute in most case. Also, if you can, buy a bread maker. The fresh baked gluten free breads are softer and taste better. I use their gluten free oats in meatloaf. We cook on Sundays using the gluten free noodles to make portion sizes of everything from chicken noodle, soy mac & cheese, homemade spaghetti o's that are quick to heat during the week. Look for the gluten free rice for the base of any dish.

I'm also a fan of Alexia's waffle cut fries (glutton free) and Amy's make a whole selection of frozen dishes (if she will eat Mexican and Indian food. I really like the Sheppard's pie. Many of them are lactose free too) Ian's gluten free nuggets are tasty.

Everyone would benefit from the diet and it really doesn't have to change what is on your table. We had homemade tamales and nachos for dinner. I don't know where you live, but Trader Joe, Harris Teeter and Earth Fare flag the shelf items to help me with our diet needs.

I can't think of any food I cannot eat other people do. I just might have to think a head in preparing it. I think it might be a little easier since all of us eat the same foods. So, we are not preparing anything separately.

(Tip: that bunny natural gluten free soy mac & cheese is nasty and looks/tastes like sand) *gags*

 

[Netzach]

Pamela's mix. I made biscuits out of it, oh man are they good. I used lard!

It's ungodly expensive, but there are only so many biscuits a person can eat.

 

[VelvetDarkness]

Well, since it looks like we're gonna hijack thisthread - do you know of any good gluten free breads? I'm at my wits end.

Bob's Red Mill is based in Oregon and has some really good products you could try. Baking bread at home is much nicer than buying it off the shelf. Because there is less demand for GF stuff than regular products they all have a long shelf life, which means they are full of preservatives and you really can't be sure how long they've been hanging about.

 

[chauderlos]

Excuse me, but - apart obviously for people with allergies - what's the point of a gluten free diet?

Low on animal fat and protein, low on sugar, I can understand, but gluten?

 

[Rosie_Riveter]

Excuse me, but - apart obviously for people with allergies - what's the point of a gluten free diet?

Low on animal fat and protein, low on sugar, I can understand, but gluten?

I was wondering the same thing. Also about dairy products--I know lots of people can't digest them properly, but some claim we'd all be better without them, non-fat milk included.

 

[Netzach]

I cant speak to gluten per se, but basically any grain or starch more complex than honey or fruit hangs around in your digestive tract longer than fruit or honey.

Not a problem if the pipeline is working really well - but for a lot of people the pipeline is not. Wheat and even rice are pretty new on the scene as foods go. Lactose is another classic example of a slow sugar - hence a lot of people can't manage it.

 

[chauderlos]

Thank you for your answer, Netz, but still, if I may, it does answer partially my question.

Why would someone with no specific health issues choose to have a gluten-free diet?

 

[Rosie_Riveter]

I cant speak to gluten per se, but basically any grain or starch more complex than honey or fruit hangs around in your digestive tract longer than fruit or honey.

Not a problem if the pipeline is working really well - but for a lot of people the pipeline is not. Wheat and even rice are pretty new on the scene as foods go. Lactose is another classic example of a slow sugar - hence a lot of people can't manage it.

Ah, that's interesting. My guess is that slow is good if the pipeline works well.

I know that I feel best when I eat mostly fruit, vegetables, and whole grains, and that sugar in any quantity makes me lethargic and depressed.

But sometimes pecan pie attacks me.

 

[graceanne]

Thank you for your answer, Netz, but still, if I may, it does answer partially my question.

Why would someone with no specific health issues choose to have a gluten-free diet?

It's best for you - it's called the macrobiotic diet, and it's easy on the stomach and easy on the rest of the digestive system. It's NASTY, but good for you. (Lots of family members on a macrobiotic diet. *gag*)

I knew a girl my age who was macrobiotic and had been all her life - regular foods literally made her hurl, cause her system was so used to healthy foods.

 

[graceanne]

Ah, that's interesting. My guess is that slow is good if the pipeline works well.

I know that I feel best when I eat mostly fruit, vegetables, and whole grains, and that sugar in any quantity makes me lethargic and depressed.

But sometimes pecan pie attacks me.

Those bad, bad pecan pies! Whenever their's one in my house it calls my name in the middle of the night, tempting me. *sigh*

 

[Netzach]

Thank you for your answer, Netz, but still, if I may, it does answer partially my question.

Why would someone with no specific health issues choose to have a gluten-free diet?

Need I mention that I lost 30 pounds? Animal fats are also processed differently when you are pairing them with the carbs in broccoli and peas than when paired with the ones in potatoes and beer.

 

[Betticus]

Oh gawd. I made the most awesome bean soup the other day in the crock pot.

And now that I remember that I can't digest beans for shit I want to fucking die.

It feels like I swallowed a ball of broken glass wrapped in barbed wire.

 

[Betticus]

I managed to give myself emergency medical attention and prolly saved my own life.

I have a bag of epsoms salts under my bathroom sick in the cabinet. Epsom salts are not only good for a soothing bath but are a tried and true laxative.

I read the instructions on the back of the bag and it said for adults to take 2 to 4 level teaspoons in a whole glass of water for a laxative effect.

Well, I'm not the average guy. I'm a Dom so I figure that about a 1/4 cup would be a good place to begin.

It's been about an hour since I drank this stuff and I may have overdone it just a bit.

You see, the bean indigestability thing had me feeling horrible. I felt like a balloon that was about to pop. Uncomfortably bloated and icky and then the gut pain...

Sooo, I just spent the past thirty minutes literally venting the entire contents of my digestive system. Thank God!

The odd thing is that I actually deflated I think. It felt like I shat out an entire bull moose.

 

[graceanne]

I keep zoning out and forgetting to mention that I was hoping to not have to make her bread, but it it boils down to it, I will. I used to have a bread machine - but I have no clue where it is now. I must have got rid of it.

 

[chauderlos]

Thank you Graceanne and Netz for your answers.
Marcrobiotics...
*resumes eating his bad-but-so-tasty food*

 

[Essene]

Well, I'm not the average guy. I'm a Dom so I figure that about a 1/4 cup would be a good place to begin.

LMAO

I'm glad you're okay now!

 

[Betticus]

LMAO

I'm glad you're okay now!

Depends on your definition of okay.

 

[Essene]

Depends on your definition of okay.

Oh Bett, we can go by your definition of okay - the Betticus specific definition.

Which really means that you're never "okay" by anyone elses definition of the word right? LOL

 

[Betticus]

Geez, thanks for the vote of confidence.

 

[RawHumor]

My daughter is autistic. Putting her on the diet helped change her immensely literally in two weeks.

Fortunately, she was never fond of condiments because, besides not being able to eat bread products, you also can't have ketchup, mustard, or anything else that's vinegar-based.