I get quite a few questions from readers who want to know how a gluten free diet will affect them nutritionally. Since that’s not my area of expertise, I went to my friend Tovah to get an answer for a mom who recently wrote it, concerned about how to give her autistic child a well-balance [...]
How to Get Your Nutritional Needs Met on a Gluten-Free, Casein-Free (GFCF) Diet
February 20, 2013 by Leave a Comment
4 Tips To Getting Back On A Gluten Free Diet After The Holidays
January 9, 2013 by 1 Comment
4 Tips To Getting Back On A Gluten Free Diet After The Holidays Did you stop eating a gluten free diet over the holidays? Are you ready to start feeling better again? Read this! I have a question for you. I have been gluten free for 8 months, it has changed my life – I [...]
How To Start a Gluten Free Diet Without Reading Anything
January 7, 2013 by 5 Comments
This past week a message, similar to the following, showed up in my Facebook news feed: Where can I find a plan (not info) for someone who needs to try gluten free as a trial, but doesn’t have the time to learn all the details at the moment? Go! . Of course, I quickly responded [...]
Lose Weight, Improve Energy Levels, and Feel Great: Three Variations On The Standard Gluten Free Diet
July 19, 2012 by 5 Comments
There’s often a lot of confusion about starting a gluten free diet. Most people, when they’re interested in eating gluten free, look up “gluten”, find out that’s it’s contained in wheat, and they figure all they need to do is avoid wheat in their diet. Then they hear that gluten might be in other grains [...]
Day 10 On The Primal Diet – Playing Around With Intermittent Fasting
June 27, 2012 by 1 Comment
Today is day 10 on our 30 day Primal Diet experiment, and I’m feeling great. What surprising about that is the fact that I haven’t had anything to eat all day long. It’s currently 2:45 pm and all I’ve had today is some coffee and a couple liters of water. (We’re in south Texas and [...]
Primal Diet Trial – Days 1 & 2
June 19, 2012 by 5 Comments
Here is the first meal update for our 30-Day Primal Experiment. We won’t overwhelm you with daily meal updates, but we’ll keep track of what we’re eating and send it out every few days. I’m also planning to post the recipe for anything that I make that we love. If you’ve been wondering what to [...]
30 Days on the Primal Diet: A New Experiment On A Gluten Free Diet
June 18, 2012 by 1 Comment
It’s interesting to me when I look back at the past several years of how Mary and I have eaten. We went completely gluten free in 2003, and we basically ate whatever we wanted so long as it didn’t have gluten. It was essentially the Standard American Diet minus the gluten. Then in 2006, we [...]
The First Gluten Free Baking Challenge Was A Lot Of Fun!
May 10, 2012 by 5 Comments
The first Bake Gluten Free Challenge ended on May 7th and it was a resounding success! I had so much fun reading the entries and looking at the photos that I’ve compiled a bunch of them here for you to read too. Sahra White is the winner of the Bake Gluten Free Challenge and she’ll [...]
Is Chicken Gluten Free? Finding Gluten Free Meats and Beans
February 14, 2012 by 1 Comment
Trying to make gluten-free versions of meals that normally contain wheat flour, or another source of gluten, is time-consuming. Personally, it’s not the sort of thing that I generally want to tackle during the week. I want something that can best be described as a quick meal or easy meal. For that reason (and a [...]
10 Ways to Accidentally Gluten Yourself at Thanksgiving
November 10, 2011 by 10 Comments
Thanksgiving is full of gluten-filled landmines. If this is your first Thanksgiving on a gluten free diet, you might not realize the challenge that awaits you. Read this list and make sure you’re ready to stay gluten free this Thanksgiving. Even if you’re not new to the gluten free diet, a refresher of the potential [...]
Gluten Free, Casein Free Condensed Cream of Mushroom Soup
November 8, 2011 by 5 Comments
There is much to be said for comfort food. While generally not healthy, sometimes you just need your favorite comfort food to make you feel better. Unfortunately for us gluten-free eaters, many not comfort foods depend on a can of condensed cream soup. While it’s not impossible to find a gluten free condensed cream soup, [...]
Cooking Class FAQ
October 17, 2011 by
If you haven’t taken an class from Gluten Free Cooking School yet, take a few minutes to peruse this FAQ and see what it’s all about. Q: What does Gluten Free Cooking sell? An ebook? Cooking classes?Both? A: Gluten Free Cooking School does sell an ebook and several different virtual/online gluten free cooking classes. That [...]
Am I Gluten Intolerant? How To Find Out
October 7, 2011 by 46 Comments
In last week newsletter I mistakenly said that the only way to know if you are gluten intolerant is to try a gluten free diet. My wonderful newsletter readers wrote back to let me know that I was wrong. Here’s the question that I was responding to, followed by my readers’ responses. Q: My doctor [...]
The Gluten Free Casein Free Diet – Butter Substitutions
September 21, 2011 by 2 Comments
Butter, butter, butter. So good for you, and so enjoyable as long as you don’t look at the calorie count and you’re not allergic to it. If you bake a lot, you already know that it’s possible to go through an incredible amount of butter every so quickly. Knowing how to substitute for butter in [...]
Staying On a Gluten Free Diet: Why Am I Not Feeling Better
September 14, 2011 by 12 Comments
I received a lot of encouraging feedback on my post on The 10 Reasons You’re Not Staying On a Gluten Free Diet so I wanted to follow up that up with a moreindepth discussion. I’ll start out with Reason #10 and work my through them as time (and your interest) allows. Here’s an excerpt from [...]