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
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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 [...]
Does A Gluten Free Diet Cure Adult Acne?
January 2, 2013 by 5 Comments
I love to talk to people that have quit eating a gluten free diet because I’m curious as to why they stopped. Was it because they didn’t enjoy the food? Was it too much trouble? or something else entirely? One answer that I often hear is that they quit eating gluten free because they weren’t [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
10 Reasons You’re Not Staying on a GF Diet
August 25, 2011 by 32 Comments
The emails that my readers send me tend to go through spurts. Sometimes all of the emails are very encouraging. Sometimes they are filled with questions from the curious. At other times, the emails are filled with whiny complaints and excuses. We’re in one of those phases right now, so here’s some tough love. If [...]
“I’m Starting A Gluten Free Diet. When Will I Feel Better?”
May 19, 2011 by 301 Comments
One of the more frequent questions that I see in my email runs something like this: “I’m about to start a gluten free trial because I think it may help with some of the symptoms I’ve been suffering with for years. What I don’t know, and I don’t know who else to ask, is when [...]
Pasta, Po’Boys and Pineapple: What’s on our table
December 23, 2010 by
Last night’s supper was delicious AND fast. That’s not a combination that happens by chance in my household. Most of our meals are delicious….they just tend to take a while to cook. The time that a recipe takes has never before been a criteria when I was choosing our meals. That has changed. Now that [...]
Our Gluten Free Beer Tasting
June 15, 2010 by
This post was written by my husband, John. A few weeks ago, my sister and her husband came to stay with us for a few days. We were celebrating the birth of our daughter, Lucy, and decided to have a gluten free beer tasting to go along with our gluten free pizza. Mary and I [...]
Gluten Free Waffles
August 29, 2009 by
Our family has found a new favorite weekend breakfast – gluten free waffles! You all know that we’ve been on the gluten free diet for years now, so that first bite of homemade waffles was absolute heaven! We stuffed ourselves! The recipe is a conversion of the “Basic Waffles” recipe in Joy of Cooking. The [...]
Grocery Shopping for Your Gluten Free Diet – Week One
May 28, 2009 by
This is the second post in a series on Starting the Gluten Free Diet. Click here for a list of the other posts in the series. To make sure that you get all of the posts in the series sign up for free email updates in the right sidebar. For more help getting started on [...]
What to Eat on a Gluten Free Diet – Week One
May 21, 2009 by
The hardest part of the gluten free diet is probably when you realize that wheat is in almost every processed food imaginable. So don’t think about that now! Give yourself a week to mourn the fact that you can’t buy normal bread and pasta, and that Campbell’s soup can no longer dwell in your pantry. [...]
Getting Started on a Gluten Free Diet
May 17, 2009 by
Hello all, This week a commenter mentioned that she was developing several celiac disease symptoms and asked for advice on starting a gluten free diet, so I’ve decided to use her questions as an impetus to write a series of articles. I sat down last night and jotted down a list of 10 actions that [...]
What’s in a Frugal Gluten Free Pantry?
January 30, 2009 by
This is the fifth part in a series “Gluten Free Grocery Shopping on a Budget” in which Heather shares how she feeds a family of 6 a gluten free diet for $350 – $400 a month. In this last post, Heather gives us a peak into her pantry. **If you have any questions for Heather, [...]
Frugal Gluten Free Diet: Part 4
January 28, 2009 by
This is the fourth part in a series “Gluten Free Grocery Shopping on a Budget” in which Heather shares how she feeds a family of 6 a gluten free diet for $350 – $400 a month. Here are Heather’s responses to some of my follow-up questions: 1. Did you use a price book to learn [...]
5 More Tips for a Frugal Gluten Free Diet
January 26, 2009 by
This is the third part in a series “Gluten Free Grocery Shopping on a Budget” in which Heather shares how she feeds a family of 6 a gluten free diet for $350 – $400 a month. (And she says she could do with less if she really tried!) 6) Buy less expensive cuts of meat [...]
5 Tips for a Frugal Gluten Free Diet
January 13, 2009 by
This is the second part in a series “Gluten Free Grocery Shopping on a Budget” in which Heather shares how she feeds a family of 6 a gluten free diet for $350 – $400 a month. (And she says she could do with less if she really tried!) Heather: Here’s an expansion of my bullet [...]
How to Feed a Family of 6 for $9.16 a Day
January 9, 2009 by
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Breakfast on a Budget – Cream of Corn Cereal
January 6, 2009 by
The theme for January’s posts is Kitchen Management – things like gluten free grocery shopping on a budget, stocking a gluten free pantry, and how to clean a messy kitchen. The posts will be shorter and more frequent than normal (since I won’t have to multi-test as many recipes) and there will be several chances [...]
Spoonbread Corn Muffins Inspired by Tayst in Nashville
November 30, 2008 by
The thermometer mercury is dropping here in Alabama and I’m ready for some good, hearty non-Thanksgiving food before I start the Christmas baking. So I made up a new corn muffin recipe. A few months ago we ate dinner at Tayst in Nashville and they served us the most delicious corn muffins. They were much [...]
A Gluten Free Thanksgiving
November 23, 2008 by
Thanksgiving is only four days away and I will be in charge of all of the cooking this year. (Mom is on the DL) So, it’s high time that I planned the menu! We’re having a low-key Thanksgiving this year; just my mom and dad, John, David and myself. I want to keep the dishes [...]
Gluten Free Bread: Banana Bread
November 8, 2008 by
Last Monday morning I was cleaning up the kitchen and discovered that we had somehow accumulated 10 very ripe bananas in the back of the freezer. John has been asking for a loaf of banana bread for several months and he’d obviously done a good job at stashing away the bananas that I would need [...]
Two Minutes to Homemade Bread
August 4, 2008 by
Making homemade bread is easy when you have a stash of homemade bread mix in the freezer. Follow along as I make a stash of my favorite gluten free bread mix.
Multi-Grain Flat Bread: Gluten Free Bread Without Starch
June 18, 2008 by
If you haven’t guessed by now, most gluten free bread recipes are a bit scarce in the nutrients we’re accustomed to seeing in wheat bread. One reason is that wheat breads are usually fortified with vitamins and minerals during the manufacturing process, and the other is that gluten free breads depend heavily on starch flours [...]
How to Bake a Gluten Free Angel Food Cake
March 27, 2008 by
Please welcome our guest author:Natalie Naramor, Gluten Free Mommy Homemade angel food cake requires very few ingredients and is a snap if your gluten free flour mix is already prepared. It can be intimidating to work with egg whites at first, so visit Gluten Free Cooking School’s archives on How to Beat Egg Whites for [...]
22 Days to Go: Gluten Free Flour Tortillas
March 24, 2008 by
These were so yummy and so easy to make. We used them in Last of the Sweet Potatoes soft tacos, which I’ll get around to posting some day.
Open Thread: Your Burning Gluten Free Questions
March 10, 2008 by
Hi everyone, Last weeks open thread went so well that I’d like to try another one. This week you can head down to the comments and leave your most urgent question about living gluten free or you can chime in and answer someone else’s questions. Since I’ve been horrible about answering the questions that readers [...]
Gluten Free Gusto: Mixing it up
January 31, 2008 by
A few weeks ago I sent out a call for you favorite gluten free mixes. Gluten free flours are definitely one of the more overwhelming aspects of gluten free cooking, but it helps to hear what mixes are working for others. I’m really excited to try some of the mixes below. I mean, who can [...]
Spinach and Mushroom Lasagna (GF,CF,SF)
January 24, 2008 by
A few weeks ago Gluten Free Mommy called my bluff and asked me to post the Spinach Mushroom Lasagna that was in my menu for that week. I had to sheepishly admit that I hadn’t even come up with the recipe yet. I gave it some thought and decided to go for a gluten free, [...]
Gluten Free Menu Swap – January 21st
January 20, 2008 by
I haven’t planned my menu yet. We went shopping on Thursday and I just bought a ton of vegetables and normal pantry stocking things. But it’s 10:18 on Sunday night and I need to get this post up, so I’m going to share my general thoughts and ideas of what we’ll be eating over the [...]
Gluten Free, Soy Free All Purpose Flour Mix
January 5, 2008 by
Sometime in my early days of gluten free baking I learned the following: Truth #1: Gluten free baking takes longer than non-gluten free baking. Truth #2: I still have only 24 hours per day. Conclusion: If I’m ever going to get around to cleaning the kitchen or folding laundry, I need to reduce the amount [...]
Best Gluten Free Recipes from 2007
December 31, 2007 by
I only have an hour and 15 minutes left to look back on 2007, so here is a quick roundup of my most popular blog posts from the year (determined by the number of times each was viewed). There has been some recent comment action on several of these, so you may want to go [...]
Black Bean Enchiladas Recipe
December 9, 2007 by
Somehow we end up with orphaned packets of taco seasoning in our pantry. I’m not sure how it happens; maybe there is a taco seasoning fairy. But when they show up, we’re always happy to see them because it means we’ll be having Black Bean Enchiladas for supper. This recipe started out one night at [...]
Gluten Free Spiced Apple Pancakes
September 29, 2007 by
The fall air has made it back to Alabama this morning and it is lovely. A perfect day to drink hot tea on the deck and enjoy the cool air, sunshine, and birds. It was also a perfect morning to play with my pancake recipe. The Gala apples that have been sitting in the fruit [...]
7 Great Things About a Gluten Free Diet
September 5, 2007 by
The first few days and weeks of life on a gluten free diet are tough. You’re not sure what to eat. Lots of the food in your pantry is full of gluten. And, many of your favorite comfort foods are off-limits just when you really need some comfort. But, there is hope. Here are seven [...]