If you have celiac disease or wheat allergy, what foods do you eat?!
Question: Please dont cut and paste from other sites, personal experiences please.
Answers: Please dont cut and paste from other sites, personal experiences please.
I agree with sailor, alot of it is how u look at it.
It is really hard at first, but it gets easier with time.
In effort not to copy Sailors answer, I will give my personal faves:
Obviously foods like fruits and veggies that are naturally GF are great but we all want a piece of cake sometimes!
here's my faves!
Pamela's Products: cookies, baking mixes
Whole FOods Brand 365: brownie and baking mixes.
Whole Foods brand Gluten Free cookies (frozen and ready to go from the frozen section.)
Glutino pizzas
Tinkyada pastas
Bobs Red Mill FLours
Kinnikinnick: Everything! Awesome donuts, breads, cookies, oreos, etc.
Fave sites:
www.glutenfree.com
www.glutensolutions.com
www.amazon.com
It is very hard at first, but u get used to it. Books, websites, etc are everywhere ready to help. Try to get your info from reputable sources however, such as www.csaceliacs.org or doctors like Dr Peter Green, "Celiac Disease a Hidden Epidemic". There are tons of cookbooks out there if u like to cook (I dont).
even restaruants are getting in on th egame, outback, pf changs and others have gf menus now.
Always check online at yoru fave places to eat or shop and u may find more gf info than u can imagine!
Best of luck!
I dont have celiac but thought that I did. So I started to eat simply fruits,veggies,walnuts and soups.If your not allergic to milk I imagine you could have a baked potato with homemade chili and sour cream. Salads with oil and vinegar type dressings.Also if theres no gluten in the cheese you could have a potato with brocolli and cheese.Also chicken,beans,steaks. Just no pasta, bread, ect.for breakfast you could have eggs and potatoes. You wont starve.
I have been eating gluten free for over 5 years now. I started out eating vegetables, fruits, and non processed meats. The first thing I added was salad dressings and how to read the ingredients in them really got me started reading labels and how to find gluten. My favorite salad dressing is Annies Roasted Red Pepper Vinegarette.
The key for us is shopping and only bringing home gluten free things and then everything is ready to go and if you keep shopping for things that really taste good rather than just being passable, then your friends will even eat your foods without any problems. This weekend we are having two other couples spend the weekend and they will eat all my snack food without any problem.
About the only thing that we haven't been able to replicate to an acceptable level is biscuits. And that is mainly because I made really good ones and haven't spent much time trying to replicate them.
I eat a relatively low carb diet most of the time and find that George Stella's two cookbooks are almost naturally gluten free.
Whole Foods carries a pretty good selection of gluten free things. As a matter of fact, our local whole foods store is having a gluten free tour of the store this Thursday(1/17).
I also regularly eat out and more and more restaurants will take care of gluten free diets. Carrabbas has a gluten free menu as well as many chains.
Wine is acceptable and Anheuser Busch has had a gluten free beer out for a year now called Redbridge.
If you have anymore questions feel free to contact me.
The important thing is to look at all the things you can have and not concentrate on what is off limits.
I was diagnosed with coeliac disease 7 years ago, and the diet is very nutritious and easy to follow. Basically, you are not really depriving yourself of anything, because, there are so many healthier alternatives for coeliacs. You can eat all fruits and vegies, fresh meats, glutenfree cereals, youghurts, icecream, dairy products, ohh, the list goes on. The only thing that you must avoid, obviusls, is anything that is wheat based, and anything that contains gluten. See, it is the protein in the wheat, called gluten, which damages the lining of a coeliacs stomach. If you have just been diagnosed, then, you have to become an expert at readind labels. Anything and everything you buy, be sure to read labels, as youd be surprised that wheat is in so many things. I didnt know till 2 years after my diagnosis that soy sauce had wheat in it, but you can buy the wheatfree soy sauce. Also, cornflour is wheat based. Be sure to buy (maize) cornflour. There are also alot of foods, including chocolate and junk food that contain glucose syrup (from wheat), but these foods are very safe for coeliacs, because what alot of them dont know is that, yes, glucose syrup is derived from wheat, but once it is processed, there is no detectable gluten found in the syrup whatsoever. I could go on and on, but if you have any more questions, feel free to ask.