Going Gluten Free

I recently had to change over to a gluten free diet due to inherited Celiac Disease. My mother was diagnosed with it about two years ago during a hospital visit for testing prior to heart valve replacement surgery (which they delayed until the past summer). She was so anemic that they had to give her a blood transfusion. Based on the osteoporosis both my mother and my grandmother have/had, I suspect that grandma had Celiac also.

The transition hasn't been too bad except for the bread products available. I think I'd rather eat sawdust! There are some very good pasta products out there, which is a good thing since I love pasta. I'm hoping to be able to find some better bread products soon, as I do get tired of eating burgers without buns. I had been on the new diet for a couple of weeks or so, and broke it once for some ravioli and a sandwich on real bread, and I paid for that for days afterwards. I think I may try and find some bread recipes and make my own.

I'm just glad that potatoes are not on the list of foods I can't have!

Here is one site that has some basic info on Celiac. That information is what the Mayo Clinic has available online.

 

That is good to know, since I have a GREAT brownie recipe that I can't have anymore. I have found some pretty good cookies, but they are so expensive that I definitely not eating very many. I just picked up some flour and some corn meal so I can try a couple of recipes that I do have that could work with something other than regular flour. I'll have to try one of the brownie mixes soon!

 

Never been a beer drinker, but it's good to know the breweries are catching on. Part of the reason for the increase in the types of and number of products available are the number of people that are going "gluten free" as a fad rather than out of medical necessity.

 

I will probably end up starting to make my own bread. One of the first things I am going to try with the flour I got is some biscuits, along with some Johnny Cake (something my hubby got hooked on when he lived on St. Thomas. It's kind of like a biscuit, but fried instead of baked and they ROCK!!!!!!)

 

I've been all over their site, just haven't gotten around to doing any baking. Took some time to get over the sticker shock of the flour and stuff!

I'm just glad the pasta is good! I'd really be losing my mind if that stuff sucked too!