Here is some useful info from Celiac.org:
Alba Therapeutics is conducting a study for people with Celiac's disease.
List of Gluten Free companies, also taked from the Celiac.org website.
Quick Start diet guide for Celiac Disease
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Gluten Free Eating--Tuesday
Well what a day it has been! With fresh supplies purchased from Good Foods yesterday, I had an entire day filled with options, something I have had since I started this whole new life and way of eating.
Breakfast started differently today than it did the day previously. Today I tried the new cereal that I got the previous day. Manufactured by EnviroKidz and called "Frosted Flakes" I was hoping that it tasted like, well, Frosted Flakes (by Kelloggs). I was in luck! It was pretty good....a little crunchy but good. Also, it lasted quite a while in milk, which was nice because I don't particularly care for soggy cereal. I'd highly recommend this to any GF eater out there who would like some "Frosted Flakes" in there life. Here are the EnviroKidz Amazon Frosted Flakes, they have a cute Honey Bear on the front of them.
After doing some cleaning and playing with my little one we had some lunch. For myself I prepared a sandwich made from Millet and Flax Bread from Sami's Bakery, along with some Carl Buddig Beef Lunch Meat and some Miracle Whip. Let's back up for a minute and talk about Carl Buddig Lunch meat. I'm not sure if this is available Nationwide. I'd never seen it before moving to the South. I don't remember ever seeing it in Suburban Philadelphia where I grew up. However, it's quite tasty, relatively cheap (cheaper than any other lunch meat at the grocery store) and here's the bonus, completely GLUTEN FREE!! Whoot whoot!
With my Carl Buddig lunch meat and miracle whip I tried the bread that I had bought at Good Food, Millet and Flax from Sami's Bakery. My previous experiences with gluten free food had been relatively good, with the exception of the puke-worthy bread. I'd found that this, so far, has been the key to my success. How did I find this bread? Well, since I had a cranky three year old in the cart with me I did what any smart consumer would do and asked the cashier. She recommended this bread to me and said "this is the one that I eat, it's pretty good." So I took her word for it and tried it. She wasn't kidding. It is absolutely without a doubt delicious. Not only can you not tell that it's not made from wheat, but it's moist and easily bendable. Previously, the bread I'd tried had been dry, easily breakable and didn't work well with, well, anything. This bread was good.....I toasted it, put my beef on, put some Miracle Whip on and enjoyed. Once again, delish. I then enjoyed some tasty Miguel's Fully Loaded chips....quite yummy if you ask me.
After fetching children off the bus, and bath time I prepared some Annie's Rice and Cheese Macaroni Dinner. This also was quite delicious. You couldn't tell that it was Rice pasta and it tasted like Kraft Mac and Cheese which was the best part. My six year old smelled it and came running and begged Momma to share some with him. So I did! And he loved it. The noodles were al dente (which is the way I like most pasta), the cheese sauce was cheesy and full of deliciousness. It was good meal, relatively inexpensive and easily prepared. With my mac-n-cheese I had green beans fresh from the garden and a piece of the Millet and Flax bread. A good night all in all....
Breakfast started differently today than it did the day previously. Today I tried the new cereal that I got the previous day. Manufactured by EnviroKidz and called "Frosted Flakes" I was hoping that it tasted like, well, Frosted Flakes (by Kelloggs). I was in luck! It was pretty good....a little crunchy but good. Also, it lasted quite a while in milk, which was nice because I don't particularly care for soggy cereal. I'd highly recommend this to any GF eater out there who would like some "Frosted Flakes" in there life. Here are the EnviroKidz Amazon Frosted Flakes, they have a cute Honey Bear on the front of them.
After doing some cleaning and playing with my little one we had some lunch. For myself I prepared a sandwich made from Millet and Flax Bread from Sami's Bakery, along with some Carl Buddig Beef Lunch Meat and some Miracle Whip. Let's back up for a minute and talk about Carl Buddig Lunch meat. I'm not sure if this is available Nationwide. I'd never seen it before moving to the South. I don't remember ever seeing it in Suburban Philadelphia where I grew up. However, it's quite tasty, relatively cheap (cheaper than any other lunch meat at the grocery store) and here's the bonus, completely GLUTEN FREE!! Whoot whoot!
With my Carl Buddig lunch meat and miracle whip I tried the bread that I had bought at Good Food, Millet and Flax from Sami's Bakery. My previous experiences with gluten free food had been relatively good, with the exception of the puke-worthy bread. I'd found that this, so far, has been the key to my success. How did I find this bread? Well, since I had a cranky three year old in the cart with me I did what any smart consumer would do and asked the cashier. She recommended this bread to me and said "this is the one that I eat, it's pretty good." So I took her word for it and tried it. She wasn't kidding. It is absolutely without a doubt delicious. Not only can you not tell that it's not made from wheat, but it's moist and easily bendable. Previously, the bread I'd tried had been dry, easily breakable and didn't work well with, well, anything. This bread was good.....I toasted it, put my beef on, put some Miracle Whip on and enjoyed. Once again, delish. I then enjoyed some tasty Miguel's Fully Loaded chips....quite yummy if you ask me.
After fetching children off the bus, and bath time I prepared some Annie's Rice and Cheese Macaroni Dinner. This also was quite delicious. You couldn't tell that it was Rice pasta and it tasted like Kraft Mac and Cheese which was the best part. My six year old smelled it and came running and begged Momma to share some with him. So I did! And he loved it. The noodles were al dente (which is the way I like most pasta), the cheese sauce was cheesy and full of deliciousness. It was good meal, relatively inexpensive and easily prepared. With my mac-n-cheese I had green beans fresh from the garden and a piece of the Millet and Flax bread. A good night all in all....
Gluten Free Registry
Here is a cool website that I found that lets you search for Gluten Free restaurants in your area.
This is how I found out about Chipotle.
It's been quite useful thus far.
I hope that you enjoy it.
The Gluten Free Registry
This is how I found out about Chipotle.
It's been quite useful thus far.
I hope that you enjoy it.
The Gluten Free Registry
Panera Bread
Let me start by saying that I LOVE PANERA! Pre GF life, I was a weekly visitor to the Panera at Parham and Staples Mill. They know me by my name there and I loved them dearly. All that is over-----for now.
My goal is to get Panera to do a few things:
1. Develop a GF menu, it doesn't have to be a lot of items, just a few things, but with the amount of people in this world that have to deal with eating gluten free, I think Panera, a company that prides themself on healthy eating, should have menu for the rest of us.
2. List on their website, a list of GF items they already have on there menu, if there are any at all.
Most importantly for me would be there French Onion Soup--delish to say the least....my mouth waters just thinking about it.
So my plan, for now, until I can talk to my favorite IT guy who can help me do something more web savvy is this: email Panera and tell them you want a GF menu, and there website upgraded to include GF items they already have.
Anyone who is much better at this than me, feel free to email me. I'd love some input.
My goal is to get Panera to do a few things:
1. Develop a GF menu, it doesn't have to be a lot of items, just a few things, but with the amount of people in this world that have to deal with eating gluten free, I think Panera, a company that prides themself on healthy eating, should have menu for the rest of us.
2. List on their website, a list of GF items they already have on there menu, if there are any at all.
Most importantly for me would be there French Onion Soup--delish to say the least....my mouth waters just thinking about it.
So my plan, for now, until I can talk to my favorite IT guy who can help me do something more web savvy is this: email Panera and tell them you want a GF menu, and there website upgraded to include GF items they already have.
Anyone who is much better at this than me, feel free to email me. I'd love some input.
Gluten Free Diet: Grains and Flours Glossary
Some rather useful information regarding grains and flours that can be consumed on the GF diet.
As useful when you need to do some label reading.
Grains and Flours Glossary
As useful when you need to do some label reading.
Grains and Flours Glossary
Gluten Free Eating--day three.
So Monday started out like any other Monday. I put my oldest on the bus and went back to the house to fix breakfast for the youngest one and myself. Since I wasn't in the mood for cereal, I decided that I'd fix eggs. Eggs that came out of the dairy section of my local supermarket. Wonderfully high in protein eggs. To my eggs I added some gluten free cheese (I'm giving up bread for godsakes, you really want me to give up cheese too? Little steps here.)
The Gluten Free diet is often referred to as the Stone Diet because of how "natural" it is and is similar (so everyone seems to think) to how Cavemen Eat, although there are no ingestion of stones involved, there are also some drastic differences. For example, cavemen ate tons of relatively "raw" meat until the invention of fire, and it was always fresh, because as we all know. refrigeration was relatively unheard of until the early 20th century. They also ate fresh veggies, but ate very little grains or potatoes. This is where the Stone Diet differs from the Celiac diet. There are many grains that celiacs can eat. They can also eat all the potatoes that they want, and most cheese, as long as there isn't an emulsifier that contains wheat added to the product.
So back to my diet for the day. After consuming my yummy breakfast of eggs and cheese with copious amounts of coffee (something I will never give up, or I will absolutely die, as I'm highly addicted to the delicious light brown liquid). I packed up my three year old and headed into town for a day of wheatfree shopping, lunch with the husband and fun in the rain.
On Sunday at work I had done some research relating to Gluten Free diets, etc. and attempted to make a shopping list of everything that I wanted to look for. I also downloaded a sample diet from the Amy's website that can be found here.
I had originally planned on going to Ellwood Thompson's which is a organic supermarket in downtown Richmond that is supposedly a wonderful store with a wide variety of foods for all kinds of people. We ended up not getting there. My little one was having a meltdown about being in the carseat (a recent development in my world) so I decided instead to go to a place called Good Foods Grocery, which I've driven by a ton over the past seven years, since it's down the street from my Pediatrician. After passing it and having to do a u-turn (something else that's not unfamiliar in my world, I get lost constantly) I found it, parked my mommy mobile, unloaded the screaming and at this point, utterly pathetic three year old and walked into the store.
What a great little place! Not only is everything clearly labeled as to what it contains (something that is rather annoying in regular supermarkets, where you have to read every single label), but in the event that you miss the rather obvious marking on every single container (that would be me) there are little labels on every shelf that indicates the "Gluten Free, Wheat Free" products. How awesome is that? Makes it so easy to figure out exactly what you want!!
I was able to find a lot of good stuff, most importantly, convenience foods that I can microwave at work and eat, without all that much work. Being a nurse, having something that I can heat and eat is a wonderful, wonderful thing.
So here's what I got a Good Foods:
Amy's Black Bean Enchilada (it was soooo good the first time, I just had to have another!)
Amy's Garden Vegetable Lasagna
Amy's Rice Macaroni and Cheese
Amy's Lentil Soup
EnviroKidz Organic Frosted Flakes
EnviroKidz Organic Cheetah Berry Crispy Rice Bars
Enjoy Life's Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies (you should also know that I have a major sweet tooth, and being able to find chocolate chips that taste good has been a struggle in the past when I've tried to go gluten free!)
Tinkyada Rice Penne Pasta
Tinkyada Rice Spiral Pasta
Bioanturae Spaghetti
Caesars Manicotti
Caesars Stuffed Shells
Glutino 3 Cheese Pizza
Glutino Spinach Pizza
Samisbakery Millet and Flax Bread (this I was the most skeptical of, as all the bread I've tried in the past sucked).
Annie's Gluten Free Rice Pasta and Cheddar
I also purchased Corn Tortillas sold by Chichi's. (the cheapest thing I purchased), Brownie Mix, Pancake Mix and rolled oats ('cause it's getting cold here and I like oatmeal in the morning).
After leaving Good Foods spending a little over $100 (by no means is maintaining a GF diet cheap, but worth it) I headed over to my friendly, neighborhood Chipotle to get lunch for the hubby and I.
Chipotle (which I love by the way) is Gluten Free, with the exception of the flour tortilla. Here is the information re: gluten, from the official website. One suggestion I got from a Twitter friend is to ask the preparer to change gloves before preparing your food, as some wheat might transfer from the flour tortilla. I'd also read (from another Twitterer) that Chipotle had corn tortilla. My Chipotle said "yes, we have them, but they tend to fall apart", so instead I had a yummy and delicious bowl. It was truly yummy. It should be noted though that for people who are also allergic to Soy, Chipotle would NOT be a good place for you, as almost all there food has soy in it.
After dropping my groceries and my little one off at home I headed to a class that I am taking. I took two snack with me, a EnviroKidz bar and two of the chocolate chip cookies. I ate them after leaving class on my way home. The EnviroKidz bar was ok. I made the mistake of letting my little one pick the flavor out, and she picked based on the animal on the box and not the flavor. I've never been a big fan of Berries, but overall, it wasn't bad and wasn't overly berry. I also tried two of the cookies, which were actually quite delicious. They were definitely chocolatey and soft. I read the label details because I was interested in what made them so Sweet. There were several different juices added to give it sweetness and firmness, they also had Rosemary in them, which I couldn't taste. Overall, it was pretty good.
That's all I've got for now. After tonight, I'm going to talk about what I had today and how I"m going to handle working the weekend on a GF diet.
Stay Tuned.
The Gluten Free diet is often referred to as the Stone Diet because of how "natural" it is and is similar (so everyone seems to think) to how Cavemen Eat, although there are no ingestion of stones involved, there are also some drastic differences. For example, cavemen ate tons of relatively "raw" meat until the invention of fire, and it was always fresh, because as we all know. refrigeration was relatively unheard of until the early 20th century. They also ate fresh veggies, but ate very little grains or potatoes. This is where the Stone Diet differs from the Celiac diet. There are many grains that celiacs can eat. They can also eat all the potatoes that they want, and most cheese, as long as there isn't an emulsifier that contains wheat added to the product.
So back to my diet for the day. After consuming my yummy breakfast of eggs and cheese with copious amounts of coffee (something I will never give up, or I will absolutely die, as I'm highly addicted to the delicious light brown liquid). I packed up my three year old and headed into town for a day of wheatfree shopping, lunch with the husband and fun in the rain.
On Sunday at work I had done some research relating to Gluten Free diets, etc. and attempted to make a shopping list of everything that I wanted to look for. I also downloaded a sample diet from the Amy's website that can be found here.
I had originally planned on going to Ellwood Thompson's which is a organic supermarket in downtown Richmond that is supposedly a wonderful store with a wide variety of foods for all kinds of people. We ended up not getting there. My little one was having a meltdown about being in the carseat (a recent development in my world) so I decided instead to go to a place called Good Foods Grocery, which I've driven by a ton over the past seven years, since it's down the street from my Pediatrician. After passing it and having to do a u-turn (something else that's not unfamiliar in my world, I get lost constantly) I found it, parked my mommy mobile, unloaded the screaming and at this point, utterly pathetic three year old and walked into the store.
What a great little place! Not only is everything clearly labeled as to what it contains (something that is rather annoying in regular supermarkets, where you have to read every single label), but in the event that you miss the rather obvious marking on every single container (that would be me) there are little labels on every shelf that indicates the "Gluten Free, Wheat Free" products. How awesome is that? Makes it so easy to figure out exactly what you want!!
I was able to find a lot of good stuff, most importantly, convenience foods that I can microwave at work and eat, without all that much work. Being a nurse, having something that I can heat and eat is a wonderful, wonderful thing.
So here's what I got a Good Foods:
Amy's Black Bean Enchilada (it was soooo good the first time, I just had to have another!)
Amy's Garden Vegetable Lasagna
Amy's Rice Macaroni and Cheese
Amy's Lentil Soup
EnviroKidz Organic Frosted Flakes
EnviroKidz Organic Cheetah Berry Crispy Rice Bars
Enjoy Life's Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies (you should also know that I have a major sweet tooth, and being able to find chocolate chips that taste good has been a struggle in the past when I've tried to go gluten free!)
Tinkyada Rice Penne Pasta
Tinkyada Rice Spiral Pasta
Bioanturae Spaghetti
Caesars Manicotti
Caesars Stuffed Shells
Glutino 3 Cheese Pizza
Glutino Spinach Pizza
Samisbakery Millet and Flax Bread (this I was the most skeptical of, as all the bread I've tried in the past sucked).
Annie's Gluten Free Rice Pasta and Cheddar
I also purchased Corn Tortillas sold by Chichi's. (the cheapest thing I purchased), Brownie Mix, Pancake Mix and rolled oats ('cause it's getting cold here and I like oatmeal in the morning).
After leaving Good Foods spending a little over $100 (by no means is maintaining a GF diet cheap, but worth it) I headed over to my friendly, neighborhood Chipotle to get lunch for the hubby and I.
Chipotle (which I love by the way) is Gluten Free, with the exception of the flour tortilla. Here is the information re: gluten, from the official website. One suggestion I got from a Twitter friend is to ask the preparer to change gloves before preparing your food, as some wheat might transfer from the flour tortilla. I'd also read (from another Twitterer) that Chipotle had corn tortilla. My Chipotle said "yes, we have them, but they tend to fall apart", so instead I had a yummy and delicious bowl. It was truly yummy. It should be noted though that for people who are also allergic to Soy, Chipotle would NOT be a good place for you, as almost all there food has soy in it.
After dropping my groceries and my little one off at home I headed to a class that I am taking. I took two snack with me, a EnviroKidz bar and two of the chocolate chip cookies. I ate them after leaving class on my way home. The EnviroKidz bar was ok. I made the mistake of letting my little one pick the flavor out, and she picked based on the animal on the box and not the flavor. I've never been a big fan of Berries, but overall, it wasn't bad and wasn't overly berry. I also tried two of the cookies, which were actually quite delicious. They were definitely chocolatey and soft. I read the label details because I was interested in what made them so Sweet. There were several different juices added to give it sweetness and firmness, they also had Rosemary in them, which I couldn't taste. Overall, it was pretty good.
That's all I've got for now. After tonight, I'm going to talk about what I had today and how I"m going to handle working the weekend on a GF diet.
Stay Tuned.
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