Nut/peanut Safe Gluten-free Flours

[finlayson]

Hi, I am a newly diagnosed celiac. My daughter has a severe allergy to nuts and peanuts and all the gluten-free flours which I have found carry a 'may contain traces of nuts/peanuts' on the packaging. Can anyone give me advice on finding gluten-free and peanut/nut safe baking products or flours? Do you know of any manufacturers who can guarentee their products to be safe of this allergen. I would really appreciate any help as I am beginning to panic!

[hollyres]

I understand how you feel. I have nut allergies and am a celiac. I had a terrible time finding nut-free flours. Ener-G has nut-free flours. I use corn starch to bread chicken for frying (perfect with garlic powder, salt, paprika). I also eat a lot of food from Enjoy Life. We keep a nut free house, even though I am the only one allergic! We also have a gluten free (as much as possible) kitchen, but my kids have a separate microwave and toaster oven away from the kitchen for their frozen goodies, like Hot Pockets. I found that I only truly healed when I got all gluten out of my environment. For the first year, I cross contaminated like crazy. Now, my kids eat off of paper plates when they eat pizza, etc... We only have cakes on birthdays (not mine, of course) and then they have to each wash their own fork. They eat hamburger rolls and other essentials, but they have to use the paper. Now that they are trained, I am all better! It took two solid years to get here (and I turned into a bit of a tyrant for awhile until they learned). The nut issue just adds an even more difficult twist. It is great that you care so much about your daughter.

[finlayson]

I understand how you feel. I have nut allergies and am a celiac. I had a terrible time finding nut-free flours. Ener-G has nut-free flours. I use corn starch to bread chicken for frying (perfect with garlic powder, salt, paprika). I also eat a lot of food from Enjoy Life. We keep a nut free house, even though I am the only one allergic! We also have a gluten free (as much as possible) kitchen, but my kids have a separate microwave and toaster oven away from the kitchen for their frozen goodies, like Hot Pockets. I found that I only truly healed when I got all gluten out of my environment. For the first year, I cross contaminated like crazy. Now, my kids eat off of paper plates when they eat pizza, etc... We only have cakes on birthdays (not mine, of course) and then they have to each wash their own fork. They eat hamburger rolls and other essentials, but they have to use the paper. Now that they are trained, I am all better! It took two solid years to get here (and I turned into a bit of a tyrant for awhile until they learned). The nut issue just adds an even more difficult twist. It is great that you care so much about your daughter.

[finlayson]

I understand how you feel. I have nut allergies and am a celiac. I had a terrible time finding nut-free flours. Ener-G has nut-free flours. I use corn starch to bread chicken for frying (perfect with garlic powder, salt, paprika). I also eat a lot of food from Enjoy Life. We keep a nut free house, even though I am the only one allergic! We also have a gluten free (as much as possible) kitchen, but my kids have a separate microwave and toaster oven away from the kitchen for their frozen goodies, like Hot Pockets. I found that I only truly healed when I got all gluten out of my environment. For the first year, I cross contaminated like crazy. Now, my kids eat off of paper plates when they eat pizza, etc... We only have cakes on birthdays (not mine, of course) and then they have to each wash their own fork. They eat hamburger rolls and other essentials, but they have to use the paper. Now that they are trained, I am all better! It took two solid years to get here (and I turned into a bit of a tyrant for awhile until they learned). The nut issue just adds an even more difficult twist. It is great that you care so much about your daughter.

Thanks for replying. I have always kept our hour totally nut/peanut free so my daughter could have a 'safe' place at home, so I have been finding myself quite devastated to realise that I may end up being the person to bring unsafe products into it. I have, however, found a web-site (which you may already know about) filled with gluten-free products which are also free of nuts/peanuts. I haven't tried anything yet. The webside is www.gluten-free.com and they have an American and Canadian site. Hope this helps.