Getting Enough Whole Grains

[Anya78]

I've been gluten-free for 6 months now and am feeling great. I've always been nutrition conscious (perhaps because I was trying to figure out why eating made me feel so bad!), and I'm now having a hard time getting the suggested amount of whole grains in my diet without wheat/gluten products. I feel like most of our cereals are basically simple carbs. A person can only eat so much brown rice! Any nutritious, whole-grain, food suggestions from your experience??

Thanks

[ianm]

Buckwheat and flaxseed are my favorites. You can get it at Whole Foods and Trader Joe's. They taste good and are much more nutritious than any of the other whole grain poisons out there.

[Nadtorious]

Quinoa is another good one. It's high in protein and lots of other nutrients too. Makes a quite tasty cold salad with some chopped up veggies and lemon juice and oil.

[ianm]

Millet is another one.

[tarnalberry]

If you eat plenty of fruits and vegetables, you really don't need all that much in the way of whole grains - you can get plenty of healthy complex carbs from that produce. But there is a wide variety of gluten-free grains that you can have, though some may be harder to find that others. Some that I have around the house: quinoa, millet, buckwheat, rice, and teff.