hannahp57

I just went to zpizza in raleigh. I got my own gluten-free pizza while my husband sister and friend all got their own regular pizzas. we were all very impressed. my husband liked mine better none of us would have expected that huh? i was very impressed. the minute i said gluten free the cashier started telling which toppings were safe and then he apologized there weren't more. I was just happy to get a pizza! and one that tasted good- even better!!! five stars to ZPIZZA!!!

I am not as experienced as some others but i thought i would throw in as well.

I will have been three years without gluten this august. in this time i have learned that there are two mixes i like a lot. Pamela's is by far my top favorite. I love. good taste and texture. my gluten eaters enjoyed it! my second favorite is gluten free pantry sandwich bread. it has a good taste, but the texture is a bit strange. not bad at all, just different. I too prefer to bake from scratch when possible. I tried Karina's Kitchen bread recipe and loved the taste. it didn't raise though so it was very dense. but this i beleive is me, not the recipe. I would advise trying that one since you mentioned the website (maybe you have tried other things on there?)

hope some of this has helped...

My husband was looking up safe alcohol for me to drink. He prefers beer which is made with wheat if i understand correctly. Anyway, he read that any distilled liquor is safe, even if made with a gluten containing grain. Does anyone know if this is true. What do you drink without any ill effects? Also how do you find out if a drink is distilled or not? I am thinking beer is still unsafe but i dont mind that. yuck

We all remember the first few days. I even cried on my first shopping trip..haha but i have always worn my feelings o my sleeve. But no worries, it gets much easier as time passes.

Have you visited a health food store to stock up on flours and such. Ask any questions because there are some real pros on this forum. I, myself, have been gluten free for almost three years. Don't be discouraged. There are many delicious foods out there without any gluten in them

GOOD LUCK

I have Roben Ryberg's cookbook "You Won't Believe It's Gluten Free"

Since I don't have her express permission to share a recipe I will go ahead and make sure she gets credit Her cookbooks are AWESOME so even though i haven't tried this... it looks easy and i have never had one of her recipes flop.

Does you daughter have any other sensitivities?

The recipe that looks the best to me is the Cinnamon Bread- Potato Based

Preheat oven to 350* and lightly grease medium loaf pan

Cream 1/4 C Oil and 1/2 C Sugar in a medium bowl. Add 4 egg whites and beat until frothy.

To that add:

3/4 C plain yogurt

1_2/3 C Potato Starch (255g)

scant 1_1/4 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp salt

1_1/4 tsp xanthan gum1 tsp vanilla extract

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1 Tbsp apple cider vinegar

1/2 C raisins (opt)

Pour into pan and bake app 50 minutes. the bread should test cleanly with a toothpick when done.

i would have to guess it would turn out gummy. because i noticed in some recipes my biscuits (or whatever) would come out gummy. when i used smaller amount of xanthan they weren't as gummy. so im going to guess that more would lead to a gummier product. i am curipous though! let us know!!! that texture is going to be the strangest thing

I feel you there! I always had to ask when i lived with my parents. now that i am married my husband has his butter which he is allowed to gluten to his little hearts' content and i have my own nice clean safe butter. i did however convince him to get enough peanut butter out of the jar with the first swipe of the clean knife!

i know its not something most people have to think about. but like with people in a restaurant, if you say to not put tomatoes because you dont like them, then no big deal. but if you ask for no bread for actual medical reasons that's just so weird. doesn't seem like it should so different

I just need a place to vent where other people will actually know how I feel. There's a mexican place where I live called Salsarita's which is mexican and kind of a fast food. like subway, you order your food and they make it in fron of you. well i looked it up online to decide which foods i could safely have. The chips were safe and the queso. Some of the meats were but none of the beans. My husband and sister and her bpyofriend and i all decided to try it.

When i got up to place my order i asked the girl who was going to put mine together to please change her gloves for me because she had just handled a flour tortilla. She gave me a very dirty look like i was trying to play some kind of joke on her. After she changed her gloves, i apologized for the inconvenience ans said i had a wheat allergy ad was just being careful. She then told me she did not need to take her gloves off for getting chips for me. I told her again, i am sorry but i have to be careful of contamination and she rolled her eyes at me. It was very embarrassing for me. I was not trying to cause a big scene or anything i just didn't want wheat particles on my chips!

The food was very good and the others behind the counter looked apologetic but i was just hoping to hear some encouragement from others who understood. I have had waitresses and waiters go look up ingredients and all kinds of other things. I would think changing plastic gloves wouldn't be such a hardship.

oh well, that's life. I will be going back though because i am sure she was just having a bad day. and the queso was AWESOME!

Stolly I used the recipe you just posted but with 1/4 C peanut butter chips and 3/4 C choc chips. YUMMY!!!

Rice chex have become a staple around my house now

I just wanted to tell evertone that I baked the roll variation of the wheat free bread mix. it was AWESOME!!! I called my older sister back home and told her that she needed to talk to the grocery store there and request they order it. Back in oklahoma.

It rose! it tasted wonderful and it didn't have any weird texture or aftertaste

mmmm...

I bought a box of the honey nut chex that said gluten free. I got home and poured a bowl and chowed down. an hour later and i was too tired to move and my stomach was cramped up. I never got sick just the pains. I cannot say whether it was the chex or not... i haven't tried them again. I think maybe take them back out of the diet and re-introduce them later in a smaller amount. I don't want to make anyone paranoid to eat them because i eat the plain rice chex just fine so i know GM knows how to safely produce a gluten free cereal. Maybe it was just bad luck

I found it and will be attempting it later this week sometime. my sister is in town and we're going to visit a beach = picnic sandwhich lunch because greasy fastfood is a no go

we are also going to visit charlotte because we haven't seen it yet. i hear it is a beautiful town. i am originally from Oklahoma and you would not beleive how much more stuff is available here compared to there.

if wholefoods brand really is equivalent of gluten fre pantry then it would easily win my vote. i LOVE gluten free pantry cakes. they are SO good. i baked the white cake for our wedding and my husband ate half of it! and the chocolate is always in my cabinet because i just love cake. its not dense, and i cant tell you there's much of a difference between this and regular cake except mine have turned out a bit drier than is typcal for gluten cake. but its still yummy!

i recommend gluten free pantry with creamy fudge pillsbury frosting (if i remember rigt they are good about labeling allergens but always check it out for yourself)

good luck with the birthday!

This does sound good. peanut butter and chocolate is an awesome combination!

thanks for posting!

thanks! the website doesn't have their product list right now so i have no idea whats there!

i've heard good things about pamela's bread mix and since my three last attempts to bake bread from scratch failed miserably we'll see if i can get this to work

Hello

has anyone from north carolina seen the pamelas bread mix on the shelves anywhere. i have looked it up online but either the health food store doesn't have a product list or its not on the website.

thanks all!

i think you are off to a good start. it will take some time to see results. i recommend talking to your doctor about getting diagnosed. my doctor never gave me a test and now i wish i had. further, some people experience improvement within days. it took a bit longer for me. i was so sick i was down close to 100 lbs and i am 5'8"...i had some of the same problems, extreme fatigue and the constipation but it alternated with the big D. some days were way worse than others. until the last few months before diagnosis. by then i had completely stopped eating.

i think what you have done so far is a good place to start. unless you have any dh you probably dont have to worry quite as much about the topical things (i could be wrong on this though so if someone wiser than me says otherwise listen to them!) but i have never changed the shampoos and things i use and i haven't ever seen a need to.

i recently started replacing my brown rice flour with sorghum and i like it much more. so far it seems to be less grainy. but i haven't done a lot with it so that is just my first observation. I freeze all my flours and store my starches in airtight containers (i seem to use them more quickly). other than that the previous poster seems to have covered the primary things. there are places like amazon where you can do the subscribe and save. i havent yet, but i have read many posts from people who do. they seem to be saving quite a bit of money. i would look into it if you will be doing online ordering anyways... it may even be cheaper than going to a wholefoods because those places are defintely expensive!

i made these already. the first time i changed the reipe quite a bit.

i cut back on the brown sugar (maybe 1/4 C less)

i cut the chips in half

i baked in a much smaller pan than a 13x9... maybe a 5x9 can't remember off the top of my head.

i baked for the alloted amount of time and they weren't done in the middle so i cut the temperature back to say 350* abd baked for 8 more minutes. It ended up like a small cookie cake. very yummy. my husband and his friend ate over half in about an hour. i think that is a compliment

the second time i followed the directions (but still couldnt bring myself to using the alloted amount of chips. (i am a chocolate freak so this surprises even me) but i think in the end i like the thicker cake-like cookie

THANKS FOR THE RECIPE

I would say the garbanzo bean flour. Bean flours are generally known for their very strong flavor and aroma. Some people like them, while others hate them. I hate them. Next time i would either not use it or mix other flours with it to take away from the overly strong taste

hello! i also live in north carolina

what area are you in?

near fayetteville (where i live) there are two apple crates close by and the harris teeter has a good selestion. even the Fort Bragg commisary has stuff which completely shocked me in a good way

then there are a couple whole foods in raleigh and in cary... maybe in charlotte. i know there is a health store in charlotte but i cannot remember if its a wholefoods or some other chain.

i'll let you know i think of (or remember) any more

luck with shopping

hannah

jhow I LOVE that idea.

i have read that some of the lean cuisine meals are gluten free but probably not enough to ust eat those. Maybe you can use that for a meal here and there though while you're using these other weight loss tools....

wish you luck!

i lost 35 pounds before being diagnosed and then gained it back about 8 months afterward... however i didn't go to the gym once haha so i had to start eating better and getting more exercise. i got a yoga ball recently and have been doing that at least 5 times a week. its easy, takes about 35 minutes, cheap and doesn't take up a lot of room. if you're busy i highly recommend getting a yoga ball and maybe getting a video or something

I love the name of this recipe. I haven't tried it yet, but others have and liked it:

The url keeps getting munged by the forum software. Just search for "Sneaky Waffles" and you'll find it.

Is this the recipe you were talking about? It showed up when i googled sneaky waffle recipe

it looks pretty interesting... might have to try it one of these days

6 eggs

1 golden delicious apple, cored and peeled

1 pear, cored and peeled

1 lg carrot

Shred the fruits and carrot. Put the shreddings in a cheesecloth or other clean cloth, and squeeze as much juice out as you can. Save for drinking, as this is quite nice juice. Put the shreddings in a bowl and crack the eggs into the bowl. Mix well. Spoon onto a hot waffle iron and cook as you would any waffle. We serve ours with a very small amount of peanut butter.

I wanted to clarify on the directions because if i have any doubts i will inevitably mess it up! haha

but do you mix the first set of ingredients and then the second and then add them together before the yeast mixture is added?

also do you think this would make good rolls? you said it holds shape well..so that made me think. any suggestions there would be greatly appreciated because i have been CRAVING a good yeast roll lately

I use this recipe from The Gluten Free Kitchen by Roben Ryberg. I have used both kinnikinnick graham crackers and pamela's cookies and both have turned out very nicely

Here you go:

Cookie Crumb Crust

1 1/4 C finely cruched cookies (about 10 to 12 medium cookies)

i ususally use a food processor

1/4 Cmelted butter

Combine all ingredients in pie pan and mix well. press into bottom and onto sides of pan. try to press to even thickness. do not bake!