Ive been told i have a gluten intolerance any one any tips ?!
Ive been told i have a gluten intolerance any one any tips ?
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Go to Trader Joe's. They make a few products out of brown rice flour and are gluten free. They have pasta in several shapes at $1.99/pound, and flour tortillas (also gluten free) at $2.29 for a12 ounce bag. Check with a few specialty bakeries to see if they have gluten-free bread.
Yes, you will have to learn to make bread and pasta out of gluten free flours, like potato flour.
You will have to make rice, potatoes, and beans your starches of choice.
There are many many other grains you can learn to love, such as quinoa and amaranth, and there are many gluten free foods that are available at stores, especially health-food stores.
You will feel much better after you can get rid of the gluten in your food.
Avoid anything which contains wheat or yeast, which requires gluten to rise properly. Use rice flour or other non-gluten flours for baking and cooking. I've purchased products from Bobs Red Mill. They have a lot of products and information for gluten-free diets, and they have a website. Good luck.
Me too! Don't worry, it takes a little bit of effort in the beginning- label reading etc.......but once you get used to certain brands it becomes easier. Be sure to read labels carefully as they hide wheat/gluten in alot of things. Health food stores generally stock alot of gluten free products-brown rice pasta is amazing and you can buy breads made from kamut and spelt which are pretty close to what you are used to! Good luck and you will feel a whole lot better once you make the change!
Um don't eat anything with gluten in it!?
Sorry I had too! :)
These two links should help you out a LOT!
http://www.celiac.org/
http://www.foodb.com/
You can dig through my old answers here to find my gluten free flour mix; ah, heck with it, I haven't posted it in a long time:
4 1/4 C.rice flour
1 C. potato starch
1 C. tapioca starch
1/2 C. cornstarch
1/4 C. xanthan gum
Just mix these ingredients and then you can treat it just like regular all-purpose flour!
You've almost certainly never heard of Xanthan gum before
If you need more detailed help just ask!
Edit:
Please take care trying the other grains that folks are suggesting here. While it's true they do *tend* to cause fewer problems than wheat; bad reactions do still occur among some people with gluten intolerance. Check with your doctor before trying them.
Either buy or make spelt bread. Spelt is a more ancient type of wheat and although it contains gluten it does not agravate gluten intolerance like regular wheat. Terrence Stamp does a range of wheat free bread and my hubby recomends German Rye bread.
Celiac (gluten free)
Substitution: To substitute 1-cup of wheat flour in any recipe, use;
2/3-cup of rice flour + 1/3-cup potato starch
or
3/4-cup rice flour + 1/4-cup cornstarch
http://www.lesleycooks.com/glutenfree/gl...
Workable Wonder Dough
makes 1? pounds dough
You will probably find many uses for this good, user-friendly dough. Recipe from Wendy Wark’s Living Healthy with Celiac Disease (AnAffect, 1998). Wendy uses this for pretzels, breadsticks, cinnamon rolls, and pizza crust. Use it as a substitution for wheat flour dough in your favorite recipes.
2 teaspoons unflavored dry gelatin
2? teaspoons active dry yeast
2/3 cup warm water (105F-115F)
2 tablespoons sugar
2? cups Wendy Wark’s Gluten-Free Flour Mix (see recipe below)
2? teaspoons xanthan gum
? cup instant non-fat dry milk powder
? teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
2 eggs
Combine gelatin, yeast, water, and sugar together in a 2-cup glass measure. Let stand for 5 minutes, or until foamy. In the bowl of a stand mixer, add flour mix, xanthan gum, milk powder, and salt. Mix briefly, then add oil and eggs, followed by yeast mixture. Beat on high speed for 2 minutes, using the paddle attachment until a soft dough forms. Use dough in your favorite recipe.
http://www.celiac.com/st_prod.html?p_pro...
Multi Blend Gluten-Free Flour (Wendy Wark’s Gluten-Free Flour Mix)
1 cup brown rice flour (requires refrigeration)
1? cup white rice flour
? cup potato starch flour
2/3 cup tapioca starch flour
? cup sweet rice flour
1/3 cup cornstarch
2 teaspoons xanthan or guar gum
I often use only brown rice flour in the mix as it is healthier and better tasting. I buy at least 5 pounds every time I order (from manufacturers that sell a lot of brown rice flour). I keep it refrigerated and highly recommend it over white rice flour. This flour mix is the basis of many of my sweets, breadsticks, tortillas, waffles etc. I also like to use pure buckwheat, amaranth, and quinoa flour to increase the flavor and healthfulness of certain items. It is important to buy these alternative flours from pure, gluten-free sources. Pure in the sense that they are grown in fields that are not adjacent to wheat fields and that they are processed in a 100% gluten-free environment from the field to your table.
Triple this flour mix recipe and keep it on hand for all of your baking needs. Once you have the flour mix together you are ready for about a months worth of gluten-free baking.
The Multi Blend Gluten-Free Flour mix is used cup for cup in recipes such as tortillas, pancakes/waffles, and cookies. If you plan to use this flour mix for cakes, sweet breads or brownies add an additional ? teaspoon of xanthan gum per cup flour mix. I don’t use this flour mix for bread, pizza crust, breadsticks, etc. as they require specific flour combinations for the best results
Note- If you can’t tolerate corn, just substitute the cornstarch with equal parts of sweet rice flour and tapioca starch flour.
http://www.celiac.com/st_prod.html?p_pro...
Gluten-free self-rising flour
2 tablespoons potato flour
enough white rice flour to make it up to 1 cup
1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate soda
1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
1 teaspoon xanthan gum OR guar gum
OR pre-gel starch
Gluten-free baking powder
1/4 cup bicarbonate soda (baking soda)
1/2 cup cream of tartar
Mix well and keep in an airtight container.
Flour combinations
The following combinations of flours work well together:
2 cups rice flour, 2/3 cup potato flour, 1/3 cup tapioca flour.
2 cups white rice flour, 2/3 cup potato starch flour, 1/3 cup tapioca flour and a teaspoon of xanthan gum.
1/2 soya flour and 1/2 cornstarch.
1/2 soya flour and 1/2 potato flour.
1/2 soya flour and 1/2 rice flour.
1/2 soya flour, 1/4 potato flour, 1/4 rice flour.
Note: When buying soy flour, look for debittered soya flour. It has a milder flavor. Plain full fat soy flour has a noticeable strong a flavour.
Gluten-free pastry
This is good for sweet pies, tarts and cheesecakes.
60g (2oz) cornstarch (maize cornflour)
3/4 cup non-instant dry milk powder
1 1/2 cups coconut
120g (4oz) melted butter
Simply mix and press into a dish. This isn't exactly pastry, so don't roll it.
To replace the gluten
If you simply take gluten out of your baking, you're likely to have disappointing results. Gluten is sticky stuff which helps prevent your baked goodies from crumbling. It also traps pockets of air, improving the texture of your bread, cakes or biscuits.
Bakers replace it with xanthan gum, guar gum, or pre-gel starch. Xanthan gum is a natural product made from Xanthomonas campestris. This microorganism is grown in the lab for its cell coat, which is dried and ground to form xanthan gum. Xanthan gum is added as a powder to the dry bread ingredients. One teaspoon is needed for every cup of gluten-free flour. You can buy this product at your local health food. You can also use Guar Gum, a vegetable gel, which is cheaper than Xanthan gum.
Gluten-free Flour Mix
2 cups rice or millet flour
2/3 cup potato starch
1/3 cup tapioca flour
1-2 tsp. of xanthan gum
Each type of flour acts a little differently in relation to other ingredients in a recipe. Many recipes depend on wheat flour for their texture or rising power, so you may have to experiment a bit to see which flours work best when interchanged. To start, change 1/4 of the flour or less. The chart below will give you a good starting point.
You can make your own flour from oatmeal or other rolled grains in a blender or food processor. Use 1-1/2 cups oats to make about 1 cup oat flour. Potato and soy flours are best used in combination with other flours. They have a strong flavor and soy flour has a darker coloring. Rice flour gives a distinctively grainy texture to baked products. Rye flour is frequently used although it has a dark color and distinctive flavor. (Barley, oat, and rye flours all contain some gluten.)
Wheat Flour Substitutionsper cup
Grain (Flour) Amount
Barley 1-1/4 cups
Cornmeal 1 cup
Corn flour 1 cup
Oat 1-1/3 cups
Potato 3/4 cup
Rice 3/4 cup
Rye 1-1/3 cups
Soy 1-1/3 cups
Tapioca 1 cup
http://www.ellenskitchen.com/faqs/glutfr...
Recipes and link lists for celiac and gluten free
http://www.celiac.com/st_prod.html?p_pro... (general flour recipe)
http://www.lesleycooks.com/glutenfree/gl... (another flour recipe)
http://www.ellenskitchen.com/faqs/glutfr... (very good site with lots of info)
http://www.recipelink.com/clippings/clip... (pizza dough)
http://www.celiac.com/st_prod.html?p_pro... (pizza dough and foccia recipe)
http://www.hungrybrowser.com/phaedrus/m1... (mushroom pizza recipe with crust)
http://www.celiac.com/st_prod.html?p_pro... (workable wonder dough for pretzels, breadsticks, cinnamon rolls and pizza crust)
http://www.celiac.com/st_prod.html?p_pro... (cinnamon rolls)
http://www.celiac.com/st_prod.html?p_pro... (gluten free alternative flours explained and flour additives)
http://www.celiac.com/st_main.html?p_cat... (gluten free cooking)
http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/wh... (lots of recipes for wheat free)
http://glutenfreegoddess.blogspot.com/20... (gluten free blog)
http://www.gfrecipes.com/
http://www.celiac.com/st_main.html?p_cat... (recipes)
http://www.gluten-free-living.net/gluten...
http://www.recipesource.com/special-diet...
http://breadnet.net/gluten-free-flours.h... (gluten free flours)
http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/recipes/gl... (kid recipes for gluten free)
http://www.glutenfreeindy.com/faqforpare...
http://www.fatfreevegan.com/gluten-free/...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/apps/ifl/food/recip...
http://allrecipes.com/search/recipes.asp...
http://www.fitnessandfreebies.com/wheatf... (wheat free)
http://www.fitnessandfreebies.com/celiac... (gluten free)
http://www.lesleycooks.com/glutenfree/gl... (scroll way down on right side)
http://www.enabling.org/ia/celiac/#recip... (lots of recipes)
http://www.enabling.org/ia/celiac/rec/re... (more recipes)
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~coeliac/d... (scroll down)
http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/food/wheatfr... (recipes)
http://gfkitchen.server101.com/recipes.h... (recipes)
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~coeliac/f... (recipes)
http://www.hungrybrowser.com/phaedrus/m0... (wheatless ramen noodles)
http://www.hungrybrowser.com/phaedrus/m0... (wheatless donuts)
http://donwiss.com/ (link list)
http://gfkitchen.server101.com/gflinks.h... (link list)
http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp_q=glu... (search engine for bread recipe website…type in the words “gluten free” in the search box to find pages on which gluten free bread recipes are listed.)
similar questions on yahoo answers
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?...
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http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?...
medical website for celiac
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/celia... (national library of medicine, medline plus)
Here are some tips for gluten-free dining out:
http://www.helium.com/tm/135723...
Hope that helps.
if hospital told you this. they should have refferd to a dietitian. they would guide and instruct through the gluten free diet,gave to phone numbers of gluten free help groups.