Gluten Free?

I eat gluten free because I have celiac disease. It was really hard to start because I was buying all the pre-packaged gluten free stuff off the shelf. Not only is that expensive, but a lot of it doesn't taste very good either. What I've learned to do is use as much fresh food as possible and cook as often as I can, lots of veggies and lean meats. Also white rice is gluten free, that's what I use as my carbs, sparingly. The biggest thing is reading EVERY label - even things like your peanut butter and ketchup - gluten hides everywhere, even in preservatives! Google was my friend for a long time.

I have a sensitivity to gluten so I avoid it as much as possible. Some of the things I eat now and enjoy that are gluten free is udi's whole grain bread, Erewhon rice cereal and king arthur flour mixes--their cookie mix and pizza dough are excellent. I also stay away from processed foods and eat a lot of fruits and veggies.

Hi, I'm happy to make friends with anybody who is gluten free. I think it'll help to see what other people are eating and to improve our range of food/diet. Please feel free to add me. CherryVee x

I don't know about the rest of you - but I think the biggest myth about gluten free eating is that it can be used as a weight loss diet by itself. Just because it's gluten free doesn't mean it's a "diet" food. In fact, many gluten free things are made with more sugar in order to make them more tasty (I wish I had my source to cite that, but I don't remember where I read it..) Take pretzels for example. A cup of pretzels will have a certain amount of calories, but the same cup of gluten free pretzels will have more sodium and/or other things that are bad for you because they aren't made with the gluten, in order to make them taste better. People who are losing weight on a gluten free diet are the ones who are eating and preparing fresh foods and eating healthy portions, and leaving that prepackaged shelf stuff alone!