Gluten free folks come in.

[TrickyBob]

I do DDP yoga which I love. Part of his plan is he suggests going gluten and dairy free.

I already have a love/hate relationship with dairy so we try not to cross paths too much.

But I've always sort of wanted to try going gluten free but I really like bread. =( And it feels like everything has gluten in it.

What are some common foods that don't have gluten or that you find alternative ways to make without gluten?

[loveday]

King Artur has some great gluten free mixes for pizza crust, bread, brownies, cookies, muffins etc You can check out some of the Paleo sites as well. Sarah Fragoso has some great recipes. Look at www.everydaypaleo.com

[eb777888]

I live on corn tortillas. I know there's better options out there but I haven't looked that hard. Giving up bread has been strangely easy for me (other than pizza. I like Udi's pizza crust). Jason's Deli also has *okay* gluten free bread. All the times I've craved a sandwich or hamburger, I just picked up the gluten free bread and it felt so hard, I didn't even try it. I will say that my MIL makes a lot of really, really yummy gluten free baked treats and bread from scratch, but I'm not that ambitious.

[eb777888]

Oh, and I do make muffins out of almond flour. I get almond flour cheap out of the bins at Sprouts (it's half the cost of the prepackaged kind). Almond and coconut flours are the only gluten free flours I have used and I do simple cakes/muffins.

[rupertpenny]

Do you have any reason to believe you have a sensitivity to gluten? I wouldn't make a huge effort to completely cut it out unless I had a good reason.

I do try to limit grains/carbs though. To be honest it wasn't that hard to cut way back on bread and pasta and the like. I eat hamburgers without buns and make eggplant parm instead of lasagna and stuff like that. Paleo and primal blogs are good if you are looking for grain alternatives. I don't really worry about gluten in general though, since I don't personally have a reason too. I still eat soy sauce or salad dressing and stuff like that on occasion.

[TrickyBob]

So do they sell some sort of gluten free "flour"? I love making pizza and bread.

[Doc_Lobster]

Aug 23, 2012 18:58:38 GMT -5 TrickyBob said:

But I've always sort of wanted to try going gluten free

Why? It sucks.

[TrickyBob]

Aug 23, 2012 19:15:03 GMT -5 Doc_Lobster said:

Aug 23, 2012 18:58:38 GMT -5 TrickyBob said:

But I've always sort of wanted to try going gluten free

Why? It sucks.

I'm weird...I've done the GI index and stuff like that.

One year I went vegetarian for an entire year.

One year I gave up all drinks but water.

Another year I gave up all desserts and sweets.

I have a LOT of stomach issues and I've spent years trying to figure out what triggers pain or upsets it. I've heard going gluten free sometimes shows people that it is a possible gluten allergy.

[Jalapeñomel]

I hate being GF. I miss bread, I miss pasta, cooking is challenging. But I like the way I feel when I don't eat it vs. when I do eat it.

[Jalapeñomel]

Aug 23, 2012 21:19:04 GMT -5 namasteak said:

Aug 23, 2012 19:19:47 GMT -5 TrickyBob said:

I'm weird...I've done the GI index and stuff like that.

One year I went vegetarian for an entire year.

One year I gave up all drinks but water.

Another year I gave up all desserts and sweets.

I have a LOT of stomach issues and I've spent years trying to figure out what triggers pain or upsets it. I've heard going gluten free sometimes shows people that it is a possible gluten allergy.

DH spent 15 years trying to figure out why he had bad gas and stomach cramps. Doctors told him "it's IBS deal with it". Turns out he can't eat gluten.

My DH went through the same thing, IBS, had his gall bladder taken out, diverticulitis, everything, and once we went paleo, his gut has never felt better.

[TrickyBob]

Aug 23, 2012 21:19:04 GMT -5 namasteak said:

Aug 23, 2012 19:19:47 GMT -5 TrickyBob said:

I'm weird...I've done the GI index and stuff like that.

One year I went vegetarian for an entire year.

One year I gave up all drinks but water.

Another year I gave up all desserts and sweets.

I have a LOT of stomach issues and I've spent years trying to figure out what triggers pain or upsets it. I've heard going gluten free sometimes shows people that it is a possible gluten allergy.

DH spent 15 years trying to figure out why he had bad gas and stomach cramps. Doctors told him "it's IBS deal with it". Turns out he can't eat gluten.

That's why I think this is worth a shot. Just in case it is something like that and I'm over looking it. I never really even knew about gluten free until the doctors thought my brother had celiac disease. Turns out he didn't but it got the gears turning.

[TrickyBob]

Does gluten free taste weird? I mean I'm sure it's a taste adjustment but in my brothers words "this tastes like cardboard". And I guess I'm scared things will lack flavor?

I'm usually pretty good about adapting. Heck, I like soy milk AND powdered skim milk. If I can choke that crap down, I'd imagine gluten free shouldn't be that big of an adjustment.

[Jalapeñomel]

Aug 23, 2012 21:26:04 GMT -5 namasteak said:

I promise it isn't that hard. There are so many substitutes easily available and the Internet is a great resource for recipes. We aren't paleo (although we do try to stay lower carb) but there are a lot of people on those forums healing their guts.

It was really hard for me. I didn't realize how much gluten I was consuming and all the things that contain gluten.

I think the already-made GF stuff tastes weird, so I stick with making my own at home. I really suck at baking, and I have given that up all together.

[TrickyBob]

Aug 23, 2012 21:27:40 GMT -5 namasteak said:

If you like dairy try drinking raw milk. The pasteurization process not only takes out some vitamins but also the enzymes that make it easier for people to digest.

Eh..milk doesn't agree with me. My body chooses to be selectively lactose intolerant so I just tend to stay away. If I need to I use almond milk or soy milk. I use evaporated milk in baking/cooking.

Do you think if I tried this for a week it'd make a difference or is it more so "after a month or so you'll notice a difference"?

[rodeored]

Honestly I think the easiest way to go GF is to cut out stuff like bread and pasta all together at the beginning and slowly add it in over time because the GF stuff is different and it just makes you want normal bread/ pasta. I have been GF for over two years now and I don't really remember the taste of normal bread very well, though the texture I do remember and really miss!

[TrickyBob]

I think I might try some playing around with white rice flour.

I just need to find some. We have Weis or Giant. And a health foods store.

[Jalapeñomel]

Aug 23, 2012 21:42:04 GMT -5 TrickyBob said:

I think I might try some playing around with white rice flour.

I just need to find some. We have Weis or Giant. And a health foods store.

Random, but you look so mad in your avatar.

[TrickyBob]

Aug 23, 2012 21:43:28 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

Aug 23, 2012 21:42:04 GMT -5 TrickyBob said:

I think I might try some playing around with white rice flour.

I just need to find some. We have Weis or Giant. And a health foods store.

Random, but you look so mad in your avatar.

lol, I noticed too. I was just putting it there as a filler more so.

[Jalapeñomel]

Aug 23, 2012 21:44:52 GMT -5 TrickyBob said:

Aug 23, 2012 21:43:28 GMT -5 Jalapeñomel said:

Random, but you look so mad in your avatar.

lol, I noticed too. I was just putting it there as a filler more so.

I like this one better!