I'm going gluten-free - what can I eat?
Good question.
It would be easier to say what you can't eat!
But the question is, what can you eat. So let's start there.
Well, for a start, obviously you can eat meat, poultry and game. That's unprocessed meat. Avoid burgers, sausages, grillsteaks and similar items, as they almost always contain filler which is wheat based (though the highest quality may be gluten free - check the label for anything like wheat, flour, starch, and in particular monosodium glutamate).
If you like gravy, ketchup or sauce with your meat, take care.
These products are almost always made with flour. Gravy granules and powders might be thickened with cornstarch, because it mixes with boiling water more quickly than wheat flour, but you do need to check, particularly with the cheaper varieties. Soy sauce (except for the gluten free variety) is also off the menu, because the soy beans are fermented with wheat.
Next on the list: fruit, raw or cooked, but without thickened sauces (custard may be ok, check the label to make sure any thickening is either corn or egg based). You can also have cream, but not if it's squirty cream containing starch to thicken it.
Vegetables are usually pretty safe. Potatoes, green vegetables and roots are almost always served without any thickening added.
Again, if it's a processed product, check the label! Watch out for coatings and fillers in frozen potato products. If you use packet mash, read the label carefully, best go for the top quality brands.
Salad prepared by your own sweet hands is great. Prepared salads are also fine, so long as you don't use any dressing packed with it, unless you first check the label to make sure there is no wheat flour, unspecified starch or monosodium glutamate in it. Dressings you buy to put on your salad need to be checked as well. Good quality mayonnaise should be fine - Hellman's for example - but be careful of low fat varieties of anything, as thickener is often added to make up for the lost viscosity of the oil they removed, and this is usually based on some variant of flour.
Milk, cheese and yoghurt should be fine - but again, be careful of the low fat varieties, for the reasons already mentioned.
Also, don't buy grated cheese, unless you see the deli grate it in front of you, as the pre-packaged variety is coated in - you guessed it - flour.
You can eat gluten-free bread and cakes, but these are mostly ridiculously expensive, and not very nice. A good substitute are Corn Thins from Real Foods Pty, an Australian company. They have a page on their site listing stockists around the world, including major supermarket chains. Alternatively, if you don't mind eating food that squeaks, you can eat rice cakes. Kallo do a chocolate coated rice cake that is probably very nice, but as I do object to my food squeaking, I haven't tried them.
As far as takeouts go, you can eat Indian food, but not the breads and chapatis.
Poppadoms are fine, though. You need to check that they don't use any thickening in their food (apart from chickpea or lentil flour), or ask them to make you a version without.
Another takeout style that you can go for is Chinese - no noodles, apart from rice noodles (sometimes called Singapore hot noodles), and ask them to leave out the "taste powder" (monosodium glutamate). I'm afraid fortune cookies are off the menu as well, although there's nothing to stop you reading the contents and throwing the cookie away! Like I said earlier, soy sauce must be the gluten free variety, so get them to leave it out and add it yourself at home.
All drinks except for whisky, beer, and malted drinks like Ovaltine, Milo and Horlicks should be fine, but avoid the cheaper varieties of instant coffee, as flour is sometimes used as a filler.
So there you are, a pretty good selection of gluten-free foods you can eat to your heart's content.
Bon Appetit!
?2006 Frann Leach
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Always Tired? No Pep or Zing? Tap Into Breakfast Smoothies!
I'm 40-something years old, and for 40-something years breakfast has been a pain. Some of my earliest memories are getting ready for school with my mother insisting I eat a bowl of cereal. It just never interested me. Once high school started I was skipping breakfast and grabbing two apples on the run for lunch. All my life breakfast simply wasn't something I got interested in or thought about until I made this discovery...Someone introduced me to the most amazing concept for breakfast.
By now I was well entrenched in not taking time over the first meal of the day (and sometimes the second meal), so anything that captured my attention was going to have to be fast, no fuss and delicious to warrant any of my attention.Instead of cardboard cereal and bland milk, it's possible to start the day with power packed, nutritious, energizing and best of all, yummy smoothies. Smoothies have been around for ages, but I had never twigged they make a great start to the day. Imagine the delight...
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The Last Piece of Chocolate Ever - Business Tips for the Silver Set
INTRODUCTIONRight now I am playing a game that I have played ever since I was a kid. (I just took another drink of milk). When I got a box of chocolates as a gift, I would grab a whole container of milk and run into my room with the box. I would then try to make the milk last for the entire box, trying hard not to run out of milk before the last piece of chocolate, or run out of chocolate before the last bit of milk. To this day I wonder if I had more fun playing the balancing game than I did actually eating the chocolate.
I do know one thing. Sometimes the game distracted me from the delicious taste of the chocolate and I do regret that.What does any of this have to do with being in business or becoming an entrepreneur? Plenty, so bear with me a few paragraphs more.THE TRUTH HURTS, A LOTI have reached that age where I am now sure of a few things. One. Time moves only forward. The number of grey hairs on my head far exceeds the black ones.
Outside of a dye job I don't see...
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COULD A SLIM, HEALTHIER YOU, BE JUST A TICK AWAY ? ? ?
COULD A SLIM, HEALTHIER YOU, BE JUST A TICK AWAY ? ? ?
read on .........As your holiday approaches do you hear yourself saying "I really must lose some weight before I go on holiday", or during your holiday as you over indulge (and why not? After all, you are on holiday) do you hear yourself saying once again "I really must go on a diet after my holiday".Yes, we have all been there! We mean to diet before holidays, after holidays, before Christmas, after Christmas, and so on ... and isn't it funny how we are so full of good intentions at the time when we are so full after finishing off that box of chocolates we couldn't resist opening. It's always the same old story, we only mean to eat just one chocolate, our favourite, and then, as if by magic, the whole box is suddenly empty. And that is when we are filled with (not just chocolates) but the desire to embark on yet another slimming diet. Usually, of course, the resolution to slim disappears even faster than the chocolates...
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Are you controlled by the urge to binge?
I gotta confess: I'm completely addicted to crisps. Any kind is fine. Don't mind the flavor - they all taste fine. My resolve weakens every time I think about chomping into one. Feeling the crunch, hearing the crackle, and getting that first taste of its tangy flavor.
Bliss - and if you are into crisps then you probably wish you had a packet right now - probably a big one.But maybe crisps aren't your thing. Probably there's another food that lures you into the refrigerator or the pantry cabinet. I can think of a few more that do it for me. Milk chocolate, do-nuts, crispy pies....and the list goes on. I have no doubt that you probably have a list of your own - right.
According to one study, 97% of women (compared to 68% of men) experience cravings on food.So how do you control these urges that pull you away from your diet plan and down the temporary joy of self-indulgence? I researched on the topic to give you what some experts advise on how to enjoy that art called eating...
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Lake Champlain Chocolates Offers Free Factory Tours - Free Chocolate-Making Demonstrations 9/10, 10/22 & 11/12/2005 - Picked As ?Yankee Magazine Editor?s Choice?
Burlington, VT (ContentDesk) June 7, 2005 -- Lake Champlain Chocolates (LCC) announced today that it was named an Editors' Choice in the Yankee Magazine Travel Guide to New England, an honor reserved for noteworthy travel destinations.
Free guided factory tours are offered weekdays on the hour from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM at the 750 Pine Street, Burlington, Vermont location.Melt in your mouth aromas greet you at the door to the 750 Pine Street factory & caf?, where visitors satisfy all their senses while learning the story "from bean to chocolate to you."
Knowledgeable, friendly tour guides explain the history of the company as well as cocoa bean growing, harvesting, fermenting, conching, tempering, and molding.
Favorite processes to watch are chocolate enrobing, depositing, molding, packaging, and hand painting of the chocolates.
For those who can't travel to Vermont, an online version of the tour is at
Lake Champlain Chocolates Offers Free Factory Tours - Free Chocolate-Making Demonstrations 9/10, 10/22 & 11/12/2005 - Picked As ?Yankee Magazine Editor?s Choice?
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Acne - Your Hormones May Be The Culprit!
Copyright 2006 Tony Buel
Acne can often be considered the worst thing to happen to a teenager. Where in the world does it come from and how do you get rid it once you have it? They are a source of endless embarrassment and inconvenience!
And while everyone has suffered from them to some extent, no one likes them. Major culprits in causing acne can be simple hormones.
Specifically, the male hormone 'testosterone' can cause acne. During puberty the teenagers' body is changing. During this time, most teenagers produce abnormal levels of the male hormone testosterone.
Most people outgrow this condition by their early twenties, but with some people it lasts longer.
Women also produce additional hormones during the menstrual cycle, and for many women this can lead to more problems with acne. If this occurs, visiting with a doctor or other medical professional can provide a cure or remedy.
There is also a medical theory that...
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Always Tired? No Pep or Zing? Tap Into Breakfast Smoothies!
I'm 40-something years old, and for 40-something years breakfast has been a pain. Some of my earliest memories are getting ready for school with my mother insisting I eat a bowl of cereal. It just never interested me. Once high school started I was skipping breakfast and grabbing two apples on the run for lunch. All my life breakfast simply wasn't something I got interested in or thought about until I made this discovery...Someone introduced me to the most amazing concept for breakfast.
By now I was well entrenched in not taking time over the first meal of the day (and sometimes the second meal), so anything that captured my attention was going to have to be fast, no fuss and delicious to warrant any of my attention.Instead of cardboard cereal and bland milk, it's possible to start the day with power packed, nutritious, energizing and best of all, yummy smoothies. Smoothies have been around for ages, but I had never twigged they make a great start to the day. Imagine the delight...
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Alaskan Northern Lights and Landscape Uniquely Captured in Tom Robinsons Paintings
Light and shadow, hot and cold, extremes of color and emotion.
These are the things that will strike you when viewing the paintings of Tom Robinson.
Tom's magical talent with light may have a lot to do with the fact that he has been flying since he was 14 years old with most of his flying time in Alaska from Mt. McKinley to the mighty Yukon. Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Tom is a registered member of the Cherokee tribe with three daughters, two granddaughters and an Abyssinian cat named "Ringo".
Tommy honors his Native American heritage with his love and respect for nature; apparent in his paintings. Tom Robinson has been a commercial pilot/guide flying visitors and mountain climbers around Denali National Park and landing on the glaciers of Mt. McKinley for 16 years. Since he's so busy in the summer he relies on memories of the sky and illuminated mountains to guide him while painting during the dark days of endless Alaska winters. Although there has had no formal...
Alaskan Northern Lights and Landscape Uniquely Captured in Tom Robinsons Paintings
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I'm going gluten-free - what can I eat?
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