Wheat Free?
Is anyone here traveling "Wheat Free"? I have read individuals have successfully reduced their blood pressure just by eliminating wheat from their diet. Some have substituted with corn products wh...
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We full time and I'm gluten free. Not really a big problem because I was never a big bread eater. I miss my favorite breakfast cereals. . . get tired of eating rice and corn chex. Found some cream of rice, yeah! Eat eggs in the morning. . . miss my morning toast. . . really don't care for the GF breads on the market. Make my own breads. . . still experimenting with those. I don't eat a lot of pasta, but have found corn spaghetti to be a great substitute that my DH enjoys as well. Down here in Texas, the H.E.B. grocery store chain has it's own label of corn pasta. . . other styles besides spaghetti. It is delicious and my favorite.
Van's makes GF cheese crackers. . . close to Cheezits. REally good. Pamela's makes good baking mixes. . . the pancake mixes you cannot tell from wheat. Pamela's also makes great cookies. Glutino makes a table cracker similar to a saltine that's decent. Sam's Club has a flaxseed cracker that is great. Comes two packs to a box called "Multigrain" I think. They are great with dips, etc. Crunchy.
My DH has severe heart problems and has to eat salt free. That is by far a bigger challenge because it's almost impossible to eat out and stay under his 500 mg requirement for meals. We do most of our eating right in our own place. . . pitchins are the WORST for salt. After our Thanksgiving meal in our park, DH gained 4 lbs. . . same at Christmas. Probably won't do those again, it takes him too long to get the fluid off.
GF is getting easier to find. We are in northern Indiana a lot in the summer and even the Amish stores are starting to stock GF flours. And their Xantham Gum is a fraction of the cost of other places. That is an ingredient you use in GF baking to take the place of gluten. The Rise and Shine Bakery near Shipshewana has some GF baked items.
I enjoyed reading the responses because I got a lot of good ideas.
No different adjusting to the GF diet as there is with a diabetic diet or salt free. Just change your thinking and embrace it. I was diagnosed by a doctor with a "questionable new testing procedure," but decided it might help me lose some weight. Surprisingly, it was my digestive tract that has reaped the biggest benefit with few of the problems I had before.
Dale
Van's makes GF cheese crackers. . . close to Cheezits. REally good. Pamela's makes good baking mixes. . . the pancake mixes you cannot tell from wheat. Pamela's also makes great cookies. Glutino makes a table cracker similar to a saltine that's decent. Sam's Club has a flaxseed cracker that is great. Comes two packs to a box called "Multigrain" I think. They are great with dips, etc. Crunchy.
My DH has severe heart problems and has to eat salt free. That is by far a bigger challenge because it's almost impossible to eat out and stay under his 500 mg requirement for meals. We do most of our eating right in our own place. . . pitchins are the WORST for salt. After our Thanksgiving meal in our park, DH gained 4 lbs. . . same at Christmas. Probably won't do those again, it takes him too long to get the fluid off.
GF is getting easier to find. We are in northern Indiana a lot in the summer and even the Amish stores are starting to stock GF flours. And their Xantham Gum is a fraction of the cost of other places. That is an ingredient you use in GF baking to take the place of gluten. The Rise and Shine Bakery near Shipshewana has some GF baked items.
I enjoyed reading the responses because I got a lot of good ideas.
No different adjusting to the GF diet as there is with a diabetic diet or salt free. Just change your thinking and embrace it. I was diagnosed by a doctor with a "questionable new testing procedure," but decided it might help me lose some weight. Surprisingly, it was my digestive tract that has reaped the biggest benefit with few of the problems I had before.
Dale
