Gluten-Free Flour

#12: Bob's Red Mill All-Purpose Gluten-Free Baking Flour, 22-Ounce Bags (Pack...
Bob's Red Mill All-Purpose Gluten-Free Baking Flour, 22-Ounce Bags (Pack of 8)Bob's Red Mill All-Purpose Gluten-Free Baking Flour, 22-Ounce Bags (Pack of 8)
by Bob's Red Mill
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Buy new: $36.80 $26.71

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#14: Bob's Red Mill Gluten-Free Garbanzo Fava Flour, 22-Ounce Bags (Pack of 8)
Bob's Red Mill Gluten-Free Garbanzo Fava Flour, 22-Ounce Bags (Pack of 8)Bob's Red Mill Gluten-Free Garbanzo Fava Flour, 22-Ounce Bags (Pack of 8)
by Bob's Red Mill

Buy new: $47.29 $32.74

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#26: OrgraN Gluten-Free Plain All-Purpose Flour, 17.5-Ounce Boxes (Pack of 8)
OrgraN Gluten-Free Plain All-Purpose Flour, 17.5-Ounce Boxes (Pack of 8)OrgraN Gluten-Free Plain All-Purpose Flour, 17.5-Ounce Boxes (Pack of 8)
by OrgraN
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Buy new: $49.78 $34.46

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#30: The Gluten-Free Pantry Beth's Gluten-Free All-Purpose Flour, 16-Ounce Bo...
The Gluten-Free Pantry Beth's Gluten-Free All-Purpose Flour, 16-Ounce Boxes (Pack of 6)The Gluten-Free Pantry Beth's Gluten-Free All-Purpose Flour, 16-Ounce Boxes (Pack of 6)
by The Gluten-Free Pantry
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#33: Sylvan Border Farm Gluten-Free Flour, All-Purpose, 32-Ounce Package (Pac...
Sylvan Border Farm Gluten-Free Flour, All-Purpose, 32-Ounce Package (Pack of 4)Sylvan Border Farm Gluten-Free Flour, All-Purpose, 32-Ounce Package (Pack of 4)
by Sylvan
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Buy new: $33.78 $21.71

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New Miracle Ingredient, Fraudulin

Posted on December 22, 2007 | Filed Under For Celiacs, caveat emptor, celiac disease, celiac science, gluten free diet, miracle ingredient, not recommended

On the late TV series Futurama, an episode once contained a short skit about Crelm toothpaste, which had the miracle ingredient Fraudulin.

This post is not about Crelm toothpaste.

There is a company named Enzymedica that sells, among other things, a product called Glutenease. In their literature describing this product they make some rather startling statements, let us examine one in particular, the context is a discussion of the usefulness or lack thereof of the gluten free diet as a means of treating celiac disease, which is also called gluten intolerance.

Glutenease by Enzymedica Marketing Statement
“Though effective in the short term, removing foods does not provide an ultimate solution. Once those foods are reintroduced to the diet, the symptoms return. ”

Now imagine a person who is drunk, or high, playing Russian Roulette, and then suddenly realizing it is not a very smart thing to do:

Russian Roullette Claim Using Similar Logic

“Though effective in the short term, putting the gun down does not provide an ultimate solution. Once the gun is reinserted in the mouth, the person could die”.

We do not recommend that people with celiac disease, which is sometimes called gluten intolerance, should play Russian Roulette with their health. You can see more discussion of this product here.

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Another Site About Celiac Disease

Posted on November 14, 2007 | Filed Under For Celiacs, Recommended, celiac disease, celiac living, gluten free diet, gluten free recipes

There is a new website for people with celiac disease, the intended use is to provide information and news about celiac disease. Users can register free, and each user is encouraged to maintain their own blog as well as posting messages to a fairly basic forum. Users can also create polls which anyone can vote on, registered or not.


Perhaps the best feature of this new website is the Celiac-related news. It is categorized, mixed, blended and served in your choice of several ways -as just headlines in the left and right sidebars, or in more detail if you use the navigation links.

There is also a big long section of GF recipes, and links to a few GF food items.

The site designer (c’est moi) hopes to build a community of people with celiac disease, and people on a GF diet for other reasons, like autism, are certainly welcome too. There is still time for you to be among the very first people to create an account at All About Celiac. Really, visit http://allaboutceliac.org/ today! It’s all free, of course.

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Gluten Free and Vegan Burgers That Are Delicious Too!

Posted on September 23, 2007 | Filed Under For Celiacs, Gluten Free Food, Recommended, celiac living, celiac shopping, gluten free diet

At our house, we go through gluten-free and vegan burgers as if they were candy, yum! Wildwood Tofu-Veggie Burger, original flavor And the best ones we have found are thankfully available in great quantity at our local Trader Joe’s. These burgers have a texture and mouth feel that is very much like meat, they are more chewy than most gluten-free vegan burgers. I’ve seen them at Whole Foods stores too. After two of these with a little ketchup and I get what I call Happy Tummy, always a desirable state for people with celiac disease. Look for them at your local health food store, I think you’ll like them too.

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US National Celiac Disease Awareness Day: September 13, 2007

Posted on September 13, 2007 | Filed Under For Celiacs, celiac disease, celiac living

The US Senate has declared September 13th, 2007 as Celiac Disease Awareness Day (see attached PDF file). At our sister site The Sensible Celiac we hope to raise awareness, not just in the US but worldwide, about this dramatically under-diagnosed condition.

Although this may change in a few more years, at the present time there are no over-priced medications for celiac disease, and there are no multi-billion dollar drug companies offering free samples and golf tours to doctors for these drugs that don’t exist - yet. So, doctors in America are not as conscious of the condition as they might be if a drug company sales rep was dropping in every Wednesday with brochures for the waiting room and free sample packs.

But it’s out there. An estimated 1 person in 133 in the USA has celiac disease, but very few are aware of their illness. Symptoms vary widely, adding to the difficulty of diagnosing this disorder.

Have a gluten free day today, and tell a friend, acquaintance or neighbor about celiac disease. Information is the key to progress.

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The Sensible Celiac recently celebrated its 3 year anniversary

Posted on June 15, 2007 | Filed Under For Celiacs, Gluten Free Food, Recommended, celiac disease, celiac living, celiac shopping, gluten free diet

the sensible celiac

2007-06-14 19:22:54 - For 3 years now The Sensible Celiac has been serving the celiac disease community and all those following a gluten free diet. With a discussion forum, celiac-related news, videos, recipes, and several shopping pages, The Sensible Celiac is a much used resource. Visit sensibleceliac.com to learn more about celiac disease.

The Sensible Celiac was founded by a webmaster with celiac disease whose daughter, a Registered Nurse, also suffers from the disorder. The original motivation for starting the site was to debunk false information about the gluten free diet, and to give people affected by celiac disease a place to share their experiences.

Celiac disease is a genetically mediated auto-immune disorder characterized by an intolerance for specific protein peptides found in certain widely used grains. When a person with celiac disease ingests any of these grains, even in very small amounts, their immune system reacts to these protein fragments as though they were an invading organism, and attacks the villi lining the small intestine in a misguided defense strategy.

In order to prevent triggering this self destructive immune response, persons with celiac disease must avoid certain grains for the rest of their lives. The offending grains are wheat, rye and barley.

At first this might seem like a simple thing to do, but in fact there are many foods that contain ingredients derived from wheat, barley or rye.

Celiac disease was once considered to be a rare disorder, but random blood tests in the general population for the antigens produced by a person with this autoimmune disorder suggest as many as one person in 133 suffers from celiac disease. There may be as many as 2 million undiagnosed cases of celiac disease in the US alone.

Today several hundred people are members of the discussion forum at the Sensible Celiac Sensible Celiac Discussion Forum and the site is still growing. Visit sensibleceliac.com today to learn more about celiac disease.

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Rice is Your Friend, Rice Cookers are Too!

Posted on March 21, 2007 | Filed Under For Celiacs, Gluten Free Food, celiac disease, celiac living, gluten free diet

If you have celiac disease, you can’t eat many common grains. You might also have a very grouchy tummy. One of the best tips we have to offer is that “Rice is your friend”.
Aroma 6 cup rice cooker
At our house rice is a part of a majority of our evening meals. We buy all sorts and varieties of rice. A few years into our experience with the gluten free diet, we decided to buy a rice cooker. We are now on our third rice cooker, and this one is clearly the best of the three. First we tried a Zojirushi rice cooker, and it cooked the rice very well, but it had no on-off switch (DUH!) so we had it plugged in to an AC strip that did have an on-off switch. Eventually the non-stick coating on the Zojirushi began to fail so we decided to shop around.

Our second rice cooker was a Sanyo model, it was OK except that it took 2 hours to cook whole grain brown rice - our favorite variety. The Sanyo lasted about 2 weeks, then we got our current rice cooker and it is the best of the lot. The Aroma looks like cheap Chinese junk, but it cooks brown rice in one hour instead of two, and the removable metal rice basket is very easy to clean.
It is also much less expensive than most other similar sized rice cookers.

If you are considering the purchase of a rice cooker, we recommend the Aroma shown here.

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Brown Rice Gluten Free Pasta That is Fantastic

Posted on March 9, 2007 | Filed Under For Celiacs, Gluten Free Food, celiac shopping, gluten free diet

A Canadian company named Tinkyada makes some of the best gluten free pasta you can find.

Brown Rice Pasta, Penne (w/Rice Bran), Wheat Free, Gluten Free, Organic, 12 oz.
Available in a typical range of pasta shapes, including Penne, Spirals and regular Spaghetti noodles, the Tinkyada pasta cooks, looks and tastes like a high quality wheat pasta, but without the gluten that makes life miserable for people like us with celiac disease. The Penne is shown here, click the image or link to see the details at Amazon.com. I like the Penne best myself, but some people prefer Spirals because the sauce they are serving sticks to the Spirals more effectively.

If you are at a loss as to which gluten free pasta to buy, I suggest you try one of the Tinkyada styles.

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A Gluten-Free Fruit Bar that Tastes Great

Posted on March 9, 2007 | Filed Under For Celiacs, Gluten Free Food, celiac living, celiac shopping, gluten free diet

I’ve discovered a very tasty fruit bar that is gluten free and contains no added sugars at all. FruitTrekker bars come in a few flavors , I really like the apricot ones. The bars contain chopped up bits of dried fruit that is rolled in rice flour and they rely on the fructose that occurs naturally in fruits for the slightly sweet flavor. You can buy FruitTrekker bars from Amazon, they are not very expensive either. They are great on airplanes, on road trips, and anywhere else you might want a GF snack. I give them 5 stars.

Kalahari FruitTrekker Bar, Apricot

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