Gluten-Free Flour

#22: 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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#27: 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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#35: 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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#39: 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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#41: 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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Best Gluten Free Bread Yet, Vegan and Five Stars!

Posted on November 28, 2007 | Filed Under Gluten Free Food, Recommended, celiac disease, celiac living, gluten free diet, gluten free recipes

Today I had my first complete success in baking GF bread, the first loaf that was completely vegan, gluten free, and did rise without collapsing during the bake cycle. There were two new factors in this loaf that I had not used before. First I used silken tofu as an egg replacer, and second I used Bob’s Red Mill All Purpose GF Baking Flour, which I will definitely be using in the future. There was no brown rice or white rice flour in this bread at all.
This mix contains Garbanzo Flour, Potato Starch, Tapioca Flour, White Sorghum Flour, and Fava Bean Flour.

I used a recipe based on “Chickpea Yeast Bread” on page 116 of The Best ever Wheat and Gluten-Free Baking Book, I substituted the Bob’s Red Mill mix for the 3 cups of various flours, and I used tofu instead of eggs.

Wet Ingredients:
5 ounces silken tofu
1 tsp apple cider vinegar
3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
1 and 1/2 cups water
1 teaspoon Vermont maple syrup

Dry Ingredients:
3 cups Bob’s Red Mill All Purpose GF Baking Flour
1/2 cup cornstarch
3 teaspoons xanthan gum
3 tablespoons brown sugar
2 teaspoons sea salt
1/2 cup Better Than Milk Vegan Beverage Mix, Soy
1 package yeast

Mix dry ingredients in a mixing bowl, try to break up the brown sugar clumps.
Put the silken tofu, olive oil and 1/2 cup of the water in a blender and mix thoroughly.
Put the dry ingredients in your Zojirushi or other bread machine
Pour in the tofu/oil/water blend
Pour in the remaining cup of water
Push the quick cycle (or gluten free cycle) button
Then wait about 2 hours for your delightful bread-like loaf of gluten free bread. Loveses it!

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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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New Gluten Free Shopping Site

Posted on November 3, 2007 | Filed Under Gluten Free Food, Recommended, celiac living, celiac shopping, gluten free diet

There now is a new option for online food shopping available to people affected by celiac disease, autism spectrum disorder, ADHD, and other conditions that may benefit from a gluten free diet. Gluten Free Live is now online, with more shopping options for you.

Gluten Free Live (GlutenFreeLive.com) offers gluten-free bread, bread mixes, buns, cereal, cookies, crackers and more. There is a section of this online store for gluten free and dairy free foods, as well as an area with gluten free milk substitutes in both dry and liquid form. Vegetarians who are eating gluten free will find an area just for them, and the gluten free pasta aisle is sure to be a favorite for everyone on a GF diet.Gluten Free Live uses advanced methods to find and filter online food sources so that you don’t have to wander through a web shop full of food you can not eat.

The founder of Gluten Free Live (GlutenFreeLive.com)is himself a vegetarian with celiac disease, so the site is backed up by years of personal experience eating a GF diet and designing web applications. At Gluten Free Live we want to help you be gluten-free.The book department at Gluten Free Live offers pre-configured lists of books about autism and celiac disease, as well as gluten free cookbooks. There are virtual store aisles with GF snacks, energy bars, fruit bars and our top-selling gluten free pretzels. There is also a section with gluten free meals that are ready to eat or require a minimum of preparation.

Busy cooks can find bread mixes, all kinds of gluten free flour, gluten free pizza shells, and gluten free pancake mix.Because many people on a gluten free diet rely on rice as a staple, the store (GlutenFreeLive.com) also features rice cookers, and rounding out the kitchen wares is a selection of bread machines. Gluten Free Live also offers pages with free gluten-free recipes and the latest news about celiac disease and autism. By partnering with Amazon the site is able to offer free super-saver shipping on many orders that total $25 or more. Gluten Free Live is now open for business. Shop now, shop often.

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Crispy Brown Rice Gluten Free Cereal

Posted on September 28, 2007 | Filed Under Gluten Free Food, Recommended, celiac disease, celiac living, gluten free diet

One of the leading sellers among gluten free breakfast cereals is Erewhon brand Crispy Brown Rice Cereal. Recently the manufacturer has changed their packaging. Erewhon Crispy Brown Rice Gluten Free Cereal On Amazon it seems to be the number one selling GF cereal.

You should be aware that Erewhon makes a number of different breakfast cereals, please be certain that the product you buy has the words Gluten Free displayed prominently on the package (if you have celiac disease). Most breakfast cereals contain barley malt flavoring, and since barley is one of the grains that people with celiac disease must avoid, that eliminates the vast majority of breakfast cereals from the gluten-free diet. In some cases malt flavoring is derived from non-barley sources like corn, which should be safe for people with celiac disease.

I like this cereal, it reminds me of another similar looking product that is known for sounds it creates in milk. I use soy milk with my breakfast cereal because I’m vegan as well as having celiac disease. You can buy this cereal at our celiac friendly food shopping site, The GF Store.

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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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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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Orgran Gluten Free Pancake Mix, Good for Making Waffles

Posted on March 31, 2007 | Filed Under Gluten Free Food, Recommended, celiac shopping, gluten free diet, gluten free recipes

Orgran Apple Cinnamon Gluten Free Pancake Mix, good for waffles too
This morning I made a batch of Orgran Apple Cinnamon Gluten Free Pancake Mix, which I use in my waffle maker.

Whenever I use any GF pancake mix, I always make waffles instead, I really like waffles, and the GF versions of waffles usually are not too bad either, because the flours tend toward making a crisp finished product, and that is expected in a waffle. I use an ordinary small Krups waffle maker and the finished product comes out pretty much as expected.Gluten Free Waffles made with Orgran Pancake Mix If you look at the list of ingredients, the first one is corn starch. This is a highly processed carbohydrate and is likely to make your blood sugar bounce. It seems many people with celiac disease need to watch out for this. To help minimize this effect I used soy milk instead of water to mix the batter.Gluten Free Waffles made with Orgran Pancake Mix
So I always drench my waffles with peanut butter, which is high in fat, or fruit which also slows down digestion. The first batch I made today was covered in mandarin oranges before serving.

It’s a special event when I cook something that is sold explicitly as a gluten free product, so after I had my two waffles with oranges, I smeared one more with peanut butter. Most weekday mornings I’ll have a pair of Trader Joe’s Gluten Free Banana Waffles literally covered with peanut butter. Mmm.

Orgran gluten free products are made in Australia and sold, among other places, at Amazon.com.

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Other Websites for Celiacs

Posted on March 8, 2007 | Filed Under Recommended, celiac living, celiac science, gluten free diet

Here are a few other websites that might be of interest to people with celiac disease or anyone else that wants to maintain a gluten free diet.

The Sensible Celiac

The Celiac Shop

The GF Store

And yes, all of these are my own celiac sites.

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