Gluten Free Girl: How I Found The Food That Loves Me Back…And How You Can Too by Shauna James Ahren

Gluten Free Girl is Shauna’s story of being diagnosed with Celiac Disease and learning how to live gluten free.  The author talks about her initial symptoms, finally getting diagnosed and how she has managed to live her life gluten free with ease.  The book also includes a large number of gluten free recipes.  For the recently diagnosed with Celiac Disease, it is always helpful to hear how other people have dealt with the diagnosis.

As a nice bonus, after reading her book, you can follow Shauna’s progress and interact with her directly over at Gluten Free Girl, her gluten free blog. 

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The Gluten-Free Gourmet Cooks Comfort Food: Creating Old Favorites with the New Flours by Bette Hagman

Have you ever used grains such as amaranth, millet, teff and quinoa in your cooking?  Get ready to.  In The Gluten-Free Gourmet Cooks Comfort Food, author Bette Hagman shows the reader how to use these and other “new” flours to create your favorite comfort foods gluten free.  Now you can make your favorite foods such as “macaroni” and cheese, chicken-fried steak, lasagna, rye bread, biscuits, pie and a variety of other comfort foods.  You’ll enjoy these wonderful homecooked recipes with a new twist.

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Gluten-Free Quick & Easy: From Prep to Plate Without the Fuss by Carol Fenster

Let’s face it, gluten free cooking can be time consuming. Gluten-Free Quick & Easy can help. Author Carol Fenster shares the shortcuts, tips and time saving techniques she’s gained from nearly twenty years of gluten free cooking. With over 200 gluten free recipes, you will learn how to plan ahead and get a hot, gluten free meal on the table as quickly as possible. Gluten-Free Quick & Easy offers meal plans and menu ideas as well as ways to cut your baking time getting you out of the kitchen fast.

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The 125 Best Gluten-Free Recipes by Donna Washburn and Heather Butt

The 125 Best Gluten-Free Recipes is full of new, intriguing and useful gluten free recipes that use fewer ingredients than most traditional gluten free recipes.  This book also has offers tips for helping children cope with celiac, tips for using alternative flours and the recipes are so delicious everyone will enjoy them.  The 125 Best Gluten-Free Recipes includes a variety of recipes for breads made by hand and in a bread machine, as well as cakes and pies.  With this book, you’ll be baking tasty gluten free foods in no time.

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Seeing a child diagnosed with a food allergy, whether it be Celiac Disease or an intolerance of some sort, can be very difficult on a parent.    What we sometimes forget, however, is that it is often even more difficult on the child with the food allergies.  This is especially true when they get to the age where they are attending school and find out just how different their eating habits are. 

As parents, the best way to handle a situation like this is always with your approach.   How you talk to your child will go a long way towards making the best of things.   Today I was enjoying a nice article over at Jewish Experiment, which discusses the book Food to Some, Poison to Others by Terry Traub.  

Here is a portion of their post that I wanted to share with our readers:

Traub says it doesn’t have to be this way, for kids who must live with food allergies or for the parents who must prepare safe, nutritious meals for them.

“There are two ‘Ps’ to remember: positioning and planning,” explains Traub. “The way you talk to your child about his condition will make all the difference in how he handles it. And how organized you are will determine the quality of his food — and how crazy it makes you to shop for and prepare it!”

Traub speaks from hard-won experience. A dental hygienist and the mother of two sons with celiac disease (gluten intolerance) and one with lactose intolerance, she wrote her book and created her Web site — eattobeallergyfree.com — to help families and individuals who struggle with food allergies.

The first step, of course, is getting educated. Traub’s book helps parents figure out what’s causing their kids’ distressing symptoms — food allergies can take the form of runny noses, coughing, asthma, itchy throat, diarrhea, abdominal pain, excessive sweating, mucus in the chest, eczema, constipation, and/ or vomiting — and provides a wealth of recipes, pantry lists and meal-planning menus to combat the condition.

I haven’t read this book yet, but after reading this article I may just pick it up and add it to my reading list.   If you are interested in more about the book, you can read more here.

Eating Gluten-Free With Emily: A Story For Children With Celiac Disease by Bonnie J. Kruszka

A young child who has been diagnosed with Celiac Disease can fee very scared and alone. Eating Gluten-Free With Emily can help even the youngest child understand the disease and know that he is not alone. Emily is very friendly, calm and straightforward as she explains her disease. Eating Gluten-Free With Emily will help answer some of your child’s questions and make Celiac Disease seem less scary.

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