Posted in Gluten Free, Low Carbohydrate on Mar 5th, 2013
One of the frustrations of doing a gluten-free and low carbohydrate way of eating is sometimes you just want something hot and heavy and cheesy. I haven’t had lasagna in many years, but I knew this summer that I wanted to experiment with making it out of my preserved foods. So when I had a […]
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Posted in Ingredients, Preserving on Oct 2nd, 2012
For whatever reason, I’ve been fascinated with the idea of making my own condiments this year. Part of it is control, but the other part has been trying to make condiments which are healthier. I created a ketchup a few weeks ago and this time, my attention has turned to mustard. So while I’ve been making […]
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Posted in Gluten Free on Feb 14th, 2012
This is the fourth in a series of what to do when you discover you can no longer eat gluten. Probably the hardest issue when dealing with no longer being able to eat gluten is the issue of cross-contamination. Cross-contamination basically comes down to tiny pieces of gluten which have been cooked, or prepared on a […]
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Posted in Gluten Free, Ingredients on Jan 3rd, 2012
This is the third in a series of what to do when you discover you can no longer eat gluten. One of the first steps in living a gluten free life is identifying the foods in your house that you no longer can eat. If you are single or are in a household which will […]
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Posted in Gluten Free, Personal Story on Dec 13th, 2011
Eating out in a restaurant has in many ways been my biggest challenge. I got in the habit of cooking many years ago when I started eating low carb. At that time, I realized that in order to do so, I needed to stay out of the aisles of the grocery store and shop the […]
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Posted in Gluten Free, Seasonal on Nov 16th, 2011
This is the second in a series of what to do when you discover you can no longer eat gluten. For me, I think one of the most stressful holidays I have to go through food-wise is Thanksgiving. Since realizing that I can’t eat even a small amount of gluten, eating at someone’s home that doesn’t […]
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Posted in Gluten Free, Personal Story on Oct 19th, 2011
A few weeks ago, I got glutened. It was my own fault, I wasn’t the advocate that I should have been when my boyfriend and I went out to a chain restaurant for a quick breakfast before we went camping. Once we were there, I mentioned to the waitress that I was gluten intolerant and asked […]
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Posted in Book Reviews on Sep 13th, 2011
Every so often when I find a book that I think people need to read, I’ll post a review. In the 1970’s Dr. Robert Atkins, a cardiologist, published “Dr. Atkins Diet Revolution” after following a low-starch diet based on work done previously by Gordon, Goldberg and Chosy in an article published in 1963 in […]
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