How to feed your family a GF diet

December 30, 2005

Do you have a health food store nearby? I buy white rice bread for

sandwiches, Quinoa pasta noodles for mac & cheese and spaghetti, Bob's Red

Mill GF flour (at Von's) for baking and as a replacement flour for fried

chicken or chicken nuggets. Buy lots of veggies, fruits, meats, cheeses,

yogurts, and salads. Snacks such as nuts, popcorn, and try the

glutenfreemall.com for snacks like pretzels and cookies. Look on this site

in the files section for recipes too. There are lots your family might

enjoy. You can go to a local bookstore and purchase (or to the library) a

gluten free cookbook and start there as well, one meal at a time. Also go to

celiac.com and download the list of safe and unsafe ingredients--put it in

your purse. Start checking labels for these. The simpler the meal, the

better at first. Things like steak, baked chicken, BBQued ribs, chicken,

hamburger meat seasoned with simple salt and pepper or seasoned salt with

spices only...with red potatoes, mashed potatoes (the real stuff), white

rice, plain french fries (unbreaded), and simple canned corn or corn on the

cob, green beans, and a nice fruit combination. That's what we do and our

kids are very healthy too! Makes a yummy dinner! Really quite simple!

Hope this helps,

TIA,

& Mike

909 980-2962

more blood work results and IgA deficiency

hi all, i'm new and have only posted a few times, but it looks like we are

entering a whole new world at our house. two more of my kids have tested

positive for celiac. our ped gi wants me to put all 3 on a gluten free

diet. the original plan had been to keep tianna on a regular diet, treat

her esophagitis, and then do repeat blood work in

6-12 weeks, but after he saw the other children's test results, he feels

they should all go gluten free. my 16 year old is IgA deficient, so the

blood test was worthless for him---we will do some other blood work a little

later. can anyone tell me the significance of IgA deficiency? i read that

it is more common in celiacs than others. i went to the store and was

overwhelmed----i didn't know what to buy.

christine

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