After traveling in Costa Rica during the summer of 2008, I came home to find that despite being gluten-free for 4 full months, I felt horrible. I knew that I wasn’t getting glutened because I cooked everything at home and yet I was having horrible, unexplainable bouts of diarrhea, gas and bloating. It was a…
Have you searched the web for gluten-free recipes (probably desserts) that are “sugar-free”? You figure if it’s “sugar-free” then you’re making a better choice, right? What if I told you that a good number of recipes out there (especially on blogs) are NOT actually “sugar-free”? Would you be shocked or surprised? What might be more…
Chicken soup seems like the perfect fix for any day you’re feeling under the weather. It’s easy enough to make (you can check out my very simple, easy-prep Crockpot recipe HERE), but sometimes can leave you with more than you would want to eat of the same thing for days on end. I came up…
Did you know that you have more bacteria living in and on you than human cells? Though some folks might find this idea to be gross (which isn’t entirely shocking considering the germophobic culture in which we live), bacteria can be extremely beneficial to good health. As a population of digestively-challenged folks (celiac, leaky gut,…
It always seems like breakfast is the most difficult meal of the day… at least it is for me! Unable to eat eggs, dairy and gluten, I often end up stranded when traveling or staying at someone else’s home because the most common elements of breakfast don’t agree with me. And of course I know…
I love a good apple pie or apple crisp, but so rarely find one that’s gluten-free and doesn’t take forever to make. That’s the ultimate complaint with gluten-free food… too many ingredients and too much time. I’ve got a solution for you! Check this out… a quick apple crisp recipe that’s gluten-free, low in sugar…
If there’s one thing I love to do, it’s drinking water. I know there’s a lot of folks out there that have the mindset (and it is TOTALLY a mindset) that water is gross. I have bad news for those negative water Nellies… water is the best thing that you can possibly give to yourself.…
Going gluten-free can be good for you, but it takes more effort than what the regular Joe and Jane usually allow for. That’s why I often refer to what most folks in the GF community are eating as the Standard American Gluten-Free Diet (SAGFD). It’s truly the crappy mirror image of the abysmally unhealthy Standard…
Good tomatoes make your meal memorable. Whether it’s a lovely pasta sauce, a warming winter soup, or a spicy chili, the tomatoes you use will make or break the meal. Bland, tasteless tomatoes leave you scrambling to add spices and salt to make up for their ineptitude. But when you’ve got really good, sweet, freshly…
I get asked quite a bit — “Is sushi gluten-free?” If you like sushi and assume that it’s gluten-free, you might be saddened to know that there’s a good chance that you’ll get glutened from eating it out at a restaurant. Though I’m not a big fish person (especially not raw fish), but I’ve come to…
