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Allergy and Celiac Diets With Ease: Time-Saving Recipes and Solutions for Food Allergy and Gluten-Free Diets | 
| Author: Nicolette M Dumke
Publisher: Allergy Adapt, Inc.
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Rating:  2 reviews
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 220
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 6.6 x 0.6
ISBN: 1887624163
Dewey Decimal Number: 616
EAN: 9781887624169
ASIN: 1887624163
Publication Date: December 11, 2007
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Product Description
Allergy and Celiac Diets With Ease: Time-Saving Recipes and Solutions for Food Allergy and Celiac Diets will help those with food allergies or celiac disease get out of the kitchen quickly and well fed. With this book, they can find commercially prepared foods to eat, and when they do cook, they will cook in less time. This book shows how to shop and stock a kitchen for maximum efficiency, make the best use of appliances and freezers, and do what needs to be done in record time. The book contains over 150 quick and easy recipes for food allergy and celiac diets. Over 130 of them are gluten-free. The extensive reference sections include a 22-page "Special Diet Resources" section which lists commercially prepared foods readers may be able to use on their diet and tells where to get these foods. The index to the recipes by grain use will help them find the recipes that fit their sensitivities. A list of helpful books and websites (even an online celiac/special diet restaurant search database) is also included.
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| Customer Reviews:
Required Reading for Food Allergy and Gluten-Free Diets! February 25, 2008
Pamela R. Devries (Myrtle Beach, SC)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is a "Must-have" for anyone who needs to follow a Gluten-free or Wheat-free diet. Ms. Dumke takes the mystery out of cooking for food allergies. This resource is for the "newbie" to food allergies, as well as those who have been doing it for some time. I have been wheat-free for 18 years, and yet I learned some pointers and hints.
Everyone embarking on a diet for food allergies is initially overwhelmed. I wish this book had been available years ago when I first went wheat, egg and dairy free. It is easy to understand and provides numerous resources for alternative products and ingredients. Recently I have developed more food allergy issues, and the discussions of alternative grains was very helpful to me.
A novice cook will appreciate that the recipes are uncomplicated and easy to follow. The more experienced cook will appreciate the variety of choices and options for alternative foods. The book is both a primer on food allergies and a cookbook. If you have been told you need to follow a gluten-diet, or know someone who has, this is required reading!
Great for multiple food allergies & Mom who's not a great cook February 21, 2008
A. Holmes (New Mexico)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book is an extremely useful resource, especially for someone like me who doesn't cook much and who discovered she has a kid with multiple food allergies (by multiple, I mean soy, wheat, oats, corn, rice, buckwheat, cow's milk, egg, some fish, peanuts, shrimp and multiple insensitivities like several fruits, meats, vegetables, gluten). I had no idea what to do for a kid who was allergic to what I perceived to be all grains! This book has helped me think through all of that, providing thorough explanations of many food alternatives and many recipes that I can use, as well as ways to save time and ingredient descriptions. Yes, there are many alternatives to the above grains which are described and used in the book. The recipes have enough variety to be rotated as well. The author provides a thorough review of food ingredients, basic cooking methods, and places to get the special ingredients for the recipes. Many recipes don't have special ingredients -- I forgot that I could grill some fish and some veggies for my kid (yes, my cooking brain cells are that challenged), but here it is in the book! The change to cooking/feeding a kid with multiple allergies is not easy, but this book made even thinking about it so much easier. I can actually do this!
I have to say, we did start from a position of cooking for someone (me) who is allergic to cow's milk and wheat so had a head start in knowing how to exclude those two foods. Still, I was intimidated by the task of excluding a bunch of foods for my daughter. I think one thing also to keep in mind when cooking/eating for a multiple food allergies is that you are going to have to get used to foods that taste different or have different textures than what you are used to. I'm glad to see so much yummy stuff (muffins! cookies! yay!) in this book.
The book has a lot of explanations and references (Why this diet, Eating out, Bringing food in, time savers, baking with ease, using commercially prepared foods, special resources and sources for ingredients, products, and services, helpful books and web sites, spelt vs. wheat debate, safe food-handling practices, and an index to recipes by grain use). I would also recommend looking at "The Ultimate Food Allergy Cookbook and Survival Guide" by the same author. I think this book (Allergy and Celiac Diets with Ease)is better to start with if you have small kids, because the recipes seem more appealing to kids.
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