anyone have food allergies? we know i'm allergic to fish, that one is fatal

But when I was growing up, I had a wheat allergy. Well, apparently I grew out of it, but my allergist thinks otherwise. So I went to the health food store and got a loaf of bread made out of rice, for friggin $4.50!

So I guess what I'm looking for, is ideas on how to replace the wheat in my diet. Dinner is easy since I like rice. I'm trying to find wheat free noodles since I'm a pasta nut.

I'm supposed to cut a whole bunch of things out of my diet, but wheat seems to be the hardest one.

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My name is Liz
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No food allergies, although lately I've been unable to eat melted cheese - like mozzarella - without getting sick. It's not a lactose intollerence, because milk doesn't bother me a bit, but for some reason I can't eat cheese. I miss my pizza!

Try breads made with oat flour. They're very good and I don't think they have wheat in them. At least not all of them.

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None here but I wish I was allergic to chocolate.

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MARSHA
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Oh Marsha you'd shrivel up and die if you couldn't eat chocolate. Maybe take a look at tortillas they make those in a zillion ways.

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Mike
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chocolate is another thing on my list i'm cutting out right now

So are berries, peanuts and summer squash.

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My name is Liz
Do what's best for the animal, not what's best for you.

I know that at some of my local groceries, they are starting to have small collections of wheat-free (gluten-free) products. I've seen them in Bloom and Safeway. You could use rice noodles (try an Asian grocery). Homemade corn torillas can be kinda fun. Try other grains too, like barley and quinoa. I love quinoa, and it's very high in iron. It was one of the Incas' staple foods. Here's a website that you might find useful:

Wheat-free.org - wheat free recipes, places to eat, suppliers of ingredients

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Amy

oh thats so much for this link. This is a 2 month thing for right now. We are cutting lots of the things that "could" be bothering me. If my system becomes better, we will slowly add the things back in to see what it really is.

Here is a full list of the things I have to cut out. I want to cry because this list is pretty much 2/3 my current diet.
* Beans in tomato sauce
* Beer
* Beets
* Blackberries
* Black and red raspberries
* Blueberries
* Celery
* Chard
* Chocolate
* Cocoa
* Coffee powder (Nescafe)
* Collards
* Concord grapes
* Crackers made from soy flour
* Currants
* Dandelion greens
* Eggplant
* Escarole
* Fruit cake
* Fruit salad (canned)
* Green bell pepper
* Grits (white corn)
* Juices containing berries
* Kale
* Leeks
* Lemon and lime peel
* Nuts (especially peanuts and pecans)
* Okra
* Ovaltine
* Parsley
* Pokeweed
* Rhubarb
* Rutabagas
* Spinach
* Strawberries
* Summer squash
* Sweet potatoes
* Tea
* Tofu
* Tomato soup
* Wheat germ

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My name is Liz
Do what's best for the animal, not what's best for you.

No pokeweed? How will you manage?

(Just kidding -- good luck! I wouldn't want to have to avoid all those things. I'd miss the sweet potatoes, strawberries, squash, spinach and beets most.)

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Amy

my worse ones right now are wheat, nuts, berries, spinach, sweet potato, chocolate and beer.

oh darn, can't have any fruit cake

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My name is Liz
Do what's best for the animal, not what's best for you.

Yeah, that fruitcake is a real problem to avoid in June... (it's even harder to avoid in December, but I do my best!)

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Amy