Living Gluten-Free for Dummies

This Gluten Free living primer, written by Danna Korn is full of practical and easy ways to begin and maintain a GF lifestyle. If you are trying to figure out how to get started, or how to move slightly beyond the starting line, this book is for you!

Part 1 thoroughly explains the who, what, why and how of going gluten free – Clearly explaining the “rules” of a GF diet and basics of spotting suspicious symptoms in you or your kids that may lead to the need for going gluten free. There is an overview of testing for allergies and celiac, and then gives a chapter devoted to celiac disease. Also included are sections on reading labels, identifying hidden gluten, nutrition, insulin, weight loss/gain.

Part 2 includes planning, preparing to cook. How to make your kitchen gluten free, shopping, avoiding cross-contamination, flour alternatives, and recommended cookbooks.

Part 3 covers how to make menus and meals and includes about 50 or 60 basic recipes to get you started. A chapter on raising gluten free kids is included as expected, since the author is founder of the group ROCK – Raising Our Celiac Kids.

She wraps it all up with a chapter on dealing with the emotional obstacles of giving up the old lifestyle and embarking on the new adventure of becoming gluten free.

This is an awesome, easy to read beginners manual full of tips and warnings that you can definitely benefit from if you are newly or nearly newly gluten free!

Danna Korn has also written a second volume to this book : Cooking Gluten Free for Dummies.

This book is available online at amazon.com, but may be available at your local chain bookstore as well.