Gluten free info for a friend :)

You can't eat:

Wheat in all forms including spelt, kamut, triticale (a combination of wheat and rye), durum, einkorn, farina, semolina, cake flour, matzo (or matzah) and couscous.

Ingredients with "wheat" in the name including wheat starch, modified wheat starch, hydrolyzed wheat protein and pregelatinized wheat protein. Buckwheat, which is gluten free, is an exception.

Barley malt, which is usually made from barley, and malt syrup, malt extract, malt flavoring and malt vinegar.

Breaded or floured meat, poultry, seafood and vegetables. Also meat, poultry and vegetables when they have a sauce or marinade that contains gluten, such as soy and teriyaki sauces.

Licorice, imitation crab meat, beer, most is fermented from barley. (Specialty gluten-free beer is available from several companies.)

You can eat:

Foods made from grains (and grain-like plants) that do notcontain harmful gluten, including: Corn in all forms (corn flour, corn meal, grits,etc.). Rice in all forms (white, brown, basmati and enriched rice). Also amaranth, buckwheat (kasha), Montina, millet, quinoa, teff, sorghum and soy.

The following ingredients:

Annatto, glucose syrup, lecithin, maltodextrin (even when it is made from wheat), oat gum, plain spices, silicon dioxide, starch, food starch and vinegar (only malt vinegar might contain gluten). Also citric, lactic and malic acids as well as sucrose, dextrose and lactose; and these baking products: arrowroot, cornstarch, guar and xanthan gums, tapioca four or starch, potato starch flour and potato starch, vanilla.

The following foods:

Milk, butter, margarine, real cheese, plain yogurt and vegetable oils including canola. Plain fruits, vegetables, (fresh, frozen and canned), meat, seafood, eggs, nuts, beans and legumes and flours made from them.

Distilled vinegar is gluten free. (See malt vinegar under NO below).

Distilled alcoholic beverages are gluten free because distillation effectively removes gluten from wheat. They are not gluten free if gluten-containing ingredients are added after distillation, but this rarely, if ever, happens.

Mono and diglycerides are fats and are gluten free.

Spices are gluten free. If there is no ingredient list on the container, it contains only the pure spice noted on the label.

Actually! Honestly... gluten free is super easy.

A lot of restaurants have a whole separate menu

just for gluten free customers.

Click here for Gluten Free in Wilmington

Click here for another type of dining out list...

Grocery Store wise... there are TONS of gluten free things!

If you live in Wilmington, two good places to check out are

Lovey's (Landfall Shopping Center)

and Tidal Creek (on Oleander across from Jungle Rapids)

Okay, so it's not that expensive...

if you think about it in terms of... OMG there's so much I can't eat!

You're setting yourself up for failure. But the easiest way to start...

eat more fruits and veggies... REAL food. And then you don't have

to really stress/worry over it.

Gluten Free Shopping List....

this one is good too!!!!

For pasta if you go to Harris Teeter,

in their pasta section they have a selection of just gluten free pastas...

The brand that I usually get is 'De Boles' and usually the multi-grain

rather than the rice kind, I feel like it's more like... "pasta texture".

Quinoa is good... they actually make pasta too out of it.

If you look on the back of alot of packages they have GF on them,

it's becoming alot more popular, so it's getting much easier.

In Walmart (hell on Earth) they have a gluten free section.

Brown Rice is always a goodie. I eat it like..... nonstop.

"Amy's" the organic brand, has alot of things in the frozen section,

like frozen pizzas and "microwave dinners"

"Van's natural foods" has frozen waffles and frozen french toast sticks.

CORN flour tortillas. Corn tortilla chips.

Annie's & Organicville have some yummy salad dressings

(My favorite is Annie's roasted red pepper dressing.)

It'll be tough in the beginning but it'll be like singing your ABCs in no time.

SO many people have Blogs (like me) about their diet, ideas, etc...

These are GREAT tools to see what other people are doing

and also give you some confidence to branch out!! :)

Here's a good one...

Just go to google and type "Gluten Free + _______"

and you'll find your answer.