What can I eat? what is a gluten free diet?

I have a skin condition. This remedy book I have recommends to avoid eating eggs, sugars, peanuts, and dairy products and to eat a gluten-free diet.


I love dairy, breads and pastas, and of course, sugar.


What is left to eat once you take all of that out?

What can I eat? what is a gluten free diet?
It's going to be hard...I have a few friends who have to live gluten free. Here's a few websites that might help though.





http://www.gicare.com/pated/edtgs06.htm





http://www.glutenfreeworks.com/gfdiet.ph...





http://www.glutenfree.com/





I also know that if you have a larger chain grocery store nearby, such as a Hy-Vee (that's what it is here), they have a few aisles devoted to gluten free products.





Good luck!
Reply:Meat, more white than red, fish with omega oils, %26amp; veggies.


Fruits %26amp; real nuts for natural sugars %26amp; proteins, of course.
Reply:One of my best friends has a gluten allergy (she's coeliac) and she has to buy special stuff, but most large supermarkets stock some in some form or another. You can also order it on the internet. Very often the gluten free foods will be peanut and dairy free as well.
Reply:Meat and potatoes and rice :), Meat can be fish, chicken, beef, lamb, whatever. I usually cook some chicken, then have a baked or fried or mashed potato, then have some veggies with butter/oil. Yum! I get tired of potatoes though... Squash works as a carb as do sweet potatoes. I need some more rice dishes.





It's interesting because if you go to a health food store, you can often get things that are everything-free practically ! Brownies, cookies (all in mixes of course) can be found, all sorts of replacement products. I recommend lundberg's rice pasta as a substitute as it is pretty good (just not as sticky as wheat pasta).





You can also check out this bakery as they specialize in gluten free vegan food. It's good! The waffles and white bread are to DIE for! http://www.aznaglutenfree.com/ The scones, cookies, and cinnamon roles were quite good too.
Reply:Wow. This is such a big change all at once I can imagine it is a bit of a shock and not the easiest thing to take in.





The good news is, I am sitting here at my computer eating a chocolate chip cookie that is gluten-free, dairy-free and sweetened with agave nectar --no white flour, white sugar or dairy.





Here is the link to this fairly easy recipe:





http://www.elanaspantry.com/dairy-free-g...





And here is the link to a video tutorial of the recipe:





http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=elan...





I hope this helps and wish you the best of luck in your healing. I am on a diet very similiar to yours and have found that I feel great on it. My website has a bunch of easy recipes that might be of help to you:





http://www.elanaspantry.com/





Good luck!
Reply:Well, if it doesn't fix your skin, I bet you lose weight on this diet!





Seriously, though. If you think this is too difficult to tackle all at once, why not take it in stages, starting with dairy and eggs, perhaps (afaik dairy is the most likely cause of skin conditions like acne) - and peanuts as it's pretty easy to avoid those.





Take a couple of weeks or a month to get used to that and then if the results aren't there, cut out gluten - another possible cause which is fairly well documented. This is the biggy. It is very hard to cut out gluten, so I advise you to only do it if you find that excluding dairy doesn't work.





Finally, if you're still having problems, cut out sugars. Try not to replace it with chemical substitutes, as these often do quite a lot of harm. Perhaps, if you currently have a very sweet tooth, you could try tailing it off a little at a time, half a spoonful less in your coffee for a while, that sort of thing.





Cutting out all these foods from your diet in one fell swoop may well result in you losing out on essential nutrients, so whichever way you choose to do it, please get a supply of fish oil capsules and take them every day, along with a good quality gluten free vitamin and mineral supplement.





Good luck

camellia