For the most part, we eat the kinds of foods that would never contain gluten anyway: meat, seafood, fresh fruits and vegetables. Our general philosophy is that some things are just not meant to be re-engineered to remove gluten.
However, sometimes we have cravings (like chocolate chip cookies), sometimes we need grains. This page shows you our favorite gluten-free products–the ones that have to be made special in order to be gluten-free.
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Pacific Bakery Multi-Grain Spelt Bread: Pacific Bakery makes a Spelt bread that is wheat free and yeast free. Spelt does contains very low levels of gluten. However, many gluten intolerant (i.e. Celiacs) can eat spelt. Not all can, so be careful.
This is one of the few breads that actually tastes that a real mult-grain bread. Most of the rice or other alternative breads we’ve tried have tatsed like cardboard. This one is great and works well as both toast and sandwiches. Where To Find It: Whole Foods Market |
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Bob’s Red Mill Gluten-Free Pancake Mix: Bob’s Red Mill makes a whole line of gluten-free baking mixes. The one we use the most is the pancake mix. It makes scrumptous and light pancakes. In place of all purpose flour, the mix uses a combination of potato starch, white sorghum flour, tapioca flour, and corn flour. We have also made cupcakes from the Bob’s Red Mill Chocolate Cake mix. They were very good, but we hesitate to recommend it as we would like to get more experience using it.
Where To Find It: Mollie Stones and Whole Foods Market |
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Primavera Handmade Corn Tortillas: These little gems are just corn flour, lime, and water. No different than any other corn tortillas you can buy. However, these ones look and taste just like they were fresh made by Abuela (that’s spanish for grandma). They’re excellent for tacos if you heat them on 350 degrees for 3-5 minutes.
Where to Find It: Whole Foods Market |
These are our favorite places in San Francisco for food and drink shopping:
- Sun Fat Seafood Company: The best place in San Francisco to buy fresh fish and seafood and very reasonably priced.
- Whole Foods Market: The only grocery store chain that understands what eating gluten-free is all about. Each store has a gluten-free shopping list that shows all of the gluten-free products, a special bakehouse that produces gluten-free baked goods, and a staff that is knowledgeable about specials diets. Locations:
Just a PS to let you know that even the NIH has confirmed that spelt is not safe for anyone with celiac disease, period.
http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/celiac/index.htm
Please know I’m not criticizing your personal choice to eat it - Anyone can choose to eat whatever they want. It’s just a question of putting other peoples’ health at risk.
Spelt IS wheat. You folks need to do your research. Advertising spelt as safe for even some people with celiac is a very irresponsible. Good grief…
Your claim that some celiacs can safely eat spelt is wrong, ignorant and DANGEROUS. You shouldn’t post what will harm others who have not yet learned what really is and isn’t safe for celiacs. The only people who say spelt is safe are those who sell it - no informed medical person or experienced celiac would ever say such a dangerous thing.
Spelt is clearly NOT gluten-free and therefore UNSAFE for ANY & ALL CELIACS! The proponents of spelt get carried away with this dangerous misinformation. A local pizza place was the topic of a newspaper article, lauding their “gluten-free spelt pizza”. NONSENSE! To date, no retraction has appeared in the paper, even though the Canadian Celiac Association and I have spoken directly to the journalist who wrote the article. To reiterate, spelt is NOT GLUTEN-FREE, never has been, and never will be.
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
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