Posted by: CMdeux
« on: July 28, 2012, 11:00:34 AM »Recipes which omit wheat and corn?
Absolutely. If you own more than one cookbook, you probably already have a plethora to choose from, in fact...
BUT (you know there'd be a catch, right?);
ingredients that don't-- much more difficult problem.
There are perfectly good ways of avoiding the allergens that you've listed without winding up nutritionally deficient in any way. That's the good news.
The bad news is that the learning curve is horrific for corn and wheat. More bad news is that only two of those allergens (wheat and tuna) are even required to be on packaged food labels in the US.
Thus our collective concern for you. It's not at all easy to work this out even if your life depends upon avoidance. If it doesn't, it's actually rather important to NOT go all-out for avoidance of a lengthy list that involves a ubiquitous allergen (like corn or wheat), because unless you're growing all your own food, you're going to find yourself severely limited in terms of what you can safely buy from a grocery store, which can lead to some serious nutritional problems in a few weeks or months.
What kinds of reactions led you to seek out a diagnosis?
Absolutely. If you own more than one cookbook, you probably already have a plethora to choose from, in fact...
BUT (you know there'd be a catch, right?);
ingredients that don't-- much more difficult problem.
There are perfectly good ways of avoiding the allergens that you've listed without winding up nutritionally deficient in any way. That's the good news.
The bad news is that the learning curve is horrific for corn and wheat. More bad news is that only two of those allergens (wheat and tuna) are even required to be on packaged food labels in the US.
Thus our collective concern for you. It's not at all easy to work this out even if your life depends upon avoidance. If it doesn't, it's actually rather important to NOT go all-out for avoidance of a lengthy list that involves a ubiquitous allergen (like corn or wheat), because unless you're growing all your own food, you're going to find yourself severely limited in terms of what you can safely buy from a grocery store, which can lead to some serious nutritional problems in a few weeks or months.
What kinds of reactions led you to seek out a diagnosis?