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Hi, my name is Frann, and I would like to share with you a discovery that literally transformed my life. Not knowing about it screwed my health up for years, and I don't want ANYONE else to be stuck where I was any longer.
As I was growing up, I got used to 'digestive disorders'. They were annoying, often embarrassing and sometimes very painful, but I just assumed everyone had them, and kept quiet about it. If only I had known all those years ago...
Are you depressed? Do you have problems with your weight and/or your digestion - like embarrassing wind, heartburn, nausea, diarrhoea or constipation? Do your ankles swell up for no apparent reason? Or your stomach? I know what you're going through; I used to have to put up with a lot of this stuff, myself.
Symptoms like the ones listed above are all common in people who are gluten intolerant - along with rheumatoid arthritis, aches and pains in bones and joints, cramps and muscle spasms. Undiagnosed, untreated gluten intolerance really is a pain. I'm just so happy that I found out what had been causing all this, and put a stop to it.
Although there are tests for coeliac (celiac) disease, most types of gluten intolerance* can only be discovered by an elimination diet - in other words, you have to stop eating gluten for a few weeks to find out if you should stop eating gluten! Sounds daft, I know, but that's the way it is. *(Not everyone who has gluten intolerance is suffering from coeliac disease, but everyone who has coeliac disease is gluten intolerant).
Have you been suffering from some of these symptoms: embarrassing wind, heartburn, nausea, diarrhoea or constipation, bloating, swelling ankles, depression, rheumatoid arthritis, aches and pains in bones and joints, cramps and muscle spasms?
Have you been diagnosed as suffering from coeliac disease or as gluten-intolerant?
Perhaps you have no firm diagnosis yet, but you’ve been advised to try going gluten-free for a few weeks to see if this fixes your longstanding health problem.
Or maybe a friend or relative has been gluten free for some time and they are so excited about how well they feel (just like me) that they've persuaded you to try it for yourself.
However you got here, now that you’ve taken up this challenge, you’re beginning to realise that it’s quite a big deal: so much of the food we eat every day without thinking contains gluten, and not just the ones that are obvious, either.
Here's a list of just some of the foods you need to watch out for:
The golden rule is: Always Check the Label!
You've probably started trying to work out which foods you can’t eat, but really you’re beginning to think it would be easier to make a list of the things you CAN eat! It looks as if you need to cut out almost all pre-packed and processed foods for a start. Things are looking desperate - what are you going to eat?
Gluten Free-Easy — Easy recipes that are Gluten-free (not Taste-free) (2nd Edition) was compiled by a fellow-sufferer (me) - one who wasn't happy with the very limited selection of (often, quite frankly, nasty) items available in her local stores.
Apart from anything else, I like to have friends round for a meal now and then. I couldn't serve up something cardboardy and tasteless out of a packet, just to stay gluten free. But why would I want to eat stuff that makes me feel bad when I'm supposed to be having fun? I needed recipes that were worth serving up to friends and family, that weren't hard work, either to cook - or to eat! I used to be famous for my tasty cooking. I didn't want that to change just because I had a health problem.
It takes a while to find all the little tricks and methods that make cooking into a joy instead of a chore. So I set to work to find out how to get by without wheat and all the products that include it. You'd be amazed just how much gluten is hiding in almost everything we eat every day!
Gluten is found in the protein part of wheat, rye and barley. Another very similar compound is found in oats, so you may need to exclude these as well (although not everyone who is gluten intolerant is also intolerant of oats).
Other grains which may cause problems are spelt (a primitive form of wheat) and triticale (a hybrid wheat).
The gluten is the part of the grain which allows it to stretch — what gives bread its texture. Not that you can't get non-gluten bread, but it's usually more like cake, too crumbly — it just doesn't have the right texture. And the price leaves a pretty bad taste, as well!
Even though gluten is only in the protein part, if you have coeliac disease or are strongly gluten intolerant it is not safe to eat any part of the grains which contain it (including oats if you are affected by oat-‘gluten’), because there will still be a certain amount of gluten left behind after processing. Some authorities say you can't even eat something that has been in contact with gluten - the filling out of a sandwich, for example!
There are still plenty of foods you can eat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity at first. You can't live on jacket-baked potatoes for ever! This was the problem I faced some time ago. I tried to find substitutes in the shops: things that tasted good and didn't cost a King's ransom. Eventually, I realised that if I wanted to eat stuff I enjoyed, I would have to go about it in a different way. Gluten Free-Easy is the result.
If you’ve been diagnosed with gluten-sensitive enteropathy, coeliac disease, non-tropical sprue, coeliac sprue, primary malabsorption, ideopathic steatorrhoea or dermatitis herpetiformis, you are strongly gluten intolerant. You need to cut it out of your diet altogether.
Conditions with a link to gluten intolerance include:
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Common symptoms of gluten intolerance are:
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If you suffer from any of the conditions listed in black on the left, or one or more of the symptoms listed on the right, your best option is to try living gluten free for a few weeks, and see if the situation improves. If it does (provided you do not suffer from any of the conditions listed in red), try eating a small amount of gluten, and watch for a reaction — be prepared for it to be greater than you expect!
You can eat great food without gluten. I researched and experimented with hundreds of gluten free recipes before I included the best in Gluten Free-Easy - not just English and American food but from Mexico, China, India... Plenty to choose from, and completely free of gluten (and the grains which contain it).
| "I can't cook" | All the recipes in Gluten Free-Easy are easy to follow, with full explanations and step by step instructions. They range from the very simple to exotic preparations suitable for the most picky dinner guests - all of them free from gluten and full of flavour. |
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| "Cooking takes too long/Sometimes I just want something quick" | It all depends on what you decide to cook. Some of the recipes in Gluten Free-Easy take as little as 10-15 minutes from start to finish. And when you've done cooking, you know what you're eating will be tasty, nutritious, and completely gluten free. |
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| "I can find recipes online" | Sure you can. But sometimes it takes a while, and you often have to translate the weights, measures and temperatures etc. Also, some recipes are a bit short on instructions. But if you prefer to do your own research, yes, you can find recipes online. Many of the recipes in this book cannot be found online in any form, however. And all of them are tried, tested and totally gluten free. |
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| "I'd rather buy ready meals" | I don't know where you do your shopping, but the choice of gluten free ready meals I've been able to find is minimal. And when you get them home and cook them... Well, that's why I wrote this book in the first place. Eating should be a pleasure - not a chore. |
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| "Gluten free food is not very nice" | I'd agree with you there, if you're talking about ready made, out of the packet stuff. With a few notable exceptions, most of the gluten free products you can buy are either tasteless, cardboardy, or just plain wrong. But if you cook your own food, it can be as nice or as nasty as you like! And it needn't be a massive undertaking. A decent meal can be served up in 15-20 minutes, or as long as your veg take to cook (if that takes longer). |
I guess we all have that to some degree, but for a child, it’s very important for their self-esteem that they don’t stand out from the crowd.
For an adult, having to cut out gluten is a nuisance, but to a child, it can be far more than that.
Once they start school, your children will want to bring their friends home for tea and what you serve up may make all the difference between them making firm friends who will come round to play regularly, or not.
When your child gets an invitation to a friend’s house, it's safest to offer to feed both children first, and send them round to play afterwards. But unlike other mums, it's not going to be easy just to pop into the shops on the way home and pick something up.
You need to be prepared in advance and keep stocked up with special snacks and treats. It needn't be difficult, and it needn't be expensive if you make your own, either.
All but one or two of the recipes in Gluten Free-Easy are suitable for children, of course, but there are over 100 that are particularly likely to be appreciated (from main courses to treats), all conveniently grouped in the appropriate section under the heading Recipes Kids Love, so you can find them straight away.
Included are recipes for firm favourites like:
- all completely gluten free - plus pie and pizza crust recipes, party foods and desserts, salads and savouries...
Here's what you get:
So you get all this:
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for only £9.95!
PLUS you get our unbeatable:
Gluten Free-Easy is a completely searchable ebook which you can download in minutes on your broadband connection. As well as choosing recipes from the handy index, the search facility means that you can find all the recipes that use a particular main ingredient (for example, beef), making it easy to plan your meals.
It's hard enough being gluten-intolerant, without having to rack your brains for meal ideas. Gluten Free-Easy has recipes that are good enough for the whole family, even if some of them have no problem digesting gluten. Whatever the occasion, from a five course formal dinner to a quick snack for the kids, you'll find plenty of ideas and inspiration in Gluten Free-Easy, so you won't need to look anywhere else.
| PS. | I'm not finished yet. Over the next few months, I will continue researching and experimenting, finding ways to duplicate the foods I love, and whenever I have enough new recipes to make an update worth having, I'll be issuing a revised version. But you don't need to wait. If you download your copy now, I guarantee that you will receive free updates for Two Years!! | ||
| PPS. | I'll also be sending you a special coupon entitling you to 25% discount off the printed version, when it is available. | ||
| PPPS. | When you download Gluten Free-Easy, you also gain the right to raise any questions you may have about gluten free living, using the email address registered at the time of purchase. |
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