Days 278-279 - Gluten Free

What is Gluten? Gluten is the protein composite that makes the dough elastic, helping it to raise. Gluten Free is getting to be a healthy buzz-word these days.  Why is that when most wheat has been tolerated for generations?  Many believe it is due to the increasing amount of genetically modified grains.  While Wikipedia describes the gluten-free diet as "A gluten-free diet as completely free of ingredients derived from gluten-containing cereals, breads and other foods :  wheat (including kamut and spelt) barley and rye, Malts and triticale,  as well as the use of gluten as a food additive in the form of a flavoring, stabilizing or thickening agent."  Gluten comes in many forms: vegetable proteins and starch, modified food starch (when derived from wheat instead of maize), wheat and barley derivitives, malt flavoring, and glucose syrup!   Here is a very complete list: http://www.csaceliacs.org/library/labelnames.php

Yikes - what is left to eat you might wonder.  There are many great references out there for gluten-intolerant people.  Living Without has a great website and magazine.  There is a Gluten Free store in Milwaukee - Gluten Free Trading Company - www.food4celiacs.com

Gluten Free Living - glutenfreeliving.com

Gluten-Free Recipes - Gluten-Free Goddess Karina ... - glutenfreegoddess.blogspot.com

GFCFdiet.com - Explanation of the diet, menus, sources of foods ... - gfcfdiet.com

Glutenfreeda - Extensive collection of gluten and wheat free recipes ... - glutenfreeda.com

 Eating out?  www.celiachandbook.com/wisconsin.html is a Gluten Free Restaurant Guide.  Searching Gluten-Free Milwaukee, or your own city, often is surprisingly fruitful.

Hope that helps.  We like to joke about Manna sometimes.  "Exodus. 16:31 tells us that "The people of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey."  

Sounds gluten free to me - and Manna, after all, means "what is it" - explaining why my dear hubby calls new recipes or combo dishes "Manna-Casserole" 

Verse for the day:  Proverbs 16:3 - "Commit your works to the Lord and your plans will be established." (Nasb) - Other versions translate established to read "succeed" .  The Message puts it this way: "Put GOD in charge of your work, then what you’ve planned will take place."

In a similar way if I Put GOD in charge of my diet, (instead of my natural cravings) which by the way are not the body saying it needs that item, but are often caused by other imbalances such as adrenal gland or thyroid...then my plans for health (to build up and honor the body as God's temple and keep it healthy for service.) will succeed.


Food: Over easy Egg with sauteed Greens, Onions, Sun-Dried Tomatoes, Yellow Tomatoes


Butternut Squash filled with Chili containing beans and meatloaf - topped with Greek Yogurt whipped with a quarter teaspoon of honey.