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Title:How to Make them Goodies
Notice:Please Don't Start New Notes for Old Topics! Check 5.*
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Created:Tue Feb 18 1986
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:4127
Total number of notes:31160

4081.0. "Wheat Allergy... looking for tips to cope" by MPGS::HEALEY (Karen Healey, VIIS Group, SHR3) Wed Feb 07 1996 12:50

    
    My daycare providers daughter is allergic to wheat and my
    daycare provider herself just found out that she is now
    allergic to wheat (adult onset).
    
    Anyhow, she has alot of experience in finding foods for her
    daughter but she does not have to contend with replacing 
    her daughters favorite foods.  However, Terry has had 40 years
    of eating pasta and other wheat based foods and is really
    upset over this development.  
    
    What I'm looking for is product suggestions from those of you who have
    a similar problem.  For instance, Terry has cooked corn
    flour spaghetti and says its awful but rice pasta is acceptable.
    
    Any tips, from products to stores to recipes that replace the
    wheat ingredient with something else would be greatly  appreciated.
    
    Thanks,
    
    Karen
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4081.1Food Allergy Network may help.BASEX::WERNETTEWed Feb 07 1996 15:2311
    There is a group called the Food Allergy Network that provides
    a lot of information on allergies and substitutions.
    
    Food Allergy Network
    4744 Holly Avenue
    Fairfax, VA 22030-5647
    
    (703) 691-3179
    
    Good luck,
    Terry
4081.2rice noodles are really tastyWRKSYS::RICHARDSONWed Feb 07 1996 16:5113
    I am really fond of rice noodles of all sorts - not that any of them
    are especially spaghetti-like, though!  I also like bean-thread
    noodles, which are made from mung beans (little green beans used to
    make bean sprouts).  You can sometimes find potato-flour noodles, at
    least around Passover time when you can buy fresh ones frozen - they
    are not spaghetti either but they are pretty good (especially compared
    to matzoh-meal noodles, ugh - of course those have wheat in them anyhow
    so you won't be tempted to even try them).  I don't know if Japanese
    buckwheat noodles also contain wheat or not - best ask.  Check out an
    oriental grocery store.  You could make a linguine-like dish with the
    thin rice noodles.
    
    /Charlotte
4081.3Health food store, different pastasHOTLNE::CORMIERThu Feb 08 1996 10:026
    Health food stores usually carry pastas that are made with diferent
    ingredients.  I typically buy jerusalem artichoke pasta.  I don't know
    if they are totally wheat-free, but it would be a good place to start. 
    They also carry non-wheat flours, so if your friend has a pasta maker
    or lots of time on her hands, she could make her own?  
    Sarah
4081.4A suggestionRECV::JYOTHIThu Feb 08 1996 16:4717
Hi,

I know what you asked for was wheat substitutes. 

But, thinking about it, rice is a very good carbohydrate source too. 
There are a lot of easy ways of making rice into delicious main courses 
without having to prepare an additional dish that goes with it (like a 
curry or something)

If your friend is into rice (like me...can't live without it :-), I
could post some recipes.

-- Jyothi

PS: Be warned though, that these will be Indian recipes and will
    have some amount of spice in them, which can be easily adjusted
    without serious loss of taste!
4081.5keep em comingMPGS::HEALEYKaren Healey, VIIS Group, SHR3Fri Feb 09 1996 08:3915
    
    Thanks for the tips so far.  Turns out that my daycare provider
    does NOT have this wheat allergy (HURRAY).  It was a parasite!  
    
    However, as I stated in the base note, her daughter is allergic
    to wheat so keep your tips coming since her daughters allergy
    affects what the whole family eats regularly.... she prefers not
    to cook different meals EVERY night of the week.
    
    re: rice
    
    I think they might be sick of it... I know they eat alot of it!
    
    Karen
    
4081.6SUPER::GOODMANFri Feb 09 1996 13:594
    Look for the book Gulten-free Recipes by Betty Hagman.  She has written
    at least two books on hte subject.
    
    Robin
4081.7CSC32::M_EVANScuddly as a cactusSun Feb 11 1996 12:429
    If Corn isn't an issue there is corn pasta that cooks up very close to
    wheat pasta.  there is also quinoa pasta, but it takes a bit of care,
    as it will fall apart in the range between al dente and cooked the way
    most kids like it.  
    
    oats, buckwheat, wild rice, millet and other grains make a very
    acceptable substitute for rice when you are sick and tired of it.  
    
    meg
4081.8barley casseroles?WRKSYS::RICHARDSONTue Feb 13 1996 12:118
    I like barley a lot - but it takes a long time to cook.  I like to make
    a casserole with a bunch of sauteed vegetables, maybe some cooked meat
    of some sort, barley, and chicken broth - cakes for about an hour and a
    half, though, which is a long time to wait for supper on a work night
    even though you don't have to do anything to it during that time except
    add more broth if it gets too dry before the barley is cooked.  
    
    /Charlotte