Wheat-Free Cooking: Practical Help for the Home Cook - Softcover

Based on decades of practical experience, Rita Greer's husband has been on a wheat-free diet for many years, this reassuring and imaginative book tackles the growing problem of wheat allergy, and provides a guide to the new skills and knowledge that will help people cope easily with their new diet. Not at all "cranky" this book uses common sense and exciting ideas to produce a range of recipes for every meal of the day, all guaranteed to be completely free of wheat and yet including breads, cakes and pastries. There is a guide to foods that are safe, advice on those foods which may contain hidden wheat and special recipes that are also gluten-free. Being on a wheat-free diet does not mean having to eat extraordinary or expensive foods. The recipes in the book are all economical,comfortingly familiar and, above all, healthy and suitable for every member of the family.

Do you suffer from sore, itching eyes, sinusitis, headaches or palpitations? Do you have constant digestive problems, skin rashes or inexplicable mood swings? You could well be allergic to wheat, the major cause of allergy in our diet and a staple food that is an ingredient in almost every food you buy - not only bread, biscuits and breakfast foods but soups, sauces, pickles, casseroles, puddings and chocolate. This helpful informative book, by a writer with twenty years' experience of devising special diets, could change your life. Wheat-Free Cooking gives you a guide to the numerous symptoms, physical and mental, that could point to wheat allergy; advice on how to identify the hidden wheat in many ordinary foot items you buy regularly; how to banish all trace of wheat from your kitchen; how to ensure that your wheat-free diet is nutritionally balanced; and a wide range of recipes catering for every meal of the day, all guaranteed wheat-free. Wheat-Free Cooking uses economical, easily obtainable ingredients that are simple to prepare, and it allows you to eat types of food that normally contain wheat - even bread, cakes and pastries! It enables you to cook meals that will tempt every member of the family, entertain in style and indulge your taste-budes to the limit. And everything you eat will be good for you.