Note that this is actually a carrot almond cake, but tastes and looks more like a rich butter cake. This was a wheat containing recipe that originally came to me via Sue early 2004. This grain free version uses metric cups of 125g. As at 12/7/2006.
No butter, grain-free and failsafe. From start to finish you can have them made in less than 20 minutes
Suitable for children with a Salicylate allergy. Gluten and grain, dairy & egg free. VeganRead More »Gretta’s Chocolate Muffins
Moist and light, this banana cake can be served to anyone and they won’t believe its grain/gluten free. Uses almond meal.
Ingredients
Apples – we used granny smith – about 6 – 8 sliced.
Currants
Orange Juice
CinnamonRead More »Apple Crumble
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You don’t need to throw out your cookbooks. Use this list as a guide, you can easily convert any “normal” recipe into a grain-free, gluten-free, soy-free, dairy-free or anything else free with a little bit of know-how.
We personally went grain free almost two decades ago to deal with Crohn’s disease. This article will cover our reasons for going grain free and I’ll share my favourite resources that explain the science behind why going grain-free worked so well for us.
This is not a diet of just salad and protein. That would be really, really boring. And restrictive. (I should also point out that it is NOT ANYTHING LIKE OR TO DO WITH the Aiken’s Diet or any other low carb eating plans. This is a diet for intestinal and immune health and wellbeing, and it is total lifestyle change and it not a DIET in the traditional sense of the word, although for simplicity I tend to refer to it as that).
To my mind, the typical Australian or American diet is WAY more boring. Think about it:
You get up in the morning and have the same old cereal (wheat), muesli (wheat) or toast. (wheat)
Mid-morning tea you have a coffee or tea and some biscuits (wheat)
One of the first things I hear from people (by people I usually mean doctors and traditionally trained mainstream dieticians) minds when I tell them we are grain free is “that must be so unhealthy, you are cutting out AN ENTIRE FOOD GROUP”
Really? Actually, going grain free is NOT always a low carb eating plan. Many people assume that cutting out grains is “completely cutting out a food group – isn’t that really dangerous and doesn’t it mean that you are going to be malnourished because you don’t eat bread or rice and pasta?”
Well, to see where this idea comes from, lets take a look at the typical modern day food pyramid: