Monday, April 07, 2008

After my last post, my Beautiful Wife and I were talking and she suggested that I write a follow up post about all the food that have wheat and wheat gluten in them that you wouldn't suspect. We've found these foods after trial and error. Now that I've been living without wheat or gluten in my regular diet, I find that I can taste wheat immediately in almost anything that actually has it. This has been as valuable as being able to read the labels. There is still somefoods out there that don't correctly list all the ingredients. However most are doing a really good job of it. Hopefully this quickly list will help you as in learning to live gluten free.

Candy
Unfortunately I have a sweet tooth a mile wide. So finding which sweets you can't eat is as important as the ones you can. As with all food, you'll learn that you have to read the package, even if you think it's safe.

  • Red Vines: Wheat is it's main ingredient. I loved Red Vines, so this one was hard for me to give up.
  • Twix: Twix has a cookie center, wheat...sorry
  • KitKat: KitKat is just like Twix
Snacks
  • CornNuts: CornNuts, as will most snack foods of this type use wheat as an agent for making the artificial flavoring stick to the snack. The last time I looked original CornNuts were okay, but any of the flavored ones, watch out for.
  • Doritos Nacho Cheese Chips: Like the CornNuts, Doritos use wheat as an agent for making the artificial flavoring adhere to the chip.
Condiments
  • Soy Sauce: Wheat is the second ingredient in Soy Sauce, water is the first. So as much as we may love it, we have to avoid soy sauce or using very sparingly.
  • Hollandaise Sauce: While the original recipe for hollandaise is butter, lemon juice and egg yolks most chain restaurants use a prepackaged hollandaise sauce that they just heat up. Of course this prepackaged sauce uses wheat.
4/7/2008 8:37:23 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)  #    Comments [0]
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