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The Book - The Gluten Free Bible


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lindalee Enthusiast

Just called Target to see if their Tortilla Chips are gluten-free. Ingredients white corn, corn oil and or sunflower oil, salt - sounds good to me but had a reaction to chips and salsa yesterday so thought I would check..It is Archer Farms and good. He gave me the # to call tomorrow to be sure #800-440-0680 click in store experience and 0. He did say that Target.com has this book on sale 32% off for $11.56. I have a lot of books here to read but I haven't seen this one.


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JenAnderson Rookie

I have it and I liked it a lot. I also have the other one she wrote..Against the Grain. There's a lot of information in there. I haven't read anything else as far as celiac disease goes, but I didn't know what to buy then either.

Daxin Explorer

Yes, it's a keeper. I'm half way through, and love her humour about it. It has a tonne of good information.

lindalee Enthusiast
Yes, it's a keeper. I'm half way through, and love her humour about it. It has a tonne of good information.

Thanks, I love to read and have books everywhere. I am now mainly going to the library but if it is really good -I buy them.

penguin Community Regular

It's the first book about gluten-free that I bought. It's really funny, but take some of her info with a grain of salt, just like everything else. :)

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I don't want to discourage anyone from reading the book--there's a lot of good info in there *but* there are also some inaccuracies. One example, she lists one of the drugs I use daily as "not gluten free". I called the company that makes it, and was assured that it was indeed gluten-free--the starch was from potato!

Two books that I would recommend for someone new to the gluten-free lifestyle are--Wheat Free-Worry Free by Dana Korn, and Dangerous Grains by James Braly, MD and Ron Hoggan MA.

lindalee Enthusiast
I don't want to discourage anyone from reading the book--there's a lot of good info in there *but* there are also some inaccuracies. One example, she lists one of the drugs I use daily as "not gluten free". I called the company that makes it, and was assured that it was indeed gluten-free--the starch was from potato!

Two books that I would recommend for someone new to the gluten-free lifestyle are--Wheat Free-Worry Free by Dana Korn, and Dangerous Grains by James Braly, MD and Ron Hoggan MA.

I'll get that one. I am going to read Dangerous Grains after "I was poisoned by my body". Have you read that one? It is really good. LindaLee


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KaitiUSA Enthusiast

I have heard about alot of inaccuracies as far as what is gluten free and what is not in the gluten free bible. I have also heard that the writer takes cheating sometimes not as seriously as she should.

CarlaB Enthusiast

I like the book. The author repeats often that you need to check out products yourself because things change so while something may not be gluten-free at the time the book was published it may be now. She has a good attitude and makes it easier to feel good about eating out. But, what others said is true, you want to check out products for yourself; the only time I remember her talking about consuming gluten on purpose was in Church ... but it was kind of a humorous story, and she didn't intend on doing it -- I may have missed other incidents if they were there, it's been a few months since I read it and it was the first I read after going gluten-free.

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Absolutely not a keeper in my opinion.

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tiffjake Enthusiast
It's the first book about gluten-free that I bought. It's really funny, but take some of her info with a grain of salt, just like everything else. :)

Ditto. My first too, and I was happy for the info, but the more I read and learn, the more I think I don't like that book for newbies. She talks about taking the bread off of a burger, and I can't do that or I get sick, so I don't think that is good advice for all. I like Dangerous Grains, Gluten-free for a Healthy life, and Wheat-free Worry free, better.

psawyer Proficient

I can't offer any comment on the book in question, having never seen it.

I do, however, highly recommend "Gluten-Free Diet: A Comprehensive Resource Guide" by Shelley Case, ISBN 1-897010-28-1. It deals primarily with Canada and the USA, and is loaded with practical information about foods, suppliers, labelling issues, and more.

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I have read the Gluten-Free Bible. While her style of writing may be nice, but the information is pretty rotten. Her attitude towards cc is only slightly better than in her first book, but she still cites removing the innards of a sandwich as a reasonable activity. Her list of gluten-free products is all wrong, including products as Lipitor, Butterball turkey, and Frito Lays products. Style ceases to matter when the information is no longer helpful. All that I saw in the book that could be accurate and potentially helpful would be her advice in certain social situations, but I think even that varies so much based on personality and particular circumstances that it didn't change the way I deal with Celiac.

I agree that Shelley Case's book is good. My all-time favorite is Danna Korn's Wheat-Free, Worry-Free. She also just wrote a new book, something like Gluten-Free Diet for Dummies (yep, one of those For Dummies books). I have heard it's pretty good, although I haven't read it myself since I've heard it's pretty similar in content to her first book (WF, WF --see above).

Feel free to do what you would like, but had you read amazon .com about a year ago, you would have seen maybe 100 1-star reviews for her book due to the dangerous inaccuracies she presents. They took down all of the reviews--it was probably hurting Jax's sales numbers--but the 1-star average remains.

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lindalee Enthusiast
Absolutely not a keeper in my opinion.

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Thanks, LindaLee

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