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You can make raw pie crust which tastes great. It is pecans along with dates. You put it in the food processor and process the nuts (until small) then add enough date to get it to slightly stick together. You then press it into a pie pan or tart pan. A dash of cayenne and salt help it out, and you can even put in raw cocoa nibs (chocolate) for an interesting hint of chocolate.

As to "crumble", you can do the same sort of idea. Same amount of pecans and coconut, dash cayenne, dash salt, and enough date to make it slightly stick together (soaking the dates for 10 minutes helps, too). Make sure the dates aren't dusted with oat powder. Anyway, it is yummy, believe you me. I dump it on top of a huge bowl of fruit. I take a bit of the fruit and put it in the blender with some cinnamon, a couple dates, and some lemon juice, then dump it back in. Everyone loved it, even those who eat cooked and gluten food all the time.

Good luck.

I don't use plastic containers such as tupperware at all, though not for gluten reasons. I'd say if they have scratches, they could be harboring gluten.

As to using them at all - I avoid them because plastic may well leech into our food, and is not at all good for us. I use glass containers for everything, or sometimes stainless bowls I have with lids. I wash out old nut butter jars or mayo jars, and use them. You can also buy glass containers, such as from Pyrex, that come with lids, that are flatter or larger, more for big meal leftovers.

Good luck.

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If there are any ingredients you are sensitive to, they will leave them out as they make each batch individually.

My son saw some interesting things, too.

I would still take a good probiotic.

Carla - did you have side effects from this? I'm tempted to take the children's variety to avoid overstimulating my delicate system. Plus, I only weigh 120#. On the other hand, I'd really want it to work. I'm very sensitive to nausea.

Sugar feeds bacteria. So:

zero sugar

no sugary fruits (really none is best, but apple, kiwi, grapefruit, cranberry okay)

no simple carbs (pasta, potato, bread, etc.)

If you do this for a spell (a month?), you should get some relief. I've been doing this, and every time I add a date to something, I get slightly bloated and have the pooping issues. Coconut oil is helpful as well.

I'd also go gluten-free if I were you. It sounds like the diet made you feel better. Apparently the internal diagnostics for Celiac are iffy - did you have the blood test as well?

According to their website, all their teas are gluten free EXCEPT:

green ginger

honeybush

lemon ginger

tea lemonade

It sounds like you should definitely have the test -- it is relatively inexpensive when compared to the chance that your ills could be fixed with diet change.

lunch meat and bacon and possibly cheese - sulfites? preservatives? gluten? sugar?

chocolate/coffee/coke- caffeine, sugar? (esp. since not diet coke)

pasta/cereal - gluten/wheat/simple starches?

I would get the celiac test. Then I might get a test to be sure I was able to digest carbs. This is some kind of breath test. There is also fructose intolrance. There are tests for these things - I think you should rule out celiac first, since it is so prevalent in our cultures.

I will tell you this. When I quit gluten, I stopped getting anxiety attacks. 100%. In fact, if I've been exposed to gluten, that is my first clue; within five minutes I feel the panic attack coming on. It is my belief that everyone that suffers from panic attacks/anxiety should be tested for celiac disease.

Take care. Good luck.

I would go with rice milk, almond milk or hemp milk. Avoid the soy. So many folks are intolerant of it, that it's best to stay away. There is a rice yoghurt I've seen at health food stores as well...have not tried it - don't like yoghurt really.

Make sure you get pacific brand rice milk or almond milk for gluten-free. Or there are others no doubt, but not Rice Dream - that has gluten. The hemp milk is nice because it has good omega oils.

Anyway, I'd definitely cut it out - I can't have dairy at all or I get totally constipated - to the degree of one pat of butter getting me had for days on end. I finally just gave up with it.

I have been making "cheese" from various nuts, lemon juice, garlic, etc., and it is pretty good. So that's always an option when you get to feeling better and want to experiment in the kitchen.

the spices themselves should not contain gluten - HOWEVER - some companies put gluten in spices to help keep them from clumping or whatever. I am not sure which brands are safe; I'm sure someone else will answer that, or you can search for safe spices.

In food processor:

pecans

coconut

same amount of both

cinnamon dash

dates

enough to make it stick together slightly

dash of salt

dash of cayenne

VERY good. good for you with the nuts (if you can digest them). Believe me, this is VERY tasty. I make it an eat it with a spoon sometimes.

Also great for crunchy topping:

pecans

coconut

same amount of both

dates

enough for it to start to stick together

dash salt

dash cayenne pepper

cocoa nibs (raw chocolate - optional)

put in food processor until it just sticks together; dump on top of bowl of fruit. No sugar. Raw. Goodness of nuts (if you can digest them). Vegan.

I have Ani Phyo's book. Really like it so far.

it was about 500 bucks. ouch! you can get a refurbished one for about 400 bucks. AND, Vitamix charges tax even though they sell from out of state. Oh well.

Tonight we ate an all raw dinner: fettuccini made of zucchini (first you use the mandolin, then slice in thin strips) in a marinara sauce (tomatoes, basil, garlic, lemon juice, 1 date, salt, sun dried tomatoes) and it was really good. The whole family liked it. We had salad too.

The marinara was my first job in the Vitamix. I'm looking forward to using it, that's for sure.

Then I made my dessert concoction: pecans, coconut, dates, cocoa nibs, and cashew butter (in the food processor). I roll them into balls. Actually, I have to watch it with this stuff - it's a lot of sugar (in the form of dates). Yum! My partner thinks they need rum, but he's full of it.

I don't use miso or raw soy sauce, but I understood braggs to be gluten free. I keep forgetting to pick some up, so haven't been able to use any recipies with miso yet. What would be a good substitute?

I am doing the raw thing, but just started. In fact, I just got my Vitamix today, so a whole bunch more recipies will come available to me now. So far, so good. My skin looks better (right away), my poop is better, my energy is better. I still eat cooked food a couple times per day, but am working toward 90% or so raw. I think I'm a protein type metabolizer, so might want to keep meat or eggs in my diet...as opposed to doing the vegan thing.

Anyway, if you have any questions, make sure to let me know. But I'm pretty new too.

If it does not have to be "brownies" exactly, here's something I concocted (through inspiration) last night in the kitchen:

1 cup of pecans (soaked overnight then dried again)

1/2 cup coconut

handful of cried cranberries

handful of raw cocoa nibs

5/6 dates or so

dash salt

dash cayenne pepper (weird, I know)

some agave if you want it sweeter

some nut butter to make it stick together (I used walnut, also good would be pecan, almond, cashew?)

You process this in the food processor until it just sticks together. It needs to stick together in order to roll into balls. You then roll the balls in coconut.

Anyway, I was trying to emulate some kind of Lara bar or something, but less sweet. It ended up being pretty sweet. The cocao nibs are PURE CHOCOLATE, which you may know does not taste good on its own. But with some sweetner, it is tasty and probably way better for you than cooked chocolate.

Good luck.

You could skip the bread and cereal...

I get most of my fiber from veggies and nuts and figs and the like.

Oh yeah, a GREAT way to get your fiber, is to have these yummy "pancakes":

2 cups whole flax seeds or 3 cups flax seed meal

2 tablespoons liquid coconut oil (I just put it near the stove or in the dehydrator for a minute to liquefy, is solid at room temp)

1/2 cup agave or maple syrup (watch this - it comes out pretty sweet)

1/2 teaspoon sea salt or Himalayan salt

1/4 cup water

You mix it all together, then shape it like a pancake, and add nuts or fruit or whatever to the top. It adds fiber to your diet, and tastes great. If you like sweet in the a.m., this will cover your sweet tooth. If not, it makes for a good dessert, too. it's a bit weird in the texture department - at least nothing like a pancake - but I find it has helped regulate me quite a bit. And virtually no carbs either. The coconut fat is good fat, so no worries there, unless you're having trouble digesting fat - that's a different story. it keeps in the refer, so I keep some all the time along with some frozen fruit.

Anyway, good luck.

It is actually part of flight or fight to have to evacuate your bowels. Isn't that weird? Like a lion is chasing you and pooping your pants is going to help?

I am VERY influenced by stress. If I'm stressed out, I'll have tummy and bowel issues. I think that's normal, even for folks who don't have IBS or Celiac. But those of us that do have those things or other chronic digestive problems, are extremely sensitive to them.

Hi. I was having all sorts of problems after a year and a half gluten free. I was having D, which I never had (always on the C side of things), and just not right in a myriad of ways. I finally got the stomach flu or something; spent a night throwing up, which I do not do with very much grace.

Needless to say, I changed after that. I was already being pretty meticulous with gluten, but I decided to go even further. Not that I would expect you to, but in my getting rid of all sugar and the like, I realized how "easy" it is to be gluten free. It takes an effort to eat gluten, really.

YES:

Vegetables - all of them. Cooked, raw, etc. Make sure to wash.

Fruits - all of them. Cooked, raw, etc. Make sure to wash, and peel if inorganic.

Eggs: high allergen food, but if you aren't allergic, perfectly good source of protein

Meats - I usually stick with fish/chicken, but also buffalo, steak, etc. Any meat stuff.

Nuts/Seeds - if your system can handle them. Soak overnight first, then let dry. This kills enzyme inhibitors.

Apple Cider Vinegar

Fermented sauerkraut (RAW) whenever I eat meat

Coconut Oil for cooking, olive/flax/hemp oils for eating raw

NO:

Grains. Quinoa is safe, as is millet and a couple others - I just don't digest them well and avoid them entirely.

Beans. Again, gluten free, but I don't do well with them so avoid them entirely.

Dairy. If I were to do dairy, I would only do raw dairy; but I'm intolerant, so I avoid it entirely.

Gluten Free Replacement Foods (cookies, cereals, bread mixes, etc.) (THESE ARE EXPENSIVE.)

Prepackaged Foods (see above, add soups, chilis, etc.) (THESE ARE EXPENSIVE.)

Any processed sugar or highly sugary fruits (the no sugary fruits is only temporary to kill bacteria/yeast)

Cooking with oils other than coconut

After two weeks like this, I finally started feeling better. The weird taste in my mouth went away, I started to digest my food again (though i did start taking enzymes and Betaine HCI, as well as acidophilous), and I stopped fearing the bathroom so much. At first it feels like there isn't anything in your stomach to "soak up" your dinner. I think we're all used to that feeling. But once you get used to it, it feels great - like you're satisfied after eating, withouth feeling "full". I've even started eating about 60% of my food raw.

I know it's hard when you're used to grabbing food that is edible out of the package, or that doesn't need recipes and the like, but it's so worth it if you can manage it.

This is just one way. It would not work for everyone. Just thought I'd put it out there. Good luck.

I just made a great "cookie" ... more like a donut hole really.

in the food processor:

1/2 cup pecans

1/2 cup coconut

3/4/5 dates (depends on how sweet you want it)

handful of cocoa nibs (optional - these are raw chocolate - have good stuff for you in there)

handful of dried cranberries

dash of cayenne

dash of salt (this is if your pecans were raw and unsalted, which they should be)

2 tbs maybe of nut butter (walnut is what I used, pecan would work, cashew would work)

mix until sticking together, but not like nut butter - still has form, but sticking together a bit.

now I added some agave syrup to make it stickier. the goal is to make it sticky-ish, so you can roll them up in balls and then roll them in coconut. Maybe a little water. Also, if you keep your hands wet, they'll roll up better.

they taste GREAT and they are good for you. no refined sugar at all, lots of fiber, lots of good fats. Yum. And all raw.

I'm only starting. I'm probably 60% raw right now, but shooting for 80-90% by the end of the month. I've ordered a vita-mix high speed blender for doing the more gourmet stuff (in part to convince my partner that eating raw can be decadent too -- it would do him some good), and a dehydrator. I've also ordered a spiralizer that turns veggies into "pasta". Granted, you don't need any of this stuff...

I'll keep you posted, since I'm just starting. But mentally and, dare I say it, spiritually or energetically, I feel I'm on the right path.

You can detox, from what I understand, and feel worse for a time being. But I think I've been doing that over the last month anyhow.

I think that whether or not a low-carb diet works for a person depends on their metabolic type. Protein types will do well; carb types will not. It's probably a good place to start with any eating plan. I think I'm protein type. I can't stand to miss a meal (get cranky or tired); think about food all the time; crave the dark meat (even if I "think" it's gross); etc.

Dr. Mercola has a test, but it is not free...I think it's 27.00, and it's not out yet. I pre-bought it, because I think there's a lot of sense in what he's saying. He didn't invent the "Metabolic Typing"....there is a book, maybe Eat Right For Your Metabolic Type...something like that.

No one thing is good for all people. Or as Hippocrates said, one man's food is another man's poison. Women too.

Please beware cholesterol drugs - they are worse than high cholesterol. Do some google searches and you'll see what I mean. The connection between cholesterol and heart disease is correlative, not causative.

The liver makes cholesterol. Did you know folks with too low cholesterol have problems? I think it's important to figure out if your body is making too much cholesterol, or if the foods you are eating are giving you high cholesterol.

The culprit is probably baked goods with refined sugar. This tends to raise cholesterol, not meat. Also, trans-fats or hydrogenated oils cause a raise in cholesterol, even though they were "invented" to do the opposite.

Also, good fats fight cholesterol, like cod liver oil, fish oil avocado, flax, coconut, walnuts, etc. RAW fats are important. Raw butter might help fight cholesterol. Heart disease in American skyrocketed when folks started eating less meat and eating trans-fats, instead of healthy oils.

One source to find out more is mercola.com. Lots of folks here on the board like him; others don't. But as long as you take your own willingness to be open about learning and then make your own decisions, it's worth checking out.

Thanks all!

Has anyone had an OAT test: organic acid test. It is a urine test. I am curious. It costs about 250 dollars, and tells you if you have the byproducts of bacteria and yeast in your urine...as well as heavy metals, protein digestion, fat digestion, etc. I'm just not sure it is worth the 250 - but I really want to get my digestion worked out before leaving for a huge trip in six months.

Thanks.

Hi guys. Anyone hear of a commercially available gluten-free miso? I'm not sure I'll eat it (waiting for Enterolab on my soy thing), but since it is fermented, it's not BAD soy, like most of it. BUT...it's traditionally made from barley, so most companies make a barley variety, thus, in my mind, making their equipment unsuitable to make nonbarley kind w/o having any gluten in it.

Any thoughts?

Anyone make their own miso?

dried figs are high in fiber too. Yum yum. Make sure not to buy them in the bulk section (risky), but to find prepackaged ones. Calmyrna are my favorite variety.