Food Allergy Solutions Bookstore

I've highlighted a few of the most popular and practical written resources available on food allergies. Many people have found the books listed below to be extremely helpful in dealing with their or their children's food allergies. I encourage you to take advantage of the wealth of knowledge and information that these wonderful authors have shared with us.

Dr. Stephen Wangen

Cooking Gluten-Free!
A Food Lover's Collection of Chef and Family Recipes Without Gluten or Wheat

Cooking Gluten-Free sets a new standard in gluten-free baking and cooking--pleasing even the most discriminating palate. Celebrated chefs from across the country have contributed easy and delectable dinner recipes. Karen Robertson's gluten-free baked goods are made with a select flour mix that produces the highest quality product and tastes like delicious wheat-based goods. Over 190 recipes allow the wheat-free and gluten-free individual to enjoy food again.

Kids with Celiac Disease
A Family Guide to Raising Happy, Healthy, Gluten-Free Children

A practical guide for the families of children and teenagers with celiac disease, a chronic, life-long digestive disorder. One out of 250 Americans is born with this genetic autoimmune condition, which is characterized by intolerance of gluten (wheat, rye, barley, malt, and other food additives) and often goes undiagnosed. The author shows that it's possible for kids with celiac disease and their families to lead happy and healthy lives.

Parents find advice on how to deal with the diagnosis, cope with emotional turmoil, and help their child develop a positive and constructive attitude. Especially important is the guidance on menu planning, grocery shopping, strategies for proper food preparation, and deciding whether or not the entire family should be gluten-fee. There's even a section on junk food!

What about the child who has difficulty sticking with the prescribed diet? Parents find tips on conditioning behavior and how and when to give kids some control over what they eat. Also covered is the challenge of controlling meals outside of the home-at birthday parties, restaurants, camp, and on vacation. Dozens of recipes help parents be creative and offer well-rounded appealing meals and snacks. There's also information about how special education laws can help with services at school.

Special Diet Solutions
Healthy Cooking Without Wheat, Gluten, Dairy, Eggs, Yeast or Refined Sugar

Most people think this book is worth the money just for its acclaimed pizza recipe. But there are also 150 other recipes that allow you to enjoy your favorite dishes without the ingredients you don't want. Wheat-free, gluten-free recipes for breads, desserts, breakfast dishes, sauces, salad dressings, and condiments can be made without dairy, eggs or refined sugar. Recipes use rice, bean, potato starch, and tapioca flours. Special yeast-free bread section. Nutrient values for each recipe.

Ideal for people with food allergies and intolerances, celiac disease, autism, autoimmune diseases, and those following the blood-type diet. The author is a culinary professional with food sensitivities of her own.

Food Allergy Field Guide
A Lifestyle Manual for Families

This is not a cookbook––although you’ll find a lot of really good recipes here. And it's not a medical book. This is a lifestyle book, because kids deserve enjoyable lifestyles and because life, with or without a food sensitivity, is worth living well and meaningfully.

It's called a field guide because like any good, user-friendly reference book, it's designed to be a comprehensive, thorough identification guide and resource manual. When you're out in the "field" of life with your food sensitive child, shopping, eating out, going to parties or picnics, camping out or cooking in, you need to know your way around. You need to be able to identify friends and foes, sanctuaries and sink holes, the edible and the inedible. This is your field guide to the good life for your food sensitive child.

Wheat-Free, Worry-Free
The Art of Happy, Healthy Gluten-Free Living

This is a practical, comprehensive, and inspirational guide to living a wheat-free, gluten-free lifestyle. It answers the many questions that people have concerning the unique challenges faced by people on a wheat-free or gluten-free diet. It helps take the fear out of eating, and teaches and encourages people to deal with the wheat-free or gluten-free lifestyle in an optimistic yet realistic manner.

Loaded with practical tips, recipes, menu suggestions, and ideas for traveling and eating out, it also delves into emotional issues and psychological implications of the dietary restrictions. This book includes extensive research on several medical conditions that require a wheat-free or gluten-free lifestyle, as well as in-depth nutritional information, and a comprehensive, up-to-date Products and Services Guide that lists contact information for hundreds of companies providing products and services for people on a wheat-free or gluten-free diet.

Gluten-Free Diet
A Comprehensive Resource Guide

This book contains detailed information about the gluten-free diet. Includes information about foods allowed, foods to question, foods to avoid; American and Canadian labeling regulations; nutritional aspects; meal planning and shopping guidelines; recipes; over 1800 gluten-free products listed by product name, company name and package size; a directory of more than 130 American, Canadian, and international companies; celiac support groups and resources such as books, cookbooks, magazines, newsletters, and web sites.

Feast Without Yeast
4 Stages to Better Health: A Complete Guide to Implementing Yeast Free, Wheat (Gluten) Free and Milk (Casein) Free Living

This cookbook is completely free of yeast and fermented foods, and mostly free of milk, wheat, eggs and other common food allergens such as corn, soy, rye, nuts and peanuts. All of the recipes are kosher; all are sugar free, and most are cholesterol free and vegetarian. There are more than 225 original recipes, as well as a complete, simple, 4-stage program for changing to a healthier diet. The authors have included a chapter helping parents change their children's diets, including lists of kid-tested recipes and pointers for picky eaters.

The Gluten-Free Gourmet Cooks Fast and Healthy
Wheat-Free Recipes with Less Fuss and Less Fat

What people have said about this book:

After consulting this book, I could quickly make a complete dinner including desert that tasted great and fulfilled our nutritional needs. Goodbye chicken, rice and steamed broccoli for dinner!

What I appreciate most about this book is not the "healthy" aspect of the title, but the "fast" part. Her advice on making and keeping the mixes on hand is truly helpful. I especially love the dream pastry mix! I highly recommend this book for anyone on a celiac diet who has a busy life and little time for baking.

The breads taste like regular bread (not dry or crumbly) and the brownies are just wonderful. I was so thrilled to be able to make bread and dessert for my daughter and actually have it taste good. It definitely makes me feel better to be able to offer her an alternative that isn't dry or tasteless. This book is a definite must for anyone needing to cook gluten-free.

Directions both for bread machines and for mixing by hand are included. Thanks to Bette, my gluten-free, dairy-free son will eat sandwiches again! This book also provides tips that are helpful for adapting recipes on your own, including descriptions of different flours and substitution recommendations. Plus, there is a wide variety of easy dinner recipes.

Feeding the Whole Family
Whole Foods Recipes for Babies, Young Children & Their Parents

Feeding the Whole Family, by Cynthia Lair, is an excellent resource about food and a very healthy cookbook. It also happens to be one of the rare cookbooks appropriate for people with multiple food allergies.

Although this book was not originally written for people with food allergies, due to the healthy nature of the recipes 90% of them are free of dairy, egg, corn, gluten and wheat (and most other allergens). Many of the recipes contain soy or rice products, but many others do not.

Feeding the Whole Family is actually much more than a cookbook, it is an education in food. The early pages include a plethora of sound nutritional advice and realistic sections on introducing new foods to kids, working with picky eaters, and helping kids to get more vegetables. There is even a section on creating dairy, soy and rice free nut milks.

Well over 100 unique recipes covering every meal are included in Feeding The Whole Family. Although the dessert and bread sections are not generally gluten or wheat free, other fine cookbooks already cover these topics.