Sorting through Celiac Disease and Food Allergies

Anne Roland Lee gave some excellent tips about the gluten-free diet. Anne reminds us that we need a diverse diet to keep us healthy as well as to excite our palates. As anyone with food allergy or food intolerance knows, when food can cause you discomfort or worse, we tend to stick to "safe" foods. But there is a world of safe gluten-free grains and foods to discover.

Some great grains off the Celiac Center's safe list:

Teff

Buckwheat (Dr. Green said it should really be called "buckcorn" as it's related to rhubarb and has nothing to do with wheat)

Millet

Quinoa

Sorghum

Amaranth

And even oats

(Oats are sometimes tricky because whilst they are a safe grain they're often produced in a facility that may not be. Ann listed four companies that produce celiac safe oats:Creamhill Estates, Bob's Red Mill, Gluten-free Oats. All of which are also available on Amazon.com).