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I just ordered a locally-published set of books on gluten-free shopping and dining. They offer a discount and free shipping right now, so I was able to get 2 books plus dining cards for less than $50. They also have a money-back guarantee.
Here's the link:
http://www.triumphdining.com/glutenfree ... -foods.php
Does anyone here have any experience with these books? I like their yellow-pages format. I'm not one for reading books from cover to cover, I like reference guides.
"In celebration of our newly-released 4th Edition of The Essential Gluten-Free Grocery Guide, we're offering free standard shipping on all of our products through December 7th.
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Looks like great resources, Zizzle! 
I will have to take the time to look them over, especially as I will be traveling next month and am very concerned about what I will eat.
I am just starting on this gluten-free journey, so I have been spending time trying to find this type of information on the internet. For those of us in the greater Portland metro area I did find this blog: http://www.glutenfreeportland.org/restaurant-list/. I'm not anywhere near chancing a restaurant visit at this point, though. There is also a Gluten-Free Restaurant Awareness Program, but their list is pretty meager, I thought.
I also found that Trader Joe's has a list of their gluten-free products on their website: http://www.traderjoes.com/pdf/lists/list-no-gluten.pdf. I am just not sure about the products that they claim are gluten-free but that have been made on equipment shared with wheat, dairy, soy, or whatever. Although in some of my extensive reading the last several days I thought I read that with good manufacturing practices, this is not a problem.
Thanks again for these resources, Zizzle...
I will have to take the time to look them over, especially as I will be traveling next month and am very concerned about what I will eat.I am just starting on this gluten-free journey, so I have been spending time trying to find this type of information on the internet. For those of us in the greater Portland metro area I did find this blog: http://www.glutenfreeportland.org/restaurant-list/. I'm not anywhere near chancing a restaurant visit at this point, though. There is also a Gluten-Free Restaurant Awareness Program, but their list is pretty meager, I thought.
I also found that Trader Joe's has a list of their gluten-free products on their website: http://www.traderjoes.com/pdf/lists/list-no-gluten.pdf. I am just not sure about the products that they claim are gluten-free but that have been made on equipment shared with wheat, dairy, soy, or whatever. Although in some of my extensive reading the last several days I thought I read that with good manufacturing practices, this is not a problem.
Thanks again for these resources, Zizzle...
Marliss Bombardier
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Dum spiro, spero -- While I breathe, I hope
Psoriasis - the dark ages
Hashimoto's Thyroiditis - Dec 2001
Collagenous Colitis - Sept 2010
Granuloma Annulare - June 2011
Marliss,
Those 'shared equipment' statements always bother me. I figure that I don't want to use these products as staple parts of my diet. Most days they might clean the equipment well, but somedays they will slip up and the products will be contaminated. If I eat them regularly there is a good chance I will be affected at some point.
If they are a food I only use ocassionally, and particularly in small quantities, then it can be worth the risk.
In a lot of situations I can find an alternate product which doesn't use shared equipment, so I'll choose that one, even if it isn't quite the same.
Lyn
Those 'shared equipment' statements always bother me. I figure that I don't want to use these products as staple parts of my diet. Most days they might clean the equipment well, but somedays they will slip up and the products will be contaminated. If I eat them regularly there is a good chance I will be affected at some point.
If they are a food I only use ocassionally, and particularly in small quantities, then it can be worth the risk.
In a lot of situations I can find an alternate product which doesn't use shared equipment, so I'll choose that one, even if it isn't quite the same.
Lyn