This morning I made a batch of Orgran Apple Cinnamon Gluten Free Pancake Mix, which I use in my waffle maker.
Whenever I use any GF pancake mix, I always make waffles instead, I really like waffles, and the GF versions of waffles usually are not too bad either, because the flours tend toward making a crisp finished product, and that is expected in a waffle. I use an ordinary small Krups waffle maker and the finished product comes out pretty much as expected.
If you look at the list of ingredients, the first one is corn starch. This is a highly processed carbohydrate and is likely to make your blood sugar bounce. It seems many people with celiac disease need to watch out for this. 
To help minimize this effect I used soy milk instead of water to mix the batter.
So I always drench my waffles with peanut butter, which is high in fat, or fruit which also slows down digestion. The first batch I made today was covered in mandarin oranges before serving.
It’s a special event when I cook something that is sold explicitly as a gluten free product, so after I had my two waffles with oranges, I smeared one more with peanut butter. Most weekday mornings I’ll have a pair of Trader Joe’s Gluten Free Banana Waffles literally covered with peanut butter. Mmm.
Orgran gluten free products are made in Australia and sold, among other places, at Amazon.com
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If you have celiac disease, you can’t eat many common grains. You might also have a very grouchy tummy. One of the best tips we have to offer is that “Rice is your friend”.
At our house rice is a part of a majority of our evening meals. We buy all sorts and varieties of rice. A few years into our experience with the gluten free diet, we decided to buy a rice cooker. We are now on our third rice cooker, and this one is clearly the best of the three. First we tried a Zojirushi rice cooker, and it cooked the rice very well, but it had no on-off switch (DUH!) so we had it plugged in to an AC strip that did have an on-off switch. Eventually the non-stick coating on the Zojirushi began to fail so we decided to shop around.
Our second rice cooker was a Sanyo model, it was OK except that it took 2 hours to cook whole grain brown rice – our favorite variety. The Sanyo lasted about 2 weeks, then we got our current rice cooker and it is the best of the lot. The Aroma looks like cheap Chinese junk, but it cooks brown rice in one hour instead of two, and the removable metal rice basket is very easy to clean.
It is also much less expensive than most other similar sized rice cookers.
If you are considering the purchase of a rice cooker, we recommend the Aroma shown here.
Having learned a few things from my past mistakes, I’ve made another attempt to design a website that will make it easier for people with celiac disease or ADHD to find gluten free foods. Also included are listings of rice cookers, which are widely used by celiacs, breadmakers, and especially books about celiac disease and the gluten-free diet.
I’d really love to get any kind of feedback that people might have about the design or performance of this site. Wish lists, constructive criticism, things you like or don’t like – the field is wide open for your comments. This new website is called The GF Store.
Thanks in advance for any comments you might have, this site was designed by a a person with celiac disease, moi.
I’ve been able to configure an automated process that finds gluten free recipes and posts them as messages in the discussion forum at my website for people with celiac disease.
Visit the sensible celiac and scroll down to the GF recipe board. You do not need to create any kind of an account to access the messages, but you’re welcome to do so.
