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List of Grain and Grain-Free Foods
What is a grain? What is a seed? What are pseudo-cereals? When first going grain-free it can be a challenge to work it out, especially as grains can be hidden in the most unlikely of places. This list can help you. Regularly updated.
New to this website? Start here…
This post is for anyone visiting this website for the first time, or is new to eating a grain-free diet and would like to read about how another person has approached it. I talk about my personal journey, about the website and its history and give some great tips on what has helped me most living grain free.
Lessons learnt about being grain free
There have been major changes to my grain free approach and this article discusses the changes to my outlook, and the new path forward for the website.
Seeds, Grains, Pseudo-cereals, Pseudo-grains and Grain Free Living
I sometimes get emails from people asking why I use quinoa, amaranth and buckwheat in my recipes. Many people have been told, or believe, that these ingredients are grains and so they wonder why I use them, especially on a website called "Grain Free Living". What are...
About
I started on my grain-free journey 19 years ago when my husband became extremely sick. He was eventually diagnosed with Crohn's disease. We rejected drugs and surgery, which were the only options given to us by mainstream medicine at the time, and we started looking...
Top 5 Tips to Living with Food Intolerances
How to cope when your diet is different to everyone else’s and it feels like you can’t eat anything. Living with long term food sensitivities isn’t easy. It’s navigating your way in a mine-field where your body seems to betray you at every turn. It can be depressing...
Convert Any Recipe!
You don’t need to throw out your cookbooks. Use this list as a guide, you can easily convert any “normal” recipe into a grain-free, gluten-free, soy-free, dairy-free or anything else free with a little bit of know-how.
Why did I go grain-free?
We personally went grain free almost two decades ago to deal with Crohn’s disease. This article will cover our reasons for going grain free and I’ll share my favourite resources that explain the science behind why going grain-free worked so well for us.
Is cutting out grains boring and restrictive?
This is not a diet of just salad and protein. That would be really, really boring. And restrictive. (I should also point out that it is NOT ANYTHING LIKE OR TO DO WITH the Aiken's Diet or any other low carb eating plans. This is a diet for intestinal and immune...
Grain Free & The Food Pyramid
Is going grain-free cutting out an entire food group? Can carbs come from sources other than cereal grains? I have a look a the standard food pyramid and show the difference of the grain-free food pyramid.
What is Grain Free?
Going grain-free means you replace grains with plant-based complex carbohydrates. It is not necessarily low-carb or restrictive.Being grain-free is the elimination of all grains from your diet including wheat, rice, corn, barley and oats. A grain-free diet is...
What I eat on a typical day so it doesn’t get boring
My day on a plate, covering a whole range of options and ideas of what you can eat in a day. My diet never feels boring or restrictive and with the increasing popularity of paleo and keto movements, it is now very easy to eat grain-free in almost any setting.