"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> On 7/7/2015 8:23 PM, cshenk wrote:
>> jmcquown wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>>
>>> On 7/7/2015 6:05 PM, ImStillMags wrote:
>>>> On Tuesday, July 7, 2015 at 12:22:36 PM UTC-7, graham wrote:
>>>>> http://www.iflscience.com/health-and...-free-diet-rea
>>>>> lly-healthier
>>>>
>>>> It is healthier for you if you have an allergy to gluten or even a
>>>> sensitivity.
>>>>
>>>> If you don't have a gluten allergy or sensitivity then why bother?
>>>>
>>> Because it's trendy. Gluten free seems to be the big thing right now.
>>>
>>> Jill
>>
>> I think that is true. I will grant some folks do seem to have a real
>> intolerance (not celiac, but issues yet the same) I suspect many who go
>> 'gluten free' are following a trendy diet idea.
>>
>> Carol
>>
> It seems that way to me, Carol. Merely because it's being talked about so
> much, and only in recent years. I'd never heard much about problems with
> gluten. Then there was a recent explosion of gluten-free products.
> Everyone's talking gluten-free. Um. Remember when eggs were bad for you?
> Then they weren't? That's about the way I feel about the gluten-free
> thing. All you have to do is wait a minute, popular opinion will change.

The only people I hear talking gluten free are the few celiacs I know
online. I only know of one in real life. She used to own the health food
store near here. I know of two girls who had what Angela did. Gluten
intolerance. One outgrew it. Not sure about the other one as I am no
longer in contact with her mom. My friend's dad has both celiac and type 1
diabetes but I have never met him.
>
> I've only ever met one person who actually had celiac disease. She was an
> executive at the company where I worked. She flew in from corporate. She
> told me she really wished she could try cornbread one day but couldn't
> find a recipe that didn't call for flour. Granted, this was around 1997
> and she obviously wasn't very proficient with computers. Back then I
> couldn't find many references to celiac or recipes. I did find her a
> recipe for cornbread that did not contain wheat flour. No idea if she
> ever tried it.

There are recipes for hot water cornbread that don't use flour. I never
tried them. Was going to but I discovered that I can't have corn. I
suspect they would come out more like a corn pancake though and not
cornbread.

Used to be a company called Allergy Free or Allergen Free or something
similar that made out of this world cornbread! No dairy, eggs or flour of
any kind. I bought it from them once. Came in a huge, sheet cake sized
pan. I was on my way out when it arrived. I left it in the garage but it
had fallen by the time I got back and had cracked. I saved a huge chunk
which we ate as is. The rest was cubed, frozen and saved for stuffing.

They began selling some of their things on either HSN or QVC. Can't
remember. But the price went way up. I bought a cake from them. It lasted
a year in the freezer. They also made a faux cheese that tasted good buy
made me very sick. They said they were going to reformulate it and bring it
back but that never happened. They also made gluten free chicken in various
forms. Came frozen. They made that available through something called
Angel Networks.

I am not sure of the particulars on that because it wasn't available in this
area but I think they worked with churches to provide food to the needy.
Yet you didn't have to be needy to take advantage of it. Depending on how
much money you had to spend, you could get the chicken and some other things
like rice, gluten free pasta and fresh fruits and vegetables delivered to
you. I did look at the various packages that had been available and the
prices were quite cheap! I read online about some people who used them and
they said that you'd quickly grow tired of that chicken because it was the
only protein they offered but for some, it was the only way they could
afford to get food.

Something bad happened with this though. I think someone embezzled money or
some such thing. I think someone else took it over. Not sure. But the
prices went up and the foods offered have changed.

I don't know what became of the food company though. They stopped selling
premade items and sold only mixes. I bought the cornbread and made it.
Just add water. It was good but I discovered weevils (dead ones) in one of
the two remaining packages. And now? The company seems to have vanished.

I have bought many different brands of gluten free cornbread and biscuit mix
in the past and most of it is just awful. Sickly sweet and the texture is
all off. I like a dense cornbread and this stuff was fluffy like cake.
Like they used corn flour instead of corn meal.