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5.0 out of 5 stars
Great for the allergic bread addict,
By Windywillows "frogmarch" (Herts, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Allergy Self-Help Cookbook: Over 325 Natural Foods Recipes Free of All Common Food Allergens: Wheat-Free, Milk-Free, Egg-Free, Corn-Free, Sugar-Free (Paperback)
This book fills a gap in the stomach for anyone trying to follow a wheat-free (and other food-specific allergy) diet. Some of the flours can be found easily in this country, but I had to source Amaranth flour from Germany, but I now have many kinds of product with which to follow a rotation diet containing no wheat, and small amounts of oat or rye. Well researched and proven by someone suffering multiple allergies herself. I loved making flatbreads and pancakes and plan to get a good waffle iron next to make lovely waffles for breakfasts. Hints too, for ways of packing a 'sandwich lunch' when you go out for the day, and what to take when staying away from your own larder. A godsend.
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Most recipes contain nuts, seafood, or grains,
By Charlene Vickers - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Allergy Self-Help Cookbook: Over 325 Natural Foods Recipes Free of All Common Food Allergens: Wheat-Free, Milk-Free, Egg-Free, Corn-Free, Sugar-Free (Paperback)
Although this is a very useful book for anyone with an uncommon food allergy, those who are allergic to peanuts, nuts, and shellfish (and those who are gluten-intolerant) would not find this book as useful. Most of the recipes feature nuts or peanuts as main ingredients, and there's no real help given as to how to make a substitution. As the most common allergies (and the most serious, sometimes even leading to death) are to nuts and peanuts, I'm surprised that these ingredients are featured so prominently in a supposed allergy cookbook. The same could be said with respect to the seafood recipes and the many recipes featuring grains that contain or (as is the case with oats) may be contaminated with other grains that contain gluten. Even a trace of gluten can bring grief to someone with celiac sprue. I did not find this book very useful. However, those with allergies to rarer items or whose 'allergies' are merely intolerances (ie. no hives, throat swelling, cardiac arrest, etc.) might find this book useful. I can't recommend it to the average food allergy sufferer, though. 80 of 84 people found the following review helpful:
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Not Free of Common Allergens -- and Ignores Risks of Soy,
By Hugh Victor "Naturopathic Doctor" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Allergy Self-Help Cookbook: Over 325 Natural Foods Recipes Free of All Common Food Allergens: Wheat-Free, Milk-Free, Egg-Free, Corn-Free, Sugar-Free (Paperback)
As an allergy sufferer who counsels many allergy patients, I am disturbed that this book bills itself as "free of all common allergens" yet contains many recipes with soy, peanuts or tree nuts. It is well known that peanut and nut allergies are among the most severe of common allergies. Less well known is that reactions to soy are increasingly prevalent. Indeed people who are allergic to peanuts are often allergic to soy as well though they may not know it. Deaths from soy in children who had not previously reacted to soy have been reported in Sweden and the Ministry of Health there warns that children who are allergic to peanuts and have asthma are at very high risk. I've also found that those who are allergic to dairy who start drinking soymilk will, in all likelihood, soon be allergic to soy as well. Finally, people who eat a lot of soy often develop digestive problems and "leaky gut" syndrome, causing further problems for allergy sufferers. Yet this book includes lots of recipes with soy. I recommend that people educate themselves as fully as possible on this subject whether they think they have soy allergies or not by reading the book "The Whole Soy Story" by Kaayla Daniel. The book has been endorsed by Dr. Doris Rapp, a leading authority on allergies who has a great website drrapp.com.
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This book has been my bible ever since I bought it!,
By Melissa Cheok - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Allergy Self-Help Cookbook: Over 325 Natural Foods Recipes Free of All Common Food Allergens: Wheat-Free, Milk-Free, Egg-Free, Corn-Free, Sugar-Free (Paperback)
My review pertains to the version of the book that has 350 recipes. But I would assume that this version is a similar quality.This book has really been a great resource for me. My son (who is 3) has multiple food allergies (wheat, rye, corn, eggs, soy, dairy, chicken, foods in the night-shade family like potatoes, tomatoes, bell pepper....the list continues). It has been quite a nightmare to know what to get for him. And he also started developing sensitivities to the food that he ate all the time (oats, pork). When I got this book, I learnt about the rotation diet, about how one could get sensitive to foods if exposed to them for an extended period of time. It provided me with alternative foods, information about food groups (which is essential when planning a rotation diet), lots of alternative things to use instead of sugar (agave nectar, maple or date sugar), how to use alternative flours (amaranth, quinoa, buckwheat, teff) which have all been so much help. I have been using the breakfast and better breads section extensively, and also the snack and dessert sections. With the range of allergies that my son has, those have been the hardest types of food to prepare. The main course sections have some good suggestions as well. I would highly recommend this book if you need to deal with multiple allergies and are at a loss as to where to start. I found the recipes in this book much better to use than the recipes from the Food Allergy Network, which is rather strange. The recipes from the FAN mostly had wheat flour in them, and provided no information on rotation diets, food groups or alternative flours. Some of the other books that I have bought are also not very strong in these areas. This book is particularly good if you have the type of allergies that I listed earlier. If you only have one or two of these allergies, perhaps you might find the recipes too esoteric and it might be unnecessary to go to such lengths as I have had to, to find the right food. |
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