Wheat Free Books

A number of wheat free books on the market today can make gluten free baking and cooking easier and tastier than ever. When we first learn we have to give up wheat it seems impossible. When we try substituting one product for another, it often doesn't turn out. The books listed in this slideshow cover a number of approaches and offer plenty of possibilities to make your gluten free, wheat free life easier and tastier

Cooking with Coconut Flour is a wheat free book that uses coconut flour for baking. This relatively new product offers a gluten free flour alternative but also provides as much protein to your diet as wheat flour. While you can use coconut flour to create your favorite baked goods, you'll have to learn how to incorporate it. If you just substitute coconut flour for regular flour, your baked goods will not hold together. Cooking with Coconut Flour helps guide you in the use of this product to create gluten free, wheat free goodies.

Healing Foods: Cooking for Celiacs, Colitis, Crohn's and IBS has more than 200 delicious recipes designed specifically for Celiacs but perfect for the entire family. The book outlines a lifestyle diet friendly to those who suffer from gluten intolerance and other digestive disorders. You'll find recipes that are not only grain free but also lactose free, sugar free, gluten free and starch free. It covers everything from breakfast to dessert.

The Gluten Free Gourmet Bakes Bread is just one book in a series of gluten free topics provided by this author. She teaches how to use elements such as four flour bean mix, and a light rice flour mix to get the texture and taste you're looking for.

Feast Without Yeast: 4 Stages to Better Health : A Complete Guide to Implementing Yeast Free, Wheat (Gluten) Free and Milk (Casein) Free Living is written by Bruce Semon, M.D., Ph.D., and Lori Kornblum. This book is written as a guide to help people transition to a yeast free, wheat free, gluten free and milk free diet through a four-stage approach and includes a list of foods you can and cannot eat. Recipes included are written to coincide with the four stages to help you know exactly what steps to take. All recipes are yeast free and MOST are gluten and wheat free.

Gluten Free Cooking for Dummies is written in an easy to follow format that introduces tips on how to live gluten free with a step by step approach to make the transition to gluten free living. The book also provides 65 tasty gluten-free recipes designed for people who suffer from wheat allergies, gluten intolerance, or celiac disease.

In The Wheat Free Cook, author Mallora focuses on empowering those who must lead a wheat free, gluten free life. She includes a gluten free shopping guide and a resource list to help make shopping and cooking easier along with an inspiring selection of recipes.

Healthier Without Wheat: A New Understanding of Wheat Allergies, Celiac Disease, and Non-Celiac Gluten Intolerance is not a cookbook, but is a resource to help understand how to live a healthy life without wheat. It covers topics such as:

• Is wheat or gluten is making you sick?
• The connection of hundreds of health problems to wheat and gluten reactions.
• Gluten intolerance (even if you don't have celiac disease)
• Wheat or gluten reactions in infants and children
• Common nutritional deficiencies resulting from gluten intolerance

The approach found in The Gluten-Free Gourmet Cooks Fast and Healthy: Wheat-Free and Gluten-Free with Less Fuss and Less Fat is easy. Cooking wheat free can often get complicated and gluten free even more so. This author offers 175 recipes that are gluten and wheat free, but are quick to prepare and low-fat. She concentrates on more traditional dishes which brings a welcomed element of normalcy back into the kitchen.

For those who have given up wheat and gluten, Gluten-Free Italian: Over 150 Irresistible Recipes without Wheat--from Crostini to Tiramisu opens the door to once again enjoy some of your favorite Italian dishes. The author if this book is food writer, Mallorca (The Wheat-Free Cook), who started cooking gluten-free after being diagnosed with celiac disease.

Along with the wheat free books highlighted in this slideshow, check out the following links for more information:

• Define Gluten
• Wheat Free Bread Recipes
• Celiac Symptoms