Posted: 2/1/2012 5:56:52 PM EDT
| This I hope won't be a typical food question. Most everyone has good stock of food and food supplies. My question is are there certain diet restrictions when stocking food? I'm gluten intolerant. Just recently found out. Most things that are being stored away are grains and and such. Is there a site to find gluten free food preps? |
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This I hope won't be a typical food question. Most everyone has good stock of food and food supplies. My question is are there certain diet restrictions when stocking food? I'm gluten intolerant. Just recently found out. Most things that are being stored away are grains and and such. Is there a site to find gluten free food preps? Tag. I have a friend that is allergic to ALOT of shit and she is on the short list of people I would willingly let into my prep plan if things fully went south. Would prefer not to poison her. |
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Quoted: This I hope won't be a typical food question. Most everyone has good stock of food and food supplies. My question is are there certain diet restrictions when stocking food? I'm gluten intolerant. Just recently found out. Most things that are being stored away are grains and and such. Is there a site to find gluten free food preps? the old saying, stock what you currently eat comes to mind. |
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Interesting.
I have never looked into gluten free. I just went to samsclub.com and did a search for "gluten free", came up with several items, including french bread, scones and pancake mixes packed in cans for Long Term Storage by Augason Farms. They also have some freeze dried items from AlpineAir. Looking at the ingredients, the mixes and freeze dried items use rice flour or cornmeal. If you do not want to store pre-packaged items, you can certainly make rice flour and cornmeal at home with a mill. Rice and corn are easy to store long term. |
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Rice, corn, beans, oats, and there are others.
Honestly, its not that hard to stock gluten free. My wife and I are not gluten intolerant, but we are trying a gluten free diet to deal with some health issues that could be related. Once you get past the idea that you can't eat wheat anymore, its not really that bad. Honestly, wheat isn't that great for you anyway. |
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This I hope won't be a typical food question. Most everyone has good stock of food and food supplies. My question is are there certain diet restrictions when stocking food? I'm gluten intolerant. Just recently found out. Most things that are being stored away are grains and and such. Is there a site to find gluten free food preps? the old saying, stock what you currently eat comes to mind. This is true. But being recently diagnosed it changes now what I can eat. I just thought some insights would be welcomed and its something some people might not think of. |
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Quoted: Interesting. I have never looked into gluten free. I just went to samsclub.com and did a search for "gluten free", came up with several items, including french bread, scones and pancake mixes packed in cans for Long Term Storage by Augason Farms. They also have some freeze dried items from AlpineAir. Looking at the ingredients, the mixes and freeze dried items use rice flour or cornmeal. If you do not want to store pre-packaged items, you can certainly make rice flour and cornmeal at home with a mill. Rice and corn are easy to store long term. One must be VERY CAREFUL with this. "Gluten Free" as in "person is celiac" is very different than the fad diet that has been going around. Make damn sure the target audience for the food is celiacs, and not the fad diet people. OP needs rice and beans. Corn is gluten free usually, but you gotta be careful about where it comes from due to cross contamination. Generally, "gluten free" versions of gluten containing foods suck ass. It's best to get used to closing the door on those foods forever and just moving on with life. The good news is, you can adequately prep (abit with a less variety) as a celiac. If you are not gluten intolerant don't worry about it, it won't help you at all. Where one would really need to pay close attention, is the pre-packaged "for storage" foods, and where they come from. For example. oats are generally gluten free (varieties you encounter mostly are) HOWEVER oat kernels and wheat kernels look almost the same, same size, density and color, and they fly all over the place easily. So oats, unless made in an oat-only processing plant are always contaminated with wheat, which makes it a big risk for a celiac. Translate that to a plant producing a whole line of "prepper" foods at the same place and you are asking for trouble. This does go to show it pays off to not cross contaminate your stuff, and be conscientious of the details all the time, even when you can't predict if those details will be important or not. They do make a millet beer now (Anheiser Busch does) and it's not TOO bad. I motherfucking hate those fad diet people, who have through their retarded mouths, taught restaurant employees they don't really have to pay attention because the "gluten free" people never notice flour in their foods. In walks a real celiac (my mother) and I'll tell you even at 80 you don't want to fuck with her when she's cranky cuz her gut just exploded from some meal had at a night out was contaminated because the dumb waitress just ignores the "gluten free" requests now.    |
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Quoted: Rice, corn, beans, oats, and there are others. Honestly, its not that hard to stock gluten free. My wife and I are not gluten intolerant, but we are trying a gluten free diet to deal with some health issues that could be related. Once you get past the idea that you can't eat wheat anymore, its not really that bad. Honestly, wheat isn't that great for you anyway. Get the enzyme test. New information (in the last couple of years) indicate lasting undiagnosed damage with all sorts of stuff. You can be celiac and never feel a thing. My uncle's pancreas failed and killed him at 52 years old, it was possibly due to undiagnosed celiac disease. (His son, and sister both had it.) |
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Interesting. I have never looked into gluten free. I just went to samsclub.com and did a search for "gluten free", came up with several items, including french bread, scones and pancake mixes packed in cans for Long Term Storage by Augason Farms. They also have some freeze dried items from AlpineAir. Looking at the ingredients, the mixes and freeze dried items use rice flour or cornmeal. If you do not want to store pre-packaged items, you can certainly make rice flour and cornmeal at home with a mill. Rice and corn are easy to store long term. One must be VERY CAREFUL with this. "Gluten Free" as in "person is celiac" is very different than the fad diet that has been going around. Make damn sure the target audience for the food is celiacs, and not the fad diet people. OP needs rice and beans. Corn is gluten free usually, but you gotta be careful about where it comes from due to cross contamination. I agree. The Augason Farms items state on the label (nutritional information) that they are processed in a "dedicated gluten free manufacturing and packaging site to prevent cross contamination" |