The Complete Food Allergy Cookbook: The Foods You've Always Loved Without the Ingredients You Can't Have

By Marilyn Gioannini

Many common health problems can be traced to your diet. The Complete Food Allergy Cookbook makes the difficult task of changing your diet amazingly easy. Avoiding common foods like wheat, corn and dairy products doesn't have to be a hassle, or mean giving up favorites like bread, pizza, or even ice cream! At the heart of The Complete Food Allergy Cookbook are more than 150 appetizing recipes incorporating substitutions that finally make it possible to eat what you want without adverse reactions. In addition to hundreds of great ideas for delicious allergen-free cooking, you'll discover:Easy instructions for altering your favorite recipes Tips for eating in restaurants, at dinner parties, and while traveling Delicious ways to use alternative grains like kamut, quinoa, amaranth, and teff About the Author Marilyn Gioannini identified her own intolerance to common foods only after years of suffering from ailments her doctors could not cure. After reading about the many effects of food allergies, she discovered she could avoid chronic joint and muscle pain and depression by simply changing her diet, and went on to do the research and experimentation that lead to this book. Today she keeps herself and her family healthy, happy, and well-fed with a steady diet of nutritious dishes made without wheat, corn, dairy products, beef, tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, citrus fruits, or artificial preservatives.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761500510
• ISBN13: 9780761500513
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Prima Lifestyles
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.6" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Worth it for the first few chapters!

I bought this several years ago while breastfeeding our eldest who had severe food allergies. The recipes are good - but the beginning sections, where the author talks about recipe substitutions and how various alternatives will work in modifying recipes, is the very best part of this cookbook! When I was overwhelmed parenting a newborn and dealing with her allergies as well, this book saved me time adjusting my diet to make it safe for my daughter without starving myself.

Alternative flour education!

This book is an excellent one for baking if your child has an allergy to wheat. My child cannot tolerate kamut and spelt, which the author uses often, but the author almost always gives a list of 4 or 5 different flours that will also work with each recipe. And, she will make note, for example, if more or less liquid is called for if you use a different flour. If an egg is called for, she'll also give you a substitute. Very thorough. I've read a bazillion food allergy cookbooks, and this one by far is the most flexible.

Fabulous! This is a book for every beginner like me

Fabulous! This is a book for every beginner like me in dealing with food allergies. I found the substitution charts extremely helpful. The book includes info on different kinds of foods to avoid and what substitutions are safe. The rotation diet was covered as well. This book gave me the encouragement to get started in facing the overwelming problem of my food allergies. I would recommend this book to anyone, who like me, didn't know where to start in conquering this problem.