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Gluten Free, Not Gluten Freaky: Some Scary News… and What to Do About It

Here’s a scary piece of news for those of us on a gluten free diet: A recent Study suggests that the gluten free diet not only reduces the amount of beneficial bacteria in our guts, and increases the yucky bacteria like E Coli – but it also lowers our immune function!
GULP
So what’s the solution?
Well, for [...]

The Curious Vegan: Tofu Parm

My husband, the Carnivore, turns 32 today, and of course, he’s going to ask for his normal birthday meal – Chicken Parm. Now, he loves this stuff like white loves rice, so of course I’m going to make it for him.
My family is Flexitarian.  Typically what we do is swing from the carnivore end of [...]

Eaten Alive: Science versus Philosophy…Nutrient Absorption

There’s a lot of great information out there in the health food community. And a lot of weird, unscientific, hinky stuff, too. How do you figure out what to believe?  Well, if you’re smart, you do your research…

Menu Plan Monday!

The best part about eating at home? You can control exactly what goes into your food! Have a food allergy? Something ripe and ready to harvest in your garden? Craving something new and exciting? You can alter a recipe to suit your tastes, budget, and environmental concerns.
This week’s Menu Plan Monday is themed around Cinco [...]

Gluten Free, Not Gluten Freaky: Got it? Get it? Good.

 So here you sit, with something funky called gluten intolerance.  You know it’s serious because you feel like you’ve been run over by a train most days… and because your doc just told you, “Look, get off the gluten or die,” in so many words. You certainly understand the need to stay away from the [...]

The Curious Vegan: Cut it Out! Seriously…

Forty years of preaching the gospel of vegan for health, wealth, and happiness is finally making a mark on Americans. Or starting too, anyway.
Almost a third of Americans have reduced the meat they eat
By Sarah E White
Cultivate Research, a market research company that works with the vegetarian food industry, has released the results of a [...]

Eaten Alive: Truly Yummy Raw Pizza

I’m a food scientist by education, and I’ve got a super picky Carnivore hubby; so if I’m going to serve a raw entree in our home, it’s going to have to taste good. I developed this recipe (and several variations) last summer in a fever of pizza-craving madness. To my surprise (and pleasure), it not only became a huge hit in the established raw community, it was approved for use with non Raw-nivores.

Feel free to serve this as a quirky little appetizer to your Cooked Friends, or make enough for a full meal, if you’re so inclined.

Earth Week: One Small Step…try gardening this year!

Wondering what you can do this week to save the world? Why not plant a veggie garden?
There are about a billion reasons to plant your veggies:

You’ll contribute to the production of clean, fresh oxygen and increase the greening of our ever plant-depleted urban and suburban areas.
You’ll reduce pollution – those plants are natural air scrubbers!
You’ll [...]

Gluten Free, Not Gluten Freaky: Top 10 Ways NOT to Order GF Food at a Restaurant

It’s happened to all of us – we’ve ordered a specially prepared, superdee-duper gluten free version of some random menu item at Restaurant XYZ. We were super careful to explain exactly, exactly, EXACTLY what we could not have and why. We even provided a neat little card in seven languages and waited three hours for the grill to be scrubbed. And then we got sick…

On the off chance that you’re stranded 50 miles from the closest Pizza Fusion, or craving something boring like tacos….

There are some mistakes you should try to avoid making:

Out of the Box Eating

HI!!! I’m Naomi, and I’ll be contributing here on the blog – I’m passionate about lots of things – my kids, saving my planet, and food! I also happen to be the resident expert on all things gluten free, which is very helpful in my day job as CEO at Better Batter | Gluten [...]