alternative grains for BTD and GTD

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Try VitaSpelt pretzels or sweet potato chips for crunchies. The

VitaSpelt pretzels do have soybean oil, and I'm not sure what organic

malt is. But they're ok occasionally. And the Olive Oil and Sea Salt

brand makes a good sweet potato chip. I haven't found them in the store,

and I have called them to order a " case " (12 bags), which is less

expensive than most at the stores, and better ingredients.

I like Rudi's Organic Spelt and Ancient Grain Spelt breads, too. I think

potato starch may be way down on the list. If you're not trying to

overcome sickness, the occasional avoid shouldn't hurt you too much.

Maybe a little drainage in the throat the next day.

If you can find a bakery that does a nice rice bread, try that. I also

like Food for Life brown rice tortillas. They do have safflower oil, and

break pretty easily. I find if you heat them on a skillet or in the

microwave, they become more pliable.

I've also been experimenting with quinoa, millet, and amaranth as rice

alternatives, though organic brown basmati is good for O (BTD) or

Gatherer (GTD).

Of course, if you can cut out all or most grains, you're really better

off. I can do it for short times, and I always come back to my comfort

foods!

E Long

0+ Gatherer in Austin TX

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garlinjake <garlinjake>

I can handle spelt well, too. I'll watch out for Annie's since I'll be

going to

Whole Foods on Tuesday. I really like Berlin Bakery spelt bread and

Spelt Right

bagels.

Yes! so many gluten-free products have corn and potato products,

etc. Makes me

so mad.

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From: " lescase@... <mailto:lescase%40aol.com> " <lescase@...

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My husband sort of proudly brought home some Annie's Spelt pretzels

recently. The ingredient label's 1st ingredient is Organic wheat flour,

then

organic spelt flour. Anyway, we sent our gripe to Whole Foods and Annie's.

Both responded that we should be reading the ingredient labels (true!).

But whole foods says the customer obviously doesn't realize that spelt is

wheat. Of course, I know spelt is a type of wheat, but to me the current

standard of wheat is the version with an incompatible (or higher content)

of the lectin that's incompatible to the O blood type. I find personally

that spelt seems to digest better. Just venting!! oh, and is anyone else

frustrated by all the gluten free products that are filled w/ avoids ?!