Re: Need Guidance

[Guest guest]

> My questions follow:

>

> 1) After initiating the gluten free, casein free diet, what can I do

> through diet and nutrition to help to heal her permeable gut? I am

> currently trying to supplement her with ground flax seed powder

> (hidden in pancakes) and probiotics (bifidus and acidophilus.)

The best thing to do is get a DAN doctor. Our's has quite a few opinions on

how to heal the gut. His own son is autistic and he feels that you can heal

the gut through diet and supplementation. Our son receives quite a mixture

of supplements and vitamins daily; (1) multivitamin, SNT in capsule form,

acorbic acid, calcium, probiotic, CLO, DHA, zinc, pycnogenol, and ginko.

>

> 2) I have purchased the books " Special Diets for Special Kids " by

> , and the latest cookbook by Bette Hagmann. I would like

> feedback from other parents regarding the " mixes " that Bette includes

> in her book. (The GF Flour Mix, the Bread Mix, the Bean mixes, the

> Dream Pastry Mix and the Pasta Base Mix.) How successful have other

> parents been in cooking with these mixes? I would like to know before

> I make the " investment " of using all of my flour supplies to create

> the mixes just to find that they may not work so well.

The flour mixes work great. You can use many different combinations of

flour to achieve recreating almost any recipe that you used previously. I

stick to using potato starch flour, white rice, brown rice and jowar.

However, its just a personal choice with regards to taste.

>

> 3) I would love to hear from other parents regarding their favorites

> when it comes to the prepared mixes that you can buy at health food

> stores. For instance, my daughter loves the pancakes I make with the

> Arrowhead Mills Gluten Free Pancake mix. I substitute soy milk for

> the water in the recipe on the bag. I tried Pamela's brownies, and

> thought they were just o.k. (The ones I made from scratch with

> 's recipe were better.)

We use the Arrowhead Mills mix too, and my son loves it. We sub the water

with Dari free. However, after the mixes are all depleted in our home, I

will make my own. Its so much cheaper. I too did not care for the Pamela's

brownies. I thought they were too dry. I make mine from scratch and they

are very moist.

>

> 4) Recipes...I would love to hear from other parents regarding good,

> homemade recipes. For instance, I think the Tropical Source chocolate

> chips are great tasting in homemade cookies. But, I have yet to find

> a really good cookie recipe. The one in 's book was just

> o.k. in my opinion. Have other folks come up with one that is closer

> to the toll-house variety? Would also like to get a good recipe for

> chocolate cupcakes, and yellow cake that I can use for pineapple

> upside down cake.

>

I have had great luck converting are old favorites over. It a lot of trial

and error, but eventually you will get the hang of it. I would be glad to

e-mail you some recipes.

a

[Guest guest]

I will clip copies of some of the reipes I have collected off the list.

If you need more let me know what you are looking for.

Later

I love the flour mix from the following company.

Sylvan Border Farm.

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They also sell an excellent Pancake and Waffle Mix.

It's not the cheapist but they make everything taste soo good. I've tried

other flour mixes but I just end up throwing things away.

[Guest guest]

Oops, sorry guys, I thought I was e-mailing this privately. I would have

removed all the other posts that it was written on top of, if I ment it to

go to all of you.

a

[Guest guest]

I get them at Whole Foods, which is probably only in California. Tropical

Source is distributed by Cloud Nine in Hoboken, NJ. Call for Info? I put

the peanut butter cips in their " chex mix " and it's they are eating it better.