Favorite Gluten-Free Recipe Websites

During the February 17th meeting Heather and I mentioned a few of our favorite gluten-free and almost-always casein-free recipe web sites.  Here they are, we hope you find them as informative and useful as we have!

• My Aspergers Girl (myaspergersgirl.blogspot.com)
  • M.A.G. is run by a lady named Erin whom I believe lives somewhere in Texas with her husband and daughters, one whom you may have guessed is living with Aspergers.  M.A.G is one of the first GFCF web sites that we started hoarding recipes from. As Heather will affirm, I don’t think there’s a M.A.G. recipe that we’ve tried that we haven’t loved.
• Gluten Free Girl and The Chef (glutenfreegirl.blogspot.com)
  • GFG is Shuana and Danny and they make good food.  Really good food.  They’re finishing a gluten-free cookbook now that we can’t wait to get our hands on.  Give their archive a peak, you’ll find so many wonderful recipes. 
• Gluten-Free Goddess  (glutenfreegoddess.blogspot.com)
  • A different ‘GFG’, but with plenty of excellent recipes, and amazing pictures to go with most recipes. 

One type of special diet which we haven’t talked a lot about is the “Specific Carbohydrate Diet” (SCD, see also www.scdiet.org). I will be forthcoming and admit that I am not terribly familiar with the SCD diet at this time, Heather and I have recently started following a blog of a lady who posts SCD recipes.  While we haven’t tried many of the recipes, they all look good, and I’m amazed at some of the things she creates with the ingredients she’s using.

• Milk for the Morning Cake (milkforthemorningcake.blogspot.com)

If these people can’t convince you that there is plenty of delicious food to be had once you have to give up gluten and/or casein, nobody can.

So, what are some of your favorite GFCF, SCD or other special diet web sites?  We’d love to hear from you in the comments section.

February 17th, 2010 Meeting Notes:

Thank you to everyone who came, we had a good meeting this past Wednesday. For those who couldn’t make it, here’s a brief recap of the evening.

Lois Weber (Transition Coordinator at the CCISD, www.copperisd.org) gave a PowerPoint presentation on her work with Students Training On Mentoring Peers (S.T.O.M.P). It was a very insightful and inspiring presentation; it shed light on some of the ways our children can be empowered later in life, and how they can also mentor and empower their peers.

Lois gave me a DVD titled: Helping Young Adults with Disabilities Reach Their Hopes and Dreams. The running time for the video is 46:37. The video is also available online by clicking the above link, or by searching the video-on-demand archive at www.mistreamnet.com. If anyone has trouble viewing the video online, please contact me and I can loan you the DVD.

Heather Store also came and spoke briefly about the Great Start Collaborative (www.ccgreatstart.org.) She talked about upcoming/proposed budget cuts to early childhood education programs and how the collaborative needs more parent support to help fight against these cuts.

After Lois and Heather’s presentations we shared stories amongst ourselves about our adventures ‘after the diagnoses’, and exchanged recipes and books pertaining to special diets. Please feel free to add some of your favorite books in the comments section of this post.

Looking ahead, our next meeting is going to be on Wednesday, March 17^th, 2010. We will be hearing a presentation from the Portage Health Pediatric Rehab Team, so save the date. A flier with more details will be forthcoming early next month, so keep an eye out for that!

February 2010 Group Meeting

Well, hopefully you've seen this flier before now as life has conspired to keep it from being posted here in a timely fashion. Our apologies.

You can view the flier for February's support group meeting by clicking here.
There is also a brief agenda.

Hope to see you there!