Easy Gluten Free Living

Archive for August, 2010

I had a question from Sharon about Bards Beer:

I live in Pittsburgh, and my husband has a gluten allergy. I have difficulty finding Bards that is even remotely fresh. At a “Mom and Pop Beer Warehouse” the staff was ecstatic because they were able to locate a case of Bards with a January, 2010 stamp. Unfortunately, it was July, 2010 when they made their discovery. I did buy the case anyway, because it was my husband’s birthday. His only comment was, “this is really hoppy.” I didn’t tell him it was six months old. Read the rest of this entry »

Hi Mary,
I have been gluten free for 8 months. what I wish someone would have told me is: The bodies reaction concerning probiotics, the good bacteria in our bodies that are fed by wheat. I am having a harder time finding an inner balance bacteria wise. I am taking probiotics now and I am searching for something to replace the wheat (prebiotic) in my diet. Any ideas would be helpful. Also, everything I know so far I have learned on the internet, do you know what kind of dr would be helpful to the celiac or wheat intolerant?

Jodie Nielsen

Hi Jodie,

Good question.  I’m going to briefly touch on what probiotics are and then go into prebiotics. Read the rest of this entry »

I live in a small town about 50 miles north of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, so there’s not much hope of getting pizza from a pizzeria in my town.  However, my daughter and son-in-law live in the heart of the city and on Saturday my husband and I were at their house for the day.  My husband was helping our son-in-law cut a doorway into a wall for their new deck.  

 Our daughter had told me about a pizza shop in her neighborhood Read the rest of this entry »