What are the best books that have helped you manage your Coeliac health & stick to a strict gluten free diet since diagnosis?

[FionaGFG]

Has it been a health book, recipe book, online health book? What would you recommend for Newbie Coeliacs?

[jan44]

I found the 'dummies book' Living Gluten Free very helpful at the beginning from a health point of view.

I think recipe book choices can be quite individual depending on what sort of food you are used to eating. Once you get a bit more experienced about gluten sources you can normally adapt your own recipes to suit the GF lifestyle. I've adapted recipes from good food magazines and the good food website quite sucessfully.

I'm quite keen on baking so I borrowed about every gluten free baking book I could from the Library and then bought a couple which I really liked. My favourite book which seems quite reliable and not too heavy on ingredients is 'the what to eat gluten-free what to cook cookbook from DK' everything I have tried came out well. especially the profiteroles !!

[Penel]

Agree, the 'Dummies' book was a useful start. I still use 'The Everyday Wheat-free and Gluten-free Cookbook' by Michelle Berriedale-Johnson.

[ailsamary]

I agree read the dummies books from cover to cover, the is a recipe as well as an info one, also if you are in the UK look at the bargain bookstores that are around or online, must admit though nowadays I use ordinary cookbooks and just substitute, depends on whether you ate sensitive to the pre made flour mixes, and don't forget the internet itself, a mine of information

[Regalbirdy]

Yep - I am another one who's read "living gluten free for dummies." However I had been gluten-free for a couple months by the time I picked up my copy.

While I was waiting for my diagnosis to be confirmed (with an endoscopy etc), I read up using the Internet. I have to say that love them or hate'em, I found coeliac U.K.'s website a pretty good place to start for a UK newbie; not so much for recipes but for general information about what the condition was and the list of symptoms linked to the disease. Some of the American sites were also pretty good, if not better at giving me the information I needed at the time.

[BellaC79]

Another good book is coeliac disease what you need to know by Alex Gazzola. I also found the food doctor, healing foods for mind and body by Ian Marber and Vicki Edgson. The Australian women's weekly also have a great small cook book most recipes are also available on their website. Going to the glutafin world days are also invaluable as they help you to see you can make pastry without it falling apart for example :0)

[Karen77]

These books are not specifically designed for coeliacs, but the certainly made me feel much better about not eating gluten - and not missing it either!

The Primal Blueprint - Mark Sisson

Primal Body, Primal Mind - Nora Gedgaudas

Wheat Belly - William Davis

Grain Brain - David Perlmutter

Eat the Yolks - Liz Wolfe

Perfect Health Diet - Paul Jaminet

The Paleo Diet Solution - Robb Wolf

The Paleo Approach - Sarah Ballantyne (focuses on autoimmune disease, and explains in easy to understand but very scientific detail what is happening to our bodies when we have autoimmune disease - including CD)

Here's to our health!