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Food.comThere is a lot of information out there about Chia seeds (Salvia) and what a nutritional powerhouse they are. I'm trying to find new ways to incorporate them into my diet, aside from sprinkling them on breakfast cereal. Recently my health food store handed out a few recipes including chia seeds, which is where this one stems from. I'm no expert but I do know they are high in omega-3, fibre, calcium and protein. I know of vegans using chia seeds soaked in water in place of eggs (or in place of "flax" eggs). I'm planning to post a recipe for chia egg replacer shortly. This page has lots of great information about these seeds - http://www.living-foods.com/articles/chia.html. I halved the original recipe, since these seeds are expensive I didn't want to risk it. If you don't happen to have coconut oil (aka coconut butter), I think it would be fine to leave it out because there is enough oil in the tahini and almond butter to hold things together. These make a fantastic snack.Food52Because the western diet is often way too heavy on carbohydrates, many people have started to cut down on products containing gluten, which are often carb-heavy, as a way of promoting better health and losing weight. Going completely gluten-free is something only recommended for those with celiac disease and doctor-diagnosed non-celiac gluten sensitivity. If you do not suffer from these health issues, it can actually damage your health to cut out gluten completely. Besides that, being truly gluten-free in your life can be much more difficult that a lot of marketing may suggest. According to the health blog of the Harvard Medical School, “Gluten also lurks in many other products, including frozen vegetables in sauces, soy sauce, some foods made with “natural flavorings,” vitamin and mineral supplements, some medications, and even toothpaste.” That said, cutting back on gluten is often associated with improvements to your overall health, usually because you end up eating fewer carbs and maintain a generally healthier diet as a consequence. Getting to Know Gluten Gluten is a protein that is most often found in wheat, barley, and rye. Over the last few decades, the sensitivity to this protein has increased, or at least our awareness of it has. Gluten sensitivity is a fairly common digestive problem and celiac disease is the more severe form of this. Celiac disease is an autoimmune disease affecting close to 1 percent of the population, and, if dietary changes are not made, this disease can seriously damage your digestive system. Gluten sensitivity cannot be accurately diagnosed without blood tests, but there are some common signs indicating possible gluten sensitivity that you can look out for. If you notice them, or think you may have gluten sensitivity/celiac disease, speak to your doctor and get tested. The good news is that by switching to a gluten-free or gluten-reduced diet, you can live a healthier life. So knowing what to look for is a good place to start. Here are some of the symptoms: Bloating is common after eating gluten, which can make you feel miserable. While bloating can be a sign of many other issues, it is also common in cases of gluten sensitivity. Occasional diarrhea or constipation is normal with dietary changes, but when it is frequent, you may be looking at gluten sensitivity. The gluten causes inflammation throughout your digestive tract, damaging the gut lining and leading to poor nutrient absorption. The result is irregular and uncomfortable bowel movements. Abdominal pain is also common with gluten sensitivity and will be noticed directly after eating foods containing gluten. Headaches and migraines have been reported in gluten-sensitive individuals. While an occasional headache is tolerable, repeated headaches, especially after eating, could be a sign. Feeling tired could be from a lack of sleep or stress, but it is also linked to gluten sensitivity. Individuals that are sensitive to this protein are very prone to fatigue and tiredness, especially after eating. Skin problems can occur with gluten sensitivity. A condition known as herpetiformis is a skin manifestation common with celiac disease. Other skin conditions such as psoriasis, chronic urticaria (hives) and alopecia areata have been known to clear up once people changed to a gluten-free diet. Weight loss, when unexpected, is a common side effect of undiagnosed celiac disease. The weight loss is typically attributed to poor digestion and inefficient absorption of essential nutrients. Those with celiac disease are thought to also have a highly-sensitive nervous system, which means they have a lower threshold for the activation of the sensory neurons that cause pain. Individuals that are sensitive to gluten may therefore, experience frequent joint and muscle pains. It’s Easy to Go Gluten-Free Unlike some diets, going gluten-free does not mean you have to give up good food, as there are plenty of recipes to keep your palette happy. For example, a cold Soba Noodle Salad is perfect for a light lunch or side dish to accompany any dinner. It’s not your typical salad, as there is no lettuce, but it is packed full of nutrients and great for those with gluten sensitivity. Soba noodles are as common in Japanese cuisine as a carefully coiffed Zen garden and very popular in America now as well. They are made with buckwheat or brown rice and contain fewer carbohydrates than traditional noodles. The chewy noodles mixed with crunchy cabbage are a quick and convenient meal for anyone following a gluten-free diet. Gluten-Free Soba Noodle Salad Ingredients: 1 package of gluten-free soba noodles ½ small head of purple cabbage ¼ lb. washed and trimmed sugar snap peas Sunflower microgreens (to use as garnish) Dressing: ¼ cup toasted sesame oil 1/8 cup rice vinegar ½ small diced shallot ½ tablespoon black sesame ½ teaspoon garlic powder 1 teaspoon red pepper flakes Directions: Whisk the rice vinegar in a bowl with the toasted sesame oil; you should notice the oil and vinegar emulsify. Add in the diced shallots, garlic powder and red pepper flakes and then set aside once well mixed. Chop up the cabbage into thin slices and put in a large bowl. Slice the snap peas in thirds and add to the cabbage. Drizzle the dressing on top and mix well to make sure all the vegetables are coated. Cook the soba noodles according to the package, drain and rinse. Add them into the salad and mix thoroughly. The Bottom Line Even though gluten is widespread throughout our food, there are numerous options for gluten-free alternatives available. The popularity of gluten-free and gluten-reduced diets is growing so much, that these alternatives can be easily found and make modifying your diet very easy. Remember, that if you do cut back on gluten, try to increase other nutrients and essential minerals to keep your diet balanced. Ultimately, cutting out gluten can enhance your health and improve your well-being.Food52It turns out that quinoa is considered Kosher for Passover because it is technically a seed and not a grain. Many Jews round the Globe have rejoiced at the news as it adds a little variety to the somewhat mundane Passover diet. Some people, I am certain, would still prefer to not take any chances and would personally consider quinoa not Kosher for Passover. I however, embraced it full force (I have had many Passover desserts that can only be described as dreadful). I am not religious but attend and contribute to a Passover celebration every year. I am always in charge of desserts. It usually means that I experiment a lot. Luckily for me, most people familiar with Passover desserts don't expect much! These folks are used to mealy, dry, gag-worthy delights. I strive every year to change their expectations.This year was an amazing success! Thanks to my new knowledge of the quinoa exception to the Passover rule, I was able to make a truly delicious dessert for the desperate masses. What I made was a decadent but healthy brownie. My healthy brownies are gluten free, dairy free, low fat, fruit-sweetened and received rave reviews from 14 unassuming guests including my brownie-connoisseur-husband and even my health-food-phobic brother-in-law. UPDATE: I forgot that chemical leaveners (baking powder and soda) are not kosher for Passover. They are included below but you can leave them out of the recipe if you want to. The brownies will likely be fudgier rather than cakey but it should still work.Yummly## Lettuce wraps: low-carb, keto, gluten-free and delicious. Lettuce wraps (or lettuce cups) have a lot going for them: Fresh, filling and easy to prepare, they’re a great party food and a perfect fit for many specialized diets. With some attention to the ingredients you put in, they are keto, low-carb, and gluten-free. For a weeknight meal, this dinner recipe is hard to beat. Leave out the hummus and they’re even paleo. ## A variation on Asian lettuce wraps These aren’t the P. F. Chang’s-style asian chicken lettuce wraps, with ground chicken, sesame oil, hoisin sauce and soy sauce (though, those are delicious). Instead, this recipe offers a creamy, crunchy variation on a BLT sandwich. This BLTA (bacon, lettuce, tomato, avocado) in easy chicken lettuce-wrap form is perfect for an easy dinner or a summer party appetizer, since it is served at room temperature. The mayo-hummus spread adds creamy texture, as well as holding everything together. ## Let’s talk about butter lettuce Butter lettuce works perfectly for this because butter lettuce leaves are thick and luscious (one might even call them buttery), as well as being the perfect size for a hand-held treat. However, if butter lettuce (or bibb lettuce or Boston lettuce, which are nearly indistinguishable from butter lettuce) isn’t available, a romaine or iceberg lettuce leaf is a good substitute. For a nutrition boost, this could even be served on tender cabbage leaves from the inner layers of a head of cabbage. ## Variations on BLTA chicken lettuce wraps This is a very adaptable recipe - ground chicken, ground turkey or ground beef, any of which you can brown in olive oil in a large skillet on the stove over medium-high heat, works well to replace the diced chicken. For an easy variation on the filling, you can add diced bell peppers, red pepper flakes or chopped cucumbers. ## But wait, I want to eat P. F. Chang’s lettuce wraps! Fair enough - try this [highly yummed P. F. Chang’s-style copycat recipe](https://www.yummly.com/recipe/PF-Changs-Chicken-Lettuce-Wraps-596804) that incorporates hoisin sauce, soy sauce, water chestnuts, green onions, and rice wine vinegar into the chicken mixture for Chinese flavors. ## Baking bacon This recipe includes a couple adaptable cooking hacks: The first is baking bacon. Eliminate splatter and the need to stand over a hot stove by cooking strips of bacon in the oven on 375º F for 20 minutes. Set a timer and forget it until your bacon’s ready. Bake the bacon on a wire rack for extra-crispy strips ## Hummus/mayo spread The other kitchen hack found in this recipe is the hummus-mayo mix: It’s a great way to add lots of creamy texture to a lettuce wrap (or a lavash wrap, tortilla wrap, or sandwich!) in a healthy, lower-fat way. The extra fiber and protein in the hummus are just a bonus, this spread is delicious. ## How to serve lettuce wraps, and what to serve them with These wraps are great for a party - wash and dry the lettuce leaves as much as two days in advance and make the filling in bulk (it’s easy to double or triple the amounts). Before serving, lay the lettuce leaves out on your serving tray and assemble them in place. If you’re serving these as a main dish for dinner, you can put the filling and the creamy hummus out in small bowls on the table with a pile of lettuce leaves, and let people assemble their own. Anything that you’d serve with a BLT sandwich is a great side dish to serve with these: potato salad, coleslaw (which allows you to keep it low-carb), fruit salad, sweet potato fries or, yes, bread.Food52World Egg Day is celebrated every year on the second Friday in October and this “eggcellent” form of protein is a great way to mark the day. These eggs are tucked securely in their nests and full of lots of things to make your body happy. Eggs are full of protein to keep your body running smoother and more efficiently. They also promote healthy brain development. The sweet potatoes have many vitamins and minerals that your body needs, like vitamin B6, vitamins C and D, iron and potassium. Sweet potatoes and the chickpeas, both, help to regulate blood sugar. They also control heart disease by lowering blood pressure and controlling your heart rate. Chickpeas are one of the oldest known eaten crops in the world. They are primary in the diets of some of the healthiest regions of the world. Boosting your immune system is also one of the many benefits of adding chickpeas to your daily menu. Chickpeas are a great food when you are trying to lose weight because they make you feel full for longer periods of time and boost your body’s natural digestion processes. So, no matter what your personal health objectives are, these snacks will have you flying from your nest and on your way to achieving your goals. The recipe can be found here - http://www.mynutricounter.com/low-fat-deviled-eggs-on-sweet-potato-nests/Food.comI was on Ediets a few years ago and this was the first recipe that I tried. It is delicious and healthy. When my husband and I sat down to our first Ediet meal,we did not know what to expect. What a great surprise and certainly made the diet easy to follow! It has great presentation and does not look nor taste like diet food. Great for vegetarians! Hope you enjoy!YummlyBring a bit of Spain to the lunch or dinner table with this recipe for homemade gazpacho. Made with a mixture of tomatoes, bell peppers, zucchini, cucumber, and spices this soup is full of refreshing flavor that'll keep you cool and satisfied on hot summer days. ## Cold Soup If you've never made authentic Spanish gazpacho, you should know that a good gazpacho recipe is much than just cold soup, it's a no-cook warm-weather essential that takes no time to prep. It originated in Andalusia along Spain's Costa del Sol where it gets searingly hot in the summer, making cold soup a welcome meal. Though some people might call it pureed salad, it's much more delicious than what that description might bring to mind. ## All About The Bread At first glance, it just looks like tomato juice, but gazpacho is exponentially better and has more nuanced summer flavors than a regular ol' tomato soup. Peppers, cucumbers, onion, garlic cloves, and zucchini go into a food processor as whole vegetables and come out a refreshing summer soup, but the secret to making gazpacho a superlative soup is bread. It's used to thicken the tomato puree, but if you use a flavorful crusty baguette (or even sourdough bread), it'll add flavor as well as body. It sounds weird and it's not ideal for low-carb and keto diets, but the flavor and texture the bread lends to the soup really does turn this soup into a bowl full of joy. ## Playing With Flavor This is a basic gazpacho recipe, but that only means there's room to play with flavor. __Olive oil:__ For flavor, this recipe calls for olive oil. If you're a connoisseur, this is a good place to use your favorite extra-virgin olive oil -- because the soup is not heated, the flavor of the oil won't change. __Vegetables:__ Bell peppers and cucumbers make this soup refreshing, but you can use different types of peppers to make the flavor more interesting. Green peppers are slightly bitter but red peppers are subtly sweet and can add vibrancy to the red of the tomatoes. This recipe also calls for fresh basil, which you can easily leave off. __Spices:__ Garlic is a prominent flavor in gazpacho, but you can balance it out with some heat from a sprinkling of cayenne pepper, or make it smoky with a little ground cumin. __Vinegar:__ If all you have on hand is plain white vinegar, you can make a great gazpacho, but other vinegars can elevate this soup. Sherry vinegar adds some sweetness, while a red wine vinegar would add little bit more acidity. ## Get Blending This is an easy, healthy recipe that any level of cook can master. It can easily be made for dinner tonight and tastes even better the next day for lunch. Whenever you decide to make it, it won't be the last time.YummlyWhy opt for the canned stuff when you can make homemade cranberry sauce? Using just five ingredients, this super simple cranberry sauce recipe is free from refined sugar, and beats the store-bought version any day! Whether you're making it for a classic American Thanksgiving menu, Christmas dinner, or just a regular meal, this refined sugar-free, low-carb cranberry sauce is absolutely delicious. You can enjoy it with meatballs as an appetizer, or over chicken for an easy weeknight dinner. You can even blend it with extra-virgin olive oil for a salad dressing. You'll never go back to canned cranberry sauce after trying this version! ## Health benefits Cranberries are incredibly antioxidant-rich and full of phytonutrients. Phytonutrients can raise the overall antioxidant capacity in our bloodstream, which can help reduce the risk of oxidative stress. They're high in vitamin C, vitamin A, and vitamin K. The nutrients in cranberries have been linked to a lower risk of urinary tract infections, a common issue that mainly occurs among women and affects the bladder and urethra. Cranberries have also been shown to boost the immune system and help decrease blood pressure. Half a cup of cranberries contains only 25 calories, making them ideal for many low-calorie diets. ## No refined sugar If you're gearing up for the holiday season, chances are you're looking for a cranberry sauce recipe with no refined sugar. Many store-bought brands are loaded with refined and artificial sweeteners and additives, which may not taste great and may not have health benefits. Even many homemade recipes call for loads of processed sugar, topped off with a generous portion of sugary orange juice. Natural sweeteners like liquid stevia, maple syrup, or powdered erythritol are also common in "healthy" recipes, but are unnecessary for a good cranberry sauce. All you need is a few healthy, unrefined sources of sweetness to set yourself up for a great batch of cranberry sauce. ## The secret ingredient You may be scratching your head and wondering what sort of natural sweeteners are good options for your homemade cranberry sauce. Enter: dates! Dates are not only delicious thanks to their natural sugars, but are super nutritious as well. They have a low glycemic index, which is a measure of how quickly your blood sugar rises after eating a certain food. While they're not common in low carb recipes or low-calorie diets (since dried fruit is usually off limits), they contain a large amount of dietary fiber. Fiber is important for digestive health, as well as for controlling blood sugar. They're also high in antioxidants and contain several vitamins and minerals. Just half a cup of dates provides about 14 percent of the daily value for potassium, 8 percent for magnesium, and 10 percent for manganese. The apple cider also acts a natural sweetener in this recipe, which still leaves you with a recipe without any processed sugar. If you regularly eat apples, then fresh apple cider (with no sugar added) will still be in line with your meal plan. ## Good for most diets This cranberry sauce recipe is flexible for multiple diet types. Whether you and your family or friends follow vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, or paleo diets, this is a side dish to be enjoyed by all. ## Other uses Cranberries are in season from mid-September to mid-November in the United States so they’re typically used in recipes throughout the fall and winter, which is why the flavors might remind you of the holidays. That said, there are several ways to use cranberry sauce year-round. Add a spoonful to your favorite pumpkin soup recipe, or stir it into yogurt, top your chicken with it for a sweet and savory meal, add to a muffin recipe, or you can even shake it in your favorite cocktail as a natural sweetener.Food.comWhether you are following an AIP diet, you’re intolerant to grains or you simply want to switch up the taste of your breakfast porridge with a great and creamy texture, this healthy grain free recipe is perfect for you!! This Vanilla-Maca Tapioca Porridge with a Rhubarb & Raspberry Sauce is definitely one of my favorite grain free porridge alternatives. And, as you probably saw on my Facebook andInstagram, I make it very often!!What I love about this recipe is that is suitable pretty for anybody as I worked very hard to make it compliant to basically every allergy in the world, so that even paleo, grain free and AIP eaters can enjoy a breakfast that’s traditionally not allowed. And besides, this porridge recipe takes another step forward: in fact sometimes even those who are already on a very strict AIP diet need to observe the further limitations of FODMAP containing foods, that can exacerbate problems such as IBS (Irritable Bowl Syndrome). Without getting too scientific, FODMAPs (the acronym for “Fermentable, Oligo-, Di-, Mono-saccharides and Polyols”) are short chain carbohydrates rich in fructose molecules which, even in healthy people are only partially absorbed in the small intestine (like bean for example, which create a “gassy” effect pretty much for anybody. *The whole list of FODMAP containing foods is at the end of the post).When this excess fructose enters the large intestine, they feed the beneficial bacteria that are naturally in there provoking their overgrowth and excessive production of gas. The presence of FODMAPs in the large intestine can causes a variety of digestive symptoms such as bloating, gas, cramps, diarrhea, constipation and indigestion. You can read more about the subject on The Paleo Mom, a blog that I absolutely love, filled with tons of info about anything paleo, AIP and FODMAP related. Now back to the AIP Breakfast Porridge Recipe. The ingredients are few and allergy friendly: Tapioca is the starch extracted from cassava, a tropical root that’s considered a staple by over half a billion people in the developing world and that’s the perfect grain free replacement for flour in any paleo baked goods.Vanilla extract and Maca powder allow you to give your dessert and amazing sweetness without using any refined sugar!And lastly, raspberries andrhubarbare the key to creating a delicious middle layer of extra sweetness still keeping the sugar content very low and respecting the FODMAP intolerances. What more do you want?!
