I am going on a weight loss diet, gluten free style!  My motivation is a trip to Costa Rica at the end of March.  I am currently 220lbs and my goal is 190lbs.  Many of you have already said this is unhealthy, but with my education and diet consultants, we feel the goal should be obtainable in a health manner.  Basically, I have to lose 2.5lbs per week. As with my blog in general, I want to stress that this doesn’t have to be hard or expensive.  I want to show you that this all can be done at home, with simple foods, and without an expensive gym membership or personal trainer. My diet...

Here are the videos from all of my beer tastings: Gluten Free Beer Tasting: Episode 1: Part 1 of 2 Redbridge Bard’s Tale New Grist . . Gluten Free Beer Tasting: Episode 1: Part 2 of 2 Green’s St. Peter’s Hambleton Please see the full gluten free beer review article HERE.

OK, Who has one? Anyone switching to the gluten free lifestyle? Anyone committing 100%? Anyone vowing not to ever cheat again? . . January 1st, 2010, will be my 1 year 100% committment to being gluten free! Now that I think I have mastered the gluten free diet, I plan to set some new health goals including the GF diet. My 2010 resolution will be to lose weight on a gluten free diet.  I have a relaxing trip planned to Costa Rica at the end of March, so that is my main motivation for losing weight.  I have set the goal of losing 30lbs in the 12 weeks prior to our departure.  My diet will start...

My mom had some of these Schar Gluten Free Pizza Crusts around for my dad and sister, so she gave me one to try.  There are two in each box.  You don’t have to keep them in the freezer, just in your pantry.  I made a BBQ chicken pizza with San-J’s Asian BBQ sauce, which is gluten free! I was pretty skeptical at first and assumed they would be really dry and brittle.  They were NOT!  They were actually very good.  I could see going to a normal pizza place and enjoying this pizza as if they had made it on site.  I would buy this product again! #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1...

Here is the Gluten Free Raviolis recipe you’ve all be asking about!  This is my great grandmother’s recipe, so I am divulging family secrets with my well-being at risk.  I don’t know if it is anything special, but if both of my knees are broken by the St. Louis Italian Mafia, we will know. A month before Christmas, some of the family gets together and makes the raviolis then freezes them.  The tradition is to cook and serve them on Christmas Eve when the family gets together. May our grandmother and great grandmother forgive you for sharing this outside the family. Grandma...

Watch this video and let me know what you think?  I’m not sure if I agree with a few things, but ya gotta trust people who are smarter than you are… Video from the DoctorsChannel.com Here is the entire article: NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Celiac disease is 4 times more common now than it was in the 1950’s, according to researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Their conclusion results from a study in which they had access to frozen blood samples that had been drawn between 1948 and 1954 from 9133 healthy young Air Force personnel. The investigators tested these samples...

I know this isn’t 100% relevant to gluten free, but Gary Vaynerchuck is a lot of the inspiration for my blog.  He is basically the leader in social media consulting and blogging.  He has built businesses based around the online community. He did had a book signing for his new book Crush It last week in St. Louis.  Afterward, some people went to a wine bar(his specialty is wine) where we got to interact with him a little more closely.  I’d recommend watching some of his keynote speeches. Here are the videos from his talk at the book signing.  He spoke more than anyone expected. Does...

I have some personal good news and bad news for you: I am no longer addicted to gluten, although I am now addicted to Chipotle. “I want to avoid gluten. What can I eat at your restaurant? Most people wanting to avoid gluten can eat anything we serve except for our wheat burrito tortillas, our soft wheat taco tortillas, and possibly our hot red tomatillo salsa (there is a small amount of distilled vinegar in it which some gluten-oriented websites still say might be problematic, although most don’t). Everything else is fine to eat for most people wanting to avoid gluten, including our crispy...