In addition I wanted to offer that there are so many things made out of rice that you may or may not be aware of.
Just a few foods that might provide you with some additional options should you feel like there isn’t enough to eat:
Trader Joe’s and also another brand I think is called Van’s Glutein free waffles (they’re really delicious)
Trader Joes Glutein free pancakes
Annie’s Rice Pizza (pizza crust made with rice flour)
Rice pasta – brown and white varieties (tastes just slightly diff from regular pasta)
Wheat free soy sauce
My favorite concoction…cinnamon rice cakes with (fresh) peanut butter, and strawberry preserves

These are just a few things…

Also, thank you Dinneen for responding to my post.

I appreciate your input, definitely helpful.

A little over a year ago I started going to a nutritionist to help me with what i realized was the final chapter in my book of issues with food. I had done a lot of my own healing, but I reached a place where all my hard work had met up with a wall where on the other side the origin of my issues with food resided. I was stuck and I felt like what was on the other side may have been bigger than what I could get through on my own. So I sought out some help.
Anyway through my journey with my very amazing nutritionist (who specialized in people with eating disorders) I shared with her my concerns for a chronic cough i had which very often made it impossible for me to speak without gagging. It was not at all cute or sexy and definitely not comfortable. I expressed to her that I had heard of many people being cured of allergies by just changing their diet. That was when my Nutritionist introduced me to the elimination diet and described to me that by eliminating most all foods (more than just wheat) that are linked to allergies and then slowly bringing them back while documenting my bodies response I could get a better idea of what was bothering my system.
My Nutritionist asked me if I thought I could handle it and I have to admit I was nervous. My relationship with food was rocky and feeling like I wouldn’t be allowed to eat almost everything made me very scared. She believed in me when I definitely didn’t know if I believed in myself and I went forward and decided that it couldn’t hurt and I would just take it day by day.
I set out to do this for a month, and in the beginning that month seemed like it would never end. My diet basically consisted of soy (I don’t eat meat so she left it in), egg whites, rice, honey, fruits accept those with seeds (strawberries, tomotoes etc…), vegetables, water, sweet potato, non wheat soy sauce. That’s pretty much it more or less (it’s been awhile since I started so it’s a little fuzzy). Week 1 I was a nasty bitch, and by that Wednesday I had decided to give up. I missed my potato chips (i slept with at least a bag every night), and my bread, and all my other close ‘friends’ that brought me comfort. I wasn’t really good at seeing anything through so I was prepared to give up on this too. I vented to my Mom that Wednesday that I was going to give up and she told me no see this through. Just do it, it’s not forever. I made it through the end of the week by nothing else but the grace of God and my Moms voice, and to the minute by the time I made it to a week it occured to me that I hadn’t coughed not once for about 2 days. It was incredible! I had been coughing like a maniac for about 5 years. My doctors poked and probed me and put me on allergy shots that made me itch and brake out in hives and just a few days of eliminating some foods from my diet my coughing had completely dissapeared. That in itself propelled me forward, and I found the motivation to enter into another week. In week 2 I nibbled on a cookie here and there and I would cough a little and I realized ok there’s something to this wheat or glutein thing that is definitely a part of the problem. Next thing you know I finished out the month. I couldn’t believe it, but by the end of that month I was not the same person that had began. Yes my body had changed a little and while the issues pertaining to my body and food is what brought me to my nutritionist that wasn’t why i embarked on this; that wasn’t what it was about. I did this elimination diet for my health, and so it just felt different. It wasn’t about my dress size it was about just loving me (for the first time in a long time). I was coughing almost not at all, and while I can’t even fully explain in words but to say my whole relationship with food totally flipped. I had dealt with my chronic cough, but i also stared my fears and emotions with food in the face and rode it out. I came out on the other side and it has been a beautiful ride ever since. In addition to my cough stopping, I had a nasle drip that played a role in my coughing -that subsided, my energy increased, my belief in myself took off, My ent dr. even told me that he wanted to begin taking me off of the purple pill I was taking due to indigestion, and lastly I won’t lie my body began to physically transform (don’t get me wrong I want look good too but it wasn’t my motivator).
Today, almost a year later I have brought some but not all foods back. I may eat a little pasta and cake on the holidays or at a cookout (just a little) but on the daily it is out of my diet. One of the foods that served no real purpose for me and I didn’t miss as time went on was butter so I left it out. My life is more about health now and I eat with that always in mind. I indulge in chips, and things that I always enjoyed but I don’t feel like I need them like I used to to simply make it through a day. Basically I’m free (where food is concerned anyway). Now I just need to work on the rest of me
Thank you so much for this blog. I hope this wasn’t too long. The subject of health and how good I feel just really excites me. I enjoyed all of your comments. Be well!