Gluten Free Is The Life For Me by Katie Wojciechowski

Two years ago, if someone would have told me that I had to cut gluten out of my diet in order to feel better I would have told them they were nuts!  How in the world could I live without beautiful crusty French bread?  What would I do without cookies and cakes in my life? Not to mention, what would my every day family-favorite dishes taste like?  What kinds of products are out there that actually taste good? Two years later, and on the other side of these questions, I can officially say that gluten-free is the life for me!  I still have breads, cookies, cakes and ALL my family favorite dishes in my life. What I don’t have are the aches and pains I once did.

Cutting gluten was a challenge that I excepted and have never regretted. Finding products to use as replacements for staples in my pantry was a game of trial and error.  Testing different flours and recipes actually became interesting to me. I did a lot of experimenting, mostly in the way of sweets and baked goods, and can now say, for the past two years I have successfully “fooled” my family every night at dinner with a gluten free meal that everyone enjoys.  As the saying goes, “Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.” -John Locke.