Grain Free Recipes: Cooking the Paleo Way to Lose Weight and Live Healthy
Fast and Easy Grain Free and Gluten Free Cookbook for Your Kitchen
By: Yvette Green
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DEDICATION
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Introduction
Grain Free Diet
The elimination of all grains in your diet such as wheat, corn, rice, oats, barley, and millet is what we consider a grain free diet. This diet has been proven and applied by many people, and they have experienced a significant change and relief from many digestive system issues.
PICTURE 1 GRAIN FREE DIET
Take note that everyone is different, so the experience will vary, negatively or positively. That is why main stream medicines have disputed the diet, and still need more substantial clinical trials and studies.
Grain free diet is different from the low carb diet because it includes rich, complex, and healthy carbohydrates like starchy veggies such as sweet potatoes, pumpkin, potatoes, and carrots. In addition, fruits and vegetables are all allowed in the diet except corn, which is actually a grain.
Moreover, fish, eggs, legumes, seeds, nuts, meat, and dairy products are acceptable. However, there are varying qualifiers for everyone because of the different effects on the individuals system.
Therefore, in reality, each person has the responsibility to watch out for their health and wellbeing, through watching their diet and food intake. If your body has a negative impact when you eat a specific food, then you should remove it from the diet plan.
The Benefits of Grain Free Diet
There are numerous benefits of a grain free diet, it mostly benefits individuals with gluten intolerance or those who are allergic to gluten. People with such severe allergies to gluten and starch should stay away from a grain diet.
Digestive Disorders
Grain free diets can help with your digestive disorders. Most people that have gluten intolerance are prone to experiencing digestive disorders. Keeping track of your grain intake is necessary to prevent these digestive conditions with ease.
Taking Care of Vitamin Deficiency
Studies show that a person who has a high grain diet will likely to develop vitamin deficiency, especially Vitamin K deficiency. Cereal and grains are rich in protein and carbohydrates but still have less vitamin elements. Switch to a diet with more fruits and vegetables can supply your body with the vitamins you need.
Stop Protein Deficiency
Grains lack amino acids that build up proteins. This tells you that relying on grains will likely develop a severe protein deficiency issues. In addition, corn is rich in tryptophan, a good element, but in high doses may cause blockage of proper protein synthesis in the body. So a better choice of diet may help the body develop and provide sufficient protein.
Other Benefits
Additional benefits are also keen to grain free diets like improvement in memory retention. This particular diet can also help a person in losing weight. It is very ideal for growing kids with no shocks to be worried about.
These benefits are very ideal for a person, so start your diet now and enjoy a healthy and longer life.
CHAPTER 1
Grain Free Kitchen and Pantry
Setting Up a Grain-Free Pantry
If you want to set up your pantry with grain free items, then you should know and recognize foods that are grains or have grains in there composition. Most grain-based kitchens or pantries include chips, rice, crackers, flour, and so forth. Snacks also are usually grain-based and usually are the ones we store in our pantry.
PICTURE 2 SET UP PANTRY FOR GRAIN FREE KITCHEN
Perhaps setting up a grain free pantry can be more expensive, it is very ideal. Identifying the suitable substitute for expensive ones to a cheaper item will be very helpful in your setting, equally grain free, and less expensive.
The Grain Free Kitchen and Pantry
A useful list of what is a grain and what is not is very useful in starting to have a pantry of grain free products, for cooking or for snacks as well. This list might not be everything, but it can help you with your primary setting. This usage of products would also have grains such as pizzas, cakes, biscuits, pasta, breads, and others.
Foods and products that are grains and/or made from grains:
Foods or products that are free of grains, even if they look like grains or used as flour:
Anything made from these products are grain-free and automatically gluten-free. Fruits and vegetables have no grains as well as dairy products including animal milk, cheese, or butter.
Your Usual Staples