Product Description
by Laurel Lee Steele (Author), Merelee Knott (Author), Stephen A. Tilles (Foreword by)
The number of people unable to eat corn for medical reasons has grown rapidly in recent years. Furthermore, because corn is a dietary staple and most packaged food contains corn derivatives, it is difficult to avoid corn in one's diet.
The Corn-Free Cookbook & Survival Guide is the perfect tool for anyone who lives with corn-related allergies and intolerances. It offers help for the corn-sensitive by showing:
- How to put the pleasure back into eating iwth more than 150 corn-free recipes
- How to make easy-to-fix meals when little time is available
- How to customize recipes in other cookbooks
- How to vary dishes by using seasonings and new combinations of flavors
- How to avoid food cravings by eating a well-balanced, healthy, corn-free diet
- How to read food labels quickly, easily, and accurately
- How to identify products--food and non-food--that commonly contain corn
- How to identify dozens of terms that mean "corn derivative"
- How to slim down by avoiding corn-based food additives, particularly high-fructose corn syrup
- How to avoid corn at social events, restaurants, and while traveling
The recipes in The Corn-Free Cookbook & Survival Guide focus on quick meals, breads and grains, veggies and salads, fruits and fruit salads, meat and fish, beans and eggs, milk and cheese, casseoles, soups, and desserts. The book also summarizes current medical knowledge about food reactions, including hard-to-find information about food intolerance.
