How to read a label for a WHEAT free diet:
barley
beer
bran
bread crumbs
bulgur
cereal extract
couccous
cracker meal
dextrin
distilled vinegar
durum, durum flour
enriched flour
farina
gluten
graham flour
high gluten flour
high protein flour
malt
rye
seitan
semolina
soft wheat flour
spelt
vital gluten
wheat (bran, germ, gluten, malt, starch)
whiskey
whole wheat berries
whole wheat flour

Ingredients that MAY indicate presence of wheat:
gelantinized starch
hydrolyzed vegetable protein
modified food starch
modified starch
natural flavoring
soy sauce
starch
vegetable gum
vegetable starch

Here are a bunch of links with info for wheat-free stuff plus sites for gluten/wheat-free products.

http://www.gfmall.com/ (List of Gluten free vendors)

http://www.josefsglutenfree.com/

http://directory.google.com/Top/Shop...Allergen_Free/

http://www.celiac.com/

http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/Food/Wheatfree.html

http://www.enjoylifefoods.com/

http://www.glutenfreegourmet.com/

http://www.foodyoucaneat.com/

http://www.foodallergycookbook.com/links.htm

http://www.quinoagrain.com/glutenfree.html

http://www.healing-arts.org/children...books-diet.htm

National mail order business that caters to the food allergic http://www.missroben.com

Supermarket web site for people with food allergies http://www.glutensolutions.com

About.com article on Celiac Disease/Gluten Intolerance http://allergies.about.com/health/allergies
/library/weekly/aa020899.htm

About.com article on Gluten-Free Living http://allergies.about.com/health/allergies/
library/weekly/aa021599.htm

Edward & Sons Trading Company, Inc. supplies innovative nature and organic foods for special diets.
http://www.edwardandsons.com

You can also go to Amazon.com and do a search for "wheat free cookbook" and a bunch of options will show up. I use one called "Special Diet Solutions: Healthy Cooking Without Wheat, Gluten, Dairy, Eggs, Yeast, or Refined Sugar" by Carol Lee Fenster

Egg ingredients:
Eggs
Egg whites
Egg yolks
Dried eggs or egg powder
Egg solids
Globulin
Albumin
Apovitellenin
Lecithin (unless it says soy)
Livetin
Ovalbumin
Ovomucin
Ovomuciod
Ovovitellin
Phosvitin

MILK AND EGG SAFE FOODS LIST

DISCLAIMER: Here's a general list, but remember it is crucial to read all food labels, EACH time you buy a product & double check the ingredients on this list - manufacturer’s have been known to change without warning.

Breakfast
Bacon (Wellshire Farms Uncured Bacon, Louis Rich Turkey Bacon, Applegate Farms Turkey Bacon)
Sausage (lots of sausages have milk in them) Jimmy Dean and some store brands are safe
Bisquick - original and reduced fat
Cereal: Kix, Cheerios, Product 19, Raisin Bran, Rice Chex, Corn Chex, Life, Wheaties, HealthValley Rice Crunch-Ems, Rice Krispies, Puffed Rice, Alphabits, Barbara's Breakfast O's, Barbara's Honey Rice Puffin*, Barbara's Shredded Oats, Barbara's Wheatines, Post Shredded Wheat, New Morning Oatios, Organic Kidz Koala Krispies, etc. check labels of other cereals
Chorizo
Cream of Wheat
Cream of Rice
Oatmeal
Instant Oatmeal – Price Chopper (maple & brown sugar, cinnamon & Spice), Quaker (plain, apple & cinnamon)
Malt O Meal
Fruit salad - Dole Tropical Fruit Salad
Hash –– Libby’s or store brand
Hash browns (most are cooked in oil, not butter; ask), Cascadian Farms Hash Browns, Store brands or Ore Ida
Pop-Tarts - check labels as only a few are safe

Lunch, Dinner and Easy Prep
Applegate Farms store-sliced deli meats (all varieties)
Armour Original Meatballs
Hamburger
Poached, roasted, grilled chicken breast (skinless if you want to watch calories)
Pretty much any roast meat (if dining out, make sure they don't put butter on it)
Turkey, roasted or as a sandwich, with fixings of your choice (lettuce, cranberry, bacon)Hormel Spam
Hormel Vienna Sausages
All Hormel canned meats
Vienna Sausages – Libby’s
Chicken Nuggets – Tyson, Ian's
Hot Dogs – Yorkshire Farms, Shelton turkey dogs (they also make chicken ones), Armour Jumbo Beef Hot Dogs, Applegate Farms, Hebrew Nation, BallPark Beef Franks (and singles), Bryan Juicy Jumbo Hot Dogs, Nathans Beef Cocktail Franks (great w/ the Pillsbury crescent rolls wrapped on them!!).
Bean salad (good protein)
Pasta, rice and potatoes are also okay for your carbo fix so long as you prepare them without the butter (use safe margarine!!).
Pasta salad, with chicken, peppers, etc. (if you can't have egg, careful about the pasta...most dry pastas are OK)
Salad in general.....California (fruit and chicken - careful if the chicken is breaded), spinach with bacon...the possibilities are endless!)
Steamed, boiled, or baked veggies
Rice
Beans – Baked, Refried (Rosarita, Taco Bell), Black
Green Chiles
Red Chili Sauce (enchilada sauce)
Veggies – Canned, Frozen or fresh. Beware of the veggies in sauces in the frozen section. Beware of the creamed varieties in the canned.
Fruits
Applesauce
Chili – Hormel or Dennison’s chili
Franks N Beans – Hormel or Kid’s Kitchen, Kid’s Cuisine
Chef Boyardee - Rice with Chicken & Vegetables
Taquitos – Delimex, Chicken
French Fries (some frozen or store brands are safe; McCain FF and Smilies (confirmed safe); Ore-Ida Cottage Fries, Ore-Ida Country Style Hashbrowns, Ore-Ida Golden Crinkles, Ore-Ida Golden Fries, Ore-Ida Golden Patties, Ore-Ida Shoestrings, Ore-Ida Pixie Crinkles, Ore-Ida Steak Fries) McD’s fries are safe! And so are most restaurants. Be careful – they might use some form of milk to coat them. They could also fry in the same oil as other foods – cross-contamination issues.
Tater Tots – Ore Ida and Store brand
StoveTop Cornbread stuffing
Mrs. Cubbison’s Stuffing
Tomato Sauce
Spaghetti Sauce – Hunt’s or Store brand (in the can) Traditional or Mushroom, Barilla, Francesco Rinaldi (“Sweet and Tasty Tomato”, “Tomato and Basil” and “Marinara” only)
Soy Nut butter – I.M. Healthy
Road’s End Organic Mac & Cheese

Soup
Campbell’s – Bean w/ Bacon, Tomato
Some Store Brands – Vegetable
Imagine Foods offers “creamed” varieties.
Pacific Foods – chicken, mushroom and vegetable broth
ConAgra - Van Camp's Pork and Beans in Tomato Sauce
Swanson 100% Fat Free Chicken Broth
Swanson Organic Chicken Broth
Health Valley Fat Free Beef Flavored Broth

Baby Food
Gerber Baby Food:
Gerber Graduates (ONLY THESE FLAVORS: White Turkey Stew w/ rice; Veg Stew w/ beef),
Gerber fruit wagon wheels (but only the fruit ones -- the veggie ones have cheese)
Stage 1 Fruits and Vegetables (Gerber or Beechnut)
Most of Stage 2 Fruits and Veggies (Gerber or Beechnut)
Cereals – Rice, Oatmeal, Barley & Mixed ( Gerber and Beechnut) Beechnut is SOY FREE
Fruit Juice
Apple graham crisps
Sweet potato puffs
apple-strawberry puffs
Veggie crackers

Snacks/Desserts
Fruit
Applesauce
Fruit popsicles
Philly Swirl - Sorbet Swirl Cups (made on shared equipment with dairy)
Luigi’s Italian Ice - cherry, grape, lemon, strawberry (confirmed)
Minute Maid Soft Frozen Ice - lemonade and strawberry/lemonade (confirmed)
Sorbet – Edy’s Whole Fruit
Vienna Fingers cookies
Uh Oh! Oreo Cookies, Reduced Fat Oreos, Oreo Crisps, Golden Oreos, Oreos (only these varieties have been confirmed free of dairy, however they are run on shared equipment)
Teddy Grahams Snacks (not chocolate chip)
Potato chips – Lays (Plain, BBQ and Natural Thick Cut Sea Salt Chips)
Tortilla chips – Mission or store brand
Pringles (original only)
Rold Gold Pretzels
Veggie Booty
Rice cakes
Mrs Smith’s Fruit Pies
Home Run Apple Pies (frozen singles)
JelloBelsoy Pudding - Chocolate and Vanilla
Hunt's Snack Pack (4 pack) Lemon pudding and Lemon Meringue Pie pudding (confirmed dairy-free and not run on shared equipment)
Fruit snacks (Gerber, Sunkist, Nabisco, Betty Crocker - others are probably okay, too, but I've only verified these), Sunmaid Fruit Bits
Popcorn - Old-fashioned popcorn (the plain stuff, NOT the microwaveable kinds) - you can place plain popcorn in a brown lunch bag and microwave it, but you'll have to play around with the cook time as it varies from microwave to microwave,
Soy Yogurt – Silk, Trader Joe’s brand
Stretch Island Fruit Leather - various flavors

Ice Cream
Rice Ice Cream – Rice Dream
Soy Ice Cream –Soy Delicious, Tofutti, Tofutti Cuties

Crackers
Barbara's Wheatines (beware -- may contain traces of peanuts)
Triscuits (original)
Wheat Thins (original)
Carr's Table Water Crackers
Ritz Snack Crackers
Best Yet
Hy-Top
Zips Party Crackers Ritz
Saltine Crackers
Zesta (at least two kinds-Original & Unsalted)
Safeway Unsalted
Albertson's Crackers
Store brands

Graham Crackers
Safeway
Albertson's
Hy-Top
Wal-Mart Honey Grahams
Kroger Original Grahams Nabisco
Gourmet Crackers Hy-Top

Bread
Pillsbury Crescent Rolls
Store brand biscuits
Mission Corn Tortillas (and store brand)
Flour Tortillas – read labels!
Most sliced bread will have dairy, but you can look for bagels, tortillas, pita bread, and some of the French, Italian or sourdough breads in the bakery area of your grocery. Safe bread brand: IronKids, Roman's 100% Whole Wheat, Stroehmann’s Whole Wheat.
Earth Grains Hoggie Buns (for Sub sandwiches-not sure on the name) and maybe other products from EarthGrains.
Lender's Bagels
Oroweat Country Potato Buns & Rolls
Oroweat 100% Whole Wheat Bread
Old Country Sandwich White Bread from Oroweat Foods
Oroweat Bagels
Sara Lee Bagels
The Bagel Bunch
Thomas’ Sahara Pita Bread – Whole wheat and white

Baking/Spices and Seasonings
Baking Powder
Baking Soda
Sugar
Brown Sugar (not to be confused with brown sugar FLAVORING which isn't always safe)
Flour
Most spices are safe
Oil - Canola, Olive, Safflower, Sunflower
Pam Oil Spray
Spectrum shortening
Salsa
Taco Bell Taco Seasoning Packet
Taco Sauce
Hershey's baking cocoa
Hershey's chocolate syrup
Marshmallows - Kroger, Safeway, Jet Puff
Milk free chocolate chips: Sunspire, Chatfields, Tropical Source, Trader Joe’s, Baker's Brand Semi-Sweet (made on shared equip.), some store brands (Price Chopper and Wal-mart/Sam’s Club)
Pillsbury Pie crusts (red box)
Whipped Toppings (Spray) Rod's Whipped Topping (I know you can buy it at Albertson's - look for the "Pareve"); Safeway has a brand that is "Pareve or Parve".

Margarine
Fleischman's Light or unsalted (sticks and tub versions), Benocal, Willow's Run, Smart Balance Light, Earth Balance, Nucoa, Mother’s Margarine, Hain Safflower Margarine

Beverages
Coffee (Soy Creamer – Silk)
Tea
Coca-cola – verified milk free
Pepsi-cola – verified milk free
Dr. Pepper - ?
Sprite
Sierra Mist
Store brand sodas
Kool Aid
Gatoraid
Fruit Juice – calcium fortified
Orange Juice – Calcium fortified

Milk Beverages
Oat Milk: Pacific Foods
Potato Milk: Darifree
Rice Milk: 365, Pacific Foods, Rice Dream (look for enriched) –– Plain, chocolate and vanilla
Soy Milk: Soy Dream, Silk (look for enriched), 8th Continent –– Plain, chocolate and vanilla

Nutritional type drinks
Slim Fast Soy based drinks –– comes in variety of ‘‘fruit’’ flavors. My favorite was an orange/pineapple drink
Kashi GoLean –– in the CAN –– chocolate, vanilla
Snapple A Day Meal Replacement - all flavors (contain soy)

Condiments
Veganaisse Mayo *contains soy
Most Mustards
Ketchup
Relish
Pickles
Oil
Vinegar
Wish Bone Italian dressing
Jellies and jams
Black Olives
green olives
Soy Cheese – Tofutti and veganrella
Soy cream cheese & sour cream – Tofutti
Homestyle BBQ Sauce
Vinegar (distilled white and apple cider)

Miscellaneous Vitamins and Medications
Tom's of Maine Toothpaste
Yummi Bears Original Vegetarian Multivitamin (confirmed safe for dairy, egg, wheat, soy, peanuts/nuts and oat)
Children's Advil (liquid suspension)
Infant TylenolChildren's Benedryl (All liquid versions are safe for dairy)
PediaCare
Mylicon
Vegan Rice Protein Powder
Kirkman’s Labs Protein Powder
Kirkman’s Labs Calcium Powder

http://www.peta.org/accidentallyVegan/

Products That May Contain Eggs
The many foods which contain eggs or egg products include many baked goods, baking mixes, batters, bearnaise sauce, boiled frostings, breaded meats, breakfast cereals, cake flours, some candies, cookies, creamy fillings, croquettes, custards, egg nog, egg noodles, most egg substitutes, French toast, fondants, frozen desserts, Hollandaise sauce, some hot dogs, ice cream, macaroons, marshmallow products, macaroni, malted cocoa drinks, mayonnaise, meatloafs, meringues, noodle soups, pancakes, many processed meats, puddings, root beers, many salad dressings, sausages, some sherbet, spaghetti, tartar sauce, waffles, and some wines.


Sometimes pretzels, bagels, buns, candy or other baked goods are brushed with egg white to give them a shiny appearance.

Cosmetics, shampoos, laxatives, and pharmaceuticals sometimes contain egg proteins, so be sure to read the labels carefully.

Substitutions
Often times, you can skip the eggs in a recipe if it only calls for one or two. All you need to do is add a couple extra tablespoons of liquid to balance the moisture content of the product.

There are several ways in which to substitute eggs in a recipe. For each egg, substitute one of the following:

As Binders

1/2 large mashed banana

1/4 cup apple sauce or pureed prunes

1 tablespoon ground flaxseed mixed with 3 tablespoons water

1 1/2 tablespoons water, 1 1/2 tablespoons oil, and 1 teaspoon baking powder

Combine one packet of unflavored gelatin with one cup boiling water - 3 tablespoons of this mixture equal one egg

1 tablespoon apricot puree

1/4 cup of soft tofu

1/4 cup soy milk

As Leavening

2 tablespoons carbonated water and 2 teaspoons baking flour

1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 tablespoon water, and 1 tablespoon vinegar (add vinegar separately at the end for rising)

Dissolve 1 teaspoon yeast in 1/4 cup warm water

1 heaping tablespoon of soy flour and one tablespoon water

1 tablespoon bean flour and 1 tablespoon oil

1 tablespoon of arrowroot powder mixed with 3 tablespoons water

1 tablespoon cornstarch mixed with 3 tablespoons water

2 tablespoons gluten flour or unbleached white flour, 1 1/2 teaspoons corn oil, 1/2 teaspoons baking powder, and 2 tablespoons water

For Whipping

1/4 teaspoon xanthan gum with about 1/4 cup of water. Let stand. It thickens, and can be whipped like an egg white.