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Books for the Blind

Cookbooks

1. Delicious Gluten-Free Wheat-Free Breads by LynnRae Ries and Bruce Gross. This is our favorite bread recipe cookbook. Recipes can be made in a bread machine or in the oven.
2. Wheat-Free, Gluten Free Dessert Cookbook by Connie Sarros. 400 recipes, many of which use eggs, ground nuts, or other ingredients as a base instead of flour. For those that do use "flour", there is a new gluten-free flour recipe that results in lighter desserts that hold together better.
3. Wheat-Free Gluten-Free Reduced Calorie Cookbook by Connie Sarros. This book has 472 new recipes! While all the recipes are reduced calorie, each recipe is labeled if it is low-fat, low-cholesterol, low sodium, and/or dairy-free.
4. "Delicious! The Very Best of Gluten Free & Wheat Free Cooking" by Diane Jacobs, B. A. Recipes are hand-crafted and tested personally in the author's home kitchen. This book includes many kid-friendly recipes, Helpful Hints for Holiday Cooking shortcuts, and more.
5. Gluten-Free Baking Classics, 2nd Ed. by Annalise Roberts. An easy-to-use cooking resource for celiacs, those with wheat allergies, or anyone who wants to avoid gluten. Highly praised by Gourmet magazine, medical professionals, and individuals with celiac disease.
6. The Ice Dream Cookbook by Rachel Albert-Matesz. This book features naturally sweetened dairy-free frozen desserts made from coconut milk along with wheat- and gluten- free, naturally sweetened cookies, fruit compotes, and sauces.
7. A Wonderful World of Gluten Free Health by Georgia Grisolia. This is a cookbook designed to help the person who is gluten intolerant or allergic to wheat with recipes that are not difficult to make, not full of exotic ingredients and good to eat. Over 300 recipes.
8. Gourmet Desserts by Mike Eberhart. This gluten-free desserts cookbook has a money back guarantee! Full color photos accompany each recipe. You can find recipes for Black Forest Bundt Cake, Boston Cream Pie, Strawberry Cream Cake, Creme de Menthe Tarts, Almond Biscotti, Cream Puffs,Chocolate Caramel Brownies, Orange Carrot Bread, Lemon-Raspberry Souffle and more .
9. Wheat-free Gluten-free Cookbook for Kids and Working Adults by Connie Sarros.
10. Gluten Free Baking Classics by Annalise Roberts. This collection of "delicious and dependable" gluten free recipes includes recipes for scones, angel food cake, eclairs, tarts, biscotti, pies and more.
11. Globally Gluten-Free by Nancy Baker & Friends. The celiac author of this book is the spouse of a diplomat. Every month she caters many diplomatic receptions - and what she prepares for dinner is always gluten-free.
12. Incredible, Edible Gluten Free Foods by Sheri Sanderson. Sheri wrote this book in order to provide recipes that are nutritious, tasty and fun while catering to the food preferences of children. Over 40 families taste-tested her recipes. The book includes party and entertaining tips, party menus, craft recipes, and suggestions for parents regarding daycare, preschool, elementary school, sleep-overs and birthday parties that the child may be invited to.
13. Wheat-Free Recipes and Menus by Carol Fenster, PhD. This book includes over 250 recipes, 100 menus and lots of helpful tips.
14. The Gluten-Free Gourmet Cooks Comfort Foods by Bette Hagman. Macaroni and Cheese, Chicken Pot Pie, Lasagna and around 200 other recipes using new flours.
15. More from the Gluten-Free Gourmet by Bette Hagman. Delicious dining without wheat.
16. Bon Appetit: Without the Wheat by Julie Ambrose. This book contains over 175 gluten-free and wheat-free recipes that use premixed gluten-free flour and ingredients that can be found at any grocery store.
17. The Gluten-Free Kitchen by Roben Ryberg.
18. Gluten Free Electronic Cookbooks by Buckwheat Pete.
19. Allergy Diet Shop Books with a wealth of health information including recipes for allergy sufferers and those just wanting to improve their health. Learn to take control of your health.

Dining Cards

1. Triumph Dining These dining cards cover six global cuisines. Hidden sources of gluten are covered as are the problems of cross contamination. Foldable to be wallet sized and laminated.
2. Dietary Cards Dietarycard has been taking the ordeal out of ordering in restaurants and hotels since 1999. This company is based in the UK.

Resource Books

1. Gluten-Free Diet: A Comprehensive Resource Guide by Shelley Case. We sat down to read Shelley Case's book one night and couldn't put it down. The meticulous care she's taken with her research is impressive. I especially liked her chapter on US and Canadian labeling regulations. I've learned a lot from this book. It's a "must have" for celiacs and their families!)
2. Kids With Celiac Disease: A Family Guide to Raising Happy, Healthy Gluten-Free Children by Dana Korn. This book addresses many of the challenges parents of celiac children face such as sending kids to birthday parties, school, and babysitters; menu planning and snack ideas; and traveling and eating out at restaurants. It also looks at emotional issues like panic, anger, grief, denial; peer pressure; the temptation to cheat -- and the teenage years.
3. The Food Allergy Field Guide: A Lifestyle Manual for Families by T. Willingham. This book is a comprehensive resource guide for helping families of children with food sensitivities live happy, fully integrated lives at home, school and anywhere else.
4. The Essential Gluten Free Restaurant Guide by Triumph Dining. This book includes strategies to deal with restaurant dining as well as info on privately owned and chain restaurants across the US that offer gluten free menus and options.
5. The Essential Gluten Free Grocery Guide by Triumph Dining. This book is a full color grocery guide with a color coded navigation system organized like a real grocery store.
6. Wheat Free, Worry Free: The Art of Happy, Healthy, Gluten-free Living by Dana Korn. Practical, comprehensive and inspirational....Wheat Free Worry Free answers many questions people have about the challenges of living on a gluten free diet. This book is loaded with practical tips, recipes, menu suggestions and ideas.
7. Bagels, Buddy, and Me by Melanie Krumrey. This children's book is told from the perspective of the author's middle son who was the first of her three children to be diagnosed with celiac disease. Buddy is their golden retiever who also can not eat wheat!
8. What? No Wheat? by LynnRae Ries. Customer Review: "It is a lighthearted primer to living the gluten free life...an excellent starting point for all newly diagnosed. A neat book. Plus a few recipes to start people off. (Sarah F. Day, mother of a 15 year old celiac)
9. Living Well With Celiac Disease: Abundance Beyond Wheat and Gluten by Claudine Crangle The author of this book provides "essential strategies" for coping with celiac disease. Her "positive focus on the many food alternatives, combined with her friendly and informative style and excellent advice, makes this a wonderful and necessary book for all who need to find optimum health on a wheat-and gluten-free diet," says Dr. R. E. Warren, M.D., F.R.C.P.C., D.T.M. & H., Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto, Division of Gastroenterology, St. Michael's Hospital.
10. A Personal Touch on Celiac Disease Edited by Peter Berlin. Members of the celiac community share their stories, poems, tips and recipes in this 368 page book.
11. What on Earth is a Celiac? by Diane Jacobs, B.A. This free, 50 page ebook explains what celiac disease is; discusses symptoms, diagnosis and treatment; and provides information on other subjects such as associated diseases and children with celiac disease. It also includes a starter guide to eating gluten free.
12. The Essential Gluten Free Guide by Peter Tremayne The Essential Gluten Free Guide is an e-book dealing with the numerous problems anyone suffering from a gluten or wheat allergy encounters. It provides the reader with tools to improve their quality of life as well as adhering to a gluten and wheat free diet. The content includes information about the history of celiac disease, an explanation about the various techniques of diagnosis, dos and don'ts about eating at home and out, an immediate action plan, successful goal setting and techniques to help you change.

Videos/DVDs

1. Gluten Free Cooking From Scratch: A Guide to Gluten Free and Casein Free Cooking by Helen Sanders.
2. Raising Your Celiac Child: Guidelines for a Gluten-free Life by the Boston Children's Hospital Celiac Support Group.