Discover essential tips for transitioning to a gluten-free lifestyle at home. Learn about safe foods, cross-contamination, and meal planning.
Essential Tips for Transitioning to a Gluten-Free Lifestyle at Home
Living a gluten-free lifestyle can be challenging, especially when it comes to making necessary changes at home. Practical tips for organizing your kitchen can significantly ease this transition. One effective strategy is to designate specific areas in your kitchen for gluten-free products, ensuring they are separated from items containing gluten. This helps to prevent cross-contamination and makes it easier to find gluten-free ingredients when preparing meals.
In addition to kitchen organization, it’s essential to communicate your dietary needs with others in your household. Engaging family members or roommates in the gluten-free journey can foster a supportive environment. Educating them about the importance of adhering to a gluten-free diet not only helps in managing your dietary requirements but also encourages a collaborative effort in meal planning and preparation.
Transforming Your Kitchen: Embracing a Gluten-Free Lifestyle with Flavor and Flair!
Welcome to changes in the home following a gluten-free lifestyle this video is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional dietry or medical advice if you’ve been told recently that you need to follow a street gluten-free lifestyle imagining what that life will look like may seem a little unclear at the moment these.
Videos are aimed at providing Clarity around how certain areas of life may be different as you move out a gluten-free lifestyle your home life is one of those areas and one is the most important that for you to adjust so that you can live in harmony with your body’s needs and with the other people in your household although the changes required.
Are small in isolation throwing out habitual behaviors and getting a hold of new ones can feel daunting and if you do live with others the need for them to catch on to the new ways of living as a whole other layer of complexity with awareness and experience and support from those around you the changes that need to be made in your.
Home life can be easy and achievable the main things that are recommended that I recommend for making life at home uh more conducive to living a gluten-free lifestyle are to know labeling and to Shop Smart so the explanation around labeling laws has already been covered in the previous labeling video this knowledge will impact the products that.
You buy before you even bring them into the home if you do share food with others they too will need to understand what is gluten-free and what isn’t and possibly how to re labeling so that the foods that are purchased for you are suitable and safe cross contamination or accidental contamination are areas that require awareness consideration and.
Changes in Behavior to reduce the risk cross-contamination is when gluten is transferred from one surface such as a utensil or a gluten containing food to a gluten-free surface resulting in it no longer being gluten-free I have a million and one examples of how this can occur for example uh someone is using a knife to spread butter onto their wheat.
Toast and then going in for just a little bit more transferring the crumbs from the toast back into the butter container or someone taking a cracker a wheat cracker and using it to get some dip inevitably putting crumbs into the dip so what was potentially specifically gluten-free dip is now no longer glutenfree and what seems like maybe a.
Insignificant behavior of eating gluten containing potato chips and then putting the same hand into the gluten-free packet this can also trans no gluten as you continue on your gluten-free Journey you will see it happen over and over and over again as you become aware of what to look for in order for it to be minimized it requires everyone in your.
Household to be aware and to practice simple risk reduction behaviors cross-contamination and accidental contamination can be secret Sabers to your healing as they can lead to you unknowingly ingesting gluten due to its unobvious presence in a perfect world to avoid cross-contamination you wouldn’t even.
Bring Glen into the household hold to begin with but as a previous gluten eater I know that some glutenous foods are just so much more tasty uh and cheaper than their glutenfree counterparts so therefore most people who don’t need to eat gluten-free wouldn’t choose to do so in the circumstance that gluten is a part of.
Your household the following are some things that you can do you and all those in your household need to be aware of how cross-contamination occurs cross-contamination can occur through the shared use of cooking devices in some circumstances when cleaning the device thoroughly isn’t possible or not something that you want to do regularly.
CU it’s quite burdensome you can have separate cooking devices it may be the easiest and safest way to avoid cross contamination for example the toaster it would be near impossible to remove all traces of cooked on glutenous bread there are alternatives such as using toaster bags but if you use a toaster regularly the easiest and cheapest and.
Probably most environmentally friendly option is having a dedicated gluten-free toaster in the house and for all people to be aware of the importance of not putting glutenous bread in it in the same category may be pie makers waffle makers and other cooking devices with intricate areas that are difficult to get 100% clean of all of the previous.
Gluten containing foods like batters And Pastry if you can’t guarantee that you are able to remove all of the traces you are best to have a separate cooking device for glutenfree chopping boards are another one they they have cuts and crevices where gluten can stick and it’s impossible to know if they have been.
Cleaned to Perfection so having a dedicated chopping board is the ideal scenario but if you can’t uh have your own chopping board cutting your food on a plate is another alternative to reduce the risk of cross contamination ensure that your kitchen items are washed properly plates bowls Cutlery glasses can all have leftover.
Bits of gluten on them if you have a dishwasher this may be the best way to wash your kitchen items but if not ensure that you’re following adequate washing technique to remove as much gluten as possible cleaning of kitchen surfaces is also a must surfaces like benches stove tops ovens grills and barbecues can have residual gluten on.
Them if gluten containing foods have been cooked or prepared on a Surface be sure to wash them thoroughly before using them for gluten-free food preparation a cheat way around this could be around the need to clean surfaces could be to use baking paper or Al oil to separate the gluten-free food from the surface adding an extra layer.
Of protection this can also be used for baking pans and oven trays to reduce the risk personal hygiene can also contribute to a safe gluten-free environment so washing your hands thoroughly between handling gluten containing foods and non-gluten containing foods is of utmost importance people who have gluten on.
Their hands or their clothing such as when they’re baking a cake and they wipe their hands on an apron or a tea tow they have they can then inadvertently transfer that gluten by placing that teail on a bench for example uh or using it to dry utensils or to even dry their hands whilst they’re handling gluten-free food it’s not just important.
That you have a better understanding of how to reduce the risk of gluten ingestion but also that others are aware so that they don’t compromise your efforts and it more often than not isn’t out of malice but simply a lack of understanding of how certain behaviors can lead to ingesting gluten and the detrimental effects that they could have.
On you others aren’t aware because they L Haven it needed to be so in a way it’s on you to help them to understand I have friends who go out of their way to to make sure that they’re cooking the beautiful gluten-free meals but then they accidentally add an ingredient assuming that it’s gluten-free but it isn’t like soy sauce and it’s only my.
Astute eye that I will catch when things have been glutened such as soy sauce in a stew or oat milk in a potato bait these things could have my fastidious efforts to be gluten-free Kam auta which is Aussie for fail miserable if they are willing it would be worth for the people that you live with to.
Watch these videos too in all the videos in the course if they’re willing to help them to understand about cross contamination and labeling or for you to explain it to them to improve your home environment if they aren’t aware they may be doing things that you aren’t pretty to that are causing you to continue to ingest gluten without your.
Knowing which could prolong your symptoms and intestinal damage some other simple ways to reduce the risk are to put gluten-free foods at the top of the fridge or the pantry so there less risk of the gluten dropping onto the foods beneath them serve gluten and gluten-free foods on separate serving platters with separate serving utensils.
Have separate and clearly labeled spreads so you can double dip that knife all you like and with shared meals have the Celiac or the gluten-free person serve themselves first this way cross contamination is at its lowest when everything is consciously and freshly prepared make people aware if you have guests for dinner and they don’t.
Understand that the simple Act of using the same spoon for the bread and butter pudding and then putting it into the mering now means no dessert for you educate them I’m sure it isn’t a big deal to them to use a different spoon for the different desserts but going out without dessert I can tell you is a big deal for me at first a lot of people.
Find it easier to eat at home as a newly diagnosed Celiac um as they take their first steps into the gluten-free world of living having a safe and carefree space to cook and eat can feel like a sanctuary and when um and when you have Improvement in symptoms it can feel sometimes like it’s not even worth the risk to eat out when you know that you.
Will be safe and comfortable at home but in the next video I will walk you through experience of dining out and give you tips and tricks on how to lower the risk so you can continue to enjoy the flavors of restaurant eating and the social Gatherings around coffee meetups and to continue living life as normal as possible in summary educate yourself and.
Other household members on labeling shopping and ways you can reduce the risk of contamination separate cooking utensils and other cooking devices and ensure that they’re thoroughly cleaned between uses to reduce the risk of cross contamination store gluten-free foods carefully in the fridge or Pantry where.
Uh they can be at the Top If possible and appropriately labeled and if gluten is present on your hands or clothing wash them or change them before handling gluten-free items ensure all surfaces are thoroughly cleaned and educate yourself and others in your household on the best practices for living a grit andree life.
