How Good is Legal Sea Foods at Handling Food Allergies? Part 2

How Good is Legal Sea Foods at Handling Food Allergies? Part 2

[The following AllergyEats Blog post was written by Adrienne Walkowiak] Legal Sea Foods, a popular restaurant chain, gets high praise when it comes to serving food-allergic guests.  For years, their restaurants have been doing all the right things – training their staff, implementing specific allergy protocols and offering a gluten-free menu.  According to Corporate Chef […]

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The GlutenTox Home Test Kit: Check This Out!

The GlutenTox Home Test Kit: Check This Out!

 Recently while traveling on my European Book Tour, I came across a gluten test kit I had never used before, and I just had to share it with you!  First of all, I believe that every celiac shouldn’t be without a gluten home test. Do you ever wonder about whether something is truly gluten-free? This […]

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Listen to My NABBW (National Association of Baby Boomer Women) Teleseminar on Celiac Disease

Listen to My NABBW (National Association of Baby Boomer Women) Teleseminar on Celiac Disease

I had the honor and pleasure of being featured in a NABBW (National Association of Baby Boomer Women) teleseminar on celiac disease with Anne Holmes, the “Boomer-in-Chief” of the NABBW, National Association of Baby Boomer Women. Follow the link below to have a listen or download the teleseminar as an MP3: http://attendthisevent.com/?eventid=14823489 Enjoy! Tina Turbin […]

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Gluten is Not the Real Problem?

Gluten is Not the Real Problem?

Is it really the GLUTEN? This is news everyone needs to really know to get a bit more advanced knowledge of gluten and celiac disease and please stay informed through the many radio shows on these topics. In my research and radio shows I find it is always helpful to add a bit more advanced […]

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Cereal Vit- Gluten Free Cereal

Cereal Vit- Gluten Free Cereal

Today we were testing and comparing notes of four flavors of cereal simultaneously at my Florida and L.A. studios. We had Cereal Vit’s Organic Corn Flakes, Organic Benevit Multi Grain Flakes, Organic Coffee Flakes (yes, coffee), and their just-released Choco Stars (yes, chocolate). The combined notes are really the only way to do a summary […]

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LABELING REGULATIONS IN JEOPARDY NOW- URGENT ALERT

LABELING REGULATIONS IN JEOPARDY NOW- URGENT ALERT

URGENT ALERT… PROPOSED FOOD ALLERGEN/GLUTEN LABELING REGULATIONS IN JEOPARDY Celiac and allergy groups have joined together in response to the strong opposition of the beer industry over the proposed regulatory changes by Health Canada. Below are some of the press releases in the news: http://www.prweb.com/releases/Celiac-Disease-Allergens/Food-Beverage-Labelling/prweb4999184.htm Please pass this along to your colleagues and friends in […]

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The Gluten Free Bistro- Fresh Gluten-Free Pizza Crust For You

The Gluten Free Bistro- Fresh Gluten-Free Pizza Crust For You

Terrific gluten-free recipe using the GF Bistro crust is at your fingertips now! I think we just died and went to “Pizza Heaven.” Take a look at these pictures, and you’ll see the kitchen at work testing The Gluten Free Bistro’s GF pizza crust. The taste of this crust is light in texture yet hearty […]

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Tina’s Use of the GF Bistro Pizza Crust

Tina’s Use of the GF Bistro Pizza Crust

I have been known to not be one to follow directions so this is my version of the GF Bistro Pizza Crust which suited the testers quite well. We did try out the instructions included yet we feel the recipe turned out a slight bit better in the “crust department” when we made s light […]

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Author Connie Sarros Acknowledges Tina Turbin

Author Connie Sarros Acknowledges Tina Turbin

Congratulations to Tina Turbin! Some people accomplish extraordinary things. When they do, it’s nice to recognize them and applaud them for their accomplishments. Tina Turbin is one of those people. She’s well known by many of you because of her involvement in the celiac community. Who is Tina Turbin? Tina is an activist in two main fields: […]

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O’Doughs

O’Doughs

O’Doughs may be a newer name to those in the States, but they’ve established themselves quite well in Canada among the gluten-free community. Owner, Ari Weinberg, and his current product development team have an array of loaves, rolls, cakes, and pizza kits that are not only delicious but have the texture we’ve all been yearning […]

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Cook-in-the-Kitchen

Cook-in-the-Kitchen

Cook-in-the-Kitchen has 4 gluten-free soups which we tested and really enjoyed. We did add a few touches, more in the area of protein and an occasional chopped fresh vegetable, but it was not a necessity to add anything to their full flavor soups. We used their Welsh Potato soup as a base for our Clam […]

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My Personal Story with Bio-K Plus

My Personal Story with Bio-K Plus

While on a three-week book tour last fall in New England, I spent many meals dodging gluten, often driving away still hungry. Many days I know I ingested gluten from hidden sources or even an unclean grill, due to the effects I experienced soon after; the gluten was taking its toll. My intestines and joints […]

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Andean Dream- ONLY Gluten Free

Andean Dream- ONLY Gluten Free

Andean Dream’s Organic Quinoa-Rice Pasta cooks and tastes more like the “real” pasta I was used to eating before being diagnosed with celiac disease. I had seven people test the pasta with me. We all agreed. We introduced the pasta to those not on a GF diet, and they couldn’t tell it was GF pasta—that’s […]

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Deerfields Gluten-Free Bakery- WOW!

Deerfields Gluten-Free Bakery- WOW!

Deerfields Gluten-Free Bakery, located in Schaumburg, Illinois, is open to everyone at their location and via the internet. Lucky for us as well as their gluten-free line is in a dedicated GF facility! Open since 1886, it is now a five-generation bakery. I’m telling you, folks, if you want some tasty treats and delicious baked […]

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Gluten-Free Baking Question

Gluten-Free Baking Question

Tina, I have a baking question for you…. How do you get the muffins to (basically) explode above the muffin cups? All of the muffins I have ever baked (GF or otherwise) just kinda go flat once they bake…making a hockey-puck shape…how do you get “THE muffin-top”??? I’ve tried ALL different kinds of things to […]

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Karmic Krunch – a Gluten Free TREAT!

Karmic Krunch – a Gluten Free TREAT!

Karmic Krunch is a little granola meets trail mix, meets healthy, meets moist, meets lightly crunchy. It has a slight caramel flavor from just the right about of agave. If anyone is looking for a gluten-free snack that’s truly healthy and satisfying, here’s your purchase. Sandi Star is a certified Clinical Nutritionist and founder of […]

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Liz Lovely

Liz Lovely

I need to start out by letting you know that what I share with you in this review may just change your life! The subject at hand is cookies. Yes, cookies. Those delectable little (or large) morsels of “yum.” When it comes to gluten-free cookies, we celiacs tend to compromise and like our newfound cookies. […]

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RC Fine Foods- Gluten-Free Thickener is Amazing!

RC Fine Foods- Gluten-Free Thickener is Amazing!

Tina, I am convinced this gluten-free thickener can be used in many ways just as Chef Torado states. I know he used it for orange “souffle” which is amazing, by the way. For one product to be versatile enough to make that recipe as well as my soups, well this is quite a product! I […]

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Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Avocado Cupcakes (Vegan)

Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Avocado Cupcakes (Vegan)

  A dear friend sent me this unique cupcake recipe.  So unique in fact that it would go perfectly with my one-of-a-kind recipe for Aztec hot chocolate. Vegan & GF Chocolate Chip Avocado Cupcakes Ingredients: 1 ½ cups Dakota Prairie GF Millet Flour Blend ( or any other GF flour blend of your choice) ¾ cup Enjoy […]

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Company & Product Review: Sweet Christine’s

Company & Product Review: Sweet Christine’s

www.sweetchristinesglutenfree.com Safe to eat, healthy, gluten-free, and top-of-the-line yummy—that is how we are summing up Sweet Christine’s. Oh my, folks, brownies that are the best ever, better than the best wheat brownies I’ve had in the past—no kidding!—donuts that taste like donuts should, and a truly decadent chocolate lava cake that oozed with chocolate as […]

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