Thanks duonyte - I'm sure that will be a great thread and appreciated by many gluten-freers
It's such a shock leaving a doctors rooms after being told that you must immediately start on a gluten-free diet- none of the bread, cookies, pastry, flours, biscuits, breakfast cereals, pasta and most manufactured food products that you bought.
The hardest part for me was replacing bread in my diet. Store bought gluten-free breads really are no replacement for regular breads using wheat or rye. They are expensive, small, heavy and not good at all for a sandwich.
Now you find that you need to learn quickly about gluten-free baking..... What are the flours and starches you can use ? Gluten-free flours all have different qualities and uses.
I think everyone who finds themselves needing to be gluten-free wants to find a bread recipe that will make a suitable replacement for 'regular' bread.
Finding a really good gf bread replacement is like finding the holy grail.....but finding a replacement for the bread you are used to becomes an obsession
-Julie