Lisa Shops for Gluten Free Products – What Other Ingredients Mean Gluten...and Tasty Meatballs

When I first was diagnosed with food allergies, I knew I couldn’t eat gluten, but what did that really mean? Well, it means a lot more than just gluten when it came to reading food labels, that’s for sure.

Below, I gathered a list of other ingredients or products that could possibly contain wheat or gluten. If you see these, you are going to have to dig a little more, call or email the manufacturer, you may have to be persistent, they aren’t always in a hurry to reply. In future posts, I will tackle other allergens and hidden ingredients to look for. If you have some to add to this list, send me a comment and I will add them, we all learn together. This list comes from several sources, I got some from my doctor, Dr. H. Martha Howard (http://www.wellnessofchicago.com/) and also some from the http://www.gfcfdiet.com/.

Abyssian Hard Barley Barley Flour Barley Malt Beer Bleached All Purpose Flour Bouillon Cubes or Powder Bran Brown Flour Bulgar Caramel Color Cereal Binding Cereal Extract Chorizo Cracker Meal Delactosed Whey Demineralized Whey Durum Durum Flour

Edible Starch Farina Filler Food Starch Fu Gelatinized Starch Germ Glutamate Graham Flour Granary Flour Ground Spices Hydrolyzed Oat Starch Hydrolyzed Plant Protein Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein Kamut Malt Malt Syrup Malt Vinegar

Modified Starch Oat Flour Pastry Flour Pearl Barley Rice Malt Rice Syrup Rye Flour Seitan Semolina Flour Soba Noodles Spelt Sprouted Flour Teriyaki Sauce Vegetable Gum Vitamins Whey Hydrolysate Whole Meal Flour

On to something to eat, enjoy!

Jumbo Meatballs
Serves 4-6

Add these meatballs to your next rice pasta dish or just eat them alone, great for kids to snack on.

1 pound ground beef
½ pound ground pork
¼ cup rice milk
equivalent 1 egg
¼ cup rice breadcrumbs
¼ cup onion, chopped
1 tablespoon ketchup
2 tablespoons flat leaf Italian parsley, chopped
1½ teaspoons Kosher salt
½ teaspoon ground black pepper
¼ cup bacon drippings
¼ cup beef broth
¼ cup rice flour (if you want gravy)

Mix all ingredients except bacon drippings and beef broth.
Shape into 1½-inch balls.
Refrigerate at least one hour.
Pre-heat sauté pan over medium-high heat and add bacon drippings.
Brown meatballs in pan and add beef broth, add cover.
Reduce heat to low and simmer 45 minutes or until meat is cooked.
If you want gravy, remove meatballs and slowly add rice flour to mixture.