Gluten-free Foods Guide

Last year, I had the skin problem, so I started on a "clean eating" diet and whilst we waited out the flare-ups, the rash appeared like a gluten intolerance rash.

Gluten-free foods

Thus, I decided to try a "gluten-free" diet and looked out for gluten-free foods. 

 Among the list of foods I had to avoid were:
1) Barley
2) Soy sauce
3) Oats
4) Flour and flour products - bread crumbs, pasta, cake flour, tortillas, ramen, udon etc!

Was the gluten-free diet successful?

Yes, in the sense that I managed to remove A LOT of processed foods from my daily diet.

I also started eating more whole foods e.g. proteins, fats, fruits and vegetables that should be part of a healthy teenager's diet.

However, in shopping for "gluten-free" products in the supermarket, I found that many of them (some of them were unhealthy to begin with) were sold at ridiculously expensive prices.

Plus, some of the foods that are labelled "gluten-free" are not even nutritious!

Since health foods are big business now, many food manufacturing companies are cashing in on consumer trends.

Please read labels carefully before you buy any expensive "gluten-free" packaged foods from the supermarket, ok? 

Here's one of the more helpful charts showing us food that contain gluten and foods that are gluten-free:

Ever since we made our Japanese onigiri, we explored Asian food and snacks - many of them are made of gluten-free rice and corn