One cost for another

[sailorzeo]

With the knowledge that I'm going to most-likely be gluten/wheat free for the rest of my life, and the mounting costs of the flours, I'm thinking about spending the money for a grain mill.  I saw at Bed Bath and Beyond (online) a grain mill attachment for a KitchenAid mixer, that runs about $150.  That was the only grain mill I saw there.  Nothing at Linens N Things online.  

I know I need to do more research on them, but when a pound and a half of GF all-purpose flour is about $6, and five pounds of wheat flour is only $2, at most, grinding my own flour is sounding better and better.

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Gluten-free for the rest of your life

[sapphirerose924.livejournal.com]

Another of my co-workers said that she went gluten-free for a mood reason several years ago. She said that she stayed gluten-free for two years, then started to reintroduce wheat in small amounts at her doctor's request. She said that in the two-year period whatever was causing her poor reaction to gluten apparently went away because she is now back to a regular diet after a very slow ramp up. Maybe in a couple of years, you can start eating small amounts of gluten again to see if your body chemistry has changed again. It never made you grumpy in college or the pancake breakfasts would have been a nightmare. Sometimes our bodies change as we get older. We can just hope that yours changes again or that stores carry more, cheaper products in response to an increasing number of gluten-free people.

Re: Gluten-free for the rest of your life

[sailorzeo.livejournal.com]

Hey, it's been two years since this post, and I still get crazy and tired when I try wheat. And now I'm starting to cramp when I have dairy. :-P I think any changes my body makes anymore are just to piss me off.

[dollsahoy.livejournal.com]

If you have access to 'ethnic' market stores, you can find things like rice flour (Asian groceries), bean flour (called gram or besam or other things, in Indian stores--it's the coating on yummy yummy batter-fried pakoras) and, of course, massa corn flour in Mexican markets, all for considerably less per pound (or kilo) than similar flours in upscale/organic/whole-foods type stores. There may be other kinds of flours in the 'ethnic' places, too. You'll just have to buy huge bags, heh. (I know spices are always unbelievably cheaper in 'ethnic' markets, too.)

[sailorzeo.livejournal.com]

Living in Phoenix, I can find masa at WalMart. :-D There are a number of Asian markets around here (I still want to check out House of Rice in Scottsdale, and New Tokyo Food Mart that supposedly carries the US Rement), and I think I go past an Indian market on my way to work. Someone was telling me there were "two pages worth" of different ethnic/language groups in the Phoenix area. It's kind of neat to think about.

But also, watching Alton Brown grind his own flour on Good Eats, it just looks fun, too. :) I'm weird that way.

[dollsahoy.livejournal.com]

Now that you mention it, I can find masa at WalMart here in Nashville, too *wonders how many "pages worth" of diversity there are in Nashville*

Alton Brown makes everything look like fun =)