Living Without, a magazine sensitive and catering to the needs of gluten intolerance and common food allergies, offers useful advice and a wide range of recipes that are gluten and allergy free. Living Without can be a useful magazine for those who appreciate candid advice for their food sensitivity needs, and who are not afraid to experiment with baking.
Advice for Celiac and Dairy Allergies
Living Without offers practical advice, especially for celiac and dairy allergies. Readers can find short pieces containing advice on understanding your allergy diagnosis, what to consult the doctor on, allergy testing, healthy living, and caring for kids with allergies.
As mainly a food magazine, Living Without offers a wide variety of suggestions for substitute foods and ingredients for its readers with food sensitivities and allergies. These suggestions can go a long way when it comes to baking gluten free, dairy free, nut free, egg free, or simply free of anything irritant to a sensitive tummy. Moreover, the suggested ingredient substitutions are fairly easy to find in health food stores, specialty stores like Bulk Barn, and even local grocery stores. With more celiac and allergy awareness comes more available substitute foods that are healthy and becoming tastier all the time.
Gluten Free, Allergy Free Recipes
Living Without is a great magazine for allergy friendly and especially gluten free recipes. Not only does the magazine offer a helpful selection of easily obtained ingredient substitutions, but with these substitutions come easy to follow recipes that provide a full range of different foods and baked goods.
A common issue with gluten free baking especially is that they do not always turn out as expected. There may be a few reasons for this. For one thing, even well-baked gluten free foods normally have a denser, crumblier texture than their “regular” counterparts, and a shorter shelf life due to few, if any, preservatives. This lack of preservatives causes the gluten free eater to keep baked goods in the fridge, making them a little less fresh feeling. Also, gluten free recipes can be finicky. If the recipes are not followed precisely, the result is naturally an imprecise loaf, cookie, muffin, etc.
While Living Without’s substitute ingredients are well researched and the recipes do result in overall pleasing foods, consider a few points of advice. Firstly, follow the recipes closely, especially in measuring ingredients, and in directions as well. There is a reason, for example, why dry ingredients are mixed separately from the wet, and it is not just to make more dirty dishes.
Secondly, when it comes to bake times and oven temperatures, use some intuition. All ovens are different, and some are particularly hot. Your intuition and oven may go against following the directions exactly, but if you check your dough and find that it is golden brown and cooked through before the time the recipe claims, no need to wait the other few minutes and allow it to burn.
Living Without is a food and lifestyle magazine that with it’s advice, stories, and recipes, focusses on enhancing the health, wellness, and daily lives of those with celiac, common food allergies and sensitivities.
Michelle Wright - Michelle is an avid reader and writer, with a focus on book, film and music reviews, gluten free recipes, and fiction writing "how-tos."
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