<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> Dear gluten avoiders: Some of the responses I received to my inquiry about breakfast ideas for carb intolerance were actually questions about carbohydrate intolerance! LOL! So I'll post a link to information that describes the symptoms & gives a diet that works wonders at controlling the symptoms. This diet has changed my life & enabled me to return to work. http://www.guaidoc.com/PAGES/hypoglycemia.html and http://www.guaidoc.com/PAGES/hypoglycemiadiet.html This is actually a site for fibromyalgia, but the diet works great for anyone that suffers with carbohydrate intolerance (sometimes erroneously called hypoglycemia). With a few modifications it can be GF. (If these links don't work, try http://www.guaidoc.com . You'll get the home page. Scroll down to the sections on hypoglycemia & the hypoglycemia diet.) I was asked by several people to describe my personal symptoms. If I eat too many sweets & carbs I have: dizziness, confusion, slurred speech, fatigue, shakiness, craving sweets, hunger shortly after a meal, insomnia, nightmares -- it's a real trip! From the responses I have received, I've learned that I have a lot of homework to do & much to learn about this condition. I have learned that what I know & seem to understand is just the tip of the iceberg. I especially was impressed by the touching experience shared by Eudene's thoughtful cousin. At any rate, as a start up measure for dealing with my current food problems, I bought a great book called "the ALLERGY self-help cookbook by Marjorie Hurt Jones. It has over 325 natural foods recipes, free of wheat, milk, eggs, corn, yeast, sugar and other common food allergens. (I made my first recipe, the slow cooked chicken dinner, last evening & it was great!) I've put myself on a 5 day rotary diet & hoping this can help prevent any further allergies from cropping up & perhaps help me eventually overcome some of my other allergies. Thanks to everyone who responded, especially to Eudene's cousin. ~Valerie in TAcoma,WA Here's the summary: -"If you go to the DELPHI.com message board, you'll find a list member who posts some great recipes." -"You can get ideas from Atkins' cookbooks and a book by Dr Bernstein "Controlling Diabetes" ... rice cake with organic almond butter for breakfast..nothing wrong with eating 'dinner foods' [for breakfast]" -"For breakfast I try to eat some protein with fruit. Normally it's tuna or some other kind of fish (I broil a lot of fresh salmon and then have leftovers for breakfast.... sounds icky, but the Japanese eat fish every morning and they stay healthy)" -"I eat a lot of nuts for breakfast. Cashews,macadamia,walnuts,pecans...I also grill a hamburger steak if I'm home or even a regular steak." -"soy flour waffle...using whatever binder you are able to use. I like fruit and nuts for breakfast with a cup of peppermint tea sometimes. SOmetimes I eat pureed squash and a few refried beans, and strange as it might sound, it is tasty and filling." -"This issue of Gluten Free Living,...explains that just as many celiacs may be lactose intolerant for the first year or two of the diet (till they learn to avoid the hidden glutens and the gut has a chance to heal) so some of them may also be intolerant to other disacharrides such as sucrose and maltose ...once we learn to follow the diet, these cells will repair, and we will probably be able to digest these sugars again" [I sure hope so] -"My cousin Eudene mistook her valium for her birth control pills. She had 12 kids -- but she doesn't care." -"Maybe you have other food allergies and it is not carbohydrates. You can have a reaction up to 3 days after eating something, and it seems like one food is making you ill, when it was something else that you ate three days ago!...There is a lab in Fla. that does allergy testing... If you are interested, call 1-800-684-2231 & Ask for Lisa Durrow. (I was extremely ill, and bedridden and wasn't getting any better on the gf diet, and they literally saved my life!!)." -"...sweet potatoes...I often have those for breakfast as well as cooked banana. I also make soups (mainly from boiling the bones of turkey or chicken for the broth) and adding vegetables, etc. Works well for breakfast." -"Just wondering (WAG) whether you might have candida overgrowth???" Nope, had it checked out." -"Go to your library and see if they have any no carbohydrate cooks books. You might find a lot of ideas there." -"However, within the past year and a half I have had Allergy Elimination Treatments and can now eat everything, have no more asthma, no more hay fever, no reactions to soy, no reactions to milk products, no reactions to sugar, no reactions to pollens, no reactions to mold spores, no reactions to smelly marking pens, etc. All symptoms are gone - no diarrhea, no DH, no intestinal or stomach gas, no irrational anger, etc. etc. All of this is because of a form of Oriental/Alternative Medicine that includes acupuncture or acupressure. It is available in most major cities of the USA and is called NAET. The acronym stands for Nambudripad Allergy Elimination Treatment. There is a web site - www.NAET.com - that will tell you about this. I'm a 70 year old grandmother, life-long celiac...I have nothing to gain from passing on this information...One son is also celiac, and has also been cured by NAET." -"Recently I have found Teramousalta...Greek fish roe that is mushed up and very tasty. I spread it on whatever, rice bread or lettuce leaf and cover with a thick slice of tomato. I eat anything at breakfast and usually it is something that I craved the night before. Salmon and poached eggs with Hollandaise sauce over home fries. Check out other cultures and see what they consider breakfast you might get some interesting ideas. Go for the more tropical areas where that culture can not grow wheat because it never gets cold enough." -"I eat what i cooked for dinner the night before for breakfast, that may be a couple of slices of meatloaf and mixed veggies." -"Here are some useful links that explain the role of the small intestinelining in digestion, enzyme and hormone production. Hormones produced by the small intestine, in turn, signal the pancreas to produce still more enzymes and digestive juices. It's no wonder celiacs have so many problems with so many foods: http://www.niddk.nih.gov/health/digest/ pubs/digesyst/newdiges.htm http://www.onemedhub.com/onemeddoctor/mybody/ alimentary_system/alimentary_small_intestine.html http://ahealthybody.net/Enzymes.shtml " -"There is a diet for people just like you (and me) who still have problems /don't improve on a standard GF diet. So if you have already noticed that you have carb intolerance in general, the problem is actually not simple carbs but the more complex type of carbs, especially starchy carbs. There is a low starch diet called the SPECIFIC CARBOHYDRATE DIET The author is Elaine Gottschall. The book may be available in your local library(so you can see I'm not selling anything) It is called BREAKING THE VISCIOUS CYCLE. Also check out... www.scdiet.org [and] www.scdiet.com"