The Allergy Self Help Cookbook: Over 325 Natural Foods Recipes, Free of Wheat, Milk, Eggs, Corn, Yeast, Sugar and Other Common Food Allergens
Author: Marjorie Hurt Jones
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ISBN: 0875961096
Publisher: Rodale Press (May, 1992)
Sales Rank: 46,106
Average Customer Rating: 2.71 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 4 out of 5
Very informative
Although I did find that there are a few recipes which do contain ingredients that are supposedly not in this cookbook, I found the recipes interesting and tasty. If you ensure you use light buckwheat flour as recommended in applicable recipes and follow other hints provided by the author, I've found the recipes to be very good overall. This is a very good basic cookbook for people, like myself, who are just starting to discover the world of allergy free cooking/eating.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Very disappointing cookbook
Review by Linda Coss, author of "What's to Eat? The Milk-Free, Egg-Free, Nut-Free Food Allergy Cookbook".Nine years ago, when my son was first diagnosed with multiple food allergies, this was the first cookbook I purchased. It proved to be very disappointing. The title of the book is quite misleading -- the book does not contain 325 recipes that are "free of wheat, milk, eggs, corn, yeast, sugar and other common food allergens." Many of the recipes contain one or more of these ingredients, and a large number of the recipes contain nuts, which is probably one of the most common food allergen there is.
I tried many of these recipes anyway, with absolutely no success. I realize that my family is not accustomed to "natural foods"-style cooking, but we still found these dishes unpalatable.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Misleading Title Left Me Disapointed
My child is allergic to nuts, which is certainly a common allegen. I was very disappointed to find nearly all of the baked goods recipes contain nuts. I did, however, find the general information in the first chapters to be helpful.
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