044: Is All Meat GF? Vegan Butternut Squash Chili, GF Themed Mugs
April 2025
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Featured Article
Is Meat Gluten-Free? A Complete Guide to Safe & Unsafe Choices
Now that you are on a gluten-free diet, you may be wondering about gluten-free meat.
Are all meats gluten-free? Is there anything you should be watching out for?
This comprehensive guide will help you confidently choose safe gluten-free meat options, from fresh cuts to convenient deli meats.
Go here to read my Comprehensive Guide to Safe Gluten Free Meat Options
Featured Recipe
Spicy Quinoa and Butternut Squash Chili – Easy, Vegan, & Gluten-Free!
It can be a challenge to incorporate gluten-free grains into your diet, so this hearty, healthy, spicy as you like Quinoa and Butternut Squash Chili has come to the rescue!
Made with protein-rich quinoa, fiber-filled black beans, and naturally sweet butternut squash, this chili is not only gluten-free but also vegan and dairy-free. Perfect for meal prep and easy to customize, it's a delicious way to enjoy gluten-free grains.
Here is my Gluten-Free and Vegan Quinoa and Butternut Squash Chili Recipe.
I’d love to hear from you after you try it. Let me know how you like it in the FB Group.
What I’m Reading
Metabolical
The Lure and the Lies of Processed Foods, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine
Dr. Robert H. Lustic, MD, MSL
Throughout Metabolical, Dr. Robert Lustig is trying to convince us of one thing, that we need to eat real food and leave processed, packaged foods behind, and he gives us two simple maxims to guide us through our daily decisions:
Feed the gut, protect the liver.
A calorie is not a calorie.
The first is about taking care of your microbiome to ensure you get the benefit of the food you eat and minimize inflammation. The second is debunking the food industry’s assertion that all calories are the same and are equally responsible for obesity no matter if they come from sugar, processed food or fresh fruits and vegetables.
To support these maxims, Dr. Lustig takes us first through the biochemistry, demonstrating exactly how sugar and processed foods behave inside our bodies. He then exposes the politics and economics of the processed food, drug and medical industries and how it all works together to stand in the way of positive change.
Read my review of Metabolical, and if it sounds interesting, there’s a link for you to grab the book.
More Reading
Check out my reading list. It’s a roundup of all the food related books I’ve curated for you along with my reviews.
Book Reviews: Interesting and Informative Books on Celiac Disease and Healthy Eating
Do you have any suggestions for additions to our library? Let the community know here on our FB Group.
Gluten-Free Themed Mugs
I’ve designed a line of gluten-free themed mugs!
These fun and stylish mugs will be a warm addition to your gluten free mornings. So fill one up and start the day off right.
Choose from 3 unique and fun designs, then with just a few keystrokes, order yours.
Here is the Gluten-Free Themed Mugs order page. I hope you enjoy wearing your t-shirt as much as I enjoyed designing them.
That’s All For This Month
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Patty
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Re: Ludwig’s book, it is an interesting read. However, it is very annoying that there is no works cited at the end, he claims it is to cut down on the paper and you can go online to see them. Who wants to go back and forth between a book and the webpage? Adding a works cited does not add that much to the book in terms of paper. You can not read this book and verify the information with references cited - you go online and you can not find the relevant information to the book (because there are no citations in the book). I am glad I did not buy this, I used the library to read it, because without references it is useless.