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What about bread?

So many people ask me this question. Whether they are considering a gluten-free diet for their own health reasons or chewing on a piece of warm (delicious, buttery, stretchy) bread in a restaurant. Many people want to know how life can go on without bread.

It was an awful sacrifice at first. Pre-gluten-free, I ate bread at every meal--if it was an especially nice, artisanal bread, it often WAS the meal.

I also wish that sometimes I could just hand Kieran a peanut butter sandwich for lunch--so fast and easy.

And the truth is, I have yet to find a substitute that really fills that void.

However, I've found an excellent product that comes pretty close. Little Stream Bakery, just outside of Perth, makes four kinds of gluten-free loaves: brown rice, cinnamon-raisin, quinoa, and buckwheat. They are different from conventional bread--for instance, I won't make a sandwich out of them. Yet they are wonderful toasted with butter and honey or for use in cheese melts. We go through a loaf a week because Kieran loves toast for breakfast.

All of their products are organic and they use local products when possible. The flours are milled within 72 hours of baking, ensuring that the fresh flour is more flavourful and nutritious. The flours used are all nutritiously superior to bleached white flour.

Their products are available at Rainbow Foods in Ottawa, Foodsmith's in Perth, Tara's Natural Foods in Kingston, and through Wendy's Mobile Market.

Thank goodness for Little Stream...

http://www.littlestream.com