Blue Wolf Reviews

Tag: Gluten

  • Eat Your Way Slim & Healthy

    Eat Your Way Slim & Healthy

    It is so very lovely to find a book jammed packed full of recipes that are both user friendly, constructed from ingredients readily available, easy to prepare and cook, all designed for people who are faced with a wide range of health challenges that lead to sugar, gluten and dairy free eating.

    Being one of these, it is a challenging and confrontational life change when food you once loved and enjoyed simply sets out to poison your system, resulting in poor health, a distressed body and in many cases depression, anti-social behaviour and a massive, almost inexplicable, weight gain.

    Chef Bridget Davis discovered this as she gained more and more weight, became depressed and refused to leave the house unless there was a very good reason to do so. She admits that as time and her weight increased the reasons to leave home became less and less.

    Eventually she realised that her stellar career as a Chef could be her way out of the misery her life, and to an extent her beloved families life, had become and set to work to experiment with a range of foods that could help with weight loss, mood swings, better overall health and most importantly, taste good.

    This fresh new direction led her to a healthier lifestyle and has offered too many others simple, healthy eating options that are delicious, nutritious and most importantly, affordable.

    As with all things that challenge the body and in some cases the soul, particularly if you enjoy ‘soul’ food when on a bit of a ‘blue-day’, a new eating style comes with a few challenges, but when armed with Eat Your Way Slim and Healthy, this tried and true collection, consisting of 100 sugar-free, gluten-free and dairy-free recipes, life and love of food becomes so much happier and healthier.

  • Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis Cookbook Delicious recipes for living well on a low saturated fat diet

    Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis Cookbook Delicious recipes for living well on a low saturated fat diet

    Ingrid Adelsberger was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) at the age of 30 years, which was a serious shock as until that time she had always thought MS was a condition that was specific to an older age range, not one that would become apparent in a much younger demographic.

    Once the shock wore off, she became determined that the condition would not get the better of her and began what was to become a passion for discovering everything she could about the condition, as well as the best way forward, to be able to ward of the worst of this debilitating condition for as long as possible.

    Diet was the key; one aspect of her life she felt she could do something about was her diet and life style, as the option of a drug regime was not one, she felt was an acceptable alternative. After much research, a massive dose of self-pity and depression she eventually came across Dr Swank’s, Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis (OMS) diet in an online forum.

    Professor Jelineks’s name was associated with this forum, appearing many times, so any times she decided to explore further, discovering a pathway, tried and proven, to a healthier lifestyle and regime, one that works exceptionally well of the many who have MS.

    After much trial and error, slipping off the pathway, eventually finding a new meaning towards health, lifestyle, emotion and eating, she has, in conjunction with professional chef Jack McNulty who has been creating and delighting the OMS community with his fantastic menus, and clinical nutritionist Sandra Perry, have created this amazing cook book especially designed for the OMS community.

    Not only is it filled with a range of mouth-watering recipes, it also has an excellent introduction as to How To…use the cookbook, a very informative section on MS and the reason the diet works so well, a list of ingredients that need to be in the pantry and a vast range of tips and tricks for cooking OMS Style.

    Well researched, constructed and informative, every recipe is suitable for just about any person with an eye to what goes into their cooking, is interested in healthy alternatives and enjoys experimenting with recipes that are tasty, healthy and able to be created with a relatively standard range of ingredients.

    A helpful tip is included with every recipe which helps when first experimenting with recipes that will become staples, regardless of whether you are on the OMS diet or simply wish to eat healthy.

    Bon appetite