The Autism Cookbook: 101 Gluten-Free and Dairy-Free Recipes

by Susan K. Delaine, Peter J. Bauth (Foreword)

Join the countless other families who have discovered enormous improvement in their autistic children through diet. This comprehensive word-of-mouth cookbook sensation is available now for the ?rst time in a beautiful full-color edition. Written by a mother of a child with autism and numerous food allergies, this book is a simple and easy guide to preparing family-friendly meals that can improve a child’s digestion and immunity.

Recipes include blueberry banana sorbet, pumpkin bread, Korean cucumber kimchee, sesame ginger chicken, sweet potato casserole, cornbread muf?ns, vanilla cupcakes, and chocolate frosting. All recipes are free from wheat, rice, barley, oat, egg, milk, soy, peanut, tree nuts, ?sh, and shell?sh. All recipes are gluten-free and casein-free, and alternatives to re?ned white sugar, such as agave nectar, are offered in recipes that require a sweetener. This book also features twenty highly nutritious raw-food recipes. Includes an easy-to-use index, glossary, appendix, a table of recommended food substitutes, and basic nutritional information about diets, common food allergies, and a guide to reading food labels.

Genres: Cookbooks, Autistic Spectrum Disorder

256 pages, Hardcover

First published April 21, 2010

Reviews

[AnandaTashie]

Only a small number of pages are dedicated to information about autism so anyone can truly use this if they're wanting to avoid gluten and dairy. The upside is that most of the recipes are simple and photographed. The downside is that, unlike the photos on the cover, I found most of the photos rather unappetizing. The book relies heavily on buckwheat flour, the one GF flour not already in my pantry. :o :) The other kind-of-odd thing is that most recipes call for 'corn or canola oil'. It's an easy thing to change, but I'm not sure why the author prefers those. (They're two I try to avoid - canola due to GMOs and corn due to my daughter's sensitivity.) There are a couple recipes I'll probably try though, including glazed maple chicken legs and cardamon zucchini bread.

[Brienne E. · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really like this cookbook because it happens to be one of the few cookbooks where each recipe is free of my food allergies. My brother gave it to me as a present and dubbed it "The Awesome Cookbook!" Some of the recipes are a little on the sweet side but that can be tailored to personals taste. It's nice not to have to think about substitution while cooking.

[Cris · Rating 3 out of 5]

Its easy to read. Helps with decoding food labels and the recipes are simple.

[Heather · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some good recipes for non-flour options, uses buckwheat flour for everything & my family does not like buckwheat.

[Betsy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Beautiful pictures, simple and easy to make recipes.