Allergen-free bread

The wheat elimination phase of the diet will be at least 16 weeks (wheat is the last allergen to be reintroduced). 6 weeks eliminate everything, then add back allergens at 2-4 week intervals with endoscopy after each stage.

Plus there is a non-zero possibility that wheat is the culprit and eliminating wheat will be a permanent thing.

16 weeks sounds like a long time, but as there’s no substitute that’s going to taste much like bread anyway except for straight rye, she might want to consider going without. I dropped all breads from my diet for a lot longer than that.

I have had no-wheat rye loaves from farmers markets. Extremely dense, made of rye and whole seeds. Delicious, but not suitable for sandwiches as it is so flat and dense. I don’t believe it had added wheat gluten.

Whether you’re still allowed gluten or not, a wheat, egg, dairy-free diet pretty much means any bread you are allowed to eat will be disappointing. I only need to avoid wheat and I’ve found it’s just easier to swear off bread completely rather than learn to like the significantly inferior alternatives. The closest thing to bread I eat now is a corn tortilla.

Does everybody know about this wheat but me?

I learned of it back in the 1960’s at the same time I learned about quadrotriticale.

I think this is probably the best answer. I’ve been recently diagnosed with celiac dermatitis and now I must avoid all gluten. For a while I tried things like gluten-free breads and pastas but found them very unpalatable. So I’ve just resigned myself to not eating those things anymore. :frowning:

Most non-wheat products are going to be targeting gluten-free people, so it’s going to be very difficult to find stuff like no-wheat-but-all-rye breads and the like. There just isn’t enough market for it, given that the gluten-free market as a whole is pretty tiny by itself.

So my recommendation is: just forget about breads, pasta, and baked goods and focus on rice, corn, and potatoes if you want starches.

Thanks all. I was hoping for some magical barley/rye recipe that would produce a decent bread for sandwiches, but I guess it is not to be.

Good news is most non-wheat beers appear to be OK…