coconut flour biscotti recipe gluten free

I find with Paleo recipes that you have to do exactly what they say...I know I did too...just get to the ingredients and steam forward, just to throw all in the bin and start all over again after I read all the little notes and always best to read the "Method" first, cause many recipes maybe needs a period in the fridge or cool time or again after a while in the oven and then you might not have the snack ready on time. Other thing about Paleo/allergy free recipes, they are in small quantities cause you are supposed to rotate your food and not always eat the same. I always try the recipe first in small and then if my family nibble it up in a few seconds...I go for 4 times the ingredients and keep it in the fridge or freezer.

The success of living healthy is always in your planning...plan your grocery shopping/food ahead for 1 week, 4-6 small meals a day. It is also cheaper and you waist less. Start today and look up on Internet for 10 recipes in different categories...yes we always mostly eat the same stuff in rotation. You can just type in Paleo and then what are you looking for gluten, egg, lactose, sugar cane, nuts free ext. There is Paleomama, Wellnessmama, mommypopotamis...a million other blogs. I will share as we go along. Rack full of recipe books are just clutter in my opinion. Keep it small and every now and then add something new you surprise yourself, friends or family with. Take one day and prepare what you can. I do not believe in cooking veggies and stuff for the week...kill all those nutrients, but your snacks, why not. 

COCONUT FLOUR BISCOTTI:

Prep: 15min.     Cook: 50min. 3X12pieces

I make this recipe dubble or 4 times....family loves it!

 Ingredients:

 1/4 cup Psyllium Husk(Buy at GNC in Jeddah. You cannot replace this ingredient)

1/2 cup of Water

2/3 cup of Palm/coconut sugar (You can find the pieces at a Indonisian shop (have to great it and let it stand to melt) or at Danube the fine cranules)

6 tbsp coconut oil (find at Danube SR25 for small bottle)

2 tsp of Vanilla extract (Make sure it is not vanilla sugar. You can also replace it with Maple Syrup)

1 cup of Rice Flour/Red Mills's All Purpose Gluten Free flour (You can buy this at GNC)

1/2 cup of Coconut Flour (You can find this at Danube or see on Internet how to make your own)

2 tbsp of Potato Starch/Corn Starch/Arrowroot (Kuzu (Arrowroot) SR50 for very small packet in Danube)

2 tsp of Baking powder/1 tsp of Sodium Bicarbonate and 2 tbsp of a juiced grapefruit, manderine, orange or apple cider vinegar. (I do not use baking powder - it has an effect on the stomach and overall health)

1/4 tsp of Sea salt or 1/8 tsp of Hymalayan Salt. (Do not use table salt - too many chemicals to keep the humidity out...read up)

1/2 cup of any dried fruits (Remember to cup it in small pieces and the you cannot use whole raisons or berries, they puff up in the cooking process and taste burned or just fall off)

 Method:

 1. Preheat oven 375F and when you put your biscotti in turn oven to 350F. You will need a baking sheet. Not wax paper.

2. Bowl 1 - Psyllium Husk + Water + Coconut Sugar/Palm Sugar + Coconut Oil + Vanilla Extract - Blend well on low speed with hand mixer. Rest for 5minutes.

3. Bowl 2 - Rice Flour/Red Mills Flour + Coconut Flour + Potato starch + Salt + Baking powder/replacements.

4. Add Bowl 1 to Bowl 2 and mix well with your hands, otherwise you end up with white starch blops after you baked it or palm sugar burned spots. Then mix in Dried Fruits...that is so you really mix it well! Divide your mixture in 1/2's.

5. Press each half with wet fingers on the baking sheet. If you have these rusk squares it works out perfect. 2 X rectangles (10" x 3". Space 3" apart. Take a long and very sharp knife and just press through with one even press to already make your sizes of your biscotti's. Do not separate pieces.

6. Bake 23-26 min. until gold and set in the middle. I bake mine just 18minutes,cause I have a very old, cheap, temperamental oven and you do not want too dark and bitter biscotti's at the end of the dry out process. Let it cool for a while and then place the separate pieces on a wire rack for 15minutes. Keep your baking paper and pan ready again for the dry out process.

7. Oven lower than 250F. Put all the pieces cut-side down on the baking sheet again. Bake 25minutes. I dry it out in less time and see that it just become crisp or slightly darker than golden brown, other wise butter and burned taste. But it has to be nice and crispy and not still humid. Cool for 1 minute on wire rack and then store it in a air tight holder.

You are what you eat!"

I get daily questions around different subjects and health issues and how did I changed the health status of my family and myself around. I am a busy house wife, but love to read and discover different subjects about health in total....the evolution in many day to day issues. I realize how many mothers/fathers have such busy lives and do not have the leisure of reading about different issues. It would be lovely to share information on different subjects, with a group and in this way reach more people that would like to live more healthy and make different life choices and take control of their freedom around their health. My vision is not just to talk about food/exercise, but also about issues concerning our children, we as mothers and fathers ext. Total Family health!

It is time consuming to share a lot of details or help people every day bits and pieces and sometimes it is not clear since I do not have always time to explain everything just in a split second somewhere in the street/bus or e-mails ext. I can also not keep track of what you already know and what you still need to know and or for sure you know something I do not know. To live with optimal health and to make chances is a process that starts by point A: "You are what you eat" and from there it connects with different important subjects. A support group would benefit the children as well, because children that live/eat "differently" feels sometimes excluded and lost.

We changed our lifestyle Oct. 2013 and I gained a lot of knowledge and meet a lot of people in this year and it is so exciting to see the influence of these changes on our lives in TOTAL. I know there is many other people that made these changes long before we did and have much more information to share and I would like to learn more as well. For sure we can stay in contact through ways of technology, but I plan different subjects and we are going to cook as well and prepare some recipes!!! My experience is that people tend to give up and panic if they do not have physical contact and be able to feel that they are not alone and to know that there is others that also do not know or how to start from scratch.

If you would like to join my support group, please let me know what days and times would be possible for you? I plan on starting the meetings just 2 times a month for 2 hours starting in December 2014, before the Christmas Holidays. Meetings for the beginning would be held at Andulus Village,Arabian Homes, Prince Sultan Street(compound across from the "fist-roundabout") in the hall next to the security gate.

Healthy living support: Everything starts with a mother

Now, I do not like or have the time and level of concentration to sit and read for too long. Even if I am addicted to reading. Too much information at once have me totally messed up and let m lie awake at night to try to make sense of it all. So! I would like to take you on a journey. Little of my story, little of my experiences and what I have read about. Give you enough time to read, digest, read up and share your own info with all of us.

"We should have time to take a step back and look for the connections between things"

I am not a medical Dr. Was a nurse working in different ICU's. Passionate about healthy living and personalized medicine. I do not make diagnosis or recommend medical treatment. I share Information, either read about or personal experiences or share an opinion. My support is not profitable and I do not advertise any product or try to promote their financial benefits. I give an opinion and you make of it what you want to. I love a well-constructed debate. I respect all cultures, believes, age and gender.

Everybody has a story to tell. His/her own unique story, living uniquely, experienced uniquely and from outside it looks like an easy life or too hard life according to the people looking into  this story, but it is how the people lived his own story. We all have to respect it. I disagree with the fact that people tells you that you should stop moaning, cause there is people worse off than you. I share my story with you, not because I want you to know me better or let you pry into my personal life or to bring up the past and highlight the faults of the past or accuse anybody for the wrong.

I would like you to read between the lines. I would like to wake up something in you to look at your own story. I want you to see the irony, the reasons, the causes, the symptoms, what should make sense, the treatment, where you need more knowledge and ask more questions, thin about changes and different choices. Maybe come to the realization that life in total has changed.

My goal: I would like to help people of all walks of life. Make the "load" lighter and help them to find direction, where to search for causes and find solutions. Not to panic when illness strikes and not to just go for a quick fix solution. Be prepared! Let people feel that there is other people in the same situation or with past experience. I would like people to dig deeper. Making friends all over the world in different walks of life, because somewhere, someone know something you did not know.

My dream: To support people, in gaining knowledge. To prevent being sick and weak. TO LIVE LIFE IN TOTAL. To not just except diagnosis/treatment, but to ask questions and make sure the causes got treated and not just a quick fix around the symptoms. Debate around newly found research. Ensure people make their own unique choices around medicine and healthy living in general. To get closer and more personal with your own being. To understand the concept: "YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT"! Then maybe spread the word to more corporate worlds to get better products easily available.

I want you today to think where do you come from? Where did all of YOU start?

My story: Everything for me started with MY MOTHER. Inside her body I was conceived. Her hormonal changes secured my total development. Her per-pregnant lifestyle/body became my home for 9 months. A home that was not ready and prepared, not perfect, because she did not know better then. What she ate, drank, inhale, and rubbed on her skin, her total lifestyle....everything reached me in her womb through the umbilical cord. Her food allergies became partly mine. Foods ext. that stressed her body, stressed mine. Yes, I did not forget the part of my father, DNA and genetics.

Why do I believe this? History and the present just made sense to me, stimulated by the newest research. I look at my mother's life/health, at my own and now at my little 8 year old girl. It just make sense! "YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT!"...then your baby will be what you ate and she will be what she ate. 

Finding out what our food allergies was through the 

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Helpful places for healthy products in Saudi Arabia

Hi everybody!

As I went through my old mail...I came across this e-mail from a lovely Saudi lady that "live like us"..."You are what you eat". Now, I did not try out these shops myself. When I do I will let you know.

Just something or an opinion or an experience to share with you all.

Abazeer have some lovely products, but I am not so sure if it is the real deal and if they repack products, imported and just put it under their lables. They do not put in detailed ingredients on the stickers as well. I have been sick after a few different products since there was not stated that it contains hidden sugars or gluten ext and I am allergic to any form of cane sugar/gluten ext. A few people had shared the same thought with me. So maybe just make sure that it is really gluten free ext.

I wrote to Danube Jeddah last week. Just to ask if they could think about importing more raw products or singled ingredients. All and well you find all these flours and readymade mixes and gluten free products, but if you have food allergies one ingredient made it impossible to buy and eat the product. It would be lovely to bake and create on our own. I was not very positive to get any feedback, but it is worth the try. Who has contacts within any supermarket in Jeddah?

I have so many amazing blogs and recipes, but you can only do it if you order from amazon.com or bring a load full in your suitcase and it will only last a month or so...what is the use of it all????

Please share your shopping experience with all of us if you have found natural products somewhere?

1. Tangy Touty - imports products & sells some home-made organic foods as well, like kale chips, dried fruits & peanut/coconut/almond butter
053 492 4110 (Rawaya Nawab)

 2. Organica 
vegetables, fruits, dates, meat & eggs
056 161 9933
www.organica.com.sa

3. Al-Bai Bakery for European bread - no preservatives or added sugars
(sour dough, sunflower seeds, olive, bell pepper, onion; etc) - customizing available by request
050 560 8677
* I store it in the freezer not fridge to keep it for longer time

4. Norah Pharmacy in Tahlia Street (in front of Fayfa old location). They import some good biscuits & snacks for toddlers

5. Transit market don’t be misguided by the name:) it's a little market that specializes in imported goods and foods, healthy & unhealthy. Located next to Teayana, Corniche. Another one in Obhur by the marina

* there's another two places that I hear are good and have good fruits & vegetables, however I never tried them so I don't know how true or how far organic it is
a. Farm Supermarket (Jarir Mall, also Rawdah St)
b. Goodies (Stars Avenue Mall)

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The Relationship Between Gluten and Fibromyalgia, ADHD, and Anxiety

Did you know that many people with symptoms of fibromyalgia are misdiagnosed by their doctor as having other health conditions, in which they are then put on a prescription for that condition? 

Do you or your child have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)? 
Here's your prescription: Vyvanse or Adderall. 

How about anxiety attacks? Prescription: Diazepam (Valium). 
Rheumatoid arthritis? Prescription: Prednisone or Celebrex. 
Pay on your way out, and have a nice day. 

Here’s what could possibly be your prescription instead: STOP EATING GLUTEN! 

LET ME BE CLEAR... Do not stop your medication without the help of a physician. There is no shame in taking medication that is targeted and necessary. However, many of our patients discover that they don’t need as much medication (and sometimes any medication) when they learn to use food as medication. 

In this video, Kelly Patterson, a concerned mom, asks: "What is your opinion on the relationship of gluten to conditions such as fibromyalgia, ADHD, and anxiety?" 
 (HERE IS A VIDEO ON EMAIL, WILL FORWARD ON EMAIL).

Without getting too scientific, gluten (a Latin word meaning "glue") is a protein that gives bread its airy and fluffy texture and dough its sticky texture. 

Gluten is also used as a stabilizing agent in many processed foods, such as salad dressings and mayonnaise. It’s in almost everything from beauty products to packaged foods to medications and supplements. (That’s right, medications!) 

In this video, I explain to Kelly how gluten can cause chaos in her body, starting in the intestinal lining, causing "leaky gut."

Watch as I give a list of diseases and other health issues that gluten is associated with--with the main one being fibromyalgia. 

If you or you know someone who has pain all over his or her body, along with headaches, joint problems, fatigue, sleep, memory or mood issues, you are going to want to watch this video! 
Warmly, 

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