[.ca] Allergy Cooking with Ease: The No Wheat, Milk, Eggs, ... (ISBN 1887624104)

Good for Baking:
I am allergic/sensitive to a huge list of things and I found this book great! I have only really used the baking recipies, but I found the cookies, muffins, biscuits, etc. great. You can't really expect them to be just like the food you used to be able to eat, but they are so much better than stuff from other allergy-free cookbooks. I haven't tried any of the meal recipies b/c they're not very exciting. If you want something special there, try to find The Allergy-Free Cookbook edited by Maggie Pannell, which I didn't see here on Amazon. I wasn't looking for perfection, but the variety in Allergy Cooking with Ease was great, and now I have a chocolate chip cookie recipie without gluten, corn, sugar, dairy, or eggs. I reccommed it.

A Grateful Grandmother:
When my daughter discovered her seven-year old daughter was allergic to wheat, soy, dairy, corn, Baker's Yeast, eggs, and chocolate, I was stymied. My daughter works outside the home and does not have time to do recipe-type cooking. As Grandma, I have had to fill in. Along with Internet sources, this book has been a tremendous help to me. Glad, too, to have discovered Vitamin C Crystals and various kinds of flour, which I didn't know existed.

Less than 6 allergies? Look at other books first...:
I purchased this book along with at least 3 other books catered to allergies and this was by far the LEAST helpful and worst tasting of the 4. Although it uses flours like arrowroot and quinoa, it lacks enough ingredients to give the foods flavor. Most recipes had less than 4-5 ingredients in them which means you basically taste the bland flour. My kids would rarely eat more than a few bites and they actually like many wheat-dairy-egg-yeast free foods. Shop around before you spend money on this. The only beneficial thing is the explanation of some of the ingredients, where they came from and what family they are in which you can probably find elsewhere.

Good base but not quite:
While it may be true that some people love the foods they can't have, many others can't stand the idea of something that tastes like something they are alleric to. I have many allergies, including cow & sheep's milk, but the thought of touching goat's milk makes my stomach churn. Likewise many of the recipes I saw that were mimicing many popular foods for non-allergic eaters were things that I really wouldn't eat. It's extremely hard to get beyond the mental barrier of the "fake" is okay for you but the "real" puts you into anaphylactic shock... Also, I found many of the ingredients to be somewhat exotic (at least exotic for northern Ontario) and/or difficult to find here. I really was hoping to find some unique recipes that looked unique for my allgeries including said milk, soy, lentils, gluten, tomatoes and many other foods and spices. Sorry, try again next time.

Dont waste your money:
My 16 month old son is allergic to Milk, Soy & Corn and this book was by far the worst I bought. I bought 8 books hoping to find some info and recipies I couldn't find on the internet but the recipies were very exotic and not appropriate for a toddler and were not truely allergin free. I did better at the Food Allergy Network site and should have only bought their cook book.