Food Philosophy: Recipes and ramblings from a gluten-free naturopath

Summer is here again and it's road trip season!!  We all love jumping in the car and heading off to places unknown, or perhaps to old favorites.  But, one of the big downsides of a road trip is the plethora of sugary and unhealthy snacks. I always begin a road trip with virtuous promises to stay away from the soda and sugar and ice cream and caramel corn and .....but, within a day or two, somehow I seem to succumb every time and I feel terrible!  (Not so much guilty-terrible, as body fatigue-headache-irritable-terrible). So, a few years ago, I decided that I needed a solution--something that I could feel good about snacking on and more importantly, something that wouldn't make me feel like I'd been hit by a truck on my trip!  As you well know, just the everyday side effects of dealing with an autoimmune disorder are enough--and then, if you add the stress (even good stress) of dealing with traveling, it can really mess you up!  So, I wanted something that...

It has been 20 years since I was diagnosed with Celiac disease and that I have been eating a gluten-free diet!  I can hardly believe that it's been that long! I always seemed to have some kind of mysterious illness, even as a child, that the doctors could never diagnose properly, or at all.  I would hear things like, "It's {this}--take this medicine," or "You need to reduce your stress level," or "It's all in your head!"  My all-time favorite was the doctor who told me, when I was at my most toxic, "You need to triple your wheat fiber intake!"  That advice almost killed me! I finally got a doctor to listen to me and he agreed to run a panel of blood tests, although I'm pretty sure he didn't believe that there was anything wrong with me; he just wanted to shut me up and get me out of his office.  Well, 3 or 4 days later he called me and was so apologetic!  The first words out of his mouth were, "You really are sick...