Tag — Elisabeth Hasselbeck

Elisabeth Hasselbeck, one of the co-hosts on The View, was diagnosed with Celiac Disease in the year 2000.  For years she had the symptoms but didn’t even realize it.  But now that she has learned how to control the disease she has recently published a book, The G-Free Diet: A Gluten-Free Survival Guide, to guide others who also live with the disease. The book includes how to read food labels, recipes and product reviews in order to eliminate gluten from the diet.  In the upcoming issue of Every Day with Rachel Ray,  Elisabeth shared some of her grandmother’s Italian recipes that also happen to be gluten free.

“My grandmother was giving me her meatball-and-sauce recipe.  When she got to the part about adding breadcrumbs, she looked up at me and said, ‘Elisabeth, you can add whatever you want here.’ I thought, if my Italian grandmother can understand being G-free, anyone can.”

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