GLUTEN FREE NUTS AND GRAINS

* Almond flour low carb alternative to wheat flour
* Amaranth (extremely nutritious)
* Arrowroot (great as a thickener for soups and sauces)
* Buckwheat (not a form or wheat, despite its name)
* Millet (not just bird feed!)
* Quinoa (pronounced keen-wah) a real superfood!
* Rice a good form of starch but with less protein than other grains
* Tapioca (used for more than that horrible pudding you ate at school!) is produced from a root
* Chickpeas or garbanzo beans (ground into a flour called Gram or besan)
* Lentils(a small round pulse that doesn't need soaking overnight before cooking)
* Carob (a sweet flour, it is made from the ground bean pods rather than the beans themselves)
* Coconut flour
* Corn or maize
* Job's tears can be used as a substitute for pearl barley
* Soy beans can be used in a similar way to grains...flakes, grits, flour and bran
* Sesame
* Sunflower seeds
* Sweet Chestnuts
* Sorghum or milo
* Teff grain - the tiniest grain in the world!
* Potato (yes it can be made into a flour-like starch)