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This past Monday, April 8th, I attended the rally Eat-In to Label GMOs at the FDA in College Park, MD.   This was actually my first event like this.  It definitely won't be the last.

The whole fight with GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms/Foods) right now is for the labeling so that when people purchase food, they know whether it contains ingredients which are genetically modified or not.  The fact that they aren't labeled, is completely absurd.  This is a clear lie to consumers and citizens.  GMOs are banned in Europe!  But yet they are safe for people here and me?  No, thank you. 

I attended a talk last week presented by an integrative internal medicine doctor.  Throughout the talk, he consistently came back to a particular term – coherence.  He expressed that a lack of coherence is disorderly and chaotic.  This can apply to chronic disease and chronic dysfunction both in our bodies and also in the current health care system.  He expressed the desperate need for an integrative approach to medicine and healing, to bring us all back to coherence.

The doctor also pointed out that “coherence” and “coherent” are words that mean truth.  When you are happy and well, your body, mind and spirit are coherent.  Furthermore, coherent truth is something with which you are at peace, even if it is controversial.  He provided an example of one’s belief of human life formation from a spiritual and religious viewpoint or from science and logical perspective.  That is surely a controversial topic but most times, one is at peace with what they believe.   

This distinction resonated deeply with me because the word “chaotic”, describing a lack of coherence, sparked so many thoughts relating to health and our mainstream misleading ways.    

Are you on a grain-free diet or working on reducing your grain consumption?  Are you thinking about all the ways in which grains are a piece in your cooking?  Are you contemplating how you can still make some of your favorite dishes without the grains?  Don’t worry; a grain-free gut-healing gal is here to help!

Upon implementing the GAPS diet for some major gut-healing, I remember my husband, Brian, saying “But what about gravy? What about making a roux?”  Not like we regularly made gravy, but it’s natural to first get stuck on what’s on the “don’t eat” list instead of focusing on the “to eat” list. 

Grain-free cooking definitely presents some obstacles, in many ways.  Fortunately along the way of my gut-healing journey on GAPS, I have discovered and used several methods to thicken sauces and create gravies without the use of gut-taxing grain-based flours. 

Here are a few ideas of how to thicken a sauce grain-free: