Welcome to Gluten-Free Eats!
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gluten_freeWelcome to gluten_free! This is a community for people who are interested in low-gluten or gluten-free diets—for any reason—though please note this is not a weight loss community. Our focus is on sharing gluten-free recipes and resources.
Here you can:
All gluten-free recipes are welcome. Recipes that replace gluten ingredients with gluten-free flours, grains, starches, nuts, or seeds are especially welcome.
When sharing recipes, honor the author's wishes. If they don't want their recipe copied wholesale, don't; link to it instead. If they ask that you rewrite the instructions in your own words before you share it, do so. If you're unsure which method to use, rewrite the recipe or use a link. If you've significantly altered a recipe and its instructions, that's your recipe now and you can publish it anywhere you like, but do give credit to the original recipe and provide a link, or if you modified it from a cookbook, cite the title and author. If it's totally original, brag!
Each recipe should have its own post. If your recipe has a lot of moving parts, like Caesar salad (dressing + croutons + salad), that still counts as one recipe and all parts should be posted together. Pictures are encouraged, just put them under the cut tag and keep them at 500 px or smaller, and use alt text if possible.
Requests can be an appeal for a certain kind of recipe, help with adapting a recipe to make it gluten free, or advice on where you went wrong with your dang popovers.
Resources are things you think your fellow community members would find informative. Go for the specific rather than the general. So not an entire blog, but a chart of starches and their properties. Not an entire television series, but that one episode of Martha Bakes where she does gluten-free desserts.
Book reviews and product reviews go into some detail and include your personal opinion. Try to hit all the highlights: "Here is a thing; here's what it does, and here's what I think about it."
Tips & Tricks are based on your personal experience. It could be a brief guide to the differences between nut flours, or it could be an essay about gums and gum-substitutes and the different ways you like to use them.
Include these categories in your subject line, like "Request: looking for a soy-free vegan lasagna recipe!"
Choose from our existing tags and categorize your post by content (recipe, product review, request, etc), and then, if relevant, a specific diet (paleo, keto, vegan, SCD, et al), what else it's free from (those tags start with a bang so they're always up front, e.g. !: egg-free), flavor (sweet or savory), meal (side, snack, soup...), and mode of preparation (task: cooking and task: baking).
To keep things consistent, you won't be able to create your own tags, so you'll need to precisely match the tags we have when entering them into the tag field. The easiest way to do this is to use the beta "create new entries page" which offers tags by way of autocomplete. If you can't tag your posts—for any reason—that's totally fine. Mods will be adding or subtracting tags as needed, and tagging posts without them.
Be aware: The *-free tags are a shorter way of saying "recipe contains no * ingredients." There may still be dairy in an GF AP flour, or soy in some chocolate chips, but these tags mean that if a recipe is prepared with *-free ingredients, it's effectively *-free. Everything here is gluten free, so there's no gluten-free tag. If a recipe includes a *-free option, it gets the *-free tag.
Of course there's still a chance we, all of us, might get stuff wrong, and so by taking part in this community you acknowledge that possibility and agree that you're the one ultimately responsible for the foods you eat. If you do see a recipe tagged incorrectly or find something that is not gluten free, contact a mod so we can address the issue.
Don't post about why you're gluten free or why you follow a particular diet. Food is fundamental, and restricting diet can bring up many difficult issues.gluten_free is not a diet or health community. Our focus is food, so please don't go into detail about the reasons behind your dietary choices.
Statements like "I can't tolerate oats, so I substituted sorghum flour" are absolutely fine, as many of us have multiple things we need to avoid and sharing your workarounds helps the community. Indicating a recipe is friendly for a diet you're familiar with—such as paleo, SCD, low-FODMAP—will also help the mods tag things accurately.
If you would like to talk about your personal reasons for being on a restricted diet or discuss the health issues associated with it, consider joining our affiliatefor_your_health, a moderated community for people who follow certain nutritional plans for health reasons. You just need a current member of that comm to vouch for you.
Anyone usinggluten_free as a platform for harassment or abuse will be banned from the community and, if appropriate, reported to Dreamwidth for violating the Terms of Service.
Harassment is unwanted attention. Repeatedly engaging someone who has said "stop" is harassment. Behavior that reinforces structures of oppression is harassment and can target:
If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to comment here or DM me,runpunkrun, or my co-mod jesse_the_k.
gluten_free! This is a community for people who are interested in low-gluten or gluten-free diets—for any reason—though please note this is not a weight loss community. Our focus is on sharing gluten-free recipes and resources. Community Guidelines
- Please remember that everyone has different abilities and restrictions, and what's healthy for you may not be so for others.
- Don't offer unsolicited health or medical advice.
- No off-topic posts.
- And it's right in the name, but: No gluten allowed.
What to Post
Here you can:
- share recipes you've tried
- request recipes you'd like to try
- ask for cooking and baking advice
- share substitution tricks
- post cookbook reviews
- recommend gluten-free products
- discuss gluten-free ingredients
Guidelines for Sharing Recipes
All gluten-free recipes are welcome. Recipes that replace gluten ingredients with gluten-free flours, grains, starches, nuts, or seeds are especially welcome.
When sharing recipes, honor the author's wishes. If they don't want their recipe copied wholesale, don't; link to it instead. If they ask that you rewrite the instructions in your own words before you share it, do so. If you're unsure which method to use, rewrite the recipe or use a link. If you've significantly altered a recipe and its instructions, that's your recipe now and you can publish it anywhere you like, but do give credit to the original recipe and provide a link, or if you modified it from a cookbook, cite the title and author. If it's totally original, brag!
Each recipe should have its own post. If your recipe has a lot of moving parts, like Caesar salad (dressing + croutons + salad), that still counts as one recipe and all parts should be posted together. Pictures are encouraged, just put them under the cut tag and keep them at 500 px or smaller, and use alt text if possible.
How to Post Recipes
- Put main ingredients in the entry title (yes: Recipe: Sweet Potato & Beetroot Pancakes; no: Great Hot Breakfast)
- Credit the recipe writer.
- Give a brief introduction to the recipe.
- List all the ingredients, in the order you handle them. (If you're only posting a link, skip to step 5.)
- Put the rest of the post behind a cut tag.
- Under the cut, explain how to do the thing. Helpful details to include:
- Time: How long to prep? How long to cook?
- Tools: Does the recipe require any particular tools or appliances?
- Methods: Baking, sifting, measuring, greasing—all the actions.
- Serving: Cool it? Heat it? Slice it? Pour it over cornflakes?
- Storage: This is especially important for baked goods. Does it need to go in the fridge or is it okay in an airtight container on the counter? How long before it gets irrevocably stale? Should it be wrapped a particular way?
- Notes: Did you run into trouble anywhere? Is there something you'd do differently next time? Did you discover an awesome shortcut? If you used a commercial gluten-free flour blend, tell us the brand name. For baked goods, be sure to list any substitutions or changes you've made and describe the taste and texture of the final product so that people know what to expect.
- Variations: Would this be good with different spices, flavors, or ingredients? Speculation is cool. Actual tested results are even better.
- And end with your closing thoughts, and cut tag.
How to Post Everything Else
Requests can be an appeal for a certain kind of recipe, help with adapting a recipe to make it gluten free, or advice on where you went wrong with your dang popovers.
Resources are things you think your fellow community members would find informative. Go for the specific rather than the general. So not an entire blog, but a chart of starches and their properties. Not an entire television series, but that one episode of Martha Bakes where she does gluten-free desserts.
Book reviews and product reviews go into some detail and include your personal opinion. Try to hit all the highlights: "Here is a thing; here's what it does, and here's what I think about it."
Tips & Tricks are based on your personal experience. It could be a brief guide to the differences between nut flours, or it could be an essay about gums and gum-substitutes and the different ways you like to use them.
Include these categories in your subject line, like "Request: looking for a soy-free vegan lasagna recipe!"
How to Tag Your Posts
Choose from our existing tags and categorize your post by content (recipe, product review, request, etc), and then, if relevant, a specific diet (paleo, keto, vegan, SCD, et al), what else it's free from (those tags start with a bang so they're always up front, e.g. !: egg-free), flavor (sweet or savory), meal (side, snack, soup...), and mode of preparation (task: cooking and task: baking).
To keep things consistent, you won't be able to create your own tags, so you'll need to precisely match the tags we have when entering them into the tag field. The easiest way to do this is to use the beta "create new entries page" which offers tags by way of autocomplete. If you can't tag your posts—for any reason—that's totally fine. Mods will be adding or subtracting tags as needed, and tagging posts without them.
Be aware: The *-free tags are a shorter way of saying "recipe contains no * ingredients." There may still be dairy in an GF AP flour, or soy in some chocolate chips, but these tags mean that if a recipe is prepared with *-free ingredients, it's effectively *-free. Everything here is gluten free, so there's no gluten-free tag. If a recipe includes a *-free option, it gets the *-free tag.
Of course there's still a chance we, all of us, might get stuff wrong, and so by taking part in this community you acknowledge that possibility and agree that you're the one ultimately responsible for the foods you eat. If you do see a recipe tagged incorrectly or find something that is not gluten free, contact a mod so we can address the issue.
Don't Discuss Health Concerns
Don't post about why you're gluten free or why you follow a particular diet. Food is fundamental, and restricting diet can bring up many difficult issues.
gluten_free is not a diet or health community. Our focus is food, so please don't go into detail about the reasons behind your dietary choices.Statements like "I can't tolerate oats, so I substituted sorghum flour" are absolutely fine, as many of us have multiple things we need to avoid and sharing your workarounds helps the community. Indicating a recipe is friendly for a diet you're familiar with—such as paleo, SCD, low-FODMAP—will also help the mods tag things accurately.
If you would like to talk about your personal reasons for being on a restricted diet or discuss the health issues associated with it, consider joining our affiliate
for_your_health, a moderated community for people who follow certain nutritional plans for health reasons. You just need a current member of that comm to vouch for you.Conduct
Anyone using
gluten_free as a platform for harassment or abuse will be banned from the community and, if appropriate, reported to Dreamwidth for violating the Terms of Service.Harassment is unwanted attention. Repeatedly engaging someone who has said "stop" is harassment. Behavior that reinforces structures of oppression is harassment and can target:
- gender: including gender identity and expression as well as sexual orientation
- bodies: disability, physical appearance, body size, diet, age
- race/ethnicity/caste/geographic origin
- class
- religion
How to Contact a Mod
If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to comment here or DM me,
runpunkrun, or my co-mod jesse_the_k.Revised 6. April 2025