Jeanne,
For you and your mom... check out
www.deliciousandhealthy.com. This site is a friend of mine, Meg Haworth, who has done an excellent job creating resources for the gluten and dairy allergic. She has a great cookbook for the newly diagnosed teaching how to do a two-week elimination, and basically teaches you how to eat gluten (and dairy) free -- you can just do one or the other though.
For your purposes, it might be handy for you to do her diet for 2 weeks and see if anything changes for you. The best way to figure out if you have a gluten allergy/sensitivity is to eliminate gluten and see what happens! Then put it back in, and see what happens (unless it is SO obvious you should leave it out).
Meg also has a nice free newsletter on living gluten/dairy free.... and other free resources and articles online.
I'm really proud of her for what she's done.
I'd also recommend "Living Without" magazine -- a whole recipe and lifestyle magazine for those with food allergies...
Nicki :-)
