One of the items that is typically not gluten free that surprises people is Soy Sauce.  Look at your favorite soy sauce.  Almost all of them have wheat as the 1st or 2nd ingredient!  This makes eating out at Chinese restaurants pretty tricky for those needing to be gluten free!

To solve this we’ve been making a lot of Chinese dishes at home.  Our main staple is San-J’s Gluten Free Tamari soy sauce.  It’s very reasonably priced at our grocery store.  It’s the same as ‘regular’ soy sauce as far as price goes and I think tastes better!

San-J also has a line of other sauces.  I’ve also tried the Szechuan Cooking Sauce.  I love this sauce!  It’s nice and spicy with good flavor at the same time.  I can’t go crazy with it though because my body can’t handle too spicy.  I’m assuming it is from all the damage to my system.  So be careful if you’ve been undiagnosed for a while and use sparingly until you know how your body will handle the spicy.

I hope this is helpful to you.  Feel free to comment on what your favorite brand is!