...but I don't wanna be a wheat-free vegan!

Yes, you do. You want to find a way to eat like a celiac vegan all day every day. Here's why:

• If you stop eating the same thing every other fat American is eating then you won't get the same illnesses every other fat American is getting.
• Small "non-illnesses" will disappear after one year of eating a whole, mostly raw, living diet. You will have better memory due to the hydration of your electrical system in your brain; you will have far fewer moods swings due to the elimination of the processed sugar see-saw; you will sleep better; you will eliminate toxins frequently; you will conquer monkey-mind due to the elimination of preservatives from your diet.
• Eating foods that naturally contain their own digestive enzymes is immune boosting. "In most cancer patients, enzymes required for food digestion are usually deficient, leading both to nutritional shortfalls and intestinal toxicity." Definitive Guide to Cancer by Diamond, Cowden and Goldberg.
• By eating living whole foods you are cutting out sugar, fat and salt: the leading causes of obesity and disease.
• Eating this way eliminates toxins. "Fiber isn't just for shits and giggles, either. It offers protection from appendicitis, Candida, heart disease, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, gallstones, irritable bowel syndrome and colitis. Fibrous foods also help normalize our blood-sugar levels, satiate food cravings, and make us feel fuller so that we don't overeat. Fiber even fights colon and colorectal cancer, prostate cancer, and breast cancer: If we don't make ca-ca quickly enough, our putrefying food stays in our bodies, increasing the like-lihood of the production of carcinogenic substances. So eat your fiber, and crap like a champ." Skinny Bitch by Freedman and Barnouin
• Eating raw fruits and vegetables hydrates the body. This is due in large part to the high water content of the vegetable but alternately because you are not de-hydrating your body eating large amounts of processed salt and preservatives which leach fluids from the body.
• "From my extensive research, I have learned that the only substances capable of healing are those that come directly from the earth - the true building blocks for the body. Creation does cleanse and regenerate if we give nature's substances a chance to work. How long has it taken to solidify our system? Possibly a lifetime." The Cure by Timothy Brantley

Cowgirl Up! You can do it. Here's another whole food recipe:

Long Grain Brown Rice

Buy a food steamer with a rice basket from Target. It will cost you about $29.99. Or use a Bed, Bath and Beyond coupon and buy one there. Follow the directions which will basically be: fill the bottom pot with water up to the water line. Place the solid rice basket inside the hole-y vegetable steamer.

Put 2 cups of long grain brown rice (#6678 in the bin aisle at Whole Foods) and 2 cups distilled water in the rice basket. Put timer on 60 minutes. Turn on. Walk away.

Voila! Whole grain brown rice to be eaten with Bragg's liquid aminos for an Asian taste or with sauteed veggies in olive oil.