Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Bread-Making Machine Advice Needed for Silicon Valley!

I frequently make 10-day trips to visit my boyfriend in Silicon Valley, CA. So far I have been unable to find IBS-safe bread I can tolerate there and I have had to bring my own bread with me from Canada (stuffed in my onboard flight bag). I've been bringing my own bread for 3 1/2 years now. I realize this is very pathetic on my part!

Some months ago I posted my bread problem on this message board and some people wisely suggested I buy a bread-making machine. Being the dinosaur that I am, I resisted this idea because I'm not much of a cook.

Well, a co-worker has finally convinced me a bread-making machine is the way to go! I've just tried some IBS-safe bread she made for me and she has given me the machine's instruction booklet and it looks so EASY and the ingredients are so BASIC!!!

Could anyone provide me with some advice on what brand/model of bread-maker to purchase? I need a machine that makes horizontal bread loaves (as opposed to verticle loaves) and one that is not too complicated.

Also, where would be the best place (with a reasonable price) to buy the machine? My boyfriend lives in Sunnyvale, CA. (near Palo Alto) so any store in that whole area (including San Jose) would be fine.

I also need advice on what brand of white flour to buy for the machine, and where to get it. (Organic would be best, but I would consider conventional flour too.) My co-worker says U.S. flour is different than Canadian flour. She says our flour here contains more gluton than U.S. flour. As a result, she says, I would either have to add gluton to the U.S. flour or buy a U.S. flour that is specifically meant for a bread-making machine. Does anyone know anything about this?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

Belinda

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