Hi Sharon,
I cut out the wheat when my doctor suggested my symptoms might be coeliac disease (gluten intolerance)...it turns out that I don't have coeliac, but just wheat intolerance instead.
Well, it was quite a list of things I cut out, I got most of my info from coelic disease websites...I reintroduced other products with gluten later with no problems.
Grains I can eat include:
rice, oats, corn meal, rye, buckwheat (not actually wheat at all) spelt and kamut (some very funky ancient relatives of wheat that taste pretty much the same in baking) and other flours such as potato, soy, rice (I don't tend to use these seperately but they come in a lot of prepackaged gluten free stuff I buy like my most favourite buckwheat pancakes).
I eat alot of rice, rice noodles, polenta, corn tortillas, spelt pasta and potatos, pumpkin, parsnip etc.
There are others I haven't tried yet (not sure how much insoluble fiber they have) like quinona and amaranth.
Generally, I got rid of wheat bread, pasta, biscuits, muffins, flour tortillas (it helps that you already probably don't eat premade cakes etc)
There is wheat hidden in so many foods it totally threw me for a while until I got really good at reading labels (again coeliac websites would be useful).
Soy, teriyaki and hoisin sauces have wheat. I tend to use tamari and sweet chili sauce for cooking, also fish sauce and oyster sauces are ok. With sauces watch out for things that have "stabilisers" and "thickeners". Other pitfalls are chips (like the fancy flavours on potato chips), baked beans.....I can't think of any more off the top of my head.
I have managed to find safe versions of most things at the supermarket just by reading different brand's labels. I have found good baked beans (which don't make me fart??) and even barbeque sauce the other day.
It took a while to get myself in the habit of eating successfully wheat free (have been for 8 months now). And considering how much better it is not to fart ALL the time, I don't miss it much.....kamut really is the best alternative bread I think, tastes just like the real thing!!
Best of luck, I don't know if I've gone overboard with the advice here  , I hope it helps.
Keep me posted on your success.
Emma
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