help please with gluten free foods/recipes, ideas!

[Judy]

I admit I didn't read the thread, but there are lots of resources on celiac disease, which is simply an intolerance of gluten, which is the protein in wheat. Google "celiac" and all sorts of stuff comes up. Here is their organization:

http://www.celiac.org/

I used to cook and bake gluten free; it can be a real challenge. I now see boxes of redymade mix of things like gluten free bread and pancake mis in our little local grocery.

Good luck.

 

[Yay Chicks!]

I went to a holiday party at a house with two people who need to eat gluten free. Baking treats can be complicated, but I got a gluten free (and dairy free) brownie mix at Trader Joes. They were pretty good brownies but a little oily. I would substitute apple sauce for half the oil if I ever made them again.

 

[PolloAdoro]

We are a gluren free, casein free, and corn free family. I really love www.glutenfreegoddess.blogspot.org
I use ghee in place of butter, all her recipes are fabulous!!

 

[dipence71]

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[Carolyn]

Eat out: a 100% beef burger or grilled chicken breast sandwich using large leaf lettuce instead of bun is great. You can use the large leaf lettuce for all kinds of wraps instead of bread. Corn chips and corn tortillos are okay.
Pasta: Tinkyada or rice noodles. I have ordered Tinkyada off the internet or found it at health food stores and occasionally large grocery stores. It is a good substitute in taste. Rice noodles are better in oriental stir fries, etc than in italian type cooking for me.
Some grocery stores carry a gluten free waffle that is good (can't remember the name)....this also works well for making a sandwich.
I got some food at the health food store, very expensive. There are a few gluten free breads (usually frozen foods) and a pizza crust that are good but a lot of it lacks in taste.
You can make gluten free breads. Quick breads are easy, yeast bread is hard to get a good product. I liked buckwheat pancakes using buckwheat and some corn flour to make them. You can make buckwheat biscuits, don't taste bad but black biscuits take some getting used to.

READ THE LABEL.....you can almost consider that if it is not 100% meat, fruit, veg, dairy or fat, it is more likely to have gluten than not.

Peanut butter cookies (you can get more detailed recipe on line)
1 c peanut butter
1c sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla

mix, roll into balls, flatten with fork and bake at 375 until lightly brown. I think hershey kisses are gluten free so you can put one on top of each ball.

there are recipes for coconut macroons that have condensed milk and coconut with no flour.

 

[Carolyn]

oops! I just looked at this more carefully and realized it was dairy free and that your week is up. I would not have posted if I had read closer to begin with.

 

[SallyF]

Also, if you read labels, one brand of soy sauce does not have wheat in it, so is OK for gluten-free diets. I just can't remember whether it's Chun King or LaSoy, so you'd have to read the ingredients.

 

[kristy1129]

Gluten & dairy isn't that difficult. We've been off it for 2 years. What's difficult is adding soy, corn, nightshades, coconut, legumes, etc... to the mix!
It depends on if you're going gluten free because of gluten allergy/intolerance or celiac disease. If so, boxed or packaged gluten free things aren't always gluten free. We had to go package free and cook everything from scratch and we have to wash our grains with soap & water before we eat them. We're not eating anything that can't be washed basically. We eat organic fruits & vegetables, millet, quinoa, etc. Meat, eggs, etc can have trace gluten depending on what the animal ate. It just depends on how sensitive you are. My son can't have chicken that's eaten wheat or he'll get very sick. Go to the grocery store and shop the outside aisles (not the inside where all the processed foods are) and go to farmers markets and get to know your farmers. Grass fed/finished beef, lamb, bison are usually safe. Again, just depends on why you're going gluten/dairy free. )