Gluten Free the old style way

Patchwork_Quilt

I have cornflakes for breakfast - boring but very cost effective. I find Genius bread relatively inexpensive if I want toast. At the weekends, it's a bacon butty in a gluten free roll.

Lunch is a bowl of last night's meal. Sometimes, I have enough for two lunches so I can put one in the freezer. Then it's possible to have a random selection! With a piece of fruit, I think this is the least expensive lunch.

If you want to make muffins or pancakes for breakfast (or any form of baking) I would recommend Dove's Farm Gluten Free flour. I find I can make almost any 'normal' recipe with this and it comes out well.

trolleyrun

Please be careful with the Crunchy Nut from Kellog's. it contains Barley ingredients which can cause adverse reactions in coeliacs:

http://www.glutafin.co.uk/Blog/Article/what-have-coeliacs-asked-our-dietitians/

Most regular cereals have a green symbol on them similar to the GF symbol, but it's a "healthy grain" symbol or something like that. In the above link, there's a list of cereals from various supermarkets that are similar to crunchy nut

CWTW, I wasn't a fan of porridge (or breakfast for that matter) either, but I find it comforting now and it's especially delicious with blueberries

Just_a_Girl_2

Yes, Kelloggs crunchy not are most definitely NOT suitable for coeliacs

Allegra

A couple of sites packed with from-scratch gluten free recipes:

http://www.biteme-northampton.blogspot.co.uk/

http://www.pennilessparenting.com/

Hope you find them of some help !

cwtw

Thanks all. I love the ideas! I have to confess with mainstream brands, I check the coeliac UK directory as everyone keeps changing their ingredients. Some Kelloggs cereals used to be OK but now contain barley, same with supermarket own brands.
I'm thinking of trying to make gluten free breakfast bars as lots of the shop bought ones are full of sugar (and taste like card board!)
I've registered with lots of the gluten free brands and they all send out freebies / vouchers which I've found really helpful.
After much research, my favourtie bread is Juvela "fresh" bread on prescription and preferred pasta is Bialimenta. The DS crackerbread is good for lunches.
I use left over dinners for lunch at work all the time, I'm an expert at batch cooking and freezing in lunch sized tubes now.
If desperate, the M+S ready meals are really clear if they're gluten free or not.

That chicken bake recipe looks awesome Laura.

Please keep the ideas coming - it's lovely to hear everyone's suggestions.

laura_hoggle

Ok, sorry about that! I was sure had seen a GF on a box.... I know about the healthy grain one and I did a survey about Kelloggs cereal at one point and the pics of boxes definitely had GF logos on the front, because I remember saying I'd be more likely to buy them!!! Maybe they were just trying to decide whether people would be more likely to buy if they were GF. I'll amend my previous post

ChopinonaBudget

My daughter is coeliac, and although for breakfast she either has toast or GF cereal (Tesco do an excellent GF cereal that closely resembles Special K if this is your thing....), we do as much cooking from scratch as possible too.

We do a lot of stir frying - flavoured with sweet chilli sauce from the world food aisle in Tesco, and tamari.
Also make our own burgers using turkey mince or plain beef - I just add some GF breadcrumbs (stale bread is excellent) and a selection of herbs and spices, depending on what takes her fancy.

I have a pretty fab recipe for gravy that is adapted from a Sarah Brown recipe - I can post it here if anybody is interested.

I make a LOT of omelettes - cheap as h*ll, and my daughter loves them for lunch on a non-school day.

We try to stay away from as much "Gluten free" foods as possible unless they're on prescription, as they are so expensive! (And our shopping bill is still nowhere near I would like it to be )

Keep an eye out for "Discovery Foods" - a lot of their spice mixed and other stuff are gluten free, and they are pretty cheap even when they're not on offer.

Gluten free will always be more expensive as we don;t have the choice of ranges that other people do - but there's no reason for it to be massively expensive. I'm trying to cut my shopping bills too! :eek:

anniemf2508

My husband has been a coeliac for 6 years and i'm becoming a dab hand at adapting recipes for him.
I have finally cracked a decent batter for fish, proper pancakes, chicken kievs.....

Hes a nightmare for breakfast as hes lazy and has to leave extremely early, so i've started making him sausage and egg mcmuffins, i can batch cook them at weekends and freeze, then they only take a minute in the microwave. I worked out yesterday that even with the gf rolls they work out at £1.17 each. Other days he has tesco own honey nut cornflakes...these are within codex for gluten.

laura_hoggle

The Doves Farm website has quite a few recipes on there using their gluten free flour, I saw the carrot cake muffin recipe earlier and thought I really need to try it!

Hopefully this will link to the search, but if not there is an option to choose wheat or gluten free recipes:

http://www.dovesfarm.co.uk/recipes/search-recipes/?rs_ik=&rs_pu=-1&diets%5B%5D=26&recipe_submit.x=67&recipe_submit.y=14

I don't know if you've ever used any Hummingbird Bakery recipes at all, but they do say that you can simply replace plain flour for GF self raising (they recommend Doves Farm) and a GF baking powder and still get good results - I have tried this with cupcakes and they have turned out fine, but with their bigger cakes not so!

I made these cupcakes with GF alternatives, and they were very yummy! My dad (who is a chef) and brother ate them without realising they were anything different!

http://www.mydarlingsandme.com/2012/04/chocolate-orange-cupcakes.html

Hmm, this is more cake related and you have already mentioned you make a good GF cake and were looking for brekkie ideas! Sorry!

cwtw

It doesn't just have to be about breakfast! It's lovely to hear everyones' suggestions and to feel inspired to try new things.

Being gluten free on a budget is tough whic I guess was one of the other themes. I now get all my flour on prescription and this helps with things like baking, making gluten free pizza bases and batter for fish.
The only decent pastry I have found is the DS frozen pastry and that is never on special offer (almost never... I think I found it reduced in Sainsbury's once).
I know that Juvela do lovely cornflakes style cereal but my PCT only do bread/pasta/flour on prescription and I think it's a bit pricey to have all the time - so it's a special occassions treat.

Chip the gravy recipe would be most welcome. We currently use the Knorr stock pot which are gluten free.