Gluten Free the old style way

elfen

Rice cakes are a nice snack with peanut butter or jam or something on them, especially where the weather's hot and you dont want to eat much.

I'm coeliac and dairy intolerant, and I do have to make most stuff by hand. Check all the sauces, if you shop online Tesco has a good free from range, as does Asda (Sainsbury's isn't as good IMHO) You can get gluten free porridge, but it looks and tastes like wallpaper paste.
You can get organic cornflakes, which have no gluten in (my fave, and they're even crunchier than Kellogg's)
If they can have goat's milk, then there's also goat's milk yogurt (comes in a big tub, little sour so may need sweetening with honey or a little fruit) and goat's milk butter. I believe Vitalite spread is gluten free, not sure on dairy free as I don't use spread (don't eat bread, so don't need it)
Wedges and chips you can make yourself, cut up some spuds into wedge shapes and add your own flavourings to it.
Nut milk is pretty yummy, almond milk is quite easy to get hold of, and Holland and Barrett have a decent selection of goodies.

tillymint1969

Evening all!!
WaxyBean - Unfortunately a lot of coeliacs are unable to eat oats - I am one of them (they have a small amount of gluten) but I think I may try making them with our cereal which is made with Amaranth Flakes. It would be nice to have something sweet that's almost good for us in the biscuit tin!

Aless - You mentioned apple curd ... I actually really miss homemade lemon curd ... and wonder if that would work with dairy free margarine instead of butter ... hmm!!

Tryingtoruletheworld - I love love love risotto (and haven't made it for ages - so thanks for that reminder!) but never thought about adding marg at the end of the cooking time - what a great idea! Have never heard of Booja Booja - where do you get their products? Health shops or supermarkets? They sound delish!! You had some really great ideas there - thank you - I take it you are coeliac too?

Elfen - I absolutely love rice cakes ... and to be honest they have been my bread substitute for a little while as the bread I used to get on prescription is no longer available from the chemist's supplier ... all the others I have tried have either had milk or soya in them. You said you don't eat bread ... so what do you have for carbs? Unfortunately we can't have goat's milk (as it is actually the lactose we are allergic to) I wish we could as I really miss yoghurt and cheese.

aless02

Waxy_Bean wrote: »

I make my 9 month old (soya and dairy allergic but not coeliac) sugar free flapjack. It's a bit of a hashed up recipe originally adapted from the ingredients of Organix soft oaty bars.

200g oats
175g raisins (or other chopped dried fruit)
50g veg oil (yes I weigh it for some unknown reason)
75g fruit spread (I use one of the varieties of this from H&B)
15g dessicated coconut
pinch of cinnamon or mixed spice
few drops of orange oil or zest of an orange

Mix together well, put in a greased baking dish (I use oil to grease it) and bake at 160 for about 15 minutes until lightly browned.

ETA - it doesn't quite taste like normal buttery syrupy flapjack, but is certainly very tolerable (I eat it as I'm on the same exclusion diet as DS while I'm breastfeeing him)

Waxy Bean, help me! I attempted to make these flapjacks today...and they don't seem to have enough moisture to "bake" together? Quite dry and falls apart mega easily - so not good for young ones to try and keep ahold of (it just falls apart in his hand). Am I missing something here?

tryingtoruletheworld

Sorry it took me so long to reply! Booja Booja don't sell to the supermarkets, so local health food shops is the way to go! Suma supplies many healthfood stores (at least they do around the north, not sure where you are!) and they carry Booja Booja products. They are expensive, but so incredible, especially the hazelnut truffles and chocolate ice-cream!

I am not a coeliac, but my bf has health problems made worse by wheat and dairy, and I prefer to have a variety of foods rather than stick to the wheat based diet! I also used to work in a healthfood shop, so had the opportunity to try loads of very tasty stuff, as well as having to have some ideas if any newly diagnosed coeliacs came in. I know lots of people I spoke to were not aware about oats and rye containing gluten when they were new to the diet.

Long_tall_sally

Sorry I don't actually have anything useful to add but as my son is Coeliac aswell as diabetic(type 1) I would really appreciate and gluten free snacks that are not too sugary!
Long tall sally

Skintslimmer

Hi all!

Thought I'd add to this thread instead of starting a new one. I am wheat free, but also find that oats don't really agree with me, and for my sins am trying dairy free too to see if that makes any difference.

Having just forced down some pretty grim expensive gluten/wheat/dairy, and apparently taste free breakfast cereal, (it appears to be museli without the grains, so just dried fruit inc coconut, and hazelnut nibs, whatever they are) I thought I could probably make better stuff myself, cheaper too. I fancy making my own granola style cereal, and flapjack type treats too.

Only problem is I don't think I'm too good on oats. This is obviously limiting in my situation somewhat! So has anyone got any recommendations for non-wheat and non-oat cereal ingredients?

While I'm at it, I take it cous cous is made from wheat? It doesn't actually say on the label last time I checked, but I think it is. I also assume bulgar wheat is no good for wheat free? Which leaves... quinoa, is it?

Yours, the ever confused,

tigerfeet2006

I have a son who is gluten intollerant and one who is GI and Lactose intollerant, so it is all good fun.

My two like Mesa Sunrise, Doves Farm Chocolate Stars and Gorilla Balls (in Tesco, green packet with a gorilla on the front, not called that but what the kids call it.)

Doves Farm also do a buy in bulk now on their website. Very useful.

Skintslimmer

Thanks fayhare, thats really helpful. :T

For those of you who aren't dairy free, I found this recipe for breakfast bars, which sounds just heavenly:

http://www.the-gluten-free-chef.com/breakfast-bar-recipe.html

May I also ask, if any of you have lost (or indeed gained) weight as a result of going gluten/wheat/dairy free? Did it go in the right direction for you? I would certainly very much welcome it if I lost some more. I lost 7 lbs in my first wheat-free week, but sadly that plateaued out. Its one of the reasons why I am trying dairy free again (failed miserably first time, hated not being allowed cheese!) - I figured at least if nothing else, cutting out or at least very much down on the calorie laden cheeses should help

meher

Gingham, a quick moment of yours please. What oil do you use for cooking mostly? I use olive oil and never used any other oil. I'd like to change because I believe prolonged use of anything specific isn't always good either, regardless of benefits; but don't know which one to go for, that wouldn't leave after taste or leave another taste on the food.

Gingham_Ribbon

I use olive oil or sunflower oil for the children's food and low calorie spray for me now.

I'm fortunate that I turned out not to have a problem with gluten in my diet, but I'm still fatter than I'd like to be!