Wheat free recipes and ideas

MimiJane

savvy wrote:

I know they ARE nice! We use them as pizza bases (which weirdly enough we're having tonight!!) as they are more spongier than the proper wheat free pizza bases, which are more like biscuit frisbees! :rolleyes:

What a good idea ... never thought of that! Something else to try (but not tonight )

savvy

LOL! To make a bigger pizza, bf puts 2 naans next to each other, along the straight edge, so that the thinner ends are opposite each other Thats makes quite a bit, especially as we pile on olives, artichokes, mushrooms and an egg. I can eat about 2/3 as a meal, and there's about 1/3 to take to work for lunch the next day, as it's still nice cold

MimiJane

Snap! You use the same type of pizza toppings as me, though never tried an egg. Do you poach it at the end to put on top? I love artichokes and buy the tins. but do find them pretty expensive.

savvy

Yeah artichokes are a bit expensive! We just put the egg on the middle of the pizza and it bakes in the time it takes to cook. Also forgot we have sundried tomatoes on it too! Nicked the egg idea from my fave pizza from Pizza Express - Fiorentina


Edit: forgot to add, no flippin pittas in Southampton Tesco, OR naans!! grrrrr KNEW I should have picked up more in the Brum Tesco!!!

Charlton_King

As part of a dietary régime, I have to give myself a month's trial wheat avoidance. This may become permanent.

I've looked in Tesco and they have a (fairly expensive) range of stuff which could help out.

The one predictable and glaring omission seems to be bread and this is something I am loathe to give up. Ryvita is all very well - I like it - but if anyone knows of an acceptable wheat-free bread imitation I'd be keen to hear the details.

savingsara_2

Well my brother eats rye bread as he can't have wheat, but I don't know what it's like.....

mrs_metal

My brother also has a wheat intolerance and I'm afraid to say he's tried every kind of wheat free bread out there and has now given up on having bread again, he doesn't think any of them are any good.

Although I have to say he'd a very fussy eater (even before the wheat problem) so it may just be his fussyness.

julybride

I have tried every brand of bread, adn i agree a good wheat free alternate really doesn't exist. Waitrose do a product in there bread section (not the wheat free section) and chocolate muffins which are good! but very expensive! The best can recommend is investing in a couple of very good wheat free recipie books then searching high and low for the variety of flours you need ot make them. Initially be fairly pricey but actually works out fairly reasonable in the long run
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newmrslockwood

My MIL is wheat intolerant and she makes her own wheat free bread. It is very light and airy but i'm almost sure she gets the mix on prescription.

Plum_Pie

These older threads might help:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=424518&highlight=gluten+free

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=448123&highlight=gluten+free