Gluten free diet but try finding Gluten free food!!!

donna-dan

I have recently been told by my doctors that I have to cut Gluten completely out of my diet. First I thought, yeah should be okay but 3 weeks in and there is slim pickings. Seems to me all processed food has gluten in it, whether it be a humble sausage or beef and onion crisps!! I need help!! does anyone know of a supermarket with a half decent select of gluten free products? Tescos in lincoln there is a stack of three shelves a metre in lenght with gluten free goodies (at outrageous prices), Morrisons, an even smaller selection tucked away nicely by the biscuits and treats! (Talk about rubbing it in!!!) To help I decided to make my own bread, so i thought i would get some nice gluten free flour, cheap as chips (which infact do not contain gluten) i thought but no! a 1kg bag cost close to £2 but normal flour 2Kg, 30p that cant be right?? Anyway enough of my ranting!! PLEASE PLEASE can anyone help me!!!!

wigginsmum

Sainsburys are not bad - they do various pastas, savoury crackers, biscuits, cakes. But it's all much more expensive.

My stepdaughter is coeliac and we've learned over the years the best thing is to cook from scratch and make your own stuff. We've yet to find decent bread, home baked or not. We tend to eat a lot of meals with rice or jacket potatoes.

donna-dan

wigginsmum wrote:

Sainsburys are not bad - they do various pastas, savoury crackers, biscuits, cakes. But it's all much more expensive.

My stepdaughter is coeliac and we've learned over the years the best thing is to cook from scratch and make your own stuff. We've yet to find decent bread, home baked or not. We tend to eat a lot of meals with rice or jacket potatoes.

Have you got any good recipes that you could share? I love to cook, I do it all the time, after a long day in the office it calms me down but I'm running out of ideas fast

wigginsmum

Off the top of my head, flapjacks are good if she fancies something sweet (not every coeliac can cope with oats but she can).

8oz oats
5oz sugar
5oz butter (melted

Mix oats and sugar together. Melt butter in cup in microwave and stir in. Press into flat baking tin and cook for 20 minutes at 180deg. Slice through while still warm but don't turn out until cold.

I would recommend getting a decent GF cookbook. Recipes like spag bol can be adapted - just make sure any stock cubes you use are GF, and use GF pasta. It can be a bit flabby and definitely needs to be rinsed under hot water once cooked to get all the starch out, but it's not too bad.

littlejaffa

donna-dan wrote:

I have recently been told by my doctors that I have to cut Gluten completely out of my diet. First I thought, yeah should be okay but 3 weeks in and there is slim pickings. Seems to me all processed food has gluten in it, whether it be a humble sausage or beef and onion crisps!! I need help!! does anyone know of a supermarket with a half decent select of gluten free products? Tescos in lincoln there is a stack of three shelves a metre in lenght with gluten free goodies (at outrageous prices), Morrisons, an even smaller selection tucked away nicely by the biscuits and treats! (Talk about rubbing it in!!!) To help I decided to make my own bread, so i thought i would get some nice gluten free flour, cheap as chips (which infact do not contain gluten) i thought but no! a 1kg bag cost close to £2 but normal flour 2Kg, 30p that cant be right?? Anyway enough of my ranting!! PLEASE PLEASE can anyone help me!!!!

try glutafin products, they had an offer a while ago for free samples & I got a full packet (100g) of shortbread biscuits, the offers now closed http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:eKYpYLC8ZX4J:www.glutafin.co.uk/coeliac/+glutafin+sample&hl=en&gl=uk&ct=clnk&cd=1 but i'm sure if you e-mailed saying your like to try their products etc you'd get some freebies, or at least vouchers of their products

donna-dan

littlejaffa wrote:

try glutafin products, they had an offer a while ago for free samples & I got a full packet (100g) of shortbread biscuits, the offers now closed http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:eKYpYLC8ZX4J:www.glutafin.co.uk/coeliac/+glutafin+sample&hl=en&gl=uk&ct=clnk&cd=1 but i'm sure if you e-mailed saying your like to try their products etc you'd get some freebies, or at least vouchers of their products

Thanks i have just registered and now waiting for my "how to deal with a gluten free life" welcome pack or something lol

soolin

I'm a coeliac and appreciate the problems with trying to find inexpensive 'snack' substitutes. However, if you go back to your GP and ask him to confirm you are a coeliac and not just gluten intolerant (there is a difference) then you can get a lot of gf products on prescription.

I now get the new glutafin 'fresh' bread delivered to my pharmacy once a week and I get spaghetti but I tend not to bother with anything else as I'm not really a biscuit person. PM me if you want any specific advice about NHS regulations and food for coleiacs.

Soo

Sazbo

Probably the folks over on the OS board would have a lot of low-cost gluten-free ideas, maybe the mods can move this thread over there for you.

juno

Tesco do gluten free fish fingers! According to their online shop they do lots of other exciting things, but I've never seen them :mad:

loopy_lou_5

Try https://www.glutenfree-foods.co.uk I went for an interview for them once (didn't get the job ) however they have receipes on there website and also sell online quite a variety of products.

HTH's

fifimore

Hi my mother in law is a coeliac and hates most of the breads, we bought her a breadmaker for Christmas along with a book called Real Food: Gluten-free Bread and Cakes from Your Breadmaker. This was one of our best ideas as the machine is used daily due to actually turning out tasty morsels!