Wheat/Milk free foods

plainsie

Hi Guys. I'm wheat/milk intolerant. Just wondering where the cheapest place to buy these foods.

Indie_Kid

Most (or all) major supermarkets have a selection of "free from food".

Don't forget, you can have things such as rice cakes, oat biscuits, etc.

plainsie

sh1305 wrote: »

Most (or all) major supermarkets have a selection of "free from food".

Don't forget, you can have things such as rice cakes, oat biscuits, etc.

Thanks sh1305

julietiff

Hi, I have coeliac disease and so have to also avoid wheat and grains,
have found the best place for a large selection to be Sainsburys. Holland and barrett also carry a small range.

essexsi_2

Hi,

I have found that the best 'free from' section is in my local Sainsburys. These foods are quite expensive though and I think of them as a treat not the mainstay of my diet. Also if you read whats actually in these foods they really don't sound all that healthy!! They add all sorts to make them taste like the 'normal' line.

I have found 'Genius' bread a god send as it really is like 'normal' bread, again it is pricey at around £2, I think Tescos is cheapest for this.

I would also say that getting a selection of wheat and dairy free cook books from the library is a good idea and try out the recipes. The BBC food site is very good for this to. You then have complete control over what goes in, but do take care the recipes are very good and a calorie is a calorie no matter where it comes from!!!!

I would also recommend you email the HQ of all the supermarkets and they are quite good now at sending out lists of foods suitable for special diets.

Above all read labels, then read them again! They hide things under different names in the ingredients lists and even worse they change the recipe without you realising, so something you thought was 'free from' no longer is!!

HTH all the best Si

elfen

Genius is lovely but really high calorie and fat so I keep it as a treat.

Im gluten/lactose intolerant too, but I have found the best freefrom is Sainsbury's. They even do curry sauces and stuff so it's easy to find something you can eat (the korma sauce is a litte thicker but tastes lovely) and the corn pasta is nice, if a little bland. Can you tolerate goat's milk or do you have to have soya, as goat milk is much tastier (and doesn't curdle in tea)

You can only really have oats if you're not allergic to oat gluten, which I am too but DONT eat the freefrom porridge, it looks and tastes like wallpaper paste. They do do organic cornflakes that have no barley in though, and they are yummy! You can also get Swedish Glace, which is gluten/dairy free, and they also do Neapolitan ice-cream. The better sausages are gluten/dairy free (think it's Debbie and Andrew and the Farmer one) but it's best to make your own burgers/meatballs as they usually have rusk in them to bulk them out.

Hoopylass

hey there im wheat intolerant so i feel your pain so to speak! Ive shopped around for wheat free food items and this is the best ive found.

Sainsburys - their website is fantastic. You can search for food items online that you are intolerant too and it will give you a list of items that you can have and you can print it off for your shopping. Their frozen range is great and by far the best! Can totally reccomend their chicken kievs!

Asda - has the best wheat free pasta. Ive tried them all and theirs is definetly the best.

Tesco - do some really nice choc and nut cereal bars!

Morrisons - their rocky road bites are amazing.

I can also reccomend the genuis bread...its £2.49 so quite expensive but by far the best around.

Indie_Kid

You can ask a local butcher to make sausages too.

plainsie

Thanks to essexsi, julietiff,elfen, hoopylass and sh1305. All great info.

Alexnikov

Check out M&S - because they don't stuff their food full of additives it's often ok for dairy/wheat free diets. They don't seem to advertise them as such but most of their sausages are made with rice flour so are gluten free. Not the cheapest supermarket around but well worth it in terms of quality.

In terms of the main supermarkets, they're all a lot better than they were. I pick and choose bits from each - Morrisons seems to have the best cakes/biscuits range, Tesco & Sainsburys are good for packety things (I love the thai green curry from Tesco) and Asda is generally ok, but our local one doesn't have the best range.

Genius bread is by far the best fake bread on the market. In terms of dairy free marg, we use Vitalite in our house as it's got more taste than Alpro or a lot of the others soya spreads.

But just read the labels on everything as you'll be surprised by some things that are ok. And if you're cooking from scratch a fair bit then it's not too big a deal

plainsie

Alexnikov wrote: »

Check out M&S - because they don't stuff their food full of additives it's often ok for dairy/wheat free diets. They don't seem to advertise them as such but most of their sausages are made with rice flour so are gluten free. Not the cheapest supermarket around but well worth it in terms of quality.

In terms of the main supermarkets, they're all a lot better than they were. I pick and choose bits from each - Morrisons seems to have the best cakes/biscuits range, Tesco & Sainsburys are good for packety things (I love the thai green curry from Tesco) and Asda is generally ok, but our local one doesn't have the best range.

Genius bread is by far the best fake bread on the market. In terms of dairy free marg, we use Vitalite in our house as it's got more taste than Alpro or a lot of the others soya spreads.

But just read the labels on everything as you'll be surprised by some things that are ok. And if you're cooking from scratch a fair bit then it's not too big a deal

That's great, thanks Alexnikov. Wouldnt have thought about M&S. Thanks for info.