Where are the cheapest gluten-free foods?

titchy

For some slightly different foods try a local South African shop they often sell:
Kreemymeel or other Maze based porridges.
Maltabela a porridge made from Sorghum, this is a naturally gluten free grain.
Biltong which is a handy meat based snack.

The Maltabela and Kreemymeel make great reasonably priced replacements for nice warm oats in winter.

All should be gluten free, though check the ingredients and due to harvesting methods I think the Maltabela may have small amounts of wheat in it so be careful.

One other warning, South Africa is well under Americas thumb so Genetic modification is common so be wary if you do not approve of GM.

Finefoot

Check out the ethnic foods aisle, I get rice noodles there, or look in the asian supermarkets. Rice noodles are very versatile. I use it instead of pasta, use it to make chow mien, and have used it with coconut to make dessert. You only need to pour boiling water, and leave for a few minutes, so good for taking to work too.

Waxy_Bean

Fruit and veg, meat and fish, rice and potatoes?

Scarecrow_Muggins

bertietrouble wrote: »

When I visit family in Ireland I am amazed at the great range of gluten free food in Aldi. But bizarrely it is not yet available in their UK stores. The bread in particular is fantastic and a fraction of the cost of my favourite (Marks and Spencer.) I wrote to UK customer service via their website the other day to ask about extending the range to the UK and they said at the moment it was only available across the water but that they would pass on to their buying team.
My feeling is if enough of us contact them they will listen...and make available here! Gluten free produce is getting better, more of it around, but still over priced. I would like to see Aldi make it a bit easier for us and perhaps encourage the other retailers to lower their prices.
Get writing!

Aldi did sell gluten-free bread in one of their Ipswich branches for a while - it was delicious and I told all my friends about it. No sooner had I done so they stopped selling it. I too complained via their Facebook page, only to get the same non-committal reply, very disappointing . In the meantime, there is a very good gluten free cookie recipe on the You Magazine website entitled Brown Sugar Shortbread Cookies. :T

snowfox

This is a great thread, thanks to everyone for the tips :beer: (that's a GF beer).

I'm wheat intolerant (found out last year), which is less severe than gluten free, but I still have to avoid all 'normal' bread products, biscuits, pasta, etc.. It's also in a lot of sauces, packets, .. for example soy sauce was a shock to me. I now use Tamari sauce instead which is just as nice.

I also buy the genius multi seed bread, best one I've tried. It's expensive but for me it's still cheaper to make sandwiches from that than to buy lunch every day. And sometimes I just really want cheese on toast

I love pasta as well and have found that Ocado stock nice ranges of GF pasta, I try to get them when they are on offer and stock up. They were 2 for 1 not long ago, so when that happens it's almost the same price as normal pasta.

We also keep some GF flour to make pancakes every now and then.

And that's about it in terms of gluten-free manufactured products. I've switched a lot of my dinners to rice and potato based. Also +1 on the rice noodles, I use them in stir fry (with that Tamari sauce!), noodle soup, chow mein, very versatile.

For snacks I now have nuts, rice or corn cakes, oatcakes, plain salted crisps are usually OK too.

99p Store had the Nairns wheat-free biscuits recently, maybe they still do. I've seen other GF biscuits in there too but can't remember which ones.

skint_chick

I can't eat gluten at all as it makes me very ill, I've been basing my diet on meat and fish with veg. To make it more difficult I am intolerant to potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, onions, garlic, citrus fruits and allergic to bananas. So my food is all homemade as GF breads etc tend to use potato starch. I use coconut flour and gelatine to make flatbread or pizza base occasionally, and have my homemade burgers in a lettuce wrap. I got a spiraliser - just a handheld one that cost less than a fiver off eBay - to make courgette noodles and it has made stir fries a lot quicker and easier. I can tolerate a small amount of rice so sometimes have that. For breakfast I make my own homemade burgers from pork or turkey mince and some rosemary or thyme sprinkled on top. Lunch is usually either salmon, turkey or chicken breast with veg or made into a salad with cucumber, grated carrot, lettuce, radish and beetroot and dinner pork chop/lamb/fish with sweet potato and veg. If I'm going somewhere and I need a packed lunch I tend to have cooked meats with veg sticks. It's really difficult to eat out as sauces tend to have gluten in, even plain meat and veg can be quite tricky to get these days.