Wheat free menu plan help required please

trulymadlydeeply_indebt!

Seakay wrote: »

http://www.fitnessandfreebies.com/wheatfree/

Not all cheap ingredients, but a lot of ideas - if you live in an area with access to Indian/specialist shops then you may find it cheaper to buy gram flour from them than soy flour from a wholefood shop. (eg for soy muffins)

Found this info:

"18. PASTRY

Wholemeal pastry can be made from a variety of flours with or instead of wheat. The best gluten free alternative to wheat is buckwheat flour, which makes delicious, if heavy pastry. All wholemeal pastry tends to be heavier than white flour pastry. Pastry can be made using potato (grated) 50/50 with flour.

Make your pastry in the normal manner but remember it doesn’t bind as well as white wheat pastry. If you roll it, do so between two pieces of greaseproof paper and manipulate it into position, peeling off the paper before baking as appropriate. The simplest method of handling this pastry is to place it in its tray or dish and spread it out with your fingers. "

on this site:
http://www.bodyandmindshop.com/product/WholefoodRecipes.html

I would try finely ground oatmeal as an alternative to buckwheat flour in the first instance, as it is a more familiar and less intrusive flavour.

I find it easier to mix cooked mashed potaton with flour to make potato cakes, and assume that this would also apply if you were attempting a kind of pastry.

Blimmin eck - there's so much to take in with this wheat-free malarky!

I'm wheat intolerant as opposed to allergic and have been for 5 years, although I have noticed since diagnosis that the days I have wheat without a care in the world, are the nights I have no sleep whatsoever, and it's happening all the more frequently, so I really must push myself to try these new ways to do things. I just haven't had the "education" before so I stick to known practices of making things.

Thanks Seakay

D&DD

I'm the worst culprit for buying cookbooks
Most of mine are for normal diets though but the few I've bought that are specifically gluten free have been really disappointing...
The best gluten free ones have been the specific ones for the GF/CF diet eg special diets for special kids by Lisa Lewis..
Theres even a lady who does GF demonstrations on youtube!!
I've just bought Annabel Karmels Fussy eaters book and was pleasantly surprised to find a gluten free section in there,and also in a healthy lunchbox book :T but as I say most recipes can be found free online nowadays so save your pennies!!
Somewhere in my thread *I think* is a long list of all the names the 'nasties' go under I'll try to find it for you tomorrow and put it on here for your reference.Other things to watch are things like playdough...if DS3 plays with normal playdough it brings him up in a rash and he's quite ill..The skin absorbs stuff too

neverdespairgirl

Hi - if you are Coeliac, you can get lots of gluten-free stuff on prescription - my sister is a coeliac, and her prescription includes bread, pasta, etc.