Best place to buy gluten-free foods?
I have a 5 year old Autistic son. I’m wanting to put him on a gluten-free diet but the grocery stores around here don’t carry them. And the health food stores cost WAY too much.
Where is the best place to buy gluten-free foods online at good prices?
My son tends to absolutely CRAVE foods that contain large amounts of gluten, such as crackers and chips. He also loves chicken nuggets, but the breading has gluten. I’m looking more for sites that sell these types of foods.
Yes. Gluten free food is expensive. I wouldn’t bother with most ready made meals, anyway, though, as they are pretty poor as a bunch, though you may be lucky and find one or two that are edible.
But, you know, gluten is not naturally present in most food. Gluten is the protein in wheat, rye, barley, spelt and a few other closely related grains. It’s not in corn, rice, or oats, although oats are mostly contaminated during processing, so you would need to buy ones that are certified gluten free (meaning they were processed in a gluten free environment).
So, meat, fish, eggs, fruit, nuts and vegetables (including corn and potatoes) are all gluten free if you buy them unprocessed. Cheese, too (not bought grated as that’s coated in modified starch, and not some blue cheese, as the mold is started on bread in some cases), but if your son is autistic, he should not be eating dairy products anyway. Most frozen veg is also fine (if it’s not coated or in a sauce), but frozen potato products are mostly coated in something or other containing gluten.
Go back to basics and start cooking the sort of thing your grandma probably served up: a piece of meat or fish with some vegetables and potatoes. Or do a one-pot rice dish like jambalaya or risotto. Or make an omelette and fill it with maybe diced ham…
There are loads of meals you can serve up that don’t contain gluten or dairy and don’t rely on expensive “gluten free” products. However, if you want to add pasta to the mix, Orgran brand, though expensive, is pretty good. And you can use Real Foods’ Corn Thins (any variety except the multigrain) like crispbreads, and rosti (swiss potato pancakes) for “toast” when you want to do… beans on toast or something.
In my local store Corn Thins are not in the gluten free section, but in the main crispbreak/cracker area. There’s also Mrs Crimbles coconut macaroons, which are gluten free, also in the main part of the store.
A salad made with lots of diced salad stuff (celery, lettuce and other leaves, cucumber, baby tomatoes, green onions) and served with egg mayonnaise (hardboiled eggs mashed up with mayo) is a great meal, and is pretty cheap – a jacket potato added to this makes it more filling.
Hope this helps.
PS. I don’t know what country you’re in. Amazon sell gluten free stuff, but it’s not cheap. In fact gluten free stuff just is not cheap – partly because it’s pretty difficult to get good results without gluten (in many cases), and partly because we are a captive audience. In the UK http://www.naturallygoodfood.co.uk has a good selection and someone recently recommended http://www.goodnessdirect.co.uk to me. In Australia, there’s http://okget.info/about/GFfavourites
I’m told Whole Foods, Trader Joes, Ralphs and Sprouts have a good selection.
There are 210 recipes in http://www.GlutenDairyFree-Easy.com
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