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I thought I'd record my hits and misses going gluten free, both for personal records and anyone else who might find it useful. All foods are gluten, soy, and dairy free. (Also coconut etc)
It hasn't been too bad, since I'm pretty much stuck at home eating unprocessed foods anyway the main issue has been finding replacements for certain staple my diet relies on, and figuring out what to eat when I crave "something crunchy and full of fibre" etc. I've pretty much given up on bread: the only wheat based bread that didn't make me feel kinda sick was rye, and none of the gluten free ones cut it. Overall the pre-made gluten free baking mixes/goods seem to disagree with me, so I'm going to have to figure out what causes that (the gums? I can't see rice flour etc being the problem) and cook my own stuff without it.
Taking people's advice I checked out The Earth Cafe in Subi (has some obscurish stuff, but more aimed at organic etc), Coles & Woolies (not to bad, and relatively cheap), Kakulas brothers (good for bulk staples like flours and grains), and the nearest large health food store in Morley (very good range) Where something was harder to find I've mentioned where I got it.
I have a bunch of flours etc I've collected and want to experiment with, but don't want to do too much at once, my digestive balance doesn't cope well with too much strange food. Haven't been able to find gluten free baking powder (I have baking soda) or cocoa.
Things I eat a lot it turns out I can still eat and thus am relying on muchly:
Peanut butter, 5 brothers pasta sauce + mince, vegetables and fruit (since I'm still finding complex carbohydrates/fibre I like which don't disagree with me), steak, spices
Wins:
For range, the Orgran flours and mixes. All soy, gluten, and dairy free by default. Health food store had the biggest range.
Norganic Corn Flakes. I like these more than the Kellogg's sort :)
Quinoa, but I knew that already
Orgran premade chocolate biscuit from health food store. Their biscuit mixes all have coconut, unfortunately, but this was nice as a one off treat.
These hazelnut biscuits (I haven't made them again, but plan to now I have an excuse)
Rice and corn thins (these are better than the bread, imo)
Socca Taaaasty. I will definitely be doing more stuff with chickpea flour.
Mondo Nougat
Adequate taste, make me feel kinda ill though:
Rice milk, have tried Soy Natural and Pure Harvest, both ok
Orgran bread mix. Made it in the bread maker with some egg. About as nice as any gluten free bread I've eaten, and helped me get past my bread craving but since then I've not eaten any since it's not that great and makes me feel bad.
San Remo pasta. Not quite as good as regular pasta, sticks very easily.
Pancakes made with Orgran plain flour.
Bad:
Freedom yeast spread. Blarg. But I only really like vegemite :(
Freedom flatbread, so foul I stopped eating it and threw out the rest of the packet
It hasn't been too bad, since I'm pretty much stuck at home eating unprocessed foods anyway the main issue has been finding replacements for certain staple my diet relies on, and figuring out what to eat when I crave "something crunchy and full of fibre" etc. I've pretty much given up on bread: the only wheat based bread that didn't make me feel kinda sick was rye, and none of the gluten free ones cut it. Overall the pre-made gluten free baking mixes/goods seem to disagree with me, so I'm going to have to figure out what causes that (the gums? I can't see rice flour etc being the problem) and cook my own stuff without it.
Taking people's advice I checked out The Earth Cafe in Subi (has some obscurish stuff, but more aimed at organic etc), Coles & Woolies (not to bad, and relatively cheap), Kakulas brothers (good for bulk staples like flours and grains), and the nearest large health food store in Morley (very good range) Where something was harder to find I've mentioned where I got it.
I have a bunch of flours etc I've collected and want to experiment with, but don't want to do too much at once, my digestive balance doesn't cope well with too much strange food. Haven't been able to find gluten free baking powder (I have baking soda) or cocoa.
Things I eat a lot it turns out I can still eat and thus am relying on muchly:
Peanut butter, 5 brothers pasta sauce + mince, vegetables and fruit (since I'm still finding complex carbohydrates/fibre I like which don't disagree with me), steak, spices
Wins:
For range, the Orgran flours and mixes. All soy, gluten, and dairy free by default. Health food store had the biggest range.
Norganic Corn Flakes. I like these more than the Kellogg's sort :)
Quinoa, but I knew that already
Orgran premade chocolate biscuit from health food store. Their biscuit mixes all have coconut, unfortunately, but this was nice as a one off treat.
These hazelnut biscuits (I haven't made them again, but plan to now I have an excuse)
Rice and corn thins (these are better than the bread, imo)
Socca Taaaasty. I will definitely be doing more stuff with chickpea flour.
Mondo Nougat
Adequate taste, make me feel kinda ill though:
Rice milk, have tried Soy Natural and Pure Harvest, both ok
Orgran bread mix. Made it in the bread maker with some egg. About as nice as any gluten free bread I've eaten, and helped me get past my bread craving but since then I've not eaten any since it's not that great and makes me feel bad.
San Remo pasta. Not quite as good as regular pasta, sticks very easily.
Pancakes made with Orgran plain flour.
Bad:
Freedom yeast spread. Blarg. But I only really like vegemite :(
Freedom flatbread, so foul I stopped eating it and threw out the rest of the packet
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