My friend is gluten intolerant and is a bit devastated about it,
Just figuring out some ways to make it better!
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What are some good gluten free things to eat?
Gluten Problems - December 28, 2008
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1 tiggsy // Dec 28, 2008 at 9:39 pm
I guess you’re looking for naughty but nice. If so, the most exciting thing I can suggest is a Pavlova – you know, it’s a meringue ring, with some sort of fruit and loads of cream!!! Meringue is made from egg whites and sugar, no flour – but you should still check the label, as it’s always better to be safe than sorry.
You can’t eat that every day, though. So your friend is going to have to be a bit of a detective, unless he/she is willing to eat the overpriced garbage mostly served up in the Free From section.
All fruit is safe (so long as it’s not in a sauce, which may have been thickened with flour, though it’s more likely to be cornstarch/cornflour, which is ok). Gluten intolerance is a great excuse for buying luxury items like pineapple and mangoes.
All veggies are fine, but sauces and coatings will most likely contain gluten, so best avoided. Meat and fish without sauces and coatings are also fine – and tasty. Nothing much nicer than a steak or chop, sprinkled with Lea and Perrins’ Worcestershire Sauce (which is gluten free), and grilled or fried. Yum.
Quick food (apart from steak, if you like it rare) can be made with eggs – an omelette takes less than 5 minutes. And you can also cook up some minced/ground beef with a few onions, a tin of tomatoes and seasoning, to serve up with gluten free pasta or a baked potato, in 10 minutes – the potato or pasta will most likely take longer. Add grated parmesan (other grated cheeses in packets are coated in modified starch, so most likely not safe) or other cheese you grate yourself.
Snack foods include fruit and nut mixtures, like trail mix, ghatia, which is an Asian snack made from chickpeas, but really tasty – you have to find a proper Asian store from the Indian subcontinent to get this, though. Bombay mix is also nice, and there are some weird and wonderful things in Asian/Oriental stores worth a try – Japanese rice crackers arent to my taste, but many people like them.
Pringles are off limits, I’m afraid – even the new Rice infusions or whatever they are called contain gluten. Most crisps will contain MSG, which can cause problems, but if you buy them from a health store, they should be fine.
This article: http://www.glutenfreedietbook.com/articles/10.html
should help with recognising gluten on labels.
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