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gluten-free Plus Top 8 And Other Stuff Free Ideas

StephanieL

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StephanieL Enthusiast
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Hello! I am looking for kid friendly food ideas for my 3 year old. We are top 8 free plus corn, citrus and bananas. I would LOVE some new ideas for the family! Things that are easy to part out into vegetarian (my husband) and meat eaters is a plus!

Thanks so much!

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200+ people looked and nothing? :(

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I know a lot of people really dis enjoy life products, but you can find a lot of things to eat through them. Bread, chocolate chips, chocolate bars, kinda like a trail mix bags of seeds and stuff.

If you can try chick peas, hummus. It is good for an allergy free bread sandwich spread. IMO

There is sunbutter (a sunflower seed replacement for peanut butter)

Remember to concentrate on things you can have! (We went through a whole BACON thing. Made appetizers and such made with bacon , a little went a long way and made you feel full quick. Best recipe was a bacon strip (cut in half or thirds) wrapped around a water chesnut (secured with a toothpick) with a sauce topping made with brown sugar, ketshup, and a little honey. Place aluminum foil on a sheet cake pan, oven temp of about 400 and you have to watch the time yourself because of the different thickness of bacon slices.

Chocolate cake recipe

1 1/1 cups of gluten free flour (Gluten free pantry flour mix)

1 cup sugar

3 Tbl. cocoa

1 tsp. baking soda

1/4 tsp. salt

Mix dry ingredients and add ingredients in order listed

1 cup cold water

6 Tbl. salad oil

1 tsp. vanilla

1 Tb. vinegar

Mix until smooth. Pour into greased 9" square pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.

You can double the recipe for a 9 by 13 pan and bake longer. (I never quite get the timing right for a 9 by 13 pan and find it never bakes through the middle without the edges being overdone.)

there are mixes from the cravings place that might work for you too. Cherrybrook Kitchen has some things too.

We used some coconut oil to replace fat in some recipes for butter. To tell you honestly we ended up just buying lard and adding less than what the recipe called for. Not easy to find now days. Doesn't fit in the vegan catagory either, but desperate times.....

Some sorbets don"t have casein. Since a lot of chocolate has soy and casein we did have cotton candy and Dum Dum suckers on hand.

A lot of the gluten free acceptable breakfast cereals were fine with rice milk too.

StephanieL Enthusiast
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Thanks Mommida.

Yes, we do the sunbutter stuff and enjoy life as well (why is it dissed?) Cherrybrook Kitchens is a staple too :) Rice milk on cereal is a staple here too.

Love the bacon with water chestnuts! I LOVE those. Why didn't I think of that? Thanks!! I am also looking forward to trying the cake recipe! Do you have a safe vanilla? I hear that can be a gluten pitfall.

Thanks again!

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I am a terrible cook, and very new to celiac, so I don't have much in the way of suggestions. I know I use a lot of Bob's red mill products and go to Trader joe's for "Gorilla Munch" cereal. It's gluten free and even marketed to kids! YUM!

I do have info on the vanilla thing: While IN the grocery store, despite seeing a "gluten free" label on McCormicks Vanilla, I called the company. The woman assured me that ALL McCormicks spices etc are gluten free. Needless to say, I now have LOTS of red capped McCormicks spices in my spice rack!

Good luck!

Thanks Mommida.

Yes, we do the sunbutter stuff and enjoy life as well (why is it dissed?) Cherrybrook Kitchens is a staple too :) Rice milk on cereal is a staple here too.

Love the bacon with water chestnuts! I LOVE those. Why didn't I think of that? Thanks!! I am also looking forward to trying the cake recipe! Do you have a safe vanilla? I hear that can be a gluten pitfall.

Thanks again!

mommida Enthusiast
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Another vanilla brand that is gluten free and never had any problems with is Simply Organic. Every now and then Costco is supposed to have a nice gluten free vailla too.

I also kept DariFree powder on hand too. Put in recipes when it seemed like the rice milk was too thin.

See what I mean, you have to focus on what you can have. Pick something you can have, and search recipe sites. You might have to modify recipes, but it can give you a direction to break the "same old-same old".

I was thinking of trying some Morrocan recipes in the near future.

People really dis the Enjoy Life products. People don't realize a good majority of the breads cater to all top 8 allergen free peeps. If you stop to consider what it isn't made of, I'm amazed it's bread!

fran641 Contributor
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I also had a great snack recently. Using toothpicks wrap a small piece of bacon around chunks of pineapple and bake at 400 till the bacon is crisp. Soak the toothpicks in water to prevent from burning before using.

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I recently found Open Original Shared Link for vegetarians with celiac. Perhaps you can find some ideas on there so you don't have to cook different meals?

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