To say eating gluten free food sucks

What is it you’re missing? I have been coeliac 15 years and there are few things I can’t find a decent sub for. Sausages are mostly gluten free nowadays across a range of supermarkets. For dinner I just have normal meals adjusted as needed:
Curry
stir fry (rice noodles and gluten free soy sauce)
jacket potato and fillings
pie, mash and veg
roast dinner
spaghetti bolognese
pasta bake
risotto
chicken goujons/ fish fingers and chips
sweet chilli salmon
cottage pie
homemade lasagne
sausage and mash with gravy

my family eat 90 percent the same as me to make life easier and they don’t ever notice. I can bake most sweet things apart from biscuits although my cookies have improved recently. It is trial and error as everyone has different tastes

Egg fried rice will probably have non gf soy sauce in. Have you checked??

I wouldn’t order Chinese as all the things I like have soy sauce or noodles or prawn toast or Hong Kong chicken or duck pancakes

Warburtons tiger bloomer or sour dough widely available and best we’ve found shop bought (although not as good as normal bread).
Agree with bread maker being best.

I will admit that after several years completely gluten-free I was massively relieved to discover that my allergy (not coeliac) to wheat lets me eat Spelt - though I'm careful not to overdo it.

The bliss of not having a constant cough and intermittent asthma and allergic skin reactions is enough to keep me off the wheat.

I hate all the GF bread, biscuits and cakes pretty much. I ended up hardly eating anything when I thought I had wheat intolerance.
I used to crush up gf cornflakes to make breading for chicken pieces or Kiev. And I quite like almond flour in some home made gf cookies etc.

I've just come back from the grocery shop and Asada proudly told me they had won some award for being best GF. They do have quite a big selection.

One of DH's bugbears is "free from" foods. He only needs to avoid gluten; he doesn't want foods that are free from gluten AND dairy AND eggs AND ...

You need Becky Excell's cookbooks. Lots of gf sausages are available, eg Tesco finest and I think all Tesco sausages will be soon. Heinz baked beans.

Some of my favs are the Tesco lentil pasta, schar seeded loaf is good toasted (not as good as bread), whole creations garlic bread is excellent. Also try brands like Gosh that seem to be gluten free as standard (falafels, falafachini), these paired with salad and hummus make a good lunch for me.

It does suck, when I'm trying to be positive I see it as a good way to eat more whole foods and avoid processed food.

We eat Heck gf sausages. DH (can eat what he likes, lucky bastard) really likes them too.

My friend was diagnosed a year or so back and it is tough going.

I can help with one bit though - Tesco finest sausages are all gluten free and pretty good (so is their chorizo).

Some other hits from the last year:
Goodfellas gluten free frozen garlic pizza bread
Nairn do a whole range of gluten free biscuits crackers and oatcakes (we've eaten these for years just because they're good)

I've just spotted McVities do gluten free hobnobs and chocolate hobnobs if they might help your biscuit craving.

From seeing what my friend has gone through, it does get easier as you find your feet with it and find new treats and things but also let yourself be a bit cross about it too. Best of luck.

If anything you will loose weight going gluten free because it should encourage you to eat unprocessed whole foods. You will get used to it, but you have to stop thinking about ready made stuff and think more along the lines of fresh x

www.mumsnet.com/talk/autoimmune_disease/5019243-would-anyone-be-up-for-a-coeliac-chat-thread I think you will find this thread handy.

It takes a bit of patience but there is a bunch of tolerable alternatives. I agree with the high prices and small sizes though.

I've resorted to eating sushi a lot personally.

When I feel down I remind myself the effects were very unpleasant; and I get an M&S coffee and walnut cake from their gluten free section and eat it all myself!

Try and move away from the ultra processed gluten free alternatives . Things that will help with hunger are nuts , avocados , pulses - things like tins of chickpeas and humous . Jacket potatoes or sweet potatoes are quick to microwave .Also look at making things like flapjacks with gluten free oats - very quick or cookies with oat flour - quick to make .

Friend of mine was diagnosed as a child and we are in our fifties . Her mum was told to feed her vegetarian . Whilst quite wierd advice I think if you look at some veggie recipe books you will find lots of interesting alternatives

In Ireland Aldi do gluten-free sausages and a range of unhealthy but tasty chicken things in the freezer cabinets - goujons, chicken breasts. Lidl have 'promise bread' which is the best of the g-f breads (not the highest praise) and I was thrilled to find their deluxe gnocchi are made with rice flour, not wheat. I quite like Lidl and Aldi chocoate digestives, too.

Gluten free pasta is almost all disappointing with the exception of buckweat (not a wheat) pasta if you can get it. Otherwise it's a case of finding quick and acceptable things to do with rice and spuds.

Because most soy sauce contains gluten and contamination is almost impossible to avoid.

Lots of Thai soy sauce is GF so you can make your own.

I agree that lots of sausages are actually GF.

I'm told that the GF hobnobs are really good if you need a biscuit.

the best yorkies are gluten free - need corn flour which makes the puff up like magic, crisp and light

Fail proof simple recipe - I make with milk

glutenfreecuppatea.co.uk/2017/10/01/gluten-free-yorkshire-pudding-recipe-dairy-free-low-fodmap/#recipe

Asda sausages are gluten free and worth eating. Same prices as their other better sausages too. Are you a confident cook? Asking as dh had to cut out all gluten. Horribly allergic to the point he was biopsied for Cealiac disease and yes it’s a steep learning curve. promise bread is the best of a rough bunch but most bread replacements leave dh asking for the packaging as it’s more edible.

Whether she's your cup of tea or not, I'd really recommend following Megan McKenna on Instagram. She's GF and posts lots of videos/meal ideas that she's adapted to be GF. Think she also has a cookbook out.

Why no Chinese takeaway? I get egg fried rice and sweet & sour tofu regularly with no ill effects

I'm gluten free too and I'm afraid you need to change your mindset drastically. It's not about eating the foods you've always eaten but the expensive, processed gluten free versions. You need to eat naturally gluten free, unprocessed foods.

So breakfast might be eggs with vegetables, or yogurt with nuts, seeds and berries. Lunch is fish or chicken with salad and veg, dinner is sweet potato curry with rice etc. Make your own seed bars, chocolate chia puddings, fruit mousses etc. There are loads of amazing recipes out there that don't have gluten in. Of course you'll be hungry and feel crap if you are eating gluten free bread and cakes. Just don't bloody eat bread and cakes!

It's absolutely crap, I completely sympathise

I mainly miss snack food too but I've got used to the pasta now. The bread is invariably awful though

You can do roast dinner - minus the yorkies

just make them with GF flour. They work just as well.

I’d really recommend going to a big Sainsbury’s and checking out their free from section. Some have a whole side of an aisle now.

my fave pasta is freefrom fusilli (Sainsbury’s)
and fave bread for toast is schar white.

I find curries brill. And some stir fry sauces are gluten free.

It is massively overwhelming at first, but you will settle into it. There are lots of GF sausages, which supermarket do you shop in?