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ideas for gluten free breakfast please

26 replies

wangle99 · 03/02/2011 13:18

Just bought DS a box of gluten free cereal, due to price increases recently it is now £2.90 for a 300g box argh!

DS is gluten/wheat/dairy free and cannot tolerate barley malt in 'ordinary' cereals.

Any ideas for breakfasts before he bankrupts me????

Thank you :o)

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pagwatch · 03/02/2011 13:20

scrabled egg on gf toast

gf taost and jam/honey/peanut butter

ham and poached eggs.

sausages and gf beans

omlette

purplepidjin · 03/02/2011 13:24

Mushrooms, eggs, bacon
Soft fruit with natural yoghurt and honey
Gluten-free bread/toast
Soft-boiled egg with raw carrot to dunk
Porridge - chopped dates are very sweet if you want to avoid sugar
Muesli - Julian Graves do a GF one for £3.99 a kg

mousymouse · 03/02/2011 13:25

scrambled eggs
rice cakes with cold meats
fruit salad with rice (just cooked/steamed rice stirred in)

coldtits · 03/02/2011 13:26

glutenfreetraveller.com/gluten-free-cereal/uk/

belledechocchipcookie · 03/02/2011 13:27

Bacon sandwich on gluten free bread?

HecateQueenOfWitches · 03/02/2011 13:27

get it on prescription?

My sons both have gf diets and we get bread, cake mix, flour, biscuits, pasta, crispbread, pizza bases, etc on prescription.

CMOTdibbler · 03/02/2011 13:30

I like gf hot cross buns, gf toast, doves farm gf flakes (the buckwheat ones), Heinz beans with sausages in (weird that they are gf but are nice), gf pancakes (make loads the freeze them rolled and separated and they microwave from frozen).

Most museli is grim imo

HecateQueenOfWitches · 03/02/2011 13:33

heinz beans and sausages are gluten free? I didn't know that! My kids will be pleased Grin

BeenBeta · 03/02/2011 13:38

Get a bread maker and make your own GF bread using Doves Farm GF flour. I also make GF banana bread (nice toasted) and GF cakes and slices in general. Which child could resist a GF chocolate brownie for breakfast?

Just be careful with rice cakes and crackers some are sprayed with barley malt.

Scrambled egg and salmon is good. If you can be bothered to make a cooked breakfast, I get M&S 93% pork sausages (in double packs of 8) which are gluten free.

CMOTdibbler · 03/02/2011 14:07

Yep - its a great standby food !

I also sometimes have cake for breakfast - I make carrot and pineapple muffins which aren't too high in sugar and very filling.

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wangle99 · 03/02/2011 14:13

Thank you for your responses!

Forget to add DS is egg intolerant also (tolerates IN cooking but not as 'egg' ie scrambled, boiled etc.

We don't get on prescription as DS isn't coeliac just severely intolerant Sad

Will read more thoroughly later as currently at work!

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pagwatch · 03/02/2011 14:19

genius bread is lovely. DD likes toast and jam or peanut butter of a morning

purplepidjin · 03/02/2011 14:20

CMOT, I agree - but I eat it because it's good for me. Also because there is a lovely man on my local market who does dried fruit by weight, so I stock up on that and the oats are a bit of an afterthought Wink

HecateQueenOfWitches · 03/02/2011 14:50

Wangle, my boys aren't coeliac either.

They have autism and are gluten intolerant - tested by university of sunderland some years ago.

Our gp accepted the test results as evidence of a medical need for a gluten free diet.

It's worth a try.

CMOTdibbler · 03/02/2011 14:52

Oh, if you can have oats, museli is better - its the gf ones without oats that are grim.

I do buy some v expensive gf muselis that are nice - Market on Main st and Alchemy

pagwatch · 03/02/2011 14:54

ditto

ds2 is not coeliac but asd and intolerant and GP gave us prescription for a few years. The pasta was really handy

flamingtoaster · 03/02/2011 15:05

Whole Earth Organic Cornflakes (375g) are glutenfree and currently £1 a box in Asda (usually about 1.27).

Kallo Organic Puffed Rice cereal (225g) is £1.86

I know how difficult it is!

silverfrog · 03/02/2011 15:11

Hecate - for some reason I think Heinz beans are not suitable for gf/cf. obviously i don't have a tin handy ot check... but thought I would warn you.

I use whole earth baked beans - they taste ok.

whole earth cornflakes are a godsend in this house - normal cost, but gf with no barley malt, unlike kelloggs (we get thorugh about 4 boxes a week - dd1 is a breakfast fiend!)

will just try to check about Heinz...

purplepidjin · 03/02/2011 15:45

Ah, sorry CMOT. I googled a recipe for GF muesli and it included oat flakes...

HecateQueenOfWitches · 03/02/2011 15:57

aren't they? thanks silverfrog.

CMOTdibbler · 03/02/2011 16:10

I can't see anything in the ingredients or allergy advice here that would make them not CF

silverfrog · 03/02/2011 17:22

No, CMOT, I can't either.

I am very Confused now.

I know I avoid them for the girls for a reason - maybe they ahve had an ingredient change?

I have a feelign that maybe the spirit vinegar used to be malt vinegar?

sorry, Hecate, the ingredients do look ok.

will see if I can dredge up where I found the info to avoid them from...

Jammygal · 04/02/2011 18:57

Can ds tolerate oats? if he can then ready brek, porridge, oatibix.

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wangle99 · 04/02/2011 20:54

He can tolerate oats (thank god!) we did do porridge all the time but he went off it. Think it's about time it was introduced again!

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