Gluten free foods that aren’t full of additives?

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Any recommendations?

Are you looking just for substitutes for food which normally contain gluten, bread for instance, or also things which are naturally gluten-free, like rice and potatoes?

I make my own. Over the past week or two we’ve had Jollof rice (spicy vegetable rice) which works with pretty much any meat or vegetables; salad Olivier (potato salad with peas, carrots and chopped gherkins) to go with omelettes; kedgeree; gluten-free pasta bakes; paprika casserole …

Unfortunately, as you seem to have spotted, most ‘free from’ ranges are UPFs, and I would also add that IMO they are overpriced and not even especially pleasant to eat.

I do pay the extra for Kikkomen gluten free soy sauce though 🙂

I mean just snacks. The cereal
tastes like poison and the crackers taste like cardboard! How hard would it be to have some plain oat crackers or a rice cereal that wasn’t gross and full of upfs?

I eat

Schar crackers (they melt in my mouth)
Nairn’s g-f range, eg - super seeded oatcakes. They come in small packets inside a bigger box, so can be handy to carry in a handbag for emergencies.
Tesco cookies, especially the ginger ones, with and without chocolate covering.

M&S has a good range of very tasty g-f items, although some of them have a lot of ingredients.

Avoid cakes from Tesco, Sainsbury’s and so on, because they do have a lot of additives including preservatives. M&S ones are fine, but not their flaky pastry range.

Basic g-f biscuits, such as digestives, ginger nuts and custard creams, can be hard and tasteless. Boxes of cookies tend to better although more expensive.

My breakfast staples are Nutribrex and Paleo food Co granola. They are no worse than the muggle equivalents. If you want a processed rice cereal, then you're going to get a processed rice cereal, whether it's gluten free or not.

Nairn's are OK. For sweet things I just make my own. Although the xanthan gum and GF flour probably means even my homemade things are UPF.... but at least they taste nice!

And nairns oat crackers are pretty much identical whether GF or not.

Alot of nairns products are gluten free and really nice (I'm not even gf)

All the Nairn stuff has palm oil in though, and that’s a upf.

:-(

Basically because the foods you are talking about naturally contain gluten. In order to remove or replicate them without means a lot of process. There are plenty of healthy and interesting GF foods, you just have to think differently about how you eat. It’s like vegan cheese or vegetarian bacon: people trying to recreate a popular food when the very core of it is what’s being removed/avoided.

Following with interest. Unfortunately I don't seem to tolerate oats well, so that cuts out quite a lot of the more wholesome gf options.

Make your own I think is the only way.
Otherwise snack on cheese, fruit, dried fruit etc. I try at least! If no time or energy I agree Nairns is good.

I also don’t like gf substitutes for the same reasons. I make my own granola and have it with yogurt. Sometimes i really miss eating something nice and crunchy.

Nairns GF oats for porridge in winter and this granola in summer.
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/good-you-granola