To ask for a ‘What I’ve eaten today’ gluten free version?

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I love the ‘What I’ve eaten today’ threads.
I’m wondering if those who are gluten free for whatever reasons could give me some inspiration?
I’m planning on going gluten free for January to see if it will help my awful IBS symptoms.
After suffering for years and trying lots of different experiments with my diet (including the low fodmap which didn’t help 🙁) I am coming to the conclusion that bread, crackers, pasta etc are not helping me.
I have tried going gluten free in the past but found many of the gf products tasted awful and were horrendously expensive so ending up living off rice cakes which wasn’t ideal!
So, if you are gluten free, what do you eat in a day?

I have coeliac disease; unless you're coeliac then cutting down on gluten probably won't do much for you I'm afraid.

I just have normal things for dinner, e.g lasagne but with gluten free pasta and homemade béchamel with gluten free plain flour. Most meals can be adapted, e.g tamari sauce instead of soy, rice noodles instead of traditional noodles. A full roast dinner is a good option, just use a gluten free stock cube and gluten free flour in the gravy.

2 x pieces of GF schar seeded loaf (aka tiny slices) with peanut butter.

Caesar salad with roasted baby potatoes instead of chicken for lunch

GF Pasta with peas, lemon, olive oil, garlic and Parmesan for dinner.

I’ve given up meat for January too so vegetarian meals for me this month.

Just thought I’d add, I can usually tolerate GF oats but since being pregnant I can’t eat them without an issue which is annoying as I used to love porridge, so many exciting ways to make it.

I’m coeliac; have been gf since diagnosis 3 years ago. We run a completely gluten free household so I barely think about it any more.

My diet is so shit at the moment, eating up all the Christmas crap, that I’m embarrassed to put it on here. Still, it’ll be an antidote to all the usual “I ate a smoothie for breakfast, fresh salad for lunch and tofu with veg for dinner” I generally read on MN!

Breakfast: coffee. I know this is technically not breakfast but I can’t eat early on. I over compensate later.

Lunch: some free from maple and bacon Christmas tortillas that are hanging around in the cupboard, some Christmas stilton that pretty much had mould on the mould, an aldi free from mince pie and a slice of homemade gluten free Christmas cake. (My feeble defence, I work until 8pm so need a stodgy lunch). The aldi are the best gf mince pies on the market and were selling them off at 79p a box so I bought 10 boxes. They are stacked up in my kitchen as there are too many for the cupboard and are attracting negative comments pertaining to the sheer quantity. They have a best before date of 15/01/20; I like a challenge.

Dinner, savoury mince with mashed potatoes and carrots (because I am still stuck in 1970). The savoury mince is easy made with an oxo beef stockpot; they’re gluten free. Pudding, half a large pot of Onken yoghurt which DD started before new year; it was slightly suspicious. I found some blueberries in the back of the fridge.

After-dog-walking-10pm-snack: a crunchie and a fudge from a Cadbury selection box I bought from Tesco for 38p. DH is taking the dairy milk Oreo and double deckers from them to eat at work as we don’t eat gluten in the house.

Sorry if that’s put you off a gluten free diet - I promise it isn’t normally this bad but I’m doing “cheap January” which involves spending as little money on everything as possible and means I’m scouring the cupboards for leftovers and shops for bargains! I might post again when I have a better food day...

Coffee and 2 tangerines for breakfast
Home made chicken soup - more coffee and raspberries for lunch
Chicken stir fry and strawberries for dinner tonight

Misty9 the Warburtons tiger bread is the nearest thing I’ve found to properly enjoying bread since my diagnosis. I dislike warburtons gf sliced compared to Genius or even Tesco, but their tiger bread is lovely!

1stTimeMama my DD is coeliac and vegetarian. She was veggie long before the coeliac diagnosis and didn’t want to go back to meat. She is at uni so eats cheaply but her dinners are pretty good from what I can see. She makes curries with chickpeas and veg, stir fries with tofu, bolognese with lentils, various pasta sauces, usually tomato and veg, nachos with cheese and refried beans, frittatas and omelettes, and vegetable bakes, to name a few. If she’s home here I often give her quorn or plant chef veggie sausages as I’m unimaginative, but quorn has become horrible recently with adding wheat to more and more stuff, so I don’t trust it like I used to. The plain stuff like chicken pieces and the roast still seem ok.

My only real worry with DD is that she eats a lot of rice, sometimes egg fried,sometimes spicy, sometimes with veg, but pretty much every lunch from what I can see. She could do with a bit more protein but isn’t a dairy fan. Doves farm to lentil pastas which are high in protein so I bought her a few boxes of those.

I have a couple of recipes I like for almond flour scones (I get almond flour from Costco) and I love this bread with avocado. www.thelondoner.me/2014/03/mums-low-carb-bread.html

@anthilda it's a sauce from asda that I used. Old El Paso do a GF range too though

I have coeliac disease; unless you're coeliac then cutting down on gluten probably won't do much for you I'm afraid.
Sorry but that's simply not true. Going gluten free can help with other things too. I have Hashimoto's disease and gluten triggers an autoimmune response. The amount of gluten in today's selectively bred wheat is far higher that it would have been in its original state so the benefits of being gluten free are not exclusive to coeliacs.

Thank you @JoeyJoJoJunior

Breakfast I have an omelette with spinach, or some homemade granola (nuts and seeds toasted with coconut oil) and Greek yoghurt.

Lunch - soup and a gluten free cheese scone which I make with ground almonds, or salad (Greek salad, or leaves with chicken, or Something coleslaw ish)

Dinner - a piece of meat or fish with veggies, or a slow cooked casserole with rocket etc

Snacks: nuts, cheese, olives, a little double cream in my coffee.

I gave up all carbs and sugar about 9 months ago and I have lost nearly three stone and feeling amazing, energy levels are great

B- Moo yoghurt and GF granola
L- GF oatcakes, cheese and tomatoes
D- Spag bog with GF spaghetti

The best bread imo is Warburtons GF sour dough or tiger loaf. I buy a loaf, slice it then freeze it.

Bouncebacker I aspire to eat like you, but often fall foul of not being able to eat the "easy" LCHF things like eggs and avocado. Nonetheless I will keep plodding on (while trying not to live on cheese). Would you be prepared to share the cheese scone recipe, or do you just sub almond / coconut flour for ordinary flour?

Constance, yes, there's also increasing evidence that removing gluten/ grains can help with Ehlers Danloss joint pain, I believe.

Iwillwear here this is my go to cheese scone recipe. I don't cut them with a cutter, just squash into a circle and cut into six wedges and pull them apart slightly before putting them in the oven.

@IWillWearTheGreenWillow that's very interesting, I've been strict gluten free for 15 years but was diagnosed with hEDS last year.

Thanks for the food inspiration, like most of you I find specific gf products aren't nice. Personally I find most gf cake isn't good so I prefer a flourless chocolate cake- Nigella does a couple and M&S sell one called chocolate fudge pudding or something like that.

I am coeliac - had bad ibs in my 20s which I managed by cutting out fruit. It was completedly resolved with a series of colon irrigation sessions and now I eat anything except gluten and don’t suffer any ibs symptoms. Went to a specialist once who was researching into ibs being experienced by people who were hypermobile - the muscles in the digestive system were not functioning how they should.

Dreaming, ittakes, after many years of confusion it transpires DH and I and all of our DC have hEDS (although it was called Type III when we started the diagnostic process) and Hypermobile Tummy is definitely part of it for me, DD and DS3. You can trace digestive issues back through my DM's family along with other hypermobile traits. Between us DH and I have all possible hypermobile joints, so two of the DC can fold up like marionettes.

@elephantoverthehill, thanks, I'll try that recipe.

Gluten free really helped my IBS. I was gluten free for 3 months last year and it was great

As others have said avoid gluten free alternatives as they pack so much sugar into them as a replacement!

Goodluck! I hope I can start it again soon too

Yay I can play this as an 100% gluten free due to thyroid.

Coconut yogurt and blueberries
Pack of crisps
Burger with no bun and chips
Mint tea
Chicken salad, avo, lettuce, bacon
Ginger tea

There’s some really good gf breads out there now But you have to experiment. Pancakes are super easy to do. Pasta easy.

AVOID PIZZA these will never live up to gluten pizza.

A lot of Vietnamese food is gluten free

Rice noodles are great

Potato’s, rice. Polenta, all good

Watch out for soy sauce, gravy, sauces

You can also get gluten free cookie dough now

DD diagnosed coeliac last May and it hasn't been too difficult although bread generally isn't very nice. I got a free Juvela pack and their bread mixes were excellent but too expensive to buy! Food today:-
Breakfast - GF honey flakes
Packed lunch - leftover homemade bacon and tomato pasta (food flask), raspberries and yogurt, GF caramel shortcake (small piece)
Tea - leftover GF pizza and wedges, cherry tomatoes
Loves rice cakes as snacks
Tomorrow will be cereal for breakfast, soft cheese and ham sandwich, lentil chips, chocolate mousse for packed lunch, homemade chicken curry, rice and popadoms for tea.

B1rdinthebush

Aldi rice crispies contain barley malt extract which coeliacs can't have. You may not need to be that strict but flagging for those who might need to be.

True, though my dietician advised that the amounts in supermarket versions are so tiny that they should be safe. My reactions to gluten though tend to be long-term rather than short term, but my last blood test was satisfactory.

No breakfast
3 x coffee so far
L : jacket potatoes with tuna and Helmans lighter than light mayo with some red onions mixed in
T : I'm going to have a plain omlette with salad on the side

@TalbotAMan Unfortunately I'd react to even a small amount of barley malt. Amazing how varied people's reactions can be.