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Willing Vegetarian but unwillingly gluten free!

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pepperquip · 15/08/2013 13:46

I feel like such a strange creature! I've been veggie for longer than I can remember but due to health problems have been advised to try a gluten free diet too for a while. Also advised to lay off dairy if at all possible. So that doesn't leave much!
Are there any other gluten free veggies out there to show me the way?
I've not idea where to start and the road ahead looks very hard and very dull. Help!!!
Thanks x

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Xiaoxiong · 15/08/2013 16:34

I have a friend who has coeliac - whenever she comes over I go here for ideas of what I can give her that's safe:
glutenfreegirl.com/recipes/

Might be worth having a look through the section called "New to gluten free" in the top left corner, which seems quite encouraging, even after you remove the meat options:

"See that carrot salad up there? No gluten in there. There?s also no gluten in a rib-eye steak, a peach in season, a raw kale salad with pine nuts and golden raisins, roasted chicken, soft mango slices that slither down your throat, carnitas for tacos with homemade guacamole, a steaming bowl of pho, yellow lentil waat, spring rolls with Thai basil and marinated pork, mashed potatoes, crunchy cornichons, lamb kebabs with sumac and lemon zest, hummus with smoked paprika and garlic, spring vegetable soup, poached eggs on asparagus, or smoked salt caramel ice cream.

You will not go hungry. I promise.

It?s natural to focus first on what you cannot eat. It?s a human tendency. You can see it around you, constantly. However, don?t do that.

Focus first on what you can eat. I promise you ? everything will be better for this.

(It?s true of the rest of your life too, but I?ll leave that to you to figure out.)

So much of the food you already love is naturally gluten-free. Focus on that. Eat well."

Xiaoxiong · 15/08/2013 16:38

She's even collected together the vegetarian recipes which look delicious, even to a meat and gluten eater like me:
glutenfreegirl.com/category/recipes/vegetarian/

Last thing to say is I'm sorry about your health problems and hope that you feel better soon Flowers Hopefully cutting out gluten and dairy will help.

CMOTDibbler · 15/08/2013 17:04

I've been gluten free for 15 years, and was veggie when I was diagnosed. I did start to eat meat as at the time it was really hard to eat out, but I have a friend who is gf and veggie and has been for some years.

I'd start from what you normally eat, and adjust from there. Pasta is easy as theres loads of gf pasta, you can get gf bread and cereals, substitute quinoa for couscous etc.
Quorn chunks are gf, but the mince and sausages aren't. But theres a new veggie gf sausage range called Secret Sausages which you can get from Ocado which are really tasty.

Dairy - well theres loads of choice these days. I like almond milk in porridge and rice or soy milk in drinks. You can get drinks made with soy in all the coffee shops and most have gf/df cake.

What do you normally like to eat? If you post, we can suggest the alterations to make them suitable

Drladybird · 16/08/2013 12:52

I have a gluten free friend who really loves the blog and recipe book of green kitchen stories (google it). It seems to have lots of gluten free, dairy free and veggie stuff...

pepperquip · 19/08/2013 19:04

Thanks for all of your replies and advice - apologies for the late reply. It's good to know there are resources out there and people who manage to do it without it being nearly impossible.
Thank you for all taking the time to reply. I'm going to go and work my way through all of your links now. x

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