Cooking unprocessed, dairy and gluten free, largely vegetarian meals. Please inspire me!

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One of my dc is gluten and dairy free. We are also pescatarian. I don't like using highly processed food replacements like fake bacon. I've started to build a compendium of meals, such as stuffed peppers, stir fry veg, kedgeree, omelettes, veggie chilli, chickpea curry, cauliflower biryani, poke bowls, pulled jackfruit etc. Please share your ideas with me!

Dh is vegan and gf. Some of our regular meals are:
stir fried peppers and onions with fajita seasoning served with baked sweet potatoes, salsa and guacamole

jerk mushrooms with rice and peas

Stir fry vegetables, crispy tofu, rice or rice noodles and homemade satay sauce

This mushroom cottage pie (substituting the butter and milk for non dairy) www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/wild-mushroom-chestnut-cottage-pie

Meera Sodha is great for this. Fresh India and East are both entirely vegetarian, and while not entirely gluten free, they are easy enough to adapt most recipes for my GF husband. Meera Sodha also has a column in the Guardian called the New Vegan, and most of the recipe there don't contain gluten and are easy to adapt if they do. I also like food blog Cookie and Kate for inspiration, who like Meera Sodha, is not dedicated gluten free, but often suggests alternatives if a recipe does contain gluten.

More specifically, some recipes we like are bibimbap which is one of my favourite meals. I use the template from East, but there are lots of recipes online. You just need tamari instead of soy sauce.

Making sushi (or temaki or sushi bowls if you don't want to roll sushi) is fun.

Marion's Kitchen's miso braised aubergine is quick and full of flavour.

Burrito bowls (or tacos with proper corn tortillas if you can get them). Rice, beans, pico de gallo, avocado.

Thai curry with tofu, vegetables and rice

Oh my goodness am I following this thread! We are a veggie family and one of my DC is currently having to do a dairy and gluten free diet for medical reasons. OP rice noodles have been a huge hit here, I also have a great flapjack recipe that is gluten and dairy free if you'd like it.

Packed lunches has been the hardest thing for us, we also have to avoid UPF, and every gluten free bread product I've found so far is UPF. Any suggestions anyone has very gratefully received. DC is getting bored of leftovers from dinner being reheated

Would recommend Anna Jones’s books and a book by Sarah Raven called Good Good Food.

Wonderful ideas already; thank you so much! We have found that indeed Mexican and Indian type recipes lend themselves well to our requirements. Pack lunches are really difficult. I routinely do a 4 hour drive to drop a dc off somewhere and feel lost for what would be suitable car food that isn't really processed. Last time, we stopped and tried to find food. I really don't want to mess around eating salad or rice in the car!

I am definitely going to try the miso braised aubergine! I sometimes do rice noodles and cover in each bowl with lots of pak choi, boiled egg, mini sweetcorn etc and pour over miso soup. yummy.

At one time I used to use a fab recipe for an African sweet potato and peanut casserole. It was gorgeous, but the website then decided no longer to allow access to the UK.

So on the omelettes theme, frittatas or baked omelette delicious.

Not sure stance on pasta GF options but veg lasagne is a hit. I avoid the processed meat here but she will manage the pasta.

Keeping things more simple

Soups
Baked potatoes with lots of leftovers

If you still have the link, the Wayback Machine might have it archived.
https://web.archive.org/

@Tr1skel1on I would love your flap jack recipe please

@Tr1skel1on I empathise with the medical diet. One of dc’s trials took months and we had to eliminate dairy, wheat, soya and eggs completely, then introduce one at a time. I know I’ve said gluten free in the title, but it’s actually wheat free, so I could use a rye flour for example. Can no longer buy cornflour in our nearest, massive supermarket. It’s apparently one of the staples they’ve cut.

@backawayfatty1 I'm going to attempt to post a photo from my mum's ancient cookbook!

Use gluten free rolled oats, it must be rolled oats or else it crumbles and stork margarine. Use half sugar and half syrup, and use 1.5 tablespoons of syrup instead of 1.

Take a look at Rebel Recipes. Fab delicious veggie recipes many are/can be DF and GF. You might like her take on sweet potato and peanut casserole, search for Sweet Potato, Cauliflower and Peanut Stew on recipe finder on her website. You can use chickpea flour to make bread and take sandwiches in car or make soup/stew and take in flasks. We make mushroom (mix of dried and assorted) and chestnut (vacuum packed bags) casserole with red wine/port, aubergine curry with coconut cucumber raita, baked vegetable layer eg with fennel, sweet potato, pepper, potato, lentil tomato daal, GF flatbread chutney.

Anything Asian with rice noodles instead of wheat

This recipe is always a winner! Been cooking it for years now and never get bored. Tasty enough to make for guests too.

https://naturallyella.com/red-lentils-and-spinach-in-masala-sauce/

Fish finger tacos with homemade guacamole, rice and salsa. Sweet potato and black bean chilli with corn on the cob. Loaded fries are adaptable in loads of different ways.

Just don't bother with the gluten free flour. I tried making flatbreads earlier. It was like trying to make bread with kinetic sand. Tasted of absolutely nothing too.
Spare yourself.

We found some lovely ones with the various meal boxes. My favourite was a giant cous cous with roasted med very and a pomegranate glaze. It also had halloumi but that's optional if you're properly dairy free, not just lactose free or cows dairy free.

Could voud is made from wheat - it’s not GF

*cous cous

Red lentil bolognaise - make as for mince bolognaise but add some vege stock with the passata and 1/2 cup red lentils. Boil then simmer 20 mins. I add grated zucchini with the onion and celery so there is extra veges

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/spinach-sweet-potato-lentil-dhal is really quick and yummy

https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&cm_sp=SearchF--home--Results&tn=World%20food%20cafe

Two recipes from V1

https://www.seriouseats.com/

For lunches on the go, I do mason jar salads where you layer different ingredients on top of each other - wet at the bottom and dry at the top.

So for example - salad dressing, then roasted veg, then chickpeas, cooked brown rice, a bit of feta and some mixed salad leaves on top.

The idea is that you tip it out into a bowl and it mixes up but I often stir it up in the jar.

I'd make a lentil cottage pie of some description. Yummy.

In terms of snacks (we are a df family and one child is gf).
We pop our own popcorn which makes it super cheap.
The boys eat lots of chopped cucumber, peppers etc. It's handy for the car. They have gf oat cakes with hummus or pate or peanut butter. The same for rice cakes. All good for the car. Eldest ds eats pickled gherkins and olives (he likes the Jar olives, gross!!) Like they are going out of fashion.