Gluten-Free, Wheat-Free, Lactose-Free, recipes

[HampsteadAnna]

Does anyone know where can we get recipes for children/adults with special diet needs? Also what is the best place to get these ingredients without worrying about these things? Where products are ordered by dietary requirements?

Ta!

I already have lists and lists, but I wish there was a supermarket where I could just go in to the gluten free area and take my pick! :)

If your DC is diagnosed coeliac, there's a few places will send freebies. I'd make that your priority when searching, then scrutinise labels, carefully for the lactose. Containing milk is an obvious one, but sometimes lactose is an ingredient in flavourings (or tablet coatings) and other milk derivatives, such as whey, contain lactose, too.

if it's only lactose and not anything else in milk that you're avoiding, then lactofree products are excellent, though their buttery spread is a bit too soft and bland for my tastes and I wouldn't use it for baking. Pure is better for that, if you don't mind margarine.

How good are your cooking skills? When I went down this road I adapted my own recipe's.
For example, in muffins used grape seed oil instead of melted butter
soya yoghurt instead of real yoghurt
Trex instead of butter in cakes
I found dove farm gluten free flour and baking powder the best flavour
I didn't want to use too much soya, so used almond, oat (sometimes rice) milk, instead of cows milk.
...... Gluten free bread is hard..... Wheat free is easy - use spelt, but pretty sure this is not gluten free.

I found that you need quite a robust flavour in cooking to make gluten free palatable - so lots of chocolate flavoured things.

Thanks for all the answers! THis is amazing!

Hello, Marilyn Le Breton has written some useful books www.amazon.co.uk/Marilyn-Le-Breton/e/B001K8HYWS

Also if you go on the Juvela website you can get a large box of free samples sent to you - you just have to tell them what the particular dietary requirements are. www.juvela.co.uk/just-diagnosed/register-for-your-free-juvela-starter-pack/

And if the dietary requirements are actual allergies then you may find that your GP will prescribe foods although you may have to go through a paediatric dietician.