A Ray Of Hope...

[FoxersArtist]

...To those who feel like you will never eat another tasty meal again. It IS possible if you can find it inside yourself to explore new possibilities.

Collectively our family is allergic to: Gluten, Dairy, Soy, Corn, Some Nuts, Most Grains, Preservatives, dyes, & Refined Sugars.

Tonight we enjoyed speghetti and meatballs made with rice pasta , ground buffalo, & hardy tomato sauce with red wine.

For dessert we had cinnamon-garbanzo battered banana slices deep fried in olive oil with honey drizzled on top.

Many of these things are just as easy to make as hamburger helper and just as fast too. So, for those feeling hopeless, have hope. Some of the most tasty things out there are gluten free.

-Anna

[YoloGx]

I completely agree--though I can't have wine or tomatoes or potatoes etc. And am also sensitive to fruit and sugars.

So many people seem to think basic cooking is hard; but really it isn't. Just a little creativity and one can have a great meal. I often make a rice coconut milk with veggies curry or some other gluten-free dish for a monthly art and poetry event and it seems everyone loves what I make, whether they need to go gluten-free or not!

I also cook things ahead so I have materials to make things without a lot of trouble. For instance I often cut up a whole chicken and bake it and then use it through the week. Ditto with brown rice (which I wash thoroughly several times first to get rid of any possible glutenous residues on it) and a teff, quinoa, amaranth, sorghum flour etc. pancake batter with some cooked quinoa or brown rice in it that I can use as "sandwich" material later in the day as well as in the AM as a pancake with yogurt and sunflower seeds, sprinkled with cinnamon and stevia.

I do the same with salads, I put quite a few things in it and make it large so I can easily have salad when I want; or add it to my rice and cut chicken as a kind of tabouli.

Bea