Shoping For The First Time

[heatherh]

I went today to buy some grocerys for the first time since being diagnosed... It was time consoming and sure was expensive. I cant beleaive how long it took to pick out just a few things. Any one have any recomendations for a glutin free pasta? I know i should have been born italian...I love pasta and the idea of never eating it again sucks(i couldnt think of any other way to put it). Also any recomendations for terriacky(I know i spelt that wrong) sauce?

Thanks, heather

[ILOVEOMC]

My son loves the bionaturae pasta the best and he has tried many. This pasta looks about the same and the consistency is not mushy and tastes great. I even eat it and don't even need to. Many on here love the tinkyada pasta but my son loves this even better. He is 12.

[jenvan]

Tinkyada is definitely my fav! I can't tolerate the corn pastas myself.

[Guest gfinnebraska]

Tinkyada is the best!!! ~ I serve it to my family and they can't tell the difference!

AND, they are boys 19 & 20... so that is quite the deception!

[rmmadden]

Tinkyada pasta is the best that I have tasted. Look in your local grocery store's organic section (If available) as you should find it there.

The shopping can be overwhelming at first but it does get easier. You will learn what taste's good and what is a good price for items as time goes by.

Hang In There!

Cleveland Bob

[skoki-mom]

I have only tried cooking corn pasta once, the texture went all weird on me. It was like eating furry macaroni, yuck! I did throw some brown rice pasta shells into a casserole I make and they were totally yummy, I couldn't tell the difference. So far I have been chicken to try just eating gluten-free pasta on it's own (like spag and sauce etc). I'm probably a freak, but my loving memories of so many of these foods is so strong, I am afraid if I try something that I don't like, it will "taint" my memory of what it used to taste like. That is totally bizarre and irrational of me, but it's true.

In the meantime, if anyone knows what I did wrong to end up with furry textured pasta, please let me know!

[frenchiemama]

Skoki_mom, were you using rice pasta? If so, did you rinse and drain it a few times? Rice pasta generates this really gooey thick film when you cook it, so you have to rinse it really well.

[Wandering Hermit]

Tinkyada!!!! As good as normal pasta!

[kabowman]

I have even fooled the neighbor's boys (ate dinner with us and my boys) with Tinkyada!!

Always rinse the pasta and I then add extra virgin olive oil.

As to the rest of the shopping, it gets much easier but until you know what you can and cannot have, it is VERY time consuming because you don't want to make a mistake.

Pick up a good cookbook too, that really helps and check out the healthfood stores some have a good selection of gluten-free foods, some don't. I shop at three (of the 5 different) stores in town for my groceries.

[skoki-mom]

Skoki_mom, were you using rice pasta? If so, did you rinse and drain it a few times? Rice pasta generates this really gooey thick film when you cook it, so you have to rinse it really well.

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No, I've had pretty good luck with rice pasta so far. It was a corn pasta, it was just .....ICK! I didn't rinse it though, maybe that would help...

[frenchiemama]

I tried corn pasta once, and it was just icky. Very unpleasant texture, but I too have really liked the brown rice pastas that I've tried.