Hi - I'm settling in too. Can't believe the health improvements already!

This weekend I've been shopping around. I like the range of Gluten free in Sainsburys, but Tesco often have the same things and its a juggle between the two. Either seem pretty good to me. There's a cereal I love ( Maple Sunrise ) and they both seem to compete on offers for it.

Hello there - good luck with the gluten free diet. I have been gf for about 3 years now and find cooking at home easy but still really struggle when eating out.

To keep costs down try and avoid gf labelled food, instead of buying special (by special read flipping expensive) flours, try subbing for different ingredients.

I make an awesome chocolate torte using a tin of pureed chestnuts, lemon drizzle cake using cold mashed potatoes, almond and orange cake using whole oranges and ground almonds.

I coat chicken and fish in well seasoned fine polenta plus a little olive oil, then bake in the oven for fab chicken nuggets or fish fingers.

Pancakes can be made using just bananas and eggs plus a little soft fruit - literally NO flour.

Peanut butter cookies can be made with pb, sugar and 1 egg - really yum

Besan flour (garbanzo, chickpea) is really cheap in the foreign aisle in asda/tesco, this is the flour that is used to make onion bahjis, fritters etc and is gluten free and really high in protein.

When you do want to buy finished gf products, I can recommend ds ciabbata, they come in a vacuum pack of 4 and are really handy. Warburtons make lovely flatbread/wraps, they are again expensive but they actually bend when you try and roll lol.

Also, I find that aldi label their food really well, their dark chocolate is gf, a lot of their crisps are too. The bratwurst sausages and the jars of hotdog sausage are gf but a heck of a lot cheaper than normal gf sausages.

Let me know if you are interested and I can dig out my recipes for you

xx

Lemon drizzle cake

175g unsalted butter (or pure spread if u need dairy free)
200g sugar
200g ground almonds
2 tsp baking powder (make sure it is gf, not all brands are)
250g plain cold mashed potato
finely grated zest of 3 lemons

Drizzle

juice of 2 lemons
75g sugar

Beat the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy, add eggs, almonds, baking powder and potato stir well then add the lemon zest.

Bake @ 180C for about 35 - 40 minutes, check after 25 with a skewer.

Leave the cake in the tin, pierce all over with a skewer (deep but not all the way to the base), combine the lemon juice and sugar and drizzle all over before it has time to dissolve. Leave to cool completely before serving.

Onion Bhajis

1 1/2 cups gram flour ( also called besan, chickpea or garbanzo)
1 tsp baking powder
salt & pepper to taste
2tsp ground coriander
2tsp garam masala (OR curry powder)
2 tsp ground turmeric
1tsp chili powder
2tbsp finely chopped coriander

3-4 onions sliced
1/2 cup of cubed potato (about 1/2 cm)

3/4 - 1 cup cold water

oil for deep frying (not olive oil as it cant cope with the high temp)

Mix all of the dry ingredients together, add enough water to keep it all together but not too sloppy. Deep fry for a few minutes each. Serve with mint/cucumber/yoghurt dip and a side salad.

Since cheese is naturally gluten-free, I get store brand most often.

I'm sure this is what you meant, because your husband has Celiac Disease, but DON"T buy pregrated/shredded cheese; often wheat starch is added to keep it from sticking together.

ooops, sorry lovely. Yes there are 4 eggs in that recipe.....trying to read my own handwriting is always problematic lol.

xx