Gluten Free Waffles

Our family has found a new favorite weekend breakfast – gluten free waffles! You all know that we’ve been on the gluten free diet for years now, so that first bite of homemade waffles was absolute heaven!  We stuffed ourselves!

The recipe is a  conversion of the “Basic Waffles” recipe in Joy of Cooking. The only [...]

Starting a Gluten Free Diet: Free Menu Plan

Free Menu Plan: As promised, here is a free menu plan for the first week of your gluten free diet. The menu ended up being chicken-centric, which I apologize for. I was trying to pick recipes that wouldn’t require any ingredients that aren’t widely available, and it wasn’t until I finished that I realized I’d [...]

Grocery Shopping for Your Gluten Free Diet – Week One

This is the second post in a series on Starting the Gluten Free Diet. Click here for a list of the other posts in the series. To make sure that you get all of the posts in the series sign up for free email updates in the right sidebar.

Making a Grocery List:
After reading the [...]

What to Eat on a Gluten Free Diet – Week One

This article is the first in a series  on how to get started on a gluten free diet. To make sure that you get all of the posts in the series, as well as a free menu plan, sign up for free email updates in the right sidebar.

The hardest part of the gluten free [...]

Getting Started on a Gluten Free Diet

Hello all,

This week a commenter asked for advice on starting a gluten free diet, so I’ve decided to use her questions as an impetus to write a series of articles. I sat down last night and jotted down a list of 10 actions that I would take if I were starting a gluten free diet [...]

Gluten Free Sale at Amazon: Pasta, Flour, Pretzels, Cookies

I just got an email from Amazon about a Grocery Sale that they are running for Earth Day. There are several great deals on gluten free foods, especially gluten free flour. And if you have trouble finding gluten free pasta and gluten free cookies at your local stores, now is your chance to stock [...]

What’s in a Frugal Gluten Free Pantry?

This is the fifth part in a series “Gluten Free Grocery Shopping on a Budget” in which Heather shares how she feeds a family of 6 a gluten free diet  for $350 – $400 a month. In this last post, Heather gives us a peak into her pantry.

**If you have any questions for Heather, please [...]

Frugal Gluten Free Diet: Part 4

This is the fourth part in a series “Gluten Free Grocery Shopping on a Budget” in which Heather shares how she feeds a family of 6 a gluten free diet  for $350 – $400 a month. Here are Heather’s responses to some of my follow-up questions:

1. Did you use a price book to learn what [...]

5 More Tips for a Frugal Gluten Free Diet

This is the third part in a series “Gluten Free Grocery Shopping on a Budget” in which Heather shares how she feeds a family of 6 a gluten free diet  for $350 – $400 a month. (And she says she could do with less if she really tried!)

6) Buy less expensive cuts of meat and [...]

5 Tips for a Frugal Gluten Free Diet

This is the second part in a series “Gluten Free Grocery Shopping on a Budget” in which Heather shares how she feeds a family of 6 a gluten free diet  for $350 – $400 a month. (And she says she could do with less if she really tried!)

Heather: Here’s an expansion of my bullet points, [...]

How to Feed a Family of 6 for $9.16 a Day

Frugal gluten free grocery shopper shares her tips on [...]

Breakfast on a Budget – Cream of Corn Cereal

The theme for January’s posts is Kitchen Management – things like gluten free grocery shopping on a budget, stocking a gluten free pantry, and how to clean a messy kitchen.  The posts will be shorter and more frequent than normal (since I won’t have to multi-test as many recipes) and there will be several chances [...]

Spoonbread Corn Muffins Inspired by Tayst in Nashville

The thermometer mercury is dropping here in Alabama and I’m ready for some good, hearty non-Thanksgiving food before I start the Christmas baking. So I made up a new corn muffin recipe. A few months ago we ate dinner at Tayst in Nashville and they served us the most delicious corn muffins. They were much [...]

A Gluten Free Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is only four days away and I will be in charge of all of the cooking this year.  (Mom is on the DL) So, it’s high time that I planned the menu!

We’re having a low-key Thanksgiving this year; just my mom and dad, John, David and myself.  I want to keep the dishes simple [...]

Save up to 25% on Gluten Free Pantry Mixes

It looks like Amazon is really pushing its gluten free products during November.  You can get a 25% discount on certain Gluten Free Pantry mixes (10% off +15% Subscribe and Save discount) when you purchase before November 30th.

Here’s a list of what is on sale:
Chocolate Truffle Brownie Mix
Country French Bread Mix
Old Fashioned Cake and Cookie [...]

Gluten Free Bread: Banana Bread

Last Monday morning I was cleaning up the kitchen and discovered that we had somehow accumulated 10 very ripe bananas in the back of the freezer. John has been asking for a loaf of banana bread for several months and he’d obviously done a good job at stashing away the bananas that I [...]

An Overflowing Menu

Menu Planning for Two (weeks that is):

Sometimes it really helps me to brainstorm my menus in my blogging software….and since the menu is already in a post, I thought I’d share it with you. If any of the meals, catch your eye, let me know in the comments and I’ll make a note to post [...]

Gluten Free Menu Swap Roundup for August 18th

So last week, I spent way to much at Walmart and have no grocery budget left for the rest of the month. Everything I’m making this week is coming straight out of the pantry. Luckily, we have a good supply of staples on hand  and this week’s menu wasn’t very difficult.  Next week [...]

Two Minutes to Homemade Bread

Making homemade bread is easy when you have a stash of homemade bread mix in the freezer. Follow along as I make a stash of my favorite gluten free bread [...]

Menu Monday: June 30th

Just a quick post to share my menu for the week with you. Most of this week’s recipes are from a cookbook published by my high school. I was pleasantly surprised to find several recipes that sounded good and did not have a lot of gluten containing ingredients. Replacing the meat in some [...]

Multi-Grain Flat Bread: Gluten Free Bread Without Starch

If you haven’t guessed by now, most gluten free bread recipes are a bit scarce in the nutrients we’re accustomed to seeing in wheat bread. One reason is that wheat breads are usually fortified with vitamins and minerals during the manufacturing process, and the other is that gluten free breads depend heavily on [...]

Gluten Free Menu Swap – June 2nd

Here’s a look at what I’ll be making for supper this week. After one day on the Eat to Live plan, I can report the following: (1) that I haven’t been hungry, (2) that everything we’ve eaten has tasted really good, and (3) that I had to get John to hide the chocolate chips =)

The [...]

How to Bake a Gluten Free Angel Food Cake

Please welcome our guest author:Natalie Naramor, Gluten Free Mommy

Homemade angel food cake requires very few ingredients and is a snap if your gluten free flour mix is already prepared. It can be intimidating to work with egg whites at first, so visit Gluten Free Cooking School’s archives on How to Beat Egg Whites [...]

22 Days to Go: Gluten Free Flour Tortillas

These were so yummy and so easy to make. We used them in Last of the Sweet Potatoes soft tacos, which I’ll get around to posting some day.

Open Thread: Your Burning Gluten Free Questions

Hi everyone,

Last weeks open thread went so well that I’d like to try another one. This week you can head down to the comments and leave your most urgent question about living gluten free or you can chime in and answer someone else’s questions.

Since I’ve been horrible about answering the questions that readers have left [...]

Gluten Free Gusto: Mixing it up

A few weeks ago I sent out a call for you favorite gluten free mixes. Gluten free flours are definitely one of the more overwhelming aspects of gluten free cooking, but it helps to hear what mixes are working for others. I’m really excited to try some of the mixes below. I mean, [...]

Spinach and Mushroom Lasagna (GF,CF,SF)

A few weeks ago Gluten Free Mommy called my bluff and asked me to post the Spinach Mushroom Lasagna that was in my menu for that week. I had to sheepishly admit that I hadn’t even come up with the recipe yet.

I gave it some thought and decided to go for a gluten free, [...]

Gluten Free Menu Swap – January 21st

I haven’t planned my menu yet. We went shopping on Thursday and I just bought a ton of vegetables and normal pantry stocking things.  But it’s 10:18 on Sunday night and I need to get this post up, so I’m going to share my general thoughts and ideas of what we’ll be eating over the [...]

Gluten Free Menu Swap- January 7th

Sunday night is here again and it’s time to post my menu for next week. I feel like I’m coming down with something, so I’m going to keep this short and sweet so that I can get to bed early.

The host of this week’s Gluten Free Menu Swap is Natalie at Gluten Free Mommy. And [...]

Gluten Free, Soy Free All Purpose Flour Mix

Sometime in my early days of gluten free baking I learned the following:

Truth #1: Gluten free baking takes longer than non-gluten free baking.

Truth #2: I still have only 24 hours per day.

Conclusion: If I’m ever going to get around to cleaning the kitchen or folding laundry, I need to reduce the amount of time allocated [...]

Best Gluten Free Recipes from 2007

I only have an hour and 15 minutes left to look back on 2007, so here is a quick roundup of my most popular blog posts from the year (determined by the number of times each was viewed). There has been some recent comment action on several of these, so you may want to go [...]

Black Bean Enchiladas Recipe

Somehow we end up with orphaned packets of taco seasoning in our pantry. I’m not sure how it happens; maybe there is a taco seasoning fairy. But when they show up, we’re always happy to see them because it means we’ll be having Black Bean Enchiladas for supper.

This recipe started out one night at my [...]

Gluten Free Spiced Apple Pancakes

The fall air has made it back to Alabama this morning and it is lovely. A perfect day to drink hot tea on the deck and enjoy the cool air, sunshine, and birds. It was also a perfect morning to play with my pancake recipe.

The Gala apples that have been sitting in the fruit bowl [...]

7 Great Things About a Gluten Free Diet

The first few days and weeks of life on a gluten free diet are tough. You’re not sure what to eat. Lots of the food in your pantry is full of gluten. And, many of your favorite comfort foods are off-limits just when you really need some comfort. But, there is hope. [...]

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