Tag: gluten free bread

What Can I Eat?!

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There’s no doubt about it, finding food to eat is difficult. Let me capitalize on that. DIFFICULT. Being Gluten-Free was hard and slowly there where a lot of products that came out over time, but adding Dairy-Free to that made a whole new amount of pain in my butt. Like I had mentioned before, I lived off of salad with cut up chicken strips for a LONG time. It was a dark and way too healthy time for me. I need my junk food and I need my convenient food, I’m a mother for crying out loud! Anyways, to get what you came to this post for let’s start on the food I always have as a staple in my house. Again, I do not need to worry about cross-contamination or may contain warnings so please double-check products before you use it in case you are more sensitive than I am!

Milk: I buy three different kinds depending on what I’m making, and always unsweetened since I don’t think my kids need any more sugar in their diet!

  • my every day milk for my kids or recipes
  • I use this brand for when I make drinks or need a thicker option for some foods
  • this one is just for when I feel like it. my son loves this and I feel like it fills him up nicely before bed. also used for the pink drink
  • This is a milk used for Sauces it is very Thick and Creamy so I don’t think you would want to drink it

Next is Bread Crumbs:

  • this is my every day kind I use when anything calls for bread crumbs
  • I have not used the plain but the seasoned one I always use for my chicken but not in recipes in case it effects the flavor it smells amazing but you definitely need to add salt

Butter: this is also a preference thing; I have tried Earth Balance, Melt, and Country Crock. For flavor reasons I don’t like those ones and I keep going back to I cant believe its not butter LIGHT [ the original is not dairy free!] I am on a quest to find one that is healthier, but for now I use this in all my baking and cooking. It’s also great on toast!

  • I use this specific type of this brand purely out of convenience to where I shop
  • from what I can see on ingredients this isn’t really different I’m not sure why this one is said to be vegan and the other one isn’t if your worried just stick with vegan!

Flour: I use only one kind of flour in all my recipes and that’s Bobs Red Mill Gluten-Free Baking 1:1 Flour (the blue bag). I have not found any other flour from this brand or otherwise that can truly hold the flavor of real flour quite like this one.

  • don’t test me guys if you use a different flour in my recipes it will be a completely different flavor! If you want to challenge me leave me a comment on your favorite flour to buy. i personally don’t want to make my own flour that’s a lot of work and I’m all for simple and easy

Pasta: The love of my life next to chocolate and my family [not in that order ] tastes like real pasta, its not mushy, and you can cook it in one pot recipes [ except the spaghetti its weird when it cooks and makes all the water thick and creamy and not in a good way] The only con is that it breaks easily when you eat it as left overs, but flavor is there and I’m willing to overlook it for the flavor.

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Andouille Sausage : The base of most of my pasta dishes, and in many other recipes when I need a quick protein to add a little extra flavor to my dish without an overwhelming amount of meat

Cheese : Vio Life is a new discovery for me and they make a variety of different types of cheeses including aged cheddar, provolone, feta, parmesan, cream cheese, mozzarella shreds and a couple more. Check out their website here: https://violifefoods.com/us/our-products/. The other brand of cheese I’m very fond of is Chao cheese! It’s probably the closest to real cheese that I have found. When it comes to cheese its such a personal preference on which one is best because they all taste so different. I will say the parmesan cheese from Vio life is the only one I have found (same goes for their feta, but I haven’t tried that one yet) that actually tastes like the real thing. Now a very common dairy free brand is Daiya and they have a large variety of products. This brand is more of a convenient brand for many but I’ve heard 50\50 on if people like it or not so try that brand for yourself before judging it.

Bread: This one is kind of like the cheese where it comes down to preference. There’s quite a few gluten free breads, but my favorite is canyon bakehouse. Again, a very popular brand is Udis and they are not bad by any means, but I do prefer the other brand for bread and bagels and Udis brand for their multiple other products which I can find in almost any store now.

  • yes those are muffins and yes they are amazing

These are the main things I always have in my house and use on a daily bases for recipes! I will make more posts with different themes later but hopefully this helps you start your dairy-free, gluten-free journey!

Why I am the way I am [ I cant help it!]

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So, this gluten-free and dairy-free thing. Most think it sucks and a lot think it is impossible. Well, I’m here to tell you I still eat junk food and fast food, I still enjoy dinner time, and I still eat as much as I used to. That’s not to say it wasn’t hard to figure all of this out because let me tell you…it was a LEARNING CURVE. But let’s start into why I even have to be this way. I was not born this way [ unlike lady gaga] and I was eating whatever my little heart desired, granted I had the money for it. Well here’s the problem I started having some weird things happen to my body and we started looking into some tests I should get done. Namely, a good old blood test to check my allergies. WELL, it came back with results that I was allergic to gluten and lobster. Lucky for me I hate seafood [ it all tastes fishy to me] but unlucky for me gluten was a LARGE part of my diet. So what does any 16 year old do when faced with something like this ? I ignored it. Yup, that’s right. No way was I going to take my beloved French bread, sweet and sour chicken from panda express, and all the pizza and cakes I love out of my diet because my body was angry with me, it can be as angry as it wants ill just ignore it, and it worked! For about a year. Do you know how you’re in the middle of class and your stomach sounds like a whale doing a mating call? Yup, that’s how it was EVERY DAY after lunch in a very serious class that had a reading time for 10 minutes right when you got there. Dear Lord help me now! but I still ignored it, stubborn? I know. So fast forward a couple of months my parents went out of town and an older lady that worked for my mom was watching us for the week and she is gluten-free! She made all gluten-free meals and they where good! * Que sounds of disbelief* well I felt so much better and I knew that it was possible so I stayed gluten-free and I have been for 5.5 years now also as an added bonus I went from size 9 pants down to size 5. Let me just say five years ago till now the gluten-free foods have become AMAZING! I was in the stone age where the bread tasted like cement and it broke your teeth to bite into it. Now in 2019, we have this amazing bread brand called Canyon Bakehouse bread and they make SOFT bread of many varieties deli, white, 7 grain, Hawaiian sweet rolls, and even bagels! https://canyonglutenfree.com/ check it out seriously. Thank me later.

Well if you have gotten this far your wondering when I went dairy-free aren’t you [ just say yes it makes it easier] WELL let me tell you about my beautiful second born! A boy with the sweetest face, except when you picked him up a certain way, changed his numerous blow out diapers, changed your fourth outfit from all the spit up, and stayed up until 2 o’clock every morning because he was crying in pain and we couldn’t figure out why. Yup, the sweetest face! Well after my son’s 6th projectile vomit within two hours I decided to take him into his pediatrician she offered to prescribe him some reflux medication and though I figured it would help it didn’t sit well with me to put my 1.5 months old on a medication. Let me just stop you real quick. Reflux. Yes, I did keep him upright after feeding, burped him often, never let him lay flat, and all that stuff that’s supposed to help. I even took him to a chiropractor and even tried some gentle ease formula in hopes that he would just sleep or stop crying! But nothing worked. I did some research and found that a lot of reflux comes from dairy intake [ I’m not a doctor this is just what I found] and I decided you know what I went gluten-free I can go dairy-free too! Well, that was a lot harder than gluten-free let me tell you what. There’s dairy hidden in many things and It seemed impossible! I lived off of chicken strips cut up and put on a salad with follow your heart ranch dressing https://followyourheart.com/product_category/salad-dressings/ for a long time. But slowly and with the help of some groups on Facebook I figured out what foods I could eat and about 6-8 weeks later my boy was so much happier! He did still cry about half the time which I went on to take out soy sauce and all red meats and that did fix all the crying in pain and eventually I figured out that it was just beef that needed to be taken out along with dairy but I did get a sweet little man and I have enjoyed him for almost two years now! Along with me being dairy-free myself! So there’s my story!