Post by kickingfrog on Mar 1, 2011 14:44:36 GMT
Quick/easy gluten free food. 
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.....rice and veg doesn't take long to cook, you can put a casserole type dish in the oven....
The only gf wheat-free bread I've found that's edible without toasting ........ is DS sweet rolls...
Claire
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As most of us find, it is the lunch time food that is the most difficult to accommodate with gluten free stuff. If I am organised enough, I make enough at supper the night before, to have enough left over for lunch. If not it is gluten free pasta (quicker than rice)or a microwave jacket potato.
However, I have been known to:
make up a portion of smash with stock cube/soup and eat that with whatever is to hand;
a small tin of potatoes, a tin of broad beans heated together, drained and mixed with tuna and mayonnaise;
and on desperate occasions a bowl of rice crispies with grated cheese zapped in the microwave!
...................cornflakes, frosties, rice crispies
Anne (HC)
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You can get GF breakfast cereals without malt eg Doves Farm, Mesa Sunrise, Gorilla Munch, Orgran, Kallo etc.
I think bananas are the best way to fill up if you might miss a meal or are going to be late eating & you're getting snappy.
Lyn G
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............have you thought of investing in a slow-cooker? They are great and we use ours all the time. You can stick the ingredients in the night before, turn it on in the morning and a hot meal is waiting for you in the evening and it doesn't overcook if you get home late!
............You can put a chicken in overnight and it's done in the morning ......... or you can just put in casserole ingredients with a sauce or a big pot of soup which would last several days.
chris
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.....quick and good food that you can cook with one ring ! ie: pancakes tortilla's omlettes etc.
Jerry
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A really quick lunch which we have when we have been out and come in hungry is Baxters Chicken Broth with Sharwoods rice noodles in it. I rehydrate the noodles before adding them to the soup but even so you still need to add a bit extra water to the soup as they still absorb more while heating through. Depending on how hungry we are we have extra bread, etc. with it.
Hazel
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Have you tried any of the g/f pastas? We just had the orgran pasta twists (three different colours) with a jar of Tescos original pasta sauce. Took about 10 mins to cook and even the kids liked it!! - might be worth a try.
DS also make a bread that can be eaten straight from the pack - I think its called Multigrain. Its fine with a moist filling for sandwiches and makes really nice toast.
Another quick lunch that we use when going out is a tin of bean salad in vinaigrette (tesco) mixed with a tin of tuna. Sounds foul I know, but when you are in a rush etc., its great. Bethan (6) took a large pot of this to school today for lunch and much to my surprise ate the lot! It is quite filling too which is obviously a bonus.
Anne W
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If cook a chilli, curry etc (vegetarian of course) at the weekedn I always cook tons adn then freeze for quick defrosting in the week. But you can buy quite a lot of microwavable/quick cook in oven indian meals that are GF and not bad. Also the Lloyd Grossman sauces are generalyl glutenm free adn just take 5 mins in the saucepan and are pretty good.
For snadwiches are make cheese and pickle rice cake sandwiches - use Branston sanwick pickle as the bits fit better in rice cakes. I also keep a stock of the Sainsbury's Free From 'rice bowls' in the cupbaord which are great if you run out of rice cakes/GF bread and need a quick lunch for work. Just add water!
Jill
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1 tin of rice pudding (don't forget spoon and can opener)
1 bag of crisps(Walkers/Asda label theirs GF)
2 hard boiled eggs
1 Big lump of cheese
2 slices of ham (buy loads, it keeps well and you can do a bit every day).
1 chicken portion.
1 Cadburys Flake.
You can buy loads of all that and most of it keeps for nearly a week anyway so you only need do do 2 shops at most if you've got a list and don't forget anything.
Put that in a sandwich box and you'll be ok.
Asda do brilliant GF pakora and satays at the deli counter, i always get a couple of quids worth and they last two/three days too.
Cassie M
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******************************
.....rice and veg doesn't take long to cook, you can put a casserole type dish in the oven....
The only gf wheat-free bread I've found that's edible without toasting ........ is DS sweet rolls...
Claire
************
As most of us find, it is the lunch time food that is the most difficult to accommodate with gluten free stuff. If I am organised enough, I make enough at supper the night before, to have enough left over for lunch. If not it is gluten free pasta (quicker than rice)or a microwave jacket potato.
However, I have been known to:
make up a portion of smash with stock cube/soup and eat that with whatever is to hand;
a small tin of potatoes, a tin of broad beans heated together, drained and mixed with tuna and mayonnaise;
and on desperate occasions a bowl of rice crispies with grated cheese zapped in the microwave!
...................cornflakes, frosties, rice crispies
Anne (HC)
**********************
You can get GF breakfast cereals without malt eg Doves Farm, Mesa Sunrise, Gorilla Munch, Orgran, Kallo etc.
I think bananas are the best way to fill up if you might miss a meal or are going to be late eating & you're getting snappy.
Lyn G
**************************
............have you thought of investing in a slow-cooker? They are great and we use ours all the time. You can stick the ingredients in the night before, turn it on in the morning and a hot meal is waiting for you in the evening and it doesn't overcook if you get home late!
............You can put a chicken in overnight and it's done in the morning ......... or you can just put in casserole ingredients with a sauce or a big pot of soup which would last several days.
chris
*****************************
.....quick and good food that you can cook with one ring ! ie: pancakes tortilla's omlettes etc.
Jerry
***************************
A really quick lunch which we have when we have been out and come in hungry is Baxters Chicken Broth with Sharwoods rice noodles in it. I rehydrate the noodles before adding them to the soup but even so you still need to add a bit extra water to the soup as they still absorb more while heating through. Depending on how hungry we are we have extra bread, etc. with it.
Hazel
*********************************
Have you tried any of the g/f pastas? We just had the orgran pasta twists (three different colours) with a jar of Tescos original pasta sauce. Took about 10 mins to cook and even the kids liked it!! - might be worth a try.
DS also make a bread that can be eaten straight from the pack - I think its called Multigrain. Its fine with a moist filling for sandwiches and makes really nice toast.
Another quick lunch that we use when going out is a tin of bean salad in vinaigrette (tesco) mixed with a tin of tuna. Sounds foul I know, but when you are in a rush etc., its great. Bethan (6) took a large pot of this to school today for lunch and much to my surprise ate the lot! It is quite filling too which is obviously a bonus.
Anne W
**********************************
If cook a chilli, curry etc (vegetarian of course) at the weekedn I always cook tons adn then freeze for quick defrosting in the week. But you can buy quite a lot of microwavable/quick cook in oven indian meals that are GF and not bad. Also the Lloyd Grossman sauces are generalyl glutenm free adn just take 5 mins in the saucepan and are pretty good.
For snadwiches are make cheese and pickle rice cake sandwiches - use Branston sanwick pickle as the bits fit better in rice cakes. I also keep a stock of the Sainsbury's Free From 'rice bowls' in the cupbaord which are great if you run out of rice cakes/GF bread and need a quick lunch for work. Just add water!
Jill
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1 tin of rice pudding (don't forget spoon and can opener)
1 bag of crisps(Walkers/Asda label theirs GF)
2 hard boiled eggs
1 Big lump of cheese
2 slices of ham (buy loads, it keeps well and you can do a bit every day).
1 chicken portion.
1 Cadburys Flake.
You can buy loads of all that and most of it keeps for nearly a week anyway so you only need do do 2 shops at most if you've got a list and don't forget anything.
Put that in a sandwich box and you'll be ok.
Asda do brilliant GF pakora and satays at the deli counter, i always get a couple of quids worth and they last two/three days too.
Cassie M
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