Gluten free bread do you get used to it?

[VanessaB]

I wanted to try a gluten free diet or at least greatly reduced but have tried the breads and pasta and I just find them revolting do you get used to the taste or would I be better off just cutting them out.

[Mia1057]

The bread I have never got used to even after a long number of years. Genius and Warburtons are probably the best and toasted if you can. GF pasta which is not a mixture ie corn pasta or rice pasta and make sure you cook al dente with lots of water oil and salt is best. My favorites are those by Molina di Ferro or Scotto.

[Moggie in reply to Mia1057]

How exactly do you cook your pasta for the best result - didn't quite make sense of it.lol.

Moggie x

[RedApple Administrator]

I certainly couldn't get used to it. So much so that I gave up bread completely, as every time I ate the gluten free stuff, it made me crave 'real bread' even more. Very, very hard to eliminate bread when we're used to it being a staple part of our daily lives of course. I still hanker after it when I smell toast, but no longer give in

[medew in reply to RedApple]

I felt like you, but then found Sainsburys own seeded bread which is cheaper and tastier.

I freeze it and treat myself once or twice a week.

[poing]

I never liked the bread, and don't eat much of it at all.

I quite like some of the pastas that I've found. Rice and quinoa sphaghetti is my favourite.

[Moggie]

Gluten free bread - the texture is wrong, the taste is wrong and the price is definatly wrong. I am going to try pasta tonight, for the first time, and am hoping for a more favourable outcome.

Moggie x

[Hidden]

I find that both the Waitrose and Sainsbury's own g-f is fine when it's toasted, cheaper than the others too. Genius was ugh.

As regards fresh bread, well the Warburtons g-f rolls are acceptable although not dense. Bloomin' expensive so only buy when reduced and freeze.

[lynx]

Im with u it all tastes horrible - never eat what u dont like. Dont ever force yourself to like it - eat something else. Its wrong and processed.

[Mia1057]

Lots of water ie: 2 liters to 100g of pasta, salt and I bs oil bring water salt and oil to boil and then add pasta making sure that the water is still boiling fast and the pasta is not sticking. Only boil for as long as it says on pack or for 1 minute less, drain add your sauce etc

[Mia1057]

Also check out the gluten free guerrillas community on health unlocked for lots of suggestions for other things to eat. Lots of coeliacs also seem to have thyroid problems too.

[Moggie in reply to Mia1057]

Thanks for that - very useful and hopefully my pasta will be just as good as the real stuff (well I can hope cant I.lol)

Moggie x

[fennel]

You could just give up the gluten free and go grain free instead. There are lots of additives and eggs in gluten free, and I found it did not suit me. After six months of trying gluten free I had to increase my thiroyd and found I had put on weight too. The cave man, or paleo diet is really good for improving health in lots of conditions including thyroid.

[ellarose1234 in reply to fennel]

Oh dear has all gluten free stuff got eggs in it? I have intolerances to gluten wheat eggs and yeast . I thought it would have to be shown on the box if it did. It's hard enough to find anything to eat nowadays I am beginning to think I should give up all together.

[thedoghouse]

Spelt bread is very good, the flour is available from Sainsbury and health food shops, (cheaper at Sainsbury). It is not gluten free, but most people don't get the bloating as when modern wheat is eaten. Spelt pasta is also available.

[Ansteynomad]

We make spelt bread - my OH can eat that whereas wheat bread makes him very bloated.

AN

[rustysmum]

I agree that the waitrose bread is the closest I have found to the real thing. After six months though am not missing the berad as much as at first.

[JemBron]

I have found Celia's Kitchen to be the best of the lot.....toasted though! And I actually like the yeast-free seeded. The branded supermarkets may be gluten-free but they have rather a lot of other shelf-preserving 'stuff'.

[Angel_of_the_North]

They are disgusting. Just go without. I did and haven't missed bread or pasta at all in over 7 years. Plenty of other things to eat - cashew nut butter on sweet potato slices, for example. Much nicer than a sandwich.

[Hidden]

GF bread is foul and expensive. I bake my own and it's nice although not very bread like. i do miss bread alot.

[Hidden]

Get a bread maker and make your own, you can put seeds etc into the mix. My son (29) is a Coeliac and so is my sister (53), you can have so much good food. I used to make my sisters bread when she was little and loved doing it.

Check out the Coeliac society website, lots of recipes.

[Hidden]

best gluten free bread is from Marks and Spencers toasted is fantastic, also they do a fruit loaf again toasted to die for

[Hansaplatz]

Can't remember what brand it was but I had some GF bread rolls bought from Holland & Barrett that I found quite nice.

[ourfriendsinthenorth]

I make my own using Dove's Farm flour, which I get on the internet or from a wholefood shop. My supermarket has it, but only the white flour (boring) so I buy the brown flour instead. The ready-made bread at the shop is horrible, but I use it if I run out. Because I can't make/knead bread easily, I found the non-kneading recipe on the back of the Dove Farm pack and I follow that, making a simple batter and letting it rest.

[765nottyash]

Try Flaxseed bread it's delicious and only 3 ingredients.