Guest guest Posted March 28, 2008 Report Share Posted March 28, 2008 Cris--Welcome! Yes, it gets easier. I am not a breakfast food fan, so I generally eat dinner leftovers for breakfast. An insulated soft-sided cooler and wide mouth thermos will be a big help to you in " eating on the run " . Marilyn **************Create a Home Theater Like the Pros. Watch the video on AOL Home. (http://home.aol.com/diy/home-improvement-eric-stromer?video=15 & ncid=aolhom00030\ 000000001) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 28, 2008 Report Share Posted March 28, 2008 Hi All- I'm new to this list and new to the vegan/gluten free thing. I've been lacto-ovo vegetarian for 15 years and am getting rid of dairy and gluten due to suspected allergies/sensitivites. I'm excited to learn from all of you. After a week and a half of being df/gf, the biggest challenge I'm having is breakfast! What do you all eat for that first meal of the day? Bonus points if its portable, as I have quite a commute and often eat on the train. I'm a young busy professional, and have given up my last 2 sundays to prepare food for the week. The menu planning has been key so far to staying on track with the elimenation diet. Does it get easier? Or are my Sundays gone forever? Thanks! Cris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 28, 2008 Report Share Posted March 28, 2008 From a list I posted elsewhere this week. None of these are very portable; I don't know how easy it is for you to take a bowl/thermos on the train (here you have to stand, so not very!) Cooked rice with (veggie) ham Rice pudding Hot rice cereal Rice-Krispie style cereal Smoothies " Safe " granola (uncontaminated oats or soy flakes/rice flakes/quinoa flakes) " Safe " oatmeal (uncontaminated oats or soy flakes/rice flakes/quinoa flakes) " Safe " muesli (uncontaminated oats or soy flakes/rice flakes/quinoa flakes) Cooked millet/Millet pudding Puffed millet cereal Hot buckwheat cereal Cooked quinoa/quinoa pudding Pancakes Waffles Eggs Toast (homemade) Maybe some rice krispie type squares or other cereal bars or breakfast cookie would be good for on the train. You can always make a sandwich with safe waffles or pancakes, stick a microwaved egg in a biscuit, etc. Smothies wouldnt' be too hard to take on the train, but you might need something else to make it " stick " - crackers with pb or something. What did you eat before going gfcf? What do you eat the night before? Pam On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 2:07 PM, cris_caruso <cris-baltimore wrote: > Hi All- > > I'm new to this list and new to the vegan/gluten free thing. I've been > lacto-ovo vegetarian for 15 years and am getting rid of dairy and > gluten due to suspected allergies/sensitivites. I'm excited to learn > from all of you. > > After a week and a half of being df/gf, the biggest challenge I'm > having is breakfast! What do you all eat for that first meal of the > day? Bonus points if its portable, as I have quite a commute and often > eat on the train. > > I'm a young busy professional, and have given up my last 2 sundays to > prepare food for the week. The menu planning has been key so far to > staying on track with the elimenation diet. Does it get easier? Or are > my Sundays gone forever? > > Thanks! > Cris > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 28, 2008 Report Share Posted March 28, 2008 Cris, Congrats on taking this important, if somewhat difficult, step towards better health. Here's a link to one kind of the muffins I make for my portable breakfast: http://aprovechar.danandsally.com/?p=160 I use certified gluten-free oats in them. (Some people with celiac can't tolerate any oats. I don't seem to be one of them.) Meal planning can take me all of a weekend day if I don't work on it a bit during the week. What I do now is save recipes I come across all week (usually from reading blogs, occasionally from other sources) on an unposted blog post, but you could also use del.icio.us for the same purpose and use categories to organize your recipes (categories like pasta, lentils, under_30_minutes, etc.). Then when the weekend meal planning arrives, I just pull recipes off my list and create my grocery shopping plan. It still takes me a bit of time since I do try to rotate what I eat by 4-day cycles, but now it takes me an hour or 90 minutes instead of all day. Also, one thing that has helped me is picking a staple base to use on some nights. For example, for a while, I did a baked potato with different toppings nearly every week. Knowing I'd have a baked potato one night led me to think about toppings as I went about my business during the week. Sally On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 4:07 PM, cris_caruso <cris-baltimore wrote: > Hi All- > > I'm new to this list and new to the vegan/gluten free thing. I've been > lacto-ovo vegetarian for 15 years and am getting rid of dairy and > gluten due to suspected allergies/sensitivites. I'm excited to learn > from all of you. > > After a week and a half of being df/gf, the biggest challenge I'm > having is breakfast! What do you all eat for that first meal of the > day? Bonus points if its portable, as I have quite a commute and often > eat on the train. > > I'm a young busy professional, and have given up my last 2 sundays to > prepare food for the week. The menu planning has been key so far to > staying on track with the elimenation diet. Does it get easier? Or are > my Sundays gone forever? > > Thanks! > Cris > > > -- " Conversion is about creating new habits, new patterns of living, and letting them become deeply imprinted so that they become who we are. " --William Bennett Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 29, 2008 Report Share Posted March 29, 2008 Breakfast=Muffins:) Applesauce, pumpkin, any kind that adds nutrition. I make up several batches each weekend to get the 4 of the 8 of us who are gluten free thru the week. Lisa in Mo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 29, 2008 Report Share Posted March 29, 2008 I like quinoa in my house...we sweeten it with agave nectar & then put a 1/2 tsp of DairyFree... (if it isn't mixed up beforehand)... You can also make GFCF pancakes with nut butters and fruit... The bonus with this, is that I make a big batch, and toss it in the freezer. You could make a little sandwich with the pancakes, and take off with that... Smoothies We also like Bob's Red Mills Mighty Tasty cereal. (made the same way as quinoa) GFCF Muffins... replace the eggs with Flax Seed Meal & water... I get lots of veggies in this way... spicy carrot/pineapple have been a hit in my house. Leftovers from the night before. Good Luck/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 30, 2008 Report Share Posted March 30, 2008 I get either quinoa flakes or Bob's GF steel cut oats and while they're heating up i add 1/2 cut up apple. After it's ready I'll add walnuts and a little bit of agave nectar... yum On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 1:07 PM, cris_caruso <cris-baltimore wrote: > Hi All- > > I'm new to this list and new to the vegan/gluten free thing. I've been > lacto-ovo vegetarian for 15 years and am getting rid of dairy and > gluten due to suspected allergies/sensitivites. I'm excited to learn > from all of you. > > After a week and a half of being df/gf, the biggest challenge I'm > having is breakfast! What do you all eat for that first meal of the > day? Bonus points if its portable, as I have quite a commute and often > eat on the train. > > I'm a young busy professional, and have given up my last 2 sundays to > prepare food for the week. The menu planning has been key so far to > staying on track with the elimenation diet. Does it get easier? Or are > my Sundays gone forever? > > Thanks! > Cris > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 30, 2008 Report Share Posted March 30, 2008 If using the steel cut oats, you can put them with dried fruit in the crock pot overnight and they're ready for breakfast Sharon - Marie Nelson Saturday, March 29, 2008 8:51 PM Re: New and a question I get either quinoa flakes or Bob's GF steel cut oats and while they're heating up i add 1/2 cut up apple. After it's ready I'll add walnuts and a little bit of agave nectar... yum On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 1:07 PM, cris_caruso <cris-baltimore wrote: > Hi All- > > I'm new to this list and new to the vegan/gluten free thing. I've been > lacto-ovo vegetarian for 15 years and am getting rid of dairy and > gluten due to suspected allergies/sensitivites. I'm excited to learn > from all of you. > > After a week and a half of being df/gf, the biggest challenge I'm > having is breakfast! What do you all eat for that first meal of the > day? Bonus points if its portable, as I have quite a commute and often > eat on the train. > > I'm a young busy professional, and have given up my last 2 sundays to > prepare food for the week. The menu planning has been key so far to > staying on track with the elimenation diet. Does it get easier? Or are > my Sundays gone forever? > > Thanks! > Cris > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 31, 2008 Report Share Posted March 31, 2008 Thanks to you all for the welcome! I'm glad to hear it gets easier. I rely on dinner leftovers for lunch at the office, so breakfast is usually a different meal all together. Breakfast for me had been toast with PB, yogurt and fruit or oatmeal. I bought some waffles ate them w/PB and they were yummy! I was told not to eat oats/oatmeal, and it looks like its more about contamination rather than gluten in that grain. Am I correct? I had a very hard time at WF finding bread that was both gf and df. Any brands to look out for? My partner is a very picky eater, and doesn't cook, so actually encouraging her to help with the menu planning this weekend helped tremendously. We both like baked potatoes and they are on the menu! (Thanks Sally for the rec.) I think I'm going to like it here! Thanks All! Cris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 1, 2008 Report Share Posted April 1, 2008 Hi Cris, Wow, folks have a lot of great suggestions. I've found GF versions of nearly every breakfast food I used to eat. It will definitely get much, much easier. I assume by WF you mean Whole Foods? They have several GF breads and other GF products made in a dedicated facility and shipped to their stores. Depending on the store, those breads can sell out the day they arrive - or all be reserved by regular customers before they even arrive in the store. So you may want to ask your WF about them and whether you can reserve one. Their breads are some of the few pre- made breads I buy; they are really pretty good, though pricey. I usually make my own bread - you'll find they taste *much* better than most store-bought ones. Bob's Red Mill has a couple of GF bread mixes that I really like - esp. the Hearty Whole Grain mix (http://www.bobsredmill.com/catalog/index.php?action=showdetails & product_ID=602 ). I was overwhelmed at the prospect of baking bread the first couple times I did it, but it really isn't very difficult to do at all. With these mixes, it is pretty quick, too - and even quicker if you use a bread maker, though I don't usually use one. Erin On Mar 31, 2008, at 1:41 PM, cris-baltimore wrote: > > Thanks to you all for the welcome! I'm glad to hear it gets easier. > I rely > on dinner leftovers for lunch at the office, so breakfast is usually a > different meal all together. > > Breakfast for me had been toast with PB, yogurt and fruit or > oatmeal. I > bought some waffles ate them w/PB and they were yummy! > > I was told not to eat oats/oatmeal, and it looks like its more about > contamination rather than gluten in that grain. Am I correct? I had > a very > hard time at WF finding bread that was both gf and df. Any brands to > look out > for? > > My partner is a very picky eater, and doesn't cook, so actually > encouraging > her to help with the menu planning this weekend helped tremendously. > We both > like baked potatoes and they are on the menu! (Thanks Sally for the > rec.) > > I think I'm going to like it here! > Thanks All! > Cris > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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