Gluten and Dairy free 6 weeks HELP!

[spring978]

Ok so this week was week 1 for our family and we removed sugar and caffine from our diets.

Starting Mon we remove Dairy and Gluten for 6 weeks. In theory this seems doable but I am totally freaking out. LOL HELP!!

So it must be dairy gluten and Sugar Free this includes honey and other natural sugars

We dont have a bunch of extra money so I wont be buying mixxes and such, in fact they reccomend we dont eat anything from a package.

Dinners I have planned 10 days worth that I can rotate but I need help with

Breakfast
and
Lunch
toddler Snacks (cant have small seeds or chunks in it, he wont eat kiwis or chunky nut butter)

Dh will need to take his lunch to work and often doesnt have time to microwave or sit down to eat his whole lunch so leftovers arent an option for him.

Breakfast he normally drinks a big glass of Milk uhoh I am thinking smoothies?

DS and I are home all day so that should be easier however DS loves his milk products yogurt cheese so keeping him fed without these could be tough.

[kjbrown92]

breakfast:
sweet potato bacon hash (this calls for maple syrup but you probably don't need it)
cream of rice cereal with nuts/dried fruit
breakfast sausage
hard boiled eggs
scrambled eggs (we do ours in coconut oil or bacon grease)
fried eggs
corned beef hash
we also have millet porridge (hulled millet, coconut milk, cinnamon, vanilla) and Bob's Red Mill's hot buckwheat cereal

lunches:
that may be hard for your DH, though some of the things that I give to DS might work.... peanut butter on rice cakes (as a sandwich), rolled up ham or turkey (check all deli meat ingredients, and watch out for slicer cross contamination), fruit, carrots/celery/peppers with a container of hummus or guacamole or dressing, LARA bars, GORP (raisins/peanuts), salad with dressing. We also grill chicken, then slice and freeze, so my DH can stick it on his salad. If you get a thermos, you can send in things like soups, stews, and chilis. We make bone broth to make up for the calcium lost from not drinking milk.

I've been stuck in a popover rut lately (rice milk, eggs, sorghum flour, tapioca starch, olive oil); they're good for dipping in chilis & soups

Do you have a yogurt maker or can you borrow one? We make coconut milk yogurt

Smoothies are good. We use coconut milk, bananas, frozen berries, oj or pineapple juice.

[spring978]

Thank you for the great ideas. Would you please share your popover recipe?
Lol on the rice cakes I use to eat tons of them 20 years ago as a teen but hadnt even thought of them for this.

Also how do you make coconut yogurt?

[kjbrown92]

popover recipe should be on my blog (though I keep trying to tweak it), coconut milk yogurt is on there too.

www.buckwheatpete.com has some good recipes (you have to pay for them though). But his pita recipe and english muffin recipes are good.

Also, you could make tortillas for DH's wraps for lunch. The one I made was pretty easy... I think it was sorghum flour, palm shortening, salt, water, maybe one other ingredient.

[Jenille]

Originally Posted by spring978

Breakfast he normally drinks a big glass of Milk uhoh I am thinking smoothies?

How about substituting unsweetened So Delicious coconut milk beverage instead of milk? You can use it in place of dairy milk in everything, including smoothies.