Question by Capybara: What does a vegan with Celiac Disease eat?
I’m a recently diagnosed celiac and my previous diet contained a lot of gluten. I find that “gluten free” alternative products, such as bread and pasta taste revolting.
Anyone else out there in the same situation. What do you eat? Am I going to die?
Best answer:
Answer by Celtic Tejas
OH YEAH, eating Gluten Free is a huge change in our grain based diet society. 1)Get in touch with your local Celiac Group they will help you. This is tough but I promise doable. I was in your shoes 3 years ago.
2)There are few places that sale decent already made breads, rolls, crackers.. you’ll have to find them in your area. Sammi’s bakery out of FL. has really nice stuff. http://www.samisbakery.com/
They may have a store near you that sales their products. I do & I live in a tiny town near Houston.
3)CHEBE mixes are nice & easy to make.
4)Pamela’s Baking mix is supper for muffins, pancakes etc. My Blueberry Walnut Muffins from this mix are fought over at Family Brunches.
5) My fav pasta is PASTA JOY by Tinkyada. It’s made with brown rice & is good good know will know it’s not “regular” pasta unless you tell them!!
If you can’t find these in your health food or grocery stores, shop on line. Amazon carries some GF foods, Edward Brothers & a few other.
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Fruits, vegetables, beans, peas, lentils, nuts, seeds, grains, juices…
The gluten free products at Whole Foods are really good. They have cookies, breads, biscuits, muffins, pies, cakes, scones etc. They are usually in a freezer on an end-cap near the bakery.
You aren’t going to die, simply buy whole foods and cook!
I think the rice spaghetti (by “Notta Pasta”) is good, and The Gluten Free Pantry has a decent bread mix. Or you can replace bread with corn tortillas, and pasta with rice.
Blue Diamond “Nut Thins” are the best crackers we’ve found, and if you like peanut butter cookies I have a terrific recipe:
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1t vanilla
1/2 t cream of tartar
1/2 t baking soda
Cream peanut butter and sugar until smooth, add remaining ingredients and mix. Roll dough into balls, and flatten with the bottom of a glass dipped in sugar. Bake at 350 for 11 minutes.
Best of luck.
There are lots of gluten free products and some of them are really good, others are gross.
The best ones I’ve tried are:
Glutino lemon wafer cookies
Enjoy life dark chocolate chips
GlutenFree Pantry: coffee cake!!!, chocolate cake, cornbread muffins
Cherrybrook: chocolate cake
Bobs red mill apple cinnamon muffins are terrible!
I bake using EnRgy egg replacer and soyyogurt or apple sauce in place of the oil.
For pastas:
Tinyada- brown rice pastas
De Boles- brown rice lasagne noodles
corn pasta
The brown rice pastas are great and they don’t get mushy.
Personally, I think the BioNature potato & soy pasta is gross.
Here is the glutino link:http://www.glutenfree.com/
not everything on here is vegan and you may find the items cheaper at your grocery store.
Hi,
I remembered reading this article about that, and found it again so you can read it if it’s helpful http://www.vegfamily.com/health/gluten-free-vegan-diet.htm
Orgran does a decent tasting gluten free pasta, in fact several – even an Italian style spaghetti that is perfectly palatable. Real Foods Pty do Corn Thins, or Kallo do corn cakes (much nicer than rice cakes – no squeak!), also Mrs Crimbles do corn cakes. These make reasonable substitutes for bread or crispbread.
You can eat rice, corn, quinoa, amaranth, millet, soy (not too much), oats labeled gluten free (processed in a gluten free facility), seeds such as sesame and sunflower, all sorts of beans, peas, lentils and flour made from these. Also fruit, vegetables, mushrooms, nuts and so on. Don’t forget that a whole protein is made by combining a whole grain and a pulse at the same meal, or brown rice and either cashews or sesame seeds.