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Meal Planning – Making the Most of Your Gluten Free Ingredients

Meal Planning – Making the Most of Your Gluten Free Ingredients

When you first start out on a gluten free diet, the key to success is planning. You can look for simple swaps for your established favourites at breakfast, lunch and dinner, or you can try some exciting new ideas, but you need to plan ahead with both your shopping and cooking.

Making your gluten free meals interesting, tasty and nutritious takes planning for every meal, every day. With the amazing recipes here on the Glutafin website, you can plan tasty gluten free meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Plus, you can plan for special occasions and celebrate in style with cakes and treats.

Kick-start your day

Some say that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. By finding simple swaps for your breakfast staples, you can get your day off to a great start. Try gluten free bread for your toast, or fruit with yoghurt. Planning ahead will help you start your day in style with a range of deliciously different gluten free meals for breakfast. Here’s a few more brilliant breakfast ideas that will work alongside your smart swaps:

gluten free pastry

Launch your lunch

They say there’s no such thing as a free lunch, but there’s lots of ways to enjoy a gluten free meal at lunchtime. Once again, planning ahead makes all the difference if you’re in the office or out for the day. If you don’t make lunch to take with you, you’ll be restricted to the limited choice in the work canteen, or even less options in your local sandwich shop. However, you can still make some simple swaps to make a gluten free meal, such as choosing a salad instead of a sandwich. Here’s some tasty snacks you can pack into your lunchbox to make that gluten free meal at midday more enjoyable:

Gluten Free Falafel

Make dinner a winner

Planning ahead for dinner means you have one less thing to worry about when you get home from a long day at work. Putting together a menu for the week ahead also means you can plan your shopping better, to make sure you have all the gluten free ingredients you need to make your gluten free meals both easy and enjoyable. Here’s some of our favourite dinner dishes:

Gluten Free Chicken Katsu Curry

Plan stand out celebrations

Our celebrations and special occasions section also has a host of inspiring recipes, which will really make their day memorable. You’ll find everything from brilliant buffet centrepieces to classic cakes, including:

Gluten Free Sponge gluten free recipes

Planning your cooking

Planning how you cook is just as important as planning your ingredients, especially if you’re preparing gluten free meals alongside meals that contain gluten for the rest of the family.

For example, you can make a naturally gluten free pasta sauce, then cook gluten free pasta for you and ordinary pasta for the rest of the family. But remember, the two pastas must be cooked and served completely separately to avoid cross contamination.

Another good way to plan your gluten free meals is batch cooking. By making a number of portions at once, and freezing them, you’ll always have a gluten free meal ready, whatever the rest of the family are having.

From the everyday, to those extra special days, from breakfast to late night snacks, Glutafin are here to help you with lots of recipes to make your gluten free meals utterly mouth-watering. Bookmark our recipes page now and you’ll always have something exciting and enticing to try, to make the most of your gluten free ingredients.

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