Right about now a lot of people are giving up on their New Year resolutions to eat healthier and maybe to eat gluten-free. Starting to eat healthy and gluten-free and dairy-free can seem really overwhelming at first. Eventually you realize that most of the actual true food in the grocery store is, indeed, gluten-free, but at first, it is a bit scary. I hope that this post makes it a bit less intimidating.
The rule of thumb that nutritionists give you is that in general you can eat almost anything in the produce department. You can eat any unmarinated, and unprocessed fish and meat. Some celiacs (a bit less than half) can even have dairy and corn. We cannot, however, so I am going to assume you cannot either. So if you want to get back on track what CAN you eat. Here is what we eat every day.
Breakfast
Coconut Milk Yogurt (available at Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s) which is more expensive than dairy yogurt but cheaper than breakfast at McDonalds.
Hard Boiled Eggs
Fruit Smoothies made with Vegan Protein Powder
Gluten Free cereal with Flax Milk (flax milk has lots of Omega 3s)
Gluten Free toast with coconut butter or jam
Hot coffee or tea either black or with coconut milk creamer (or organic soy creamer if you can tolerate it)
Starbucks Via!
Lunch
Turkey or Ham or Roast Beef sandwich on gluten-free bread. You just need GF condiments and NO cheese
Salad with beans, hard boiled egg, or leftover salmon (a very healthy lunch if you include the protein)
Sunbutter Sandwich
Fruit
Iced Tea or lemonade
Dinner for Omnivores
Pasta Bolognese with GF pasta
Barbeque Chicken with rice or mashed potatoes and frozen peas
Poached Salmon on a bed of spinach, jarred artichoke hearts and with cherry tomatoes
Grilled Steak (marinated in organic tamari and garlic powder) with frozen broccoli
Shish Kabobs (any meat, just be careful of the marinade)
Pork Tenderloin with frozen veggies
Basically you end up cooking like it is the 1940s. You eat meat or fish, baked or mashed potatoes or rice, and vegetables. It’s the manly diet. Most of the veggies can be eaten raw, the rest can be microwaved. The meat can be poached or grilled. The potatoes can be baked, microwaved or boiled and mashed. The only rule is that it has to be fresh or frozen with no sauce and few ingredients (or certified GF by GiG). Sure its boring. Boring will make you thinner pretty fast.
If you can cook at all, you can do this. Yes, it takes a while to do decent cakes or muffins or pancakes. That is why this blog is here. But for now, you just eat like your grandmother did.
You can do this. One day at a time.
Fall down nine times.
Get up ten.
