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Kelly the Kitchen Kop

Grain-free Gluten-free Meal Ideas

January 28, 2009 9 Comments

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GLUTEN ALLERGIES ARE BECOMING MORE COMMON

Why? No one knows for sure, but some have speculated that it is because the grains we consume today are much different than the grains consumed long ago (more and more hybridized and then processed like crazy), and our bodies can't handle it. We weren't made to eat grains that way. Some argue that we weren't made to eat grain at all (scroll down there to read about that argument). Another group say it is just wheat that is the problem, and here's one more post on the dangers of wheat:  Lose your man boobs, your bagel butt and your wheat belly. Others say we should only eat properly prepared grains, and in fact, some who have been diagnosed with gluten allergies are able to eat properly prepared grains without problems.

Have you seen these grain-free meal plans?

BEWARE OF THE GLUTEN-FREE JUNK FOOD!

Because so many have been diagnosed with gluten sensitivities in recent years, as you would expect, the processed food manufacturers have jumped on that train and come up with all sorts of gluten-free boxed junk food.  Be careful not to fall into that trap, those boxes have long ingredient lists and loads of chemicals.

Have you seen this post:  Gluten-free is expensive!

Meal/Recipe Ideas:  (Be sure to check out my dessert recipes – many of them are gluten/grain-free!)

  • One of my favorites: Bunless burger bonanza!
  • Kent's Easy Asian Pork Loin – Low carb AND gluten-free!
  • This tasty Fried Fish with Fresh Lemon Garlic Pesto
  • This Yakisoba recipe is SOOOOO good with extra veggies instead of the noodles!
  • Kale Chips – these are amazingly delicious!
  • These stuffed jalepeno poppers are one of my favorite low-carb treats.
  • Another favorite are these roll-ups. I'll make cilantro ancho-chili lime mayo, spread it on a piece of ham (from the farm), then wrap up the broccoli for a nice crisp and tasty low-carb/grain-free treat.
  • I eat a lot of eggs when I'm watching the carbs – here are all different egg recipes, some with carbs and a few really yummy ones without.
  • Joe's no-carb no-grain Tabouli – yum!
  • Salads are always satisfying, especially if you add chicken or steak. I got fresh greens at the farm market the other day, and I may put a couple strawberries on top, a hard-boiled egg, a homemadedressing with less sugar than I'd normally use, some cucumbers, parmesan cheese, and a few crispy pecans.
  • Here's another good one that I love all the time: Caprese Salad
  • Even though it's been warm out and it's not really chili weather, we all still love it. Soon I'll make traditional chili and a white chicken chili– both are low-carb. (Update: last night I made chili and tonight we had leftovers on healthy hotdogs. The fam had the homemade buns I made, but I fried up a couple dogs, cut them up and ate them in a bowl of chili – it was so good!)
  • Here are more soup ideas, not all are low-carb, but most are or can be adapted. I don't know if it's listed, but a good beef vegetable soup is very satisfying. I usually use round steak (with a bone) for this and add lots of veggies and herbs to give it a great flavor.
  • I like to snack on celery and peanut butter – it's filling and sometimes I need the crunch. Or if I need a quick snack, I'll just grab a spoonful of peanut butter by itself.  (Make sure it has NO trans fats or corn syrup!  Read more about healthy peanut butter.
  • Here's a fairly low-carb dessert! Homemade chocolate or vanilla ice cream – there's not a lot of sugar in this, but if you're trying to lose weight, you may still want to steer clear. (However, if you're going to have a little treat, this is a good choice, because all the healthy fats in this recipe help slow down the insulin response from the sugar. Here's another good one for the same reason: Crème Brule.)
  • This pesto chicken or just cheesy chicken is SO easy, SO good and low-carb!
  • Organic Broccoli Salad – full of great flavor!
  • 5 minute meal – egg drop soup!
  • Fried cabbage is an easy, filling, tasty treat!
  • I know I'm odd, but I also love to chop up a whole onion and fry it in butter or ghee until nice and golden brown. A very satisfying snack, believe it or not. (I use a LOT of butter!)
  • Chicken Lettuce Wraps like P.F. Chang's
  • Another idea from my sister: use the recipe above for lettuce wraps, but use cold shrimp instead of chicken, and just eat the filling. Delicious.
  • Low-carb Tuna Delight
  • Shrimp cocktail – cold shrimp on a plate, drizzle balsamic vinegar over the top, and a little dab of fresh horseradish. Good flavor and nice bite, without the carbs in the ketchup. ZERO carbs! (My sister loves this.)
  • Easy Low-Carb Cabbage rolls
  • Low-carb broccoli cheese soup
  • A great artichoke dip recipe I found through a Twitter friend, and there's even a link there for some no-carb cheese crisps for dippers!
  • No grain recipes from Sarah, the Healthy Home Economist
  • Low-carb sausage balls
  • Try this Buffalo Dip recipe that you could eat with celery, yum!
  • This Indian Eggplant recipe from Sonia is SO flavorful that it makes a great low-carb dish (without the rice of course)
  • Thai Vegetable and Chicken or Beef Stir-Fry – sooooo delicious and grain-free!
  • Another version from my friend, Jill:  Pad Phet (a spicy Thai stir-fry) — a New Gluten-Free Main Dish Idea
  • ***Crispy nuts – an extra healthy, yummy & easy way to prepare nuts. Or even better, try these chili lime almonds. (These are low-carb, but go easy, I've heard that cheese and nuts are the biggest threats to weight loss when doing low-carb.)
  • Halloween pancakes (super delicious: made with squash or pumpkin, and grain-free, too!)
  • One more:  A Paleo Pancake Recipe (Grain-Free and Gluten-Free)
  • Low-Carb Bruschetta without bread – yummy!
  • Shepherd's Pie – just use Arrowroot Flour or coconut flour to replace the 2 T. of regular flour in this recipe.
  • Organic Chicken Hurry
  • Amy D.’s Honey Balsamic Chicken
  • Meg’s Chicken Salad Recipe
  • Not all the recipes here are GF but many are: Healthy Egg Recipes
  • ***For more gluten-free ideas, check out the list of low-carb recipes, because many are both gluten-free AND low-carb!
  • I love these sweet potato/squash popovers – recipe notes to myself:  1 batch is just enough for our family (they're not good leftover) – it made 16.  370* for 35 minutes, poke a hole, bake another 5-7 minutes.  We served with maple syrup heated with melted butter.  Tastes a bit like French toast.  (No matter how much butter or palm shortening I used, they still stuck and it was a pain to get the pan clean, will try muffin papers next time.)
  • Gluten-free flourless chocolate cake recipe
  • Sausage shish kabobs with a yummy homemade mustard barbecue sauce
  • Many of these dessert recipes are also grain-free/gluten-free!
  • Sarah's grain free pizza crust was pretty darn good – not as good as “regular” pizza, but it did the trick when I felt like pizza.  Recipe notes to myself:  I doubled the recipe and put 2 pizzas each on 2 cookie sheets and this was just enough for 6 of us.  The temp at Sarah's post was too high for my oven, instead do 400* and watch it – make sure the middle is done or it won't be crispy enough once other toppings are added on top before baking it more.
  • Quick Quiche Cups – these can be made ahead!
  • Gluten Free Chocolate Brownies That Taste Like the Real Thing!
  • The Best Grain-free Chocolate Chip Cookies EVER!
  • Flourless Blonde Brownies
  • GF Cheesy Broccoli Casserole
  • Creamy Sausage and Kale Pasta – with GF options!
  • Italian Beef Crock Pot Recipe {With or Without a Bun}
  • Paprika Chicken Pasta with Herbed Sour Cream (GF options)

Please comment below if you have other grain-free ideas!

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  1. Sharon Johnson says

    March 13, 2014 at 8:32 AM

    Your pages are very hard to go through to find something. I have been trying to find the breakfast cookie and I have spent 15 min. trying to find it and I don’t have time to waste to keep looking.

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    • KitchenKop says

      March 13, 2014 at 1:35 PM

      Sorry you’re having trouble! I can’t recall a breakfast cookie recipe on my site, where did you see it mentioned and I’ll try to help you find it?
      Thanks,
      Kelly

      Reply
  2. Tracee says

    March 30, 2010 at 11:03 AM

    As much as I love grains, I have learned that I do better and have more energy on a grain-free diet. Two years ago I had no idea I had Celiacs and Crohn’s. We tried the gfcf diet for my son’s autism and got zilcho-zero response. I stumbled across the Specific Carbohydrate Diet (a grain-free whole foods diet) and we tried it on him. Three weeks later he made a huge developmental leap. I realized I had gluten and bakers yeast issues too. While baking SCD food him I looked forward to the day when I had time to purchase gf flours and make gf items for myself. When I did, I noticed I had issues, fatigue and severe sugar cravings. For some reason I do much better grain-free. I do eat the occasional gf goodie, and sometimes it gets me and sometimes I get away with it. I’m just glad for the SCD, otherwise I just would not know what feeling great is.

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  3. KitchenKop says

    March 29, 2010 at 10:42 PM

    Kat, I get a lot of questions about how long someone would have to be on the GAPS diet (or something similar) and it’s great hearing stories like yours of true HEALING, and knowing that giving up certain things doesn’t have to be forever. I love potatoes and chocolate! 🙂
    Kelly

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    • Kat says

      March 30, 2010 at 6:52 PM

      I honestly thought it would take me way longer than 2 years. Even after 1 year on SCD I was having some ups and downs. Then all of a sudden it was like a switch was flipped. Certainly some people would have to be on the diet longer, but 1-2 years is a reasonable time frame to give oneself. People with serious Crohn’s or UC tend to require longer as coming off of strong medications while adjusting diet can take a while.

      I’m not sure grains will ever make a steady appearance in my weekly menu, but we’ll see 🙂

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  4. Kat says

    March 29, 2010 at 10:31 PM

    I was gluten-free for at least 4 months and still did not have relief of all symptoms. I ended up going grain-free according the the SCD (similar to GAPS) diet. Two years later I am digestive-symptom-free and am eating some potatoes and chocolate again. I agree we weren’t really meant to eat all these grains all the time and so heavily processed as we do now. I certainly won’t be going back to a SAD diet ever again.

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  5. KitchenKop says

    September 27, 2009 at 9:30 PM

    Very interesting, it does sound like that could be the case, doesn’t it?

    Reply
  6. g-girl says

    September 26, 2009 at 9:11 PM

    There are a variety of reasons that people become gluten free. For some it’s an allergy or sensitivity to proteins – many of these people are also allergic to milk proteins. For some it is other components in wheat. Symptoms are also different in each person – although celiacs most often share the same or very similar symptoms.
    My sister-in-law is sick for two weeks after eating glutens however, the symptoms sometimes do not show up for a week – food sits in her stomach and is fermented and spoils and then she is sick. Her system is so destroyed from eating glutens that she just can not digest them in any form. She is celiac.
    An aunt will get incredibly fatigued within an hour of eating glutens and must sleep for a few hours. She can barely move her muscles – she is just considered to have a sensitivity.
    I can get pain, immediate elimination of the cause of the problem, muscle fatigue, foggy brain, the appearance of weight gain without gaining a pound, hugely bloated stomach, gastrointestinal distress – no wheat and I have none of these symptoms at all. I can not tolerate sprouted wheat – or any of it’s relative grains any longer either. For a time I ate Spelt but I can no longer digest it – and even attempting to eat these grains in any form can irreversibly effect the digestive system so I don’t even want to try it again. I can not eat some forms of milk proteins such as skim “milk products”. If the milks have higher fat contents such as cheese or whole milk/cream icecream I can eat them more frequently (maybe once a week) and tolerate them.
    Perhaps wheat problems are spectrum disorders?

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  7. Laura N. says

    January 28, 2009 at 3:21 PM

    I think it’s really a combination of many things for me. Leaky gut from candida + overconsumption of improperly prepared gluteny products + toxic metals = one huge gluten-intolerant mess!

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