Living Gluten free isn't difficult. It just requires planning. Since we happen to have two children under the age of five there isn't much in our life that doesn't require planning anyway. The person that it's most difficult for is me. Not with the eating, but with the preparing. Since I'm in the kitchen three times a day, (four if you count snack), I'm faced with the cooking challenge.
Making the kids lunches for school isn't a problem. I have to make an extra snack for Connor to take so the preschool doesn't get stuck worrying about having GF food for the entire class. I try to make something special for him to take. He likes it when he gets different snack and all of the other kids want what he's having. That's just fine with me.
I'm about to start experimenting with GF flours which can be pre-mixed in a baking mix that can be used as a bisquick type base for muffins, cakes or pizza crusts. The flours in any base likely contain some or any of the following; sweet rice flour, brown rice flour, millet flour, sorgum flour, tapioca flour, xanthan gum, guar gum and cornstarch. Because these are speciality flours they are expensive too. I've heard a lot from other people about how expensive it is to eat gluten free. I think it's only expensive if you get obsessive about replacing the foods, that you are missing. If you are used to eating prepackaged foods and trying to replace those, it's expensive. If you don't mind spending a little bit of time in the kitchen, it's not that expensive or that difficult it's just time consuming. I'm sure that the bread doesn't have that delicious wheat flavor but the kids will be so happy to have a pimento cheese sandwich that they probably aren't going to care. Bon appetit!
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