Coeliac food recommendations

StillThinking

Jellybaby1 wrote:

Is this available in Ireland yet, or just for catering companies?:

I did see it on some Facebook page and it was just the normal small packet of bisto for home use. It had a green stripe on the normal red background, also there was packets of gluten free paxo stuffing. I'm close enough to northern Ireland so I'll be keeping an eye out in there for it too

irlirishkev

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

Is this available in Ireland yet, or just for catering companies?:

https://www.caterite.co.uk/55276-bisto-gravy-granules-gluten-free/

I haven't tasted Bisto in almost 20 years. What wouldn't I give to find a pack of it gluten free!

I've seen it on FB pages, but not in shops yet.
That said, it would take a lot to turn me from Knorr Savoury Gravy. Any left in the jug .. I drink it! Yeah you read that right

Jellybaby1

irlirishkev wrote: »

I've seen it on FB pages, but not in shops yet.
That said, it would take a lot to turn me from Knorr Savoury Gravy. Any left in the jug .. I drink it! Yeah you read that right

I love gravy myself, but........ugh! For me its gotta be on meat and spuds! Yum!

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goat2

can be made with rice flour, just making the roux in normal way, rice flour and butter, then the stock or juices from roasting tin, should do the trick

Jellybaby1

goat2 wrote: »

can be made with rice flour, just making the roux in normal way, rice flour and butter, then the stock or juices from roasting tin, should do the trick

Yep, aware of that, but don't do many roasts any more. Bisto, and the like, was invented for people like me!

cobham

I have been enjoying the Aldi own brand GF pizza for about year but now they seem to have disappeared. I will be upset if this is a permanent change.

whiz

cobham wrote: »

I have been enjoying the Aldi own brand GF pizza for about year but now they seem to have disappeared. I will be upset if this is a permanent change.

I saw aldi branded gf pizzas in Parnell st, it seems to be revamped under the has no brand

whiz

Hi Guys, does anybody know of any supermarket in Dublin that sells corn tortillas or corn wraps ?

Any response appreciated

irlirishkev

whiz wrote:

Hi Guys, does anybody know of any supermarket in Dublin that sells corn tortillas or corn wraps ?

Picado, a mexican shop on Richmond Street sell corn tortillas.

whiz

irlirishkev wrote: »

Picado, a mexican shop on Richmond Street sell corn tortillas.

Thanks for that is there any gulten free sauces that you would recommend ?

irlirishkev

whiz wrote: »

Thanks for that is there any gulten free sauces that you would recommend ?

For Mexican? I'd just make my own tbh. It's so easy. Tin of tomatoes, some herbs and spices etc..

For Indian/Thai? All of the Pataks curry sauces (jars, pastes etc) are GF.

A lot of Dunnes own sauces are GF - just check the label, or the foodbook from the Coeliac Society.

cobham

I saw aldi branded gf pizzas in Parnell st, it seems to be revamped

Yes there is new one but it is quite different and a bit bigger. I tried the Lidl one this week ( only a pepperoni one available) and still prefer the Aldi original one under Carlos label.

I once got a packet of mix to make a pizza base and that was good but do not see them for sale anymore. I think it was called Isabel and pkt was enough for two pizzas.

whiz

cobham wrote: »

I saw aldi branded gf pizzas in Parnell st, it seems to be revamped

Yes there is new one but it is quite different and a bit bigger. I tried the Lidl one this week ( only a pepperoni one available) and still prefer the Aldi original one under Carlos label.

I once got a packet of mix to make a pizza base and that was good but do not see them for sale anymore. I think it was called Isabel and pkt was enough for two pizzas.

Here is a few other options, the last option I have seen sold in other places at a cheaper price

https://www.tesco.ie/groceries/Product/Details/?id=298115300
https://dublinmeatcompany.com/online-shop/fit-foods/mighty-meat-high-protein-pizza.html

whiz

Here I see Marks & Spencers and Tesco are stocking their own branded of gluten free Christmas Cakes , Mince Pies , Christmas Puddings.....is there any other stores stocking similar products ?

Any response appreciated

Couch Potatoette

Hi All,

Sorry if this is off-topic. My dad is coeliac and I want to make him a gluten free Christmas Hamper. He loves the novelty of finding new delicious products that he hasn't had yet. He also loves experimenting with various ingredients and has all sorts of different flours (potato, rice, almond, coconut, dove gf, tritamyl etc). He regularly bakes cakes and biscuits. I'd love to source some harder to find or new products. He lives in the country and has access to all the mainstream supermarket chains. I'm in Dublin so I'd be able to pick up things from more specialist shops.

I'd love some recommendations and ideas.

irlirishkev

whiz wrote: »

Here I see Marks & Spencers and Tesco are stocking their own branded of gluten free Christmas Cakes , Mince Pies , Christmas Puddings.....is there any other stores stocking similar products ?

Any response appreciated

Dunnes, Tesco, Aldi and Lidl.
Loads out there!

irlirishkev

Couch Potatoette wrote: »

Hi All,

Sorry if this is off-topic. My dad is coeliac and I want to make him a gluten free Christmas Hamper. He loves the novelty of finding new delicious products that he hasn't had yet. He also loves experimenting with various ingredients and has all sorts of different flours (potato, rice, almond, coconut, dove gf, tritamyl etc). He regularly bakes cakes and biscuits. I'd love to source some harder to find or new products. He lives in the country and has access to all the mainstream supermarket chains. I'm in Dublin so I'd be able to pick up things from more specialist shops.

I'd love some recommendations and ideas.

Nice idea. Try Holland & Barrett for the harder to find flours.
Does he like beer? There are loads of GF beers, stouts, ales etc out there now, some of which he may not have tried.
There's a pop up GF shop in Royal Hibernian Way which might be useful for picking up a few foodie items. It's called Un-Glu'd. Beside the big Christmas tree in the arcade.

whiz

irlirishkev wrote: »

Dunnes, Tesco, Aldi and Lidl.
Loads out there!

I saw GF Xmas cake and mince pies in Dunne's today but I saw nothing in Aldi or Lidl

Couch Potatoette

Couch Potatoette wrote: »

Hi All,

Sorry if this is off-topic. My dad is coeliac and I want to make him a gluten free Christmas Hamper. He loves the novelty of finding new delicious products that he hasn't had yet. He also loves experimenting with various ingredients and has all sorts of different flours (potato, rice, almond, coconut, dove gf, tritamyl etc). He regularly bakes cakes and biscuits. I'd love to source some harder to find or new products. He lives in the country and has access to all the mainstream supermarket chains. I'm in Dublin so I'd be able to pick up things from more specialist shops.

I'd love some recommendations and ideas.

There's a ton of stuff in the bigger tescos. and holland and barrett. gf xmas cake, pear pies, mince pies, etc.

Couch Potatoette

irlirishkev wrote: »

Nice idea. Try Holland & Barrett for the harder to find flours.
Does he like beer? There are loads of GF beers, stouts, ales etc out there now, some of which he may not have tried.
There's a pop up GF shop in Royal Hibernian Way which might be useful for picking up a few foodie items. It's called Un-Glu'd. Beside the big Christmas tree in the arcade.

Yes, beer is a great idea. He doesn't usually get gf beer but it'd be nice for something different over Christmas. I'm definitely going to check out that GF shop. Hadn't heard about it before. Thanks for that!

AMKC

Couch Potatoette wrote: »

Hi All,

Sorry if this is off-topic. My dad is coeliac and I want to make him a gluten free Christmas Hamper. He loves the novelty of finding new delicious products that he hasn't had yet. He also loves experimenting with various ingredients and has all sorts of different flours (potato, rice, almond, coconut, dove gf, tritamyl etc). He regularly bakes cakes and biscuits. I'd love to source some harder to find or new products. He lives in the country and has access to all the mainstream supermarket chains. I'm in Dublin so I'd be able to pick up things from more specialist shops.

I'd love some recommendations and ideas.

Something from M&S maybe would be nice.

You could go a bit further and get something from the British stores up North like Asda or Morrisons. They might have more choice too.

whiz wrote: »

I saw GF Xmas cake and mince pies in Dunne's today but I saw nothing in Aldi or Lidl

Its early yet Aldi and Lidl will have there GF range out soon Id say. They alaways done some at Xmas.

Couch Potatoette

bluewolf wrote: »

There's a ton of stuff in the bigger tescos. and holland and barrett. gf xmas cake, pear pies, mince pies, etc.

Thanks Bluewolf. I'll definitely be going and checking out all the big supermarket chains. I guess what I'm really looking for is specific recommendations for things people have tried and really liked or different ingredients that may be harder to source. He loves trying out new things and would buy all that sort of stuff when he sees it in the supermarkets anyway so I'm trying to come up with things he may not stumble upon himself.

Oh i will also second M&S just because their chocolate fudge cake is the nicest in the universe

Couch Potatoette

Right, definitely going to get the chocolate fudge cake! He rarely goes to M&S so that would definitely be a treat.

Couch Potatoette

Couch Potatoette wrote: »

Right, definitely going to get the chocolate fudge cake! He rarely goes to M&S so that would definitely be a treat.

Great. the only other thing i can think of is their white seedy bread, it nearly tastes like real bread
this one
http://thecoeliacplate.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/MS-boule-loaf_opt.jpg

i'll stop spamming now

irlirishkev

M&S is great though. Not only is their Free From range excellent, but a lot of their regular stock is GF, and marked accordingly, you just have to check.

For example, all of M&S Sausages are GF, and they make a nice change from your Denny, or Clonakilty etc..

They'll have a Gluten Free chilled section, and a Gluten Free shelf section.
Then just check the other areas for items marked GF also.

I'm quite partial to their scotch eggs!

StillThinking

irlirishkev wrote:

I'm quite partial to their scotch eggs!

Sausage rolls are amazing, expensive but so worth it

StillThinking

StillThinking wrote: »

Sausage rolls are amazing, expensive but so worth it

sorry what.
/starts running to nearest M&S

Jellybaby1

bluewolf wrote: »

Great. the only other thing i can think of is their white seedy bread, it nearly tastes like real bread
this one
http://thecoeliacplate.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/MS-boule-loaf_opt.jpg

i'll stop spamming now

I love that Boule, however, I stopped buying it as it has risen in price a lot.

cobham

Just discovered M and S puff pastry quiche (bacon/egg) in pack of two

I dont go often and note now that chilled GF items are now grouped together.

whiz

Here have any celiacs tried this SuperValu branded custard ? If so was it ok ?


https://shop.supervalu.ie/shopping/food-cupboard-custard-pots-supervalu-ready-to-serve-500-grams-/p-1002566001


Any response appreciated

I just found out aldi's Pringles are gluten free. Well the s&v ones are. God help us all.

(they're v nice)


Ps I did go to m&s and try out some of their stuff after this thread. The chicken pie and sausage rolls are lovely

whiz

whiz wrote: »

Here have any celiacs tried this SuperValu branded custard ? If so was it ok ?


https://shop.supervalu.ie/shopping/food-cupboard-custard-pots-supervalu-ready-to-serve-500-grams-/p-1002566001


Any response appreciated

Update post with correct link

DavyD_83

I have just bought a breadmaker (Panasonic SD-2500), and was wondering if anybody here would have a tried and tested GF breadmaker friendly, bread recipe or recipes?

Ideally, I want to be able to make a reliable loaf, rolls and pizza dough; and would plan to use the Aldi GF plain or self-raising flour with Doves yeast as base ingredients.

So far I used a Juvela bread mix, which was successful enough, but expensive.
And I tried a recipe I found online, which was a bit of a disaster, mostly because I tried to time the mix overnight. Lots of un-mixed flour, and just generally a failure. Will re-try without timing, but still not sure it will be great.

Jellybaby1

I've never had any success with my Breadmaker so I'd appreciate any GF recipes that have worked in them.

g0g

Never tried a breadmaker, I just swear by the simple recipe of porridge bread in a bread tin and that does the job. Be interested to hear how you get on experimenting with your machine.

cobham

I made a lot of Juvela bread mix in my Panasonic breadmaker. I would add a lot of extras such as seeds, nuts and fruit. Then I sliced when cooked and froze the individual slices ready for quick resus in a toaster.

I find quality of bread has vastly improved in recent years so no longer use the breadmaker. Aldo had a very good one (Zilch?) and now my favourite is by McCambridges. I find these ones are decent enough even when not toasted. I think McCambridges sell a breadmix as well online.

Chocolate

Hi.

I see that this isn’t a very busy thread - I didn’t know it existed until today.
Just letting you know that there is a Facebook page called “Coeliac Parents Ireland” which has much more frequent traffic.
People regularly post about new products and places to eat. Just in case anyone is interested...

AMKC

So what's your favorite gf bread. I have to say I love the M & S bread. It's so much nicer than all the others. Really don't know how it has never won any awards. I see that Aldi ones have recently won awards and they are nothing special just same as what's in Lidi and the cheap one in Tesco. I got some of the M&S bread half price today so was delighted.

Jellybaby1

I agree that M & S bread is lovely but the last time I bought it (a bloomer)I was perplexed at the rise in price to the point that I complained to one of the staff that it had gone up so much but they said they had no control as everything is priced in the UK. Really miffed I missed the half price offer!

AMKC

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

I agree that M & S bread is lovely but the last time I bought it (a bloomer)I was perplexed at the rise in price to the point that I complained to one of the staff that it had gone up so much but they said they had no control as everything is priced in the UK. Really miffed I missed the half price offer!

@Jellybaby1 If you are not obsessed with BBF dates just look out for the BBF date the bread has on it and go to your local M & S on that day and hope to get lucky. They reduce them by 50 per cent on the day of the BBF on the bread and it's still perfectly good and better value then too. That's what I try to do mostly I hope to get lucky as its not local to me so some guesswork involved. Not always successful but I was the last day so bought plenty of them. They reduce frozen stuff too on that day but I can't buy them chicken nuggets etc as it would be unfrozen by the time I got home:(

I think it is this stupid Brexit decision by the British that has raised prices on everything from Britain unfortunately.

cobham

I liked the long brown rolls in Aldi until they brought out new Zilch mini sliced pan. Certainly very reasonable prices. Present favourite is McCambridges soda bread that I can find in Supervalu and Centra (I think).

I agree that there is no decent forum to talk of GF issues. There used to be good forum with different topics on the Coeliac.ie Society site but only for members now? It was good in that topics were segregated and not just for food and eating out.

I miss a great apple pie that Aldi used to do.... was it made by Athenry? And their Don Carlos brand GF pizza is gone also. Replacement one not so good.

tossy

AMKC wrote: »

So what's your favorite gf bread. I have to say I love the M & S bread. It's so much nicer than all the others. Really don't know how it has never won any awards. I see that Aldi ones have recently won awards and they are nothing special just same as what's in Lidi and the cheap one in Tesco. I got some of the M&S bread half price today so was delighted.

Is the M&S bread brown or white ?

Recently been diagnosed a celiac and i'm in that trial and error stage of trying to find nice replacements, struggling with finding a nice bread for making sandwiches.

Tesco fruit loaf is one of my favourites, comes in a plum coloured and clear covering. 'pure bred' brand
kelkin is nice enough too, it's the one i always use.
M&S definitely the best.
can't stand the lidl one, has a weird taste to me.

AMKC

tossy wrote: »

Is the M&S bread brown or white ?

Recently been diagnosed a celiac and i'm in that trial and error stage of trying to find nice replacements, struggling with finding a nice bread for making sandwiches.

They have brown bread and white bread as well as lots of other nice stuff.
You can't go wrong with M&S bread. It is more expensive than all the others do. Dunnes and Tesco do have a good range of GF breads from the different GF brands and Tesco would have some of there own which can be nice toasted. There rolls are also quite nice and not expensive.
Dr Scheur do nice bread as well and there is Brennans GF bread too which is also very nice.

tossy

Thanks for the replies, looks like i've a lot of bread to try over the next week or so I've already tried the lidl one (Connell bakery brand) and i wasn't impressed.

irlirishkev

tossy wrote: »

Thanks for the replies, looks like i've a lot of bread to try over the next week or so I've already tried the lidl one (Connell bakery brand) and i wasn't impressed.

The Purebred Multiseed (not chia seed) loaf, I find nice for sandwiches. Soft, and doesn't break as easily as say Lidl, Aldi, or Goodness Grains (the latter being the king of breakage and crumbly). That said, it's quite small.

It was usually either be that or Brennans for me. I don't get to M&S much, but when I do, I treat myself to their 'Sliced White Boule' bread, which IMO, is one of the best by far.

tossy

irlirishkev wrote: »

The Purebred Multiseed (not chia seed) loaf, I find nice for sandwiches. Soft, and doesn't break as easily as say Lidl, Aldi, or Goodness Grains (the latter being the king of breakage and crumbly). That said, it's quite small.

It was usually either be that or Brennans for me. I don't get to M&S much, but when I do, I treat myself to their 'Sliced White Boule' bread, which IMO, is one of the best by far.

I'm off white bread since last summer and was flying, i don't feel as bad going back to it if it's gluten free

tried too more today from Tesco one was as bad as lidl and one (pitta style bread) was actually nice.

irlirishkev

tossy wrote: »

I'm off white bread since last summer and was flying, i don't feel as bad going back to it if it's gluten free

tried too more today from Tesco one was as bad as lidl and one (pitta style bread) was actually nice.

Yeah you'll find out pretty quickly which ones you'll never buy again..
There's a lot of awful crap out there passing itself off as 'bread'.

patmac

I like the BFree Brown, the white not so much, the Aldi one seems to have improved lately.
The best I ever tasted was a loaf I got in Supervalu in Monksland, Athlone from a company called Honest, I think they are based in Roscommon, they also do excellent almond and apple pies.
The same place does Hanna's Secret Brown Bread and tipsy muffins, I think they are based in Mullingar.