Getting Started Gf List

Getting Started GF List (Just SOME of the mainstream items that we eat most often) GV: Great Value (WalMart brand, which says GLUTEN FREE on their back labels for GF items) 1. Snacks

http://www.fritolay.com/fl/flstore/cgibin/ProdDetEv_Cat_351852_NavRoot_361689_ProdID_364066.htm is a listing of many of the items below plus many more frito lay products

Fritos (Original, SCOOPS, Honey BBQ Flavor Twists) Cheetos (Crunchy or Puffs) Lays STAX (all flavors) Doritos (Cool Ranch or Spicy Nacho—Regular Nacho Cheese is NOT GF) Lays (Potato, Sour Cream & Onion, Hickory BBQ) 100% Corn Tortilla Chips (Santitas, Mission, Tostitos, etc.) Velveeta Cheese (also with Ro-Tel Tomatoes for Dip) Quaker Rice Cakes and Quakes snack Rice Cakes GV Honey Roasted Peanuts Raisins/Dried Fruit All Fresh Fruit and Veggies Baby Carrots and Peanut Butter (any brand PB—not the kind with Jelly in it) Most ICE CREAM (NOT: BlueBell Chocolate (contains Malt) or ice creams with baked goods such as Cookie Dough, Brownie, or Cookies ‘n Cream; Chocolate Chips are okay) Act II/Pop Weaver Microwave Popcorn Crunch ‘n Munch Yoplait Yogurt Butterfingers, Snickers, M&Ms, many types of gum (Wrigleys, Extra, Trident, etc.) (Ask me about specific types of candy, because there are quite a few GF ones!) 2. Condiments *All Kraft products will list Wheat/Rye/Barley plainly on back Salad Dressings: We use Kraft Ranch (Hidden Valley has gluten) and GV French Some of the Ken’s and Wishbone and others are GF so which is your favorite and I can check on it? (See http://www.kensfoods.com/kf/glutenFreeList.servlet for all Ken’s GF dressings; All ketchups French’s mustard Miracle Whip Most pickles that I know of Lipton French onion soup packets McCormick Taco Seasoning

Pace Enchilada Sauce GV Cottage Cheese GV Applesauce Daisy or GV sour cream GV refried beans Pace Picante Sauce Most spices 3. Meats All Fresh or Frozen Meats (Not those with juices injected or in gravies or breaded, i.e. chicken nuggets, chicken fried steak, Salisbury steak) Hormel Bacon Bits/Pieces Hormel Pepperoni All Ball Park Franks (not with cheese in them) All Oscar Meyer Hot Dogs Hormel Chili WITH beans Campbell’s Chili Hold the Beans Tuna Canned Chicken Hormel or GV Little Smokies Hormel Black Label Bacon GV Bacon GV Breakfast Sausage Delimex Chicken Taquitos 4. Staples and Other Milk (Not Hiland Chocolate or other chocolate milks that contain MALT) Eggs Rice (Regular, Instant, Single-Serving bags, etc.) Sargento Natural Cheeses (EXCEPT Shredded Imitation Mozzarella Cheese; Shredded Taco Cheese; Shredded Nacho & Taco Cheese; or 6 Cheese Zesty Mexican Recipe Blend) Kraft/Borden/GV Cheeses Philadelphia or GV Cream Cheese Bagged Salad All RAGU spaghetti sauces All CLASSICO spaghetti sauces Lundberg Family Farms Rices and Risottos Ore-Ida frozen fries, tator tots, etc. Idaho Instant Potatoes Uncle Ben’s Original, Spanish, and Brown READY RICE Many Zatarain Rice mixes: Spanish, Jambalaya, Chicken Flavored, etc. (wheat is clearly labeled) Progresso Creamy Mushroom Soup or Health Valley Chicken or Mushroom Soups (these are not condensed so take out some of the liquid in the recipe when using in casserole’s; Campbell’s Condensed

Soups are NOT GF) Dinty Moore Beef or Chicken Stew Progresso Chicken Corn Chowder or Chicken Enchilada (?) (Progresso will clearly label; there are some other soups of theirs that are okay, some with rice, I think) Quaker Cream of Rice CEREAL: Rice Chex (Name Brand only), Trix, Fruity Pebbles

Menu Ideas: Tacos: Beef, McCormick Taco Seasoning, GV Refried Beans, Cheese, Lettuce, Corn Tortillas or 100% Corn Hard Shells (no flour tortillas), Daisy/GV sour cream, etc Uncle Ben’s or Zatarain’s Spanish Rice Zatarain’s Cheesy Jambalaya Spaghetti: You should be able to get a GF spaghetti at your regular grocery store. Even WalMart carries DeBoles Rice Spaghetti in a blue and yellow box right with the regular spaghetti. Our favorite pasta that we get at a regular grocery (Albertson’s, etc) is Quinoa Spaghetti in a teal-colored box. Ragu or Classico spaghetti sauce Bagged Salad Kraft Ranch, Newman’s Own Ranch, Ken’s Creamy French, Caesar, Italian, etc… Frito Chili Pie: Original Fritos, Chili: Hormel WITH beans or Campbell’s HOLD THE BEANS (or I just found another yummy brand in a small grocery store called STAGG chili and it has GLUTEN FREE labeled on the back!!), Sargento shredded cheddar cheese, Daisy or GV sour cream Nachos: Spread MISSION (or other brand mentioned above) tortilla chips on a cookie sheet, spread with refried beans, beef mixed with Pace Enchilada Sauce, cheese. Sometimes I spread Rotel Cheese Dip on them also. Bake at 400 for 10-15 minutes until cheese is melted. Add sour cream, jalapenos, picante sauce, etc. Delimex Chicken Taquitos with Rotel Cheese Dip Grilled Chicken Breasts, one of the flavored rices or mashed potatoes, vegetable of your choice, salad, etc.

Grill out! Hamburgers (no bun, but spoil yourself with the toppings: fancy cheese and BBQ sauce; swiss cheese and grilled onions, etc), Steak w/ baked potato, Italian Sausage, Pork Chops, Hot Dogs Baked Fish, Fully-Cooked Ham Steaks (you can throw in a casserole dish, cover with crushed pineapple and bake until hot; you can cook in a skillet; we love to eat ham with mashed potatoes) “Dump Soup”: ground beef, cooked; tomato sauce; water; canned veggies (green beans, corn, potatoes, carrots); salt and pepper Stir-Fry: Meat of choice: chicken, pork, etc; 1 package frozen stir-fry veggies (no sauce); jar of LaChoy sweet and sour sauce. Cook meat, add veggies until crisp tender, add sauce and heat through. Serve over rice.