Mike and I spent a few hours yesterday evening clearing the kitchen of gluten. We tossed (moved to an out of the way location) the usual suspects; pasta, crackers and whole grain rice blends such as Near East Whole Grains.
We also found a few sneaky products that I never would have thought contained gluten; Drew's shiitake ginger salad dressing and Embasa chipotle in adobo. So out these went as well.
We were pleasantly surprised to find that none of our favorite spices and spice blends contained any gluten. I have been making homemade taco seasoning for months now so that helped. Our favorite condiments, mostly mustards, are also gluten free. Yay!
We still have to clear out the freezers, and I know there is gluten in there, but that will have to wait until next weekend, or maybe an evening this week if we find the motivation.
Day 1 = challenge 1
All in all I was very pleasantly surprised by the ratio of gluten free foods to gluten containing foods we had in the house, but this is day 1 and we have our first challenge. You see, yesterday morning, before we decided to go gluten free, we had gone grocery shopping for this weeks groceries and on the menu for today were baked chicken taquitos, wrapped in flour tortillas. So our first challenge will be to come up with a creative recipe using all (or most) of the same ingredients, minus the flour tortillas.
I'll share what I come up with later and if it is tasty I will post the recipe.
After reading this I have decided to do the next 30 day challenge with you gluten free. Excited. Andrea
ReplyDeleteThat's awesome, Andrea! We'll be able to support each other :)
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