Gluten Free Menu Swap/Menu Plan Monday-Chocolate

November 8, 2010 by Wendy Gregory Kaho

Spicy Pumpkin Soup from the Gluten-Free Goddess

If you missed the latest Elizabeth Hasselbeck interview from last Thursday’s Nightline, you will not know that the gluten-free diet is dangerous. Well, it is if you take Hasselbeck’s advice and eat out of the frozen food case of gluten-free ‘replacements’ that are full of fat, sugar and white starches. The highlight of the piece was a trip to Babycakes to eat gluten-free doughnuts. I was keeping a running list on my refrigerator door of all the vegetables I used during the week. It just proved to me how healthy we are eating in this house and I’m sharing my dangerous gluten-free produce list:

3 bunches of kale

1 bunch chard

1 box organic spinach

4 peppers

4 onions

2 pkg organic celery

2 garlic bulbs

1 bag carrots

12 apples

1 bunch bananas

1 pint blueberries(frozen from farmers mkt)

1/2 bag frozen cranberries

1 pint raspberries(frozen from farmers Mkt)

1 bunch organic beets

1 box Brussels sprouts

1 butternut squash

4 bunches Romaine

1 box organic baby Romaine

1 pkg mushrooms

4 kiwis

1 Cauliflower

10 lbs homegrown potatoes

1 pkg frozen green beans

1 pkg frozen peas

1 can corn

2 cans pumpkin

2 cans pineapple

2 cans organic tomatoes

1 pkg frozen homegrown tomatoes

1 jar roasted red peppers

1 can pizza sauce

2 bunches broccoli

1/2 bag organic raisins

Yep, a family of four with 3 celiacs ate these veggies in a week. We are living dangerously. Of course, we eat or pack almost all of our meals unless we are traveling or it is a special occasion. This is partly due to our rural location and lack of safe, affordable choices nearby and our increasing sensitivity to cross-contamination even in the most GF friendly restaurants.

Last weeks’ Greek Pizza with chard and feta

Here’s the entree menu for the week. After looking at the list above, I think you understand that most of the veggies are the side dishes, snacks, and salads that go along with the entrees.

Tofu Fried Rice
White Bean and Kale Minestrone with Carrie’s Millet Bread(Mock Cornbread)
Kim’s Pumpkin Ale Chili and Alisa’s Pumpkin Corn Muffins. I’ll also be baking Kim’s Banana Cranberry Muffins as part of Adopt a Gluten-Free Blogger.
Roast Chicken
Chicken Pot Pie
Bean Burritos
Leftovers or Burgers and Fries if the leftovers have been gobbled up for lunches

Visit Cheryl at Gluten Free Goodness for the headquarters of our weekly menu swap. Cheryl is also the host of this week’s swap with a theme of chocolate. The youngest has been asking me to make Black Bottom cupcakes, but Amy has a quick and easy brownie recipe if the week gets too hectic. Alisa Cooks had an interesting Hot Peanut Butter Chocolate recipe that sounds pretty good as I look at the thermometer reading 28 degrees this morning.

Visit Laura at Organizing Junkie for even more menu plan ideas and some of them are gluten-free or easily adaptable.
Diane at The W.H.O.L.E Gang plans one month at a time. She has her November menus and a printable monthly menu planner. There’s some good eating going on at Diane’s.

You can always mine my previous menus for gluten-free ideas. Have a great week.

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