Missing Gluten and gluten mishaps

Honestly, dairy hasn’t been missed too much in the house. I would say cheese has been the hardest, only because there is absolutely no alternative that tastes remotely like it, let alone tastes good at all.  So we do without.  Gluten however is an entirely different challenge, simply because it is in everything.  Hidden gluten everywhere!  Breakfasts have been easy, we have replaced cereals with more smoothies, GF oatmeal, eggs, and GF pancakes.  I found a recipe for GF Cinnamon pancakes that are not to bad, they freeze ok as well.  Lunches are not bad,  plenty of options to throw in a third grader’s lunch box.  Dinner is definitely the easiest, with plenty of Quinoa options.  The difficulty for our family has been the snacks.  Not that we were huge snackers before, but it was always nice to have some quick convenient snacks.  So in my naive determination to  find GF/CF options for all our snacks, I set out to find recipes and purchase every alternative type of flour I could find.  Really, am I the only one to have not heard of Garbanzo bean flour?  So far, my attempts have been just ok. My first batch of GF cookies was not so great, but I used a baking mix which left a weird aftertaste. The second batch I used rice and sorghum flours which were much better. The pancakes as mentioned above were not bad, I made some killer raspberry bars this weekend and one horrible disgusting pizza crust.  So the crusade goes on as  I try more recipes and more premade items.

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