We just came back from Europe. It is some much easier to eat there vs here. They had great food that was gluten free/dairy free. Even the McDonald’s has gluten free rolls for hamburgers.

Bacon fat potatoes!

https://schallerweber.com/recipes/bacon-fat-crispy-potatoes/

Also less intense- nothing beats a baked sweet potato.

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Anonymous wrote:Other than fruit salad, roasted vegetables, chicken, salmon filets, thin beef, what other nutritious and flavorful dishes can I make for teens who must eat GF and DF? I also made biscuits and a loaf of bread, but teens don’t like “this GF sh*t”.
I’m running out of ideas and don’t have much support from other family members. It takes a village to feed kids.

Is this a choice or health conditions. If it is the health conditions you have to teach them to cook.

It’s a health condition. They got mad when they heard about the food restrictions, but I reassured them that they will have a wide array of healthy Mediterranean options to choose from. Fortunately, they know how to choose and cook a fish filet. I’m still working on convince them to cook a good saffron risotto.

It can be done! Avoid the fake cheese and use less nutritional yeast than the recipe calls for. Be ok with the dish being different. Use a really nice wine.

The most important thing is that you read labels and when eating out ask all the questions. It gets easier and more natural as time goes on. It’s a hard adjustment but when everything is making you unwell you learn how. I wish you well. Tell them it gets easier. I’ll alway miss cheese, and real buttery toast but avoiding it is worth it.

Anonymous wrote:Celiac here who also has to avoid dairy.

Every night we have:

A protein
A cooked vegetable
A starch (potato, sweet potato, rice, or quinoa)
A side salad

Once and a while we have GF pasta. Buy jovial brand. IT is the only one that tastes good. Make meatballs. Put in GF jarred red sauce. Add a side salad.

Aleias gf panko is great for meatballs.

For mashed potatoes I use miyokos butter, and so delicious plain unsweetened coconut yogurt. Its important to get the plain unsweetened one - plain has sugar and makes it weird. That brand is the most neutral tasting and we use it for cream sauces and chicken tikka. It’s not as fatty but not a terrible substitute.

I’m celiac with a terrible dairy intolerance (tmi ™), and it took a bit of time to learn how, but you can adapt most recipes to be dairy free. Anything with cheese as the main show get weird and probably isn’t worthwhile but there is plenty you can work out.

Gluten free baking is not as easy, not everything will have a direct counterpart. Simple Kneads quinoa bread has been the easiest to digest for me. There are a few good gf bakeries around too, be sure to ask about dairy when ordering.

8:55 poster here.

We also have mashed potatoes. Califia unflavored almond milk works best. Get the one in the green bottle.

Celiac here who also has to avoid dairy.

Every night we have:

A protein
A cooked vegetable
A starch (potato, sweet potato, rice, or quinoa)
A side salad

Once and a while we have GF pasta. Buy jovial brand. IT is the only one that tastes good. Make meatballs. Put in GF jarred red sauce. Add a side salad.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Other than fruit salad, roasted vegetables, chicken, salmon filets, thin beef, what other nutritious and flavorful dishes can I make for teens who must eat GF and DF? I also made biscuits and a loaf of bread, but teens don’t like “this GF sh*t”.
I’m running out of ideas and don’t have much support from other family members. It takes a village to feed kids.

Is this a choice or health conditions. If it is the health conditions you have to teach them to cook.

It’s a health condition. They got mad when they heard about the food restrictions, but I reassured them that they will have a wide array of healthy Mediterranean options to choose from. Fortunately, they know how to choose and cook a fish filet. I’m still working on convince them to cook a good saffron risotto.

Anonymous wrote:Fish tacos
Chicken Picatta with GF pasta, lemon/wine/capers, can use oil instead of butter - GF pasta is good
Things with rice - stir fry, etc. with GF soy sauce
Grilled pork with Vietnamese/Korean lettuce wraps
Sushi
Bacon and egg sandwiches on toasted GF bread

OP here. Chicken Picatta, prepared with almond flour, is my star dish. I serve it with asparagus and sweet potatoes purée. My teens love it.

Tacos, without cheese
Any Chinese or Thai dish, with rice and gf soy sauce

My teen son can eat 2 hamburgers in one sitting. With French fries, potatoes or tater tots.

You need to feed him like a teenager.

Indian food.

My families favorite? Goat or chicken biryani.

I make huge quantities because I have two teen boys at home and they can happily eat it for a couple days with zero complaints. Keeps well in the fridge for a few days.

Anonymous wrote:Other than fruit salad, roasted vegetables, chicken, salmon filets, thin beef, what other nutritious and flavorful dishes can I make for teens who must eat GF and DF? I also made biscuits and a loaf of bread, but teens don’t like “this GF sh*t”.
I’m running out of ideas and don’t have much support from other family members. It takes a village to feed kids.

Get a kosher-for-Passover cookbook and look at the meat dishes, and also look at Chinese, Thai and and Japanese cookbooks. I think most East Asian dishes without wheat noodles in them would meat your specs.

Anonymous wrote:Other than fruit salad, roasted vegetables, chicken, salmon filets, thin beef, what other nutritious and flavorful dishes can I make for teens who must eat GF and DF? I also made biscuits and a loaf of bread, but teens don’t like “this GF sh*t”.
I’m running out of ideas and don’t have much support from other family members. It takes a village to feed kids.

Is this a choice or health conditions. If it is the health conditions you have to teach them to cook.