Oh, how I love my little Chloe bug so much, but sometimes I just need a little mommy time to rejuvenate my mind especially with Trent gone longer now. The other afternoon I ran across this new website and really can't remember how I found it, but I'm beginning to love it more each day!
From my previous posts, you probably know that gluten-free foods are NOT cheap! So we talked about what route we should take in buying specialty foods for me. We narrowed it down to three options:
1-Buy all pre-packaged foods and/or meals: Frozen dishes, box dinners, ready made cookies and such.The cost of food would be much higher.
2-Treat myself to occasional pre-packaged foods but only once in awhile. Cook with rice flour and try to make homemade recipes that I can freeze and then just pull out.
3-Mix together a gluten-free flour base and cook all my food - with no added helpers. Gluten free flours are more complex in its ingredients compared to the basic white or wheat flour.
After much contemplation, we decided to do #2 which would still give me some flexibility as I travel on this new adventure. Since now we're more careful in our cooking lifestyle, I've wanted to find a website that I can get recipes off which don't require a complex gluten free flour. (I have basic rice flour currently, not all the potato starch, tapioca flour and such).
The other day, an angel must have directed my fingers where to go cuz I found this new website: Gluten Free on a Shoestring! Lots of simple recipes, easy explanations, a young author feeding a family on a budget, basic kitchen ingredients!! I've had to limit myself browsing on this site due to limited 'mommy time', but it looks like something that might work! YEA!!
