Gluten Free, Dairy Free Meal Plan Over 7 Days
We have compiled one weeks worth of meal ideas to get you thinking and to get you started on eating a gluten free and dairy free diet, void of processed carbohydrates. We would love you to share any ideas you have so that we can expand on this to provide more meal ideas to help make gluten free, dairy free easier for people. Please email us with any suggestions/recipes. All the ideas given below are also yeast free.
Breakfast
- 2-3 Poached eggs with 1/2 avocado, roasted red potato & sauerkraut
- Shredded Chicken Egg Muffins with wilted spinach and roast pumpkin
- Savoury Bacon and Zucchini Frittata with wilted spinach, avocado and a mug of bone broth
- Avocado green smoothie with 1-3 eggs and a baked kumara with coconut oil and cinnamon
- Southwest vegetable scramble
- Celeriac and bacon hash brown with wilted spinach or kale and slow baked salmon
- Squash Pancakes with berries, cinnamon and coconut milk
Lunch
- Turmeric Chicken Wings with brown basmati rice and fresh salad
- Pumpkin buckwheat risotto with fresh salad
- Salmon and spinach crust less quiche and fresh salad
- Shredded chicken and leftover roast vegetables with quinoa and fresh salad
- Spiced butternut squash soup and fresh salad
- Shepherds pie with cauliflower topping, with steamed or sautéed greens
- Pan searedscallops, kumara chips with aioli and fresh salad or steamed vegetables
Dinner
- Beef and red kidney bean chilli with avocado and fresh salad
- Baked salmon with lemon & thyme, with fresh salad and celeriac chips
- Roast Chicken, with roasted root vegetables and fresh salad
- Slow cooker lamb stew
- Steamed Mussels with cauliflower rice and steamed vegetables
- Thai Chicken Curry,or Indian Curry such as Vindaloo or Rogan Josh
- Crispy Spiced Pork Belly with red cabbage coleslaw and red potato rosti
More Meal Ideas
- Pasta mince or meatballs (ensure sugar free pasta sauce, or make your own using onions, garlic, tomato, oregano, basil, apple cider vinegar, salt and pepper)
- Slow baked salmon fillet with lemon, thyme, garlic and duck fat, salt and pepper.
- Scallops pan fried in crushed garlic, salt, pepper, fresh chopped coriander and coconut oil.
- Leftover chicken and roast veges with quinoa and salad
- Roast chicken – salt, pepper, cut lemon up inside the chicken
- Roast veges – beetroot, onion, broccoli, celeriac, pumpkin, kumara
- Chicken nibble wings with skin (seasoned with turmeric, oregano, salt, pepper, can add curry powder or chilli if needed)
- Chicken drumsticks boiled in water, ginger, garlic cloves, celery, red potato, onion, sage or mixed herbs, salt, pepper.
- Peas and carrot, chicken broth soup – can add veges if needed
Grain Preparation
When you are cooking with grains, it is best to properly prepare your grains to neutralise the phytic acid found in the grains. Phytic acid negatively affects our ability to digest and absorb nutrients from our food. For more information on grain preparation see here for this example of preparing brown rice.
Eating mini meals is the best way to snack to keep your sugar balanced, but most people tend to find that after a short while the need for snacks reduces or goes altogether due to the improvements in meal composition, as every meal listed here has protein, fat and carbohydrate, thus keeping your blood sugar more stable.
Snack Ideas
- Quiche – salmon and chicken bits, pumpkin, onion, spinach, tomato, kale, salt, pepper, herbs – Ceres Herb salt, curry powder etc
- Coconut banana bread
- Kale chips – kale leaves baked in the oven at low temperature with olive oil drizled over them for flavour
- Celery sticks with dip (homemade garlic aioli, mayo)
- Carrot sticks or whole carrot
- Celery sticks with dip (aioli, mayo)
- Falafel – if good with chickpea
- Boiled eggs – preferably with a soft yolk
- Green pea chips, Mung bean chips – available at CSO, or through THC on request – discounts available if 5 or more bags are purchased
If Gluten Free But Dairy Tolerant
You can add recipes/meals containing the following ingredients (organic options are preferable):
- Sour cream
- Firmer cheeses – organic (CSO) or raw (Moore Wilsons or Le Marche Francais)
- Acidophilus yoghurt – homemade is ideal or Biofarm plain yoghurt
- Butter and ghee
- Cream
- Non- homogenised organic milk
- Raw milk
Processed Carbohydrate Snacks For Emergencies or Tricky Situations
- Dovedale Rice and chia bread (CSO or Chaffers, Thorndon and Newtown New World)
- Dovedale fruit loaf – (CSO or Chaffers, Thorndon and Newtown New World)
- Thoroughbread Sourdough bread(only at this if tolerant of honey) – CSO , Sunday harbourside markets
- Rice crackers – ensure no MSG or wheat in flavouring on ingredients list
- Rice wafers – ensure no MSG or wheat in flavouring on ingredients list
- Crackers – Little bird – (CSO)
