Beat the wheat

I started this post about menu ideas thinking it would be nice and easy to write on a Sunday morning, after all I do it every week, week in week out, but it turns out it is as hard as coming up with the weekly menu plan itself! I want to share this however as a starting point to help you move away from wheat - to give you ideas on where to start your own menu plans.

The post idea came from some feedback on my facebook page so I would love it if you could please go and 'like' my page called My Thyroid Therapy - I really want it to be an online community where everyone can share experiences and ideas.

Breakfasts

Breakfasts may be the hardest to work around if you are rushing to get out the door for work in the morning but forward planning will always pay off. In this house eggs are a staple. Boiled, fried, scrambled...I have never managed to poach an egg but in the new year I might get round to it. For some reason it scares me a little, dropping an egg into water....
Fruit is another big hit for breakfast round here and can be prepared the night before - a little fruit salad cut up ready to go and then in the morning when I take it out of the fridge I cover it with some creme fraiche and then drizzle a little honey to finish off. Melon, berries, pomegranate, apple, pear, grapes....all very tasty.
Porridge will occasionally get served up if I remember to soak my oats the night before in milk. For a real tasty treat I have been known to stir in a spoonful of homemade jam and swirl in a splash of cream.

Lunches

Soups and Salads, soups and salads, soups and salads.  Sometimes I have a baked potato, sometimes I have leftovers but for the most part its a tasty homemade soup or a delicious fresh salad. Of course the trick is forward planning, and making a large pan of soup will do more than one lunch so is helpful. Salads are great and can be really filling with some meat and cheese added to it. Again these can be made and stored in the fridge overnight.

Dinners

Slow cooker stews are fantastic, easy to prepare and meat is so tender when cooked on a low heat for hours. We usually have combination mash with a stew such as sweet potato and turnip or celeriac and parsnip. You can also do a great curry in your slow cooker and serve with rice or if your being really good and grain free, some grated carrot!
Omelettes and quiches are tasty meals too, but of course it needs to be a crust free quiche. We usually have these with salad and some roasted veg like cubed butternut squash or roasted carrot.
We do try and eat liver once a week too so I am always looking for a tasty liver recipe. I started off by cooking liver in my bolognaise and then blitzing it up. We ate this with grated carrot rather than pasta but you could try a gluten free range of pasta.

So there you have it - some wheat free ideas to get you started. All I really do from here for my weekly plan is mix and match these recipes. The occasional (noodle free) stirfry and fish pie gets thrown in too. I won't lie to you, effort is required in creating your weekly plan and also preparing your food but it really is worth it. And what a great change if your current menu was as wheat-tastic as ours was previously
Breakfast: Cereal/toast
Lunch: Sandwich
Dinner: Pasta/noodles.

I pin our plan up in the kitchen so everyone knows what to expect from one day to the next too - this seems to beat the 'whats for dinner?' and then the 'oh I don't really feel like that' conversations that used to go on here.

Well its time for my coffee now for sure. I hope this has been useful and I hope to see some comments and feedback on facebook!