How to Eat Gluten and Dairy Free on a Budget!
Grocery bills for a family can get really expensive! Gluten free products can raise that expense quite a bit more. Armed with a shopping list, some planning and basic cooking skills I think we can lower that bill every week!
Have in your kitchen stock the items on the essential grocery list, with these items you can make so many different things!
- Eggs can make breakfast or dinner dishes. Quiches, deviled eggs, egg salad, omelets, baking.
- Oats can be used in shakes as a protein booster, to make breakfast oatmeal, oatmeal cookies, and granola.
- Homemade bisquick mix is used for pancakes, muffins, and to bread meat for frying.
- Beans are great for chilli, burritos, rice and beans, and protein for your meatless dishes.
- Almond milk is my preferred milk substitute as soy is an allergen for me. It is used in baking, my coffee and cereal.
- Buy rotisserie chicken as it is cheaper than roasting it yourself and you can sometimes get them with your store discount card for less. Shred the chicken for sandwiches, make chicken salad, use in tacos, slice like a cold cut, add cubed chicken to your salad, serve hot with gravy and mashed potatoes, add to your soup.
- Use lettuce as a wrap, make salads for work lunches, use in sandwiches, tacos, etc. grow lettuce and spinach in your garden and you won’t buy lettuce all summer!
- Potatoes are so versatile, make potato pancakes, potato salad, roasted herbed fries, baked with toppings, add to soups, stews, slice thin to bake chips. Sweet potatoes are very nutritious.
- Make your own broths and freeze them in ice cube trays or containers to create soup dishes or flavor rice dishes.
- Grow and herb garden! Have fresh herbs growing in in a pot all winter in your house and save money!
I created this infographic to help guide you on you food choices and bring down that grocery bill!
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