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As well as specialist sites, most supermarkets have a selection of gluten/wheat free foods. Ask the shop which aisles they are in.

Ask your doctor if you are entitled to any items on perscription, Im not sure if it really saves money. But it is useful to get a months worth of basic ingredients like gf bread that can be frozen.

And of course there are quite a few basic ingredients that dont contain wheat, like dairy, fruits and vegetables and meat.

What it really means is an end to any kind of ready meals or preprepared dishes, cos they always seem to use wheat flour to thicken any sauces etc even things like frozen chips seem to contain wheat!

What sort of foods do you usually like?

there are some reasonable bread substitutes around, but most gf pastas are horrid, I now use corn based pastas for pasta bakes etc.

There are a wide range of interesting gf cakes and biscuits, so its a matter of trying them and seeing which ones you and your friends like.

restaurants and cafes are getting better at serving gf /wheat free food, but it is frustrating if they dont really know what they are doing. Like going to an expensive restaurant that prides itself on serving wheat free food, that then serves you a dish with filo pastry on the base!

There are gf/ wheat free societies like 'coeliac uk' which publish magazines and ideas,

which are useful. And some areas have local meetings with things like tasting sessions.

Good luck, I find it occasionally irritating having to be so fussy about food all the time. But a gf diet has stopped the horrible stomach aches I used to get periodically, and hopefully will let my body absorb the iron and calcium it needs.

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Hmm a lot of things do contain wheat. Gluten free biscuits can tend to taste like cement as well.

You can buy noodles that are made out of rice that you pour boiling water over, they're quite cheap and you can eat them with pasta sauce.

http://www2.sainsburys.co.uk/food/allergies-intolerances/allergies-intolerances.htm supermarkets do have quite a lot now for special diets.

http://www2.sainsburys.co.uk/NR/rdonlyres/C6EB41FA-1645-4D41-8A67-DDBAC5B80E67/0/Wheatjanuary2010.pdf might be a useful document to give you an idea of which things contain wheat and which things don't.

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