Five Quick Gluten-Free Breakfasts
Breakfast may be the most important meal of the day, but Celiac Disease can throw a wrench in the gears, making many traditional breakfast choices off-limits. Here are some quick, tasty 100% gluten free ideas you might not have considered to help you get your day started on the right track:
- Vans wheat-free waffles (they have six varieties). Great topped with pure maple syrup, chopped fruit and pecans, or canned peaches and cottage cheese. Or for a heartier breakfast, scramble eggs with your leftovers from dinner and add two waffles to make a breakfast sandwich.
- Gluten-free oatmeal I cook oatmeal with milk and raisins or prunes and then top it with blanched almonds, walnuts, and chopped apples.
- Cream of rice These are great cooked with any dried fruit.
- Gluten-free cereal (Rice Chex or Nature’s Path). Try them with soy milk, almond milk, or French vanilla-flavored yogurt. Top with sunny sliced bananas for added heft and sweetness.
- Yogurt with gluten-free granola (Trader Joe’s or Bakery on Main). In a tall glass, layer fresh berries, yogurt, granola, and a few sprigs of fresh mint for an attractive breakfast parfait.
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All of the above, except the oatmeal and rice cereal contain sugar. I have to eat virtually sugar free and very limited fruit. Bob’s Redmill whole grain Teff and also his GF hot cereal are both very good. I usually combine different GF grains for a variety of hot cereal. Bob’s GF oatmeal is good too.
Sliced banana with a dollop of peanut butter is my celiac son’s favorite breakfast. If you are trying to avoid sugar, try using natural no sugar added peanut butter.
A note on Rice Chex, although tasty they are laced with BHT like most boxed commercial cereals…not a good thing to be ingesting. Lundberg’s rice cakes with raw almond butter and fresh blueberries is my favorite breakfast or midnight gluten free snack!