20 WAYS TO TRIM YOUR GLUTEN FREE VEGETARIAN GROCERY BILL
To many of us who live with medically imposed or chosen dietary restrictions daily, it can sometime seem that once the label vegetarian or gluten-free is on a food, the price is destined to be 50% higher than the "regular" version. We can decide to do nothing but try to live with those prices, and many times, for convenience, that's what we do.
But i've found that with a bit of organization (every other Sunday a cook-and-freeze day, throwing soup-worthy salad vegetables into the freezer twice a week, making breadcrumbs of stale bread or bread mistakes) and a commitment to making as much from scratch as I comfortably can, there's real money to be saved. Here are some tips:
- order baking supplies in bulk online (Amazon, Barry Farm, Vitacost, IHerb)
- when mainstream gluten free items are on sale (Chex, Betty Crocker), stock up
- make your own biscuits
- make your own Dashew™ energy bars (for 1/3 cost of store brands)
- make your own Cranshews™
- make your own Prashews™
- make your own ice cream sandwiches
- make your own waffles and use them for more than breakfast
- be sure to brown bag lunch with this amazing hero sandwich (so cheap)
- make gluten free vegetarian Original Beastless Burger™ (1/4 cost of similar store brands)
- make your own gluten free vegetarian Southwest Beastless Burger™
- make your own gluten free vegetarian Jakarta Beastless Burger™
- make your own gluten free vegetarian Bombay Beastless Burger™
- make your own gluten free Italian bread
- make your own gluten free whole grain Italian bread
- make your own gluten free oatmeal cookies
- make a gluten free vegetarian Italian festa at home, rather than eating out
- make a gluten free vegetarian steaky mushroom dinner for Meatless Mondays
- make your own gluten free vegetarian dips and spreads
- make your own high protein vegetarian Phoney Bolognese™ pasta sauce
4 comments:
Thanks for all the money saving tiips. I am not meatless, but gf, and this does help.
oh you're welcome.
i'll be posting other lists on the same topic.
i think everyone's got economizing on their mind lately! what's the old phrase: do it yourself or do without--maybe from the depression era!
Awesome tips! Thank you. I have allergies & my son has some different allergies. It has been a drain on the wallet. My hubby can eat anything. I love you blog & has pass it on to some of my GF friends.
thanks so much for your comments and for sending the blog to others. when i found out i was celiac i bought everything and made nothing (mostly out of stress, i think). now that i've calmed down and can think straight again, i make as much as i can myself and mostly buy raw ingredients. it helps a ton, financially.
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