Breakfast: Hold the weetbix

I grew up on Weetbix. Not just at breakfast time, but as an adolescent it became one of those stand-in-the-pantry-and-fossic-around-for-a-carbohydrate-fix foods that teens need the moment they walk in the door in the afternoon. I still remember loading them up with peanut butter!

Of all meal times, breakfast was the hardest adjustment when Ella was first diagnosed with CD. You need something quick and easy midweek. We quickly learnt that our favourite brands of cereal contained gluten, even cornflakes and rice bubbles. So began a quest to find tasty alternative cereals and ideas for breakfast.

Here are some of our favourites:

Gluten-free toast
Whenever we are back in Australia we bring back a suitcase of Laucke Special White Gluten Free bread mixes. This is by far Ella's favourite tasting bread. We bought the professional Laucke Bread Tin to bake our loaves from Coeliac Australia which results in a lovely crust. Unfortunately, it is not yet available in Singapore. There are however, frozen Country Life loaves available at Cold Storage as well as Orgran and Basco brand mixes. Favourite toppings include GF peanut butter, honey, jam or melted cheese.

Fruit
One of my greatest pleasures living in Singapore is shopping once a week at Tekka Market and stocking up on seasonal fruits. I love the relationship that grows between the storekeepers and their customers. The guy I buy from speaks five languages and I marvel at how he remembers everyone's names. Having kids I always try and have at least one piece of fruit cut up at breakfast time and on weekends we like to alternate a cooked breakfast with a nice big fruit platter.

I find it expensive and difficult to buy good quality pears, peaches, cherries, raspberries and strawberries in Singapore. I'm fussy with fruit and prefer to buy fruit from countries where there are more stringent controls over food production. I do buy tinned fruit especially the cold weather fruits to keep the kids from not getting bored with the same fruits.

Yoghurts
Natural or gluten free varieties containing fruit.

Smoothies

Eggs
boiled, scrambled, fried or poached.

Baked beans, try looking for the Heinz brands, some of them are gluten free.

Cereals
Real Good Foods make yummy gluten free cereals, some of which are stocked at Cold Storage Jelita. The hot cereal is not currently available here, so it is another one we stock up on when in Australia.
Envirokids Organic Koala Crisp - taste like cocoa pops
Chex Gluten Free Cereals

Pancakes
Easy to substitute normal flour with a gluten free flour. We use the Orgran gluten free plain flour as it is inexpensive and tastes great. I promise to post our recipe here soon.

Friands
Using almond meal these are really yummy for breakfast.

Hash browns
Cold Storage has frozen hash browns that appear to be gluten free