Can you follow Zing Wellbeing if you are gluten free? Shelley says ABSOLUTELY!

Following a Gluten Free diet is really quite common, whether it's a health requirement,  intolerances, Coeliac or just a lifestyle choice.         

For people who are following a gluten free lifestyle, you often find you are always looking for choices in foods, recipes, ingredients, cross contamination. Eating out can be tricky and sometimes not always ideal.

Zing Wellbeing has so many recipes available to cover all kinds of dietary requirements. 

We also provide a filter option as part of the recipe hub, where you can select everything that relates to your health requirements to make it so much easier for you to do a quick recipe search.

You can also make any of the recipes Gluten Free. Yes, that is correct!

There are also so many ingredients now that are gluten free, and numerous alternatives you can swap.

"I have been Gluten Free for over 10 years now, at first it was a choice to better my health as I was changing the way I was eating and trying to remove inflammation ingredients and foods from my day to day consumption. 

In the beginning eating out was quite tricky and frustrating,  food places were not on board and you were looked and treated like an inconvenience.

Finding Gluten Free ingredients in Supermarkets was a challenge, there were speciality shops you went to.

Now Gluten Free is everywhere, there are Cafes and Restaurants that are fully Gluten Free and only Gluten Free.

Even Fast Food restaurants have Gluten Free options, Health Shops selling products and now Supermarkets, you find an isle now and even sections of isle with Gluten Free products and ingredients. The world is catching up.

But be aware, if you're eating out and there is Gluten free options on the menu and there are other meals with gluten in them, there is always a possibility of cross contamination.

So when your buying a product and you don’t see Gluten in the ingredients - that does not mean its gluten free, a product has to state that it is Gluten free, and it has to have a notation that there may be traces of…..

Yes they can be! If you cook gluten free meals and use gluten free ingredients and the recipe has pasta, bread or even flour, in the ingredients,  you can use your preferred gluten free alternative to swap.

You can actually swap any ingredient for your preferred gluten free alternative.

There are already recipes and a meal plan available that don’t have gluten ingredients in them, breakfast recipes such as chia puddings, egg dishes, yoghurt and berries, plus lots of smoothies too.

There are lots of yummy snack recipes too, like the Choc fudge Peanut butter protein brownies. The mug cake recipes, Soups, Salads, One Pan, one pot, slow cooker, air fryer the list goes on.

Common Gluten-Free Swaps to consider.. 

Oats or weetbix → swap for gluten free options or chia seeds if preferred.

Flour

Plain flour → swap for gluten-free all-purpose flour blend

Wholemeal flour → buckwheat, sorghum, or oat flour (use certified GF)

Breadcrumbs

Regular breadcrumbs → swap for GF breadcrumbs, crushed cornflakes, GF crackers, or almond meal

Pasta

Wheat pasta → swap for rice pasta, corn pasta, quinoa pasta, or legume pasta (chickpea/lentil)

Wraps/Breads

Wheat wraps →swap for  GF wraps (Mission, Helga’s), corn tortillas

Bread → swap for GF bread (Schär, Helga’s GF, Abbott’s GF)

Soy sauce

Regular soy sauce → swap for Tamari (100% GF)

Thickener

Flour as a thickener → swap for cornstarch, tapioca, arrowroot, potato starch

Baking

Self-raising flour → swap for GF self-raising flour OR GF plain flour + 1–2 tsp baking powder per cup

 

Join Zing Wellbeing to access our 7 Day Gluten free meal plan and lots of gluten free recipes.