Breakfasts
Cereal
Oatmeal
Scrambled eggs, fruit
Skinny Monkey Cookies, fruit, hard-boiled eggs
Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free Waffles, scrambled eggs, fruit
Hard-boiled eggs, fruit, blueberry muffins
Baked OatmealLunches
Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie, salad
Pumpkin Apple Pie Muffins, hard-boiled eggs, veggies
Chips, refried beans, veggies, fruit
Homemade Carrot Chips, Rice & beans
Salmon, veggies, fruit, corn chips
Leftovers x 2Dinners
Frito Chili Pie, veggies
Marinated chicken, steamed veggies, fruit salad, rice
Goulash, tossed salad
Leftovers
Hamburgers, corn on the cob, steamed veggies, fruit
Dinner with extended family
Dinner outFreezer Cooking/Make Ahead Projects
Marinated chicken
Baked Oatmeal
Grain-Free Coffee Cake (Does anyone know if there’s another flour I could sub for the arrowroot or almond flour?)
Carrot Chips
Sweet Potatoes
Chocolate Coconut Cups
What’s on your menu this week? Share details and/or your link to your menu plan in the comments.
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I have heard a lot of people use Spelt flour for baked goods. I have not tried it yet. Arrowhead Mills makes it, although it is pricey at about $4.99 at our local Sprouts. Good luck!
Spelt is great! But it does contain gluten, so for folks that have to stay gluten free, they’ll have to avoid it. Buying it in bulk is so much cheaper than that price! I used to buy it in 25 pound bags.
I’ve never used arrowroot but… I’ve heard that it’s interchangeable with potato or corn starch. HTH
For the arrowroot you can substitute tapioca starch/flour or cornstarch.
Trying out a new recipe and a few family favorites.
http://shannonesadler.blogspot.com/2012/03/meal-plan-monday.html
Here is what is on the menu at our house this week. http://familiesaroundthekitchentable.blogspot.com/2012/03/whats-on-menu.html
Chocolate coconut bites sound great!
Here is our shopping trips and menu plan: http://mylittlebitoflife.com/?p=3380
slow cooker curry chicken, salsa corn chowder and the amazing italian breadsticks are on our menu! Recipes are here: http://www.lcvalleymom.com/2012/03/this-weeks-menu.html
You can use pretty much any gluten free flour, thought it will change the texture a bit. (or a lot!) Any starch will work, like potato or tapioca. If you do something like brown rice, I’d mix it with sorghum or one of the starchy flours.
Mmm, your menu looks great–am adding those pumpkin apple pie muffins to a future menu:) Thank you, as always, for sharing your menus and ideas!
Here’s our menu for the week: http://cozycakescottage.com/2012/03/26/our-menu-week-of-march-25-2012/
I am getting ready this week for my in-laws to visit next week, so I will be making more of this gluten free Italian Stuffed Chicken for my freezer. So that I can just thaw and bake for a quick dinner while they are here.
http://whatsmarinating.blogspot.com/2012/03/italian-stuffed-chicken.html
For dessert this week I might make gluten free dairy free pumpkin cake.
http://whatsmarinating.blogspot.com/2012/03/pumpkin-cake-with-maple-glaze-gluten.html
We are having Cheeseburger Rice, Hamburger Gravy with mashed potatoes, plus a few other meals – all gluten free!
http://ourfrugalhappylife.blogspot.com/2012/03/menu-plan-325-cheeseburger-rice.html
I just recently started making the same “family” of foods for each day of the week. Does anyone else do this?
http://logansinmo.blogspot.com/2012/03/our-meal-plan-sundays.html
Two new recipes this week!
http://www.everydayhomecook.com/2012/03/weekly-menu-plan-mar-25-mar-31/
Potato starch is a good alternative to arrowroot. You could also use sweet rice flour (which is really a starch, not to be confused with brown or white rice flour) – often labeled as glutinous rice flour in Asian markets (no gluten in it either; it’s derived from sticky rice which is very high in starch). I’m surprised to see that the alternative on the actual recipe is almond flour, which is denser than the arrowroot. If it turns out you need a better alternative that is not as starchy as the almond flour, then you may want to try sorghum. HTH!
not as starchy as the arrowroot, I mean…sorghum would be an option.
Hi Katie and those wondering about the arrowroot and almond flour–
I have tried the recipe both ways and liked the results both times…so that is why I have the option. I didn’t set try them next to each other so it could be that the textures were different. Almond flour, arrowroot and coconut flour are the main flours I use since I cook grain-free. I’m glad so many of you have alternative ideas for those who don’t want to use almond flour or arrowroot! Thanks!
I’m totally making those Chocolate Coconut Cups once everyone gets into bed tonight. And, I will probably eat the entire tin. Pregnancy is the only time in my life where I can do that and not feel bad…I plan to take advantage of it these last 8 weeks
Here is our menu for the week. Simple, easy, mostly organic meals on a $60 budget.
http://www.savemoneylivejoyfully.com/2012/03/weekly-menu-march-25-march-30-2012.html
Have you tried the King Arthur multi purpose gluten free flour? That might work for a coffee cake.
Different flours that would work instead of arrowroot/etc
tapioca flour
Potato Starch flour
You could use brown rice flour but… rice flour absorbs a LOT of moisture. Makes things more crumbly/dry.
My Top Five “Must Have” this week! http://www.jennifervandahm.com/search/label/All%20Recipes
1. BEEF & VEGETABLE STEW OVER CHEDDAR MASHED POTATOES
2. SWISS-MUSHROOM TURKEY MELT
3. WHOLE WHEAT CHOCOLATE CAKE W/ MILK CHOCOLATE FROSTING
4. HOMEMADE COUNTY FAIR CORN DOGS
5. BUFFALO CHICKEN ENCHILADAS
Here is my menu for the week, pretty simple but tasty!!! Check out the Pork Chops! I’ve been making these since I first saw the recipe in Southern Living a few yrs back.
http://southernmomsays.blogspot.com/2012/03/menu-plan-monday-week-of-326-41.html
Here’s what we’re having.
http://gettingthroughtheday.com/cooking/826.html
I also made baked oatmeal this morning for breakfast. It was soooo good! It had chocolate chips, coconut, and raisins. Surprisingly, no one objected to the raisins. I figured there would be some fits. A lot of our other meals planned for this week are from my Pinterest boards. Finally need to do something with all of the yummy looking things I’ve been pinning away.
Our menu is here: http://www.simplifylivelove.com/2012/03/weekly-menu-freezer-cooking-plan.html
Those carrot chips look amazing. I have been wanting to try something like that for awhile and that looks like a good recipe. Going to have to pin it for future reference.
Hubby ended up working lots of overtIme last week so I moved a good part of our dinners to this week. My menu plan is linked below. Happy Monday!
http://www.couponingncooking.com/2012/03/plan-my-menu-monday-with-blog-hopblog.html
Great menu this week! Those cookie dough bites looks amazing. Will have to look at making those for my husband who is home recovering from surgery. Here’s what we’re eating: http://saveliveeatlove.com/2012/03/eat-weekly-menu-325/
Oh, I am so making those coconut chocolate cups!
Did you make the skinny monkey cookies last week? How were they? I want to make those and the carrot chips if they were good. I am trying Kale Chips this week, carrot chips sound similar.
I haven’t read all the comments so I don’t know if someone suggested this or not. I know Laura, at Heavenly Homemakers, did gluten-free for a while and used Coconut Flour. She has a lovely muffin recipe using it and has raved about them. I know you have used her recipes before. Maybe you could ask her if she thinks it would work. Hope that helps! Love your blog and have for about 4 years now!
i use tapioca interchangeably for arrowroot all the time and haven’t had any problems, plus is way cheaper and easier to find in my neck of the woods. i get sick with arrowroot powder but not with tapioca, i know others are just opposite. good luck!
Have you made the chocolate coconut cups yet? We made them last week and they are really delicious. Next time, I will make them in a regular muffin tin because the mini ones nearly overflowed!!!
Here’s our recipe for the week – keeping it simple! Thanks for the link-up
http://www.wonderwomanimnot.com/2012/03/menu-for-week.html
Here is our food allergy menu for this week. I have also included a review of a fanastic gluten-free recipe and then include my own dairy-free adaptation. It is Cinnamon Buttermilk Quick Bread – super easy, and delicious! My husband thinks it’s better than the regular version and my kids gobbled it up. The best part for me: I had all the ingredients on hand and I didn’t have to concoct any weird flour mixtures or egg replacement.
http://willingcook.com/cinnamon-buttermilk-quick-bread-our-allergy-meal-plan/
You could use potato starch or tapioca starch for the arrowroot. But I’m surprised that the recipe calls for arrowroot OR almond flour. The consistency of both is WAY different. Almond flour is much grittier and heavier and arrowroot is very light and powdery. I’m wondering which flour she used. You could try coconut flour for all of the flour. The consistency I would say is between almond and arrowroot. Please take some pictures and let us know how it goes. I think I may try that recipe myself!
Here is what is on our menu this week.
http://simplymykitchen.com/on-the-menu-for-the-week-of-march-25th/
Since you have a Vita-Mix, you can make any type of flour you want. That is, if you have the dry container. (Millet, oats). I think you are not supposed to make flours with the regular container. I would imagine you could even make oat flour with a regular blender.
Oops, I forgot you probably want a gluten-free flour. I don’t know if the ones I mentioned are gluten-free.
We have been experimenting with a ton of new crock pot recipes.
Here is my menu this week:
http://www.financeswithfunk.com/2012/03/26/weekly-menu-plan/
Here is a great page of flour helps:
http://www.tessadomesticdiva.com/gluten-free-flours-baking-tips
Amaranth is a medium flour so replace it with another medium weight flour…others on this page.
Almond is a heavy flour so replace it with another heavy weight flour.
Oops, meant to write about arrowroot…which is a light flour.
I use potato starch in replace of it and get great results.
I made a coffeecake once using oat flour. I made my own by grinding oats in the blender. It tasted great.
I made the skinny monkey cookies and, no lie, 4 different people at church spit them out. I could survive on them, but no one liked them. Kinda disappointed- I had hoped they would be good.
A few years ago I had a terrible flare-up of my ulcerative colitis and knew I was a day away from prednisone, which I hate! I remembered reading about a diet which helped people with u/c – the Specified Carbohydrate Diet (SCD). As soon as I started it, I felt better in 3 days. Basically you had to cut out wheat, sugar and dairy from your diet. Being a carb junkie, I immediately turned to almond flour, but it was very expensive. I finally found a place in California that shipped big bulks of almond flour for so much cheaper! I had a hard time dragging the 25 lbs. of flour into my house, but it was worth it, and lasted me for a really long time. So if you wanted some alternatives to almond and arrowroot flour and the reason was monetary, this is an option.
I’m really curious if anyone else tried the skinny monkey cookies… perhaps with a bit of stevia or something? Also, has anyone tried the pumpkin apple pie muffins? Both of these recipes look interesting to me… just wondering if they’re worth making!!!
We tried both–they weren’t fantastic, but they were decent.
What about coconut flour?