Some good tips there. Just a couple of comments: Gluten Free bread is generally $7 in supermarkets (although the cheap and nasty Irish imports are around $5 for a smaller loaf). I love the Burgen GF bread as it's yummy and moist, and find most of the other GF breads quite dry.
Also many of the quorn products are vegetarian but not Gluten Free (they have breadcrumbs, etc).
Don't open that website by the #11 if you haven't.
Its to pull you into a meat fest.
Don't open that website by the #11 if you haven't.
Its to pull you into a meat fest.
Eating meat is a natural part of life :-)
At least in Australia vegetarians don't need to worry about child labor on farms to grow their vegies or the ethics of where the food is sourced from, how many rainforests were cut down etc. (in general, of course we do get food from overseas that may not be that ethical and you'd be better off eating meat).
Plenty of places these days that offer gluten free and vegetarian dishes. Fortunately for those who actually are gluten intolerant, it became a fad so the options of gf foods increased and they get to benefit from the hipster gf crowd.
Justin, you might be interested in this program that was on Four Corners last year: http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2015/05/04/4227055.htm
Unfortunately it seems that the only way to be 100% sure that your food is ethically produced is to grow it yourself.
I have just come back from Woolworths as I write. Burgen gluten free was $5.99 a loaf BUT the loaf is maybe a quarter the size of a regular loaf at less than $3. It may be good, but it is either expensive to make or a total ripoff. Either way, it is readily available.
Really? Which Woolies was that at? In the Sydney Town Hall Woolies it's $6.99 and online it's also $6.99. Just curious. Also, it's impossible to get a loaf of gluten free bread in Sydney for $3 - 'normal bread' may be $3 or even less ($1 for home brand) but if the OP or anyone else actually needs to have gluten free then there's just no choice. I don't think there really is any reason why gluten free bread is so expensive in Australia, except for that the bread needs to be made on separate equipment and the ingredients are a little more expensive, also as gluten free flour 'rises' differently it may require additional ingredients. Anyway, we digress from the original query.
julie, guessing you eat gluten free from your responses. Woolies have their own brand of gf bread which is under $5, imo the white is the nicest so far that I have found. Coles own brand gf bread is okay and comes in a larger slice, nearly the same size as 'normal' bread, not sure of the price of that think it is a normal gf bread price. One of the reasons gf bread is more expensive is the need for the extra ingredients. I have found some of the seeded gf bread to be dry and breaks/cracks easily.
