Budget Friendly Gluten Free Bread That You Can Buy With Spare Change!

If there is one thing that scares people off going gluten free or when you are diagnosed with Coeliac disease, it’s having to break up with bread. And if you’ve have browsed the supermarket isles your can see there is quite a varieties range from $3.99 to $9.99.

 

 

Over the years I had endured the misfortune and the joy of eating gluten free breads. My frustration of ingesting some of the more underwhelming substitutes on the market has lead me to wanting to knock on some manufacturer’s doors and say “Excuse me, are you aware the product you’ve labelled as ‘bread’ is actually just dust cut into slices?”

The frustrating thing is that gluten has been pretty much essential if you want your bread to have the structural integrity of a crusty loaf. This lack of ‘glue’ results in manufacturers using other substitutes and can go one of two ways – they’re either like eating a bit of dry biscuit or they’re so packed full of binding agents you need a brush to get the remains off the roof of your mouth when you’re done!

 

So, if you have given up gluten or are diagnosed with Coeliac disease are you destined for a life without bread? Not quite – but it’s fair to say you are going to have to make a few compromises….

If you think size matters, you’d better get over it!

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If you’re used to a giant piece of Tip Top and having enough bread for a week you should probably start to familiarise yourself with the idea of smaller portions (which isn’t a bad thing) and not lasting that long or having as many portions.

Gluten free bread is not for the faint hearted and if it’s fad thing for you, or you love your normal bread it’s probably time to stop pretending you’re gluten intolerant now.

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The positive, however, is that gluten-free breads are often full of more nourishing ingredients than other breads, so you’ll feel fuller for longer (even with the smaller portions) and a lot of them are Made In Australia.. Another factor we consider when purchasing our bread.

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The Heads Up....Going out for milk and bread may now require more than a $5 note!

If you’re used to paying $2 for a loaf of bread then take a seat because the gluten-free stuff is usually around the $7 mark (significant increase to the grocery bill and is about as far from ‘free’ as you can get). Then once you have handed over your money, it comes back to that size thing vs price. Maybe I’ll take back my above judgement on size…if the loaves were any bigger, I probably couldn’t afford them anyway! However, Coles Woolworths & Aldi all have budget friendly options, more on those later.

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Get used to liking your sandwiches toasted

The trick with gluten-free bread particularly the budget type is to toast it within an inch of its life. It literally doesn’t burn, but if you really cook the hell out of it, it gets much closer to the consistency of real people toast and actually tastes really good.

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So, is there any hope?

Yes! In the last 6 months there seems to have been a flood of options hitting the supermarket shelves. In short you won’t be giving away your morning piece of toast! We will be giving you reviews on the options available but let’s start with the private label, budget conscious breads available starting at $3.99.