What flour free foods do you recommend for snacks?

Nuts

A great source of good fats and they’re filling. Plus, there’s a wide variety to choose from.

Fruits

@SarasWhimsy I actually found what looks to be a school permission slip/Gluten allergy form that has a lot of flour free foods on it. Link.

Rice cakes!

fruit, nuts, yoghurt, carrots and rice crackers!

Beef Jerky! (man I love beef jerky) Hard-boiled eggs are a nice snack too.

popcorn

Hummus is good, but since I tend to enjoy this with pita, you’d want a substitute for that, of course. I’ve never had it with celery, but I’m sure that’d be good.

@CyanoticWasp Good suggestion! As a non-vegetable fan, I can say that hummus is a great way to make vegetables more appealing.

Edamame (soy beans) – plain or roasted.

MoJo nut bars

I was going to say chocolate, but I guess that isn’t what you’re looking for… I do the no carb thing, and celery stuffed with cream cheese rocks. So do pork rinds if you get the spicy hot kind.

Make smoothies or your own trail mix.

Corn chips with salsa. Hard-boiled eggs. Rice cakes with peanut butter. Cheese sticks. Yogurt.

If you get antsy for bread-y things, get gluten-free bread/crackers at a specialty store, they can be surprisingly good (look for breads/bagels with cheese in them – sounds weird, but it’s great for the texture).

I do not know if I agree with your “flour free” diet. Flour is perfectly fine. What is not fine is all these foods that have that white refined flour. These are just fast absorbing carbs that turn into sugar in your body, which eventually are converted to fat. If you stay away from your simple sugars like the sodas, crackers, goldfish, chips….the things that taste like air with flavor, you will maintain/lose weight (as well as incorporating an exercise program).

If you cut out flour in your diet, where are you going to get your energy? The majority of your calories each day should come from carbohydrates. A lot of foods that contain a lot of carbohydrates contain flour in their ingredients. As a nutritionist, I suggest you eat foods that contain flour, but make sure that they come from whole wheat flour. For example, whole wheat pasta, whole wheat bread, and whole wheat cereals. Also, do not let brands fool you. Read the labels because a lot of products that claim they are whole wheat products, really just add coloring and label it as whole wheat. Look at the nutrition facts and look for “whole wheat.”

I know I am not answering your question the way you would like, but this is the honest truth. If you continue your diet flour free, keep note of your energy, you attitude. If you feel on edge and are anxious, you should probably add more carbs to your diet. Unfortunately if you continue this diet, you will probably experience these side effects. Some of the foods others have mentioned like nuts are good sources of energy, but they do not last long. You have to have a good amount of carbohydrates and a lot of foods with carbohydrates contain flour. It is up to you to make the right choice on the good carbs/good flour

Celery and peanut butter. Tamari rice crackers. Almonds. Trail mix or dried banana chips. You can also make your own popsicles using fresh juice.

Can you eat oats? If so, you can make your own granola bars:

4 tablespoons of honey
4 tablespoons of peanut butter
melt them on the stove to a smooth mixture

1 cup of rolled oats
and whatever else you want! i.e. sesame seeds, almonds, raisins,
cranberries and chocolate chips or carob chips

add rolled oats mixture to heated mixture, and mush it into a baking pan till it’s flat.
bake at 190degrees Farenheit for 15 minutes or until browned

let cool for 10 minutes, cut, let cool completely before removing from tin.

A healthy snack should consist of any or all of the following in a small portion size. Nuts, fruit, vegetables, seeds and some Organic Yogurt. Fruit is sweet and the fiber makes it healthy and filling. Berries are loaded with antioxidant’s. Even a small piece of dark chocolate occasionally is OK.

Potato chips?

I don’t really eat snacks, except maybe for a piece of fruit every so often; I eat meals.

Carrot sticks?

I too follow a diet that avoids bread and other white carbs (although once or twice a week we have potatoes or rice with dinner) so for snacks, I like yoghurt with slivered almonds added, or a piece of fruit and some cottage cheese.

I find if I have something with protein it fills me up and I don’t want more.

Also it is good to keep left overs in the fridge, a piece of cold chicken or slice of roast beef will do the trick also. Lunch meats are okay but I try to avoid processed foods.

Following up on @mass_pike4‘s comment… it is possible to live a healthy flour-free lifestyle, but it is certainly difficult. I’ve done it, or close to it anyway (I dated someone with celiac, so didn’t eat much gluten for a while there) and I felt completely fine. Flour-free doesn’t necessarily mean carb-free! Just make sure that your diet is balanced and you will be fine.

@mass_pike4 is, however, right in saying that white flour is really the problem that you’re probably trying to get at here. Try cutting out white flour and white sugar, that will make a much more healthy impact than simply cutting out flour in general.

@fireinthepriory – Is the average whole wheat flour or bread really any better than plain white? The whole wheat bread recipes for the bread maker always seem to have a large portion of white flour included and the same with packaged whole wheat bread. It seems as if whole wheat flour is not that much less processed than the white?

I don’t know this to be true, I am just wondering???

@mass_pike4 no, you didn’t answer the question and you in fact assumed (incorrectly) that I had not spoken with a nutritionist. Please note that this question was for ideas for flour free foods, not your ideas about them.

And not your “honest truth” – trust me, getting ideas from a Q&A website is fine, but hard and fast advice, I don’t think so. Who’s to say you’re even a nutritionist right?

For those of you who actually answered the question, thank you.

@SarasWhimsy: I’m sorry I went out of my to give you facts I know and thought you could possibly benefit from. You are coming across that I completely bashed your question. I just know of information that is related and if you do not want to use it and abide by it, don’t.

@rooeytoo Well, flour in general just ain’t that good for you. The difference is that wheat flour is at least somewhat nutritious (more or less depending, but you can tell by looking at the package how processed it is, usually – look for unbleached whole-wheat, not just wheat or stone-ground) while white flour isn’t healthy at all. And you’re right – wheat bread, if you buy it in a store, does have a lot of white flour in it. But if you’re someone who can’t live without bread, even wheat bread from the store is better than white bread. I’ve started baking all my own bread so at least I know what’s going into it if I’m gonna eat it! I also eat less of it now that I have to make it if I want it. :)

Personally, I do eat some white flour. It’s hard to find bread recipes that are more than ¾ wheat flour, since the bread gets too brick-like after that point. When I make other baked goods (except cakes), I sub a lot of wheat flour in for white flour, usually ½ to ¾ depending on the recipe. Sometimes you have to add a little more liquid to balance out the extra fiber in the whole wheat flour… it’s trial-and-error at first, but you can get the hang of it.

@fireinthepriory – That is kind of what I figured, thanks. I mostly try to avoid bread except for the occasional whole wheat pita.

It’s really not that difficult once you get used to it, I really don’t feel deprived. But I might try making some again one of the days if the temperature goes under 100! There is a recipe in the back of the Food Tree book that sounds good.

Cheers.

@rooeytoo Wow, sounds like we’re on opposite sides of earth – I’m anxiously awaiting the temp here to go back above single digits! Baking is about all I can do to not freeze this time of year, I eat probably 3 times the amount of baked goods in the winter than I do in the summer. Come summer I might make an attempt to cut out bread though. :)

There are also Whole Grain breads . The Farmers Markets have them. We also got some at a Russian Market. The more Whole Grains the better for you. There also sprouted grain breads. Unfortunately it is harder to find in America than Europe .
Do have a bread maker rooeytoo?
I will allow myself a piece of whole grain or some type of complex carbohydrate every day. The more fiber included the better. It also taste better than White Bread and is more filling.

Hard boiled eggs and string cheese.