Gluten-Free on a Shoestring, Quick and Easy: 100 Recipes for the Food You Love--Fast! Paperback – Illustrated, 6 November 2012

My mother swears by this author, she has multiple cookbooks by them and this is another to add to her collection! Definitely, a good investment if you are celiac. I am non-celiac but still eat gluten-free regularly, these recipes taste like gluten foods! Yum!

Very useful for a gf diet.

My husband, two young daughters and I have reluctantly transitioned to a gluten-free diet due to health, behavioral, and gluten intolerance issues in our family. I'm not gonna lie: going GF stinks at first. We like to eat healthy but we also love good sandwiches, waffles and occasional treats such as cupcakes and cookies. This book has saved our lives by keeping our favorites within reach and introducing us to new things that we love.Fantastic recipes, author is knowledge and hilarious. Like other reviewers have said, the chocolate cake donut recipe alone is worth triple the price of the book. (Get the Babycakes Donut Baker. I, too, have scoffed at this machine in the past, but since the occasional breakfast treat makes our Sundays even nicer, we sprang for it. Worth it.) They go together in a snap and taste even better than their gluteny cousins.The recipes that require a little planning ahead--mainly the refrigerated bread, pizza, etc. doughs--are fantastic. Once assembled and refrigerated, you can whip out amazingly beautiful, tasty, light GF breads without fussy rising times and temperatures. Need good, "yeasty" dinner rolls for a party? If you make this beautiful and light dough once a week, you can have two dozen beautiful rolls in in 30 minutes TOPS. Same with a beautiful, crusty loaf of artisan-quality boule bread. Wow. Just wow.I would love to see a few changes. The first: so many of the recipes are split between 2 pages and you have to flip a page back and forth between ingredients and directions. I suppose it wouldn't matter if you measure all of your ingredients ahead of time like cooking shows do, but I find that cumbersome, time-consuming, and creates way more dirty dishes than necessary. I also use a cookbook stand that holds the pages open. That has made reading and executing many of these recipes difficult. Poor planning on the publisher's part--I can't fault the author though.Secondly, as many reviewers have pointed out, none of the recipes have nutritional information. My husband has Type I diabetes and keeps his blood sugar under right control by counting carbs. He enjoys these recipes but we have to guess and that has resulted in spikes and dips in his blood sugar count.Overall I could not be happier that I bought this book--and neither could my children. I'm definitely going to buy her other two books once I have mastered a few more of the recipes in this one. If the author published a second edition that kept the recipes on the same page and included nutritional content, I'd literally buy the same book again in a heartbeat.Off to make some chocolate donuts--and sneak some away when my kids aren't looking.

When my daughter was diagnosed as Coeliac all we had was expensive shop bought treats available-apart from the occasional one or two most were not a decent replacement for what my daughter was now unable to eat! i was thrilled to discover Nicole's blog with her easy and straight forward recipes that are tried and tested by her family!This book is brilliant- it has great recipes that ARE quick and easy- no great long list of unfathomable ingredients!One of my favourite things is the section in the back that has ready to go cake and biscuit mixes- these were fantastic to pre-mix when we were going on holiday and just add oil/butter and eggs when we got to the holiday cottage!i can't recommend this book highly enough-we ALL eat the GF recipes made from this book- they are THAT good-simples!

Every single recipe works beautifully. I found her website along with the related products on Amazon helpful in knowing which ingredients were best in England. As a shortcut for you: Doves Farm do a great gluten free flour, but Tescos own is apparently good, too.Her writing style is pleasant and the recipes very simple to follow. I wouldn't call this real frugal cookery as the flour is much more expensive than regular, but it is certainly cheaper than buying premade of the same gluten free products.