More Gluten-Free Grocery Discounts and Savings!!

In my previous post about Shopping both Savvy AND Gluten-Free I promised to give you some more tips on how to save money, and still get great gluten-free staples. Three gluten-free items I could not live without are Rice Flour, Tapioca Flour, and Rice Noodles. Throughout my posts you will see many recipes using these three ingredients. They are basic ingredients I incorporate into a lot of my gluten-free cooking. And I have recently had my eyes open to these and numerous other gluten-free items available at most Asian markets.

At my chain grocery store a pound of Rice flour or Tapioca is typically about $4, sometimes even more. At a nearby Asian market 1 lb of Tapioca flour is only 89 cents!!! Talk about savings! Rice flour was less than $1.50 per pound. And now for Rice Noodles…at the grocery store I can usually get about a 14 oz box for typically $4 as well, at the Asian market I have found a wide variety of gluten-free stir-fry rice noodles for anywhere from 69 cents (for 16 oz.) to $1.69 (for 28 oz.). Such a steal of a deal!!

And the extremely wide variety of noodle types and sizes has inspired me to get creative and find some fabulous ways to include rice noodles into more meals…all of which have been loved by both gluten-free eaters and non alike. (I will post some of these recipe options in the near future.)

So I really want to recommend finding a local Asian market and checking it out! I have found some great snacks and treats as well that are rice based opposed to the commonly wheat based snacks found in traditionally American products. It has not only been fun and adventurous...it has also cut my grocery bill significantly!