Oh wow, I woke up with so much energy this morning I didn't almost even recognize myself. I have had *some* grains this week but very few and far betwn and only something from ds's gf cupboard when I did.
Our problem on the money side is that in my ideal world I would buy everything from the farmer's market or local farms and well, we honestly don't have money for that
We are actually on a $20-$30 grocery budget a week, and get the rest of our food from a food pantry that gives us huge boxes of gf foods for ds, all the grains that are no no's on these diets but we *need* to feed our children right now something. To replace those with more meats, fruits, veggies etc... would mean no gas at the end of the month or a bill doesn't get paid. I will have a part time job starting this fall
but until then we have nothing to invest anything above or extra. I use the budget we have to buy bones, veggies for soup or fermenting, some milk and cheeses, eggs of course...but beyond that I can't get any extra's that would go towards all these yummy recipes that would replace grains we take out of the kids diet.
gf pasta's are more expensive but i agree you could try replacing some of that with the other pasta and making it a special occasion thing, maybe stashing it somewhere where they can't see it so they don't always know it's there or think about it?