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#73201 10-Dec-2010 18:50

Hi there,

My wife has coeliacs and for the longest time has resisted substituting flour and opting to go without instead.

However we recently got given a cake made from rice flour that she is still raving about ... (Huzzah!)

I'm keen to get some more rice flour - I know I can dump some rice into a blender and turn that into rice flour (although I don't really want to burn out our blender just yet).

So - my question is - does anyone know a place to get rice flour from that isn't 16x the price of normal flour?

(Google wasn't overly helpful ... so I'm looking for peoples experience)

Cheers!

Stu

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#415670 10-Dec-2010 19:18

Haven't found anywhere cheaper than the supermarket so far. Specialty shops I've been to aren't cheap. Will let you know if I ever find a cheap source.

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#415674 10-Dec-2010 19:39

What city are you in? In Christchurch South City New World have an excellent range of gluten free products including several brands of rice flour that aren't to expensive. If not in Chch go to your local New World (or Countdown or whatever just not Pak n Save) and ask the grocery manager or gluten free manager, they may be able to tell where you can get it cheap. Its certainly an emerging product so the range will increase and the price decrease. Otherwise you could try looking in Bin In?

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#415681 10-Dec-2010 19:57

This TradeMe auction has a kilo for $5: "It is universally used in India to make savory idlis and dosas and cooked with coconut to make appam" - they say.

On this basis your local Indian / South Asian spice store might be worth a visit.

There is a store online here.

There will be a Hindi/Urdu name for this flour. This will be useful knowledge - In some stores things are labeled in Hindi/Urdu only. Before you buy it - explain the purpose, and ask if there are other flours mixed in. You never know unless you ask.

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#415686 10-Dec-2010 20:24

Where are you? Where are you? Where are you? Where are you? Where are you?

If you are in Wellington (Where are you?), then you probably find it at Common Sense Organics (Wellington or Lower Hutt). Or the Indian spices' shop in Petone (can't remember the name but on main st).

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#415690 10-Dec-2010 20:34

The organic stuff here is reasonably priced for organic.

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#415702 10-Dec-2010 21:01

Ermmmm - I'm in Auckland ... thanks for the updates guys! Gives me some lines to check out.

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#415749 11-Dec-2010 01:32

If she has coeliacs she should minimise carbs as much as possible, almond meal/flour or coconut flour would be better substitutes than rice flour imo.

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#415765 11-Dec-2010 08:28

Hi Wazzageek,
I got diagnosed with Coeliac Disease this year (47yo male) so I can sympathise with your wife - but its crazy to go without - at least at home - I love bread and cakes too.

At the moment I have been buying rice flour from Huckleberry Farms at Greenlane - I know they have other branches. I go for the prepacked stuff because it has less chance of contamination than their bulk bins - they will keep all the gluten free things worryingly close to wheat flour etc!

They have 1kg brown rice flour (looks pretty white) but has more nutrients. I think it was something like $5 something a kg bag.

That link that gzt posted for Namaste in Carr Rd is a good one. They have quite a selection of other flours - you would need cornflour (maize) and probably Tapioca flour if you are going to start baking. They have bulk bins of that well separated from the wheat products. Likewise the Naturally organic shop on the shore has brown rice flour for $3.98 per kg in prepacked bags.

Cakes are generally pretty easy to do GF. If you need some recipes that work well let me know. I also have had reasonable sucess with making my own breads - got a pretty good baguette recipe now. Means I can have rolls for lunch again!

I'm not sure where the comment about minimising carbs comes from - the specialist I have said that you have to make sure that you dont cut that out of your diet - its very easy to start losing weight if you suddenly cut all the carbs out of your diet....

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#416395 13-Dec-2010 09:45

Perhaps only partially on topic, did you read about the new Sanyo GOPAN. It's a [rice] bread maker that makes bread directly from raw rice grain.

I have no idea if/when it would be available in New Zealand.

Cheers,
Joseph.

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#416461 13-Dec-2010 12:00

You shouldn't have to spend a lot of money on rice flour, it's just another milled cereal and it's not as if rice is rare or expensive. I'm sure the coeliacs society or wider community has some decent recipes but there are a heap of cafes offering that food now too. We use large quantities at work and it is not expensive in bulk so shop around.

Agree with robjg63, there is absolutely no need to reduce carbohydrates especially since malnutrition can be a problem with coeliacs. Coeliac disease is a reaction of the intestinal lumen to the wheat protein (gluten) rather than the carbohydrate component.

Good luck with the baking!

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#416499 13-Dec-2010 13:18

That Sanyo Gopan looks pretty cool - though the reason it hit the headlines was that Sanyo had such a hit on their hands that they couldnt make enough and it was going to be something like March next year before they could get production high enough to satisfy existing demand.

They are quite pricey - Im sure I saw $600-$700 USD mentioned somewhere - thats not cheap - but I gather the Japanese government wanted to reduce reliance on imported wheat flour and had sponsored some initiative to focus on rice based products. I note that quite a few of their recipes used rice flour and gluten - but they did also have recipes that were gluten free.

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