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Why You Need Gluten-Free on a Shoestring

Gluten-free food is really expensive. And if you’re in the 99%, cost matters to you.

Gluten-Free on a Shoestring helps make feeding your family a gluten-free diet enjoyable — and affordable. If you’re cooking two meals, one gluten-free and one for the gluten eaters in your family because you think gluten-free food is too expensive, you’re in the right place.

I will teach you how to feed your whole family gluten-free food that will have the neighbors begging for an invitation to your house. And you’ll be able to do it all without breaking the bank.

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About Nicole

I’m Nicole Hunn, the cook, baker, candle-stick-maker, and writer around here.

I started this blog, Gluten-Free on a Shoestring, in March 2009, after I was laid off from my job as a senior practicing lawyer in a large law firm in New York. Like many others laid off at the time, I chose a different path. I chose to hang out with you, cooking and baking, instead of lawyering.

I’m married with 3 children: girl-boy-girl. Our son, Jonathan, has celiac disease, but we all eat gluten-free at home because it’s easier. And because I eat gluten-free all the time. You gotta walk the walk if you’re gonna talk the talk, you know?

When we learned in 2004 that Jonathan had to be gluten-free, we were lost. Few gluten-free foods were available, and what there was cost, like, a million dollars a cookie. All of the recipes I found were really fussy, with a million different unfamiliar ingredients. I started developing my own recipes right away, all with an all-purpose gluten-free flour blend. I wanted to feel normal again.

Before long, I totally hit the lottery – but without the big payout. Perseus Books wanted me to write a cookbook, so I could show you how to eat well on a shoestring budget! The cookbook is called Gluten-Free on a Shoestring: 125 Easy Recipes For Eating Well on the Cheap. You should totally buy a copy! If you like what you see on the blog, you’ll love the book even more.

Now I spend my time doing what I love: developing new recipes, writing about it, & hopefully helping others realize that gluten-free can & should be enjoyable…and affordable.

Oh, and I’m working on another cookbook! Think Gluten-Free on a Shoestring, but super quick & even easier. It’s even called: Gluten-Free on a Shoestring Quick & Easy. We’ll get great-tasting gluten-free food on that table of yours on a workaday weekday faster than you can say, “I thought it was your turn to make dinner tonight!” Preorder it today on Amazon.com!

Well, I thought you’d never get here. But you did. And I’m glad. Stick around, would you? We’ve got lots of catching up to do.

Love,
Nicole

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