You are not that restricted in your gluten free cereal and breakfast choices that you have to deprive yourself of flavor and texture. It is possible to eat a nutritious breakfast including cereal that is gluten free so that your breakfast includes dishes or items from all five-food groups. Glutinous grains include barley, rye and wheat. The fact that oats are considered to have been cross contaminated by glutinous grains and further, that the oat grain is being studied to see whether it causes a reaction in gluten sensitive people makes many people also avoid oats.

There are many healthy alternatives to glutinous cereals and you can choose a gluten free cereal for either a hot or a cold breakfast. Wheat alternatives that are gluten free include amaranth, buckwheat, flax, millet, quinoa, sorghum and rice and you can find these ingredients being used in many gluten free cereals. You can try a variety of gluten free cereals to find your favorite texture and flavor and you can find gluten free cereals that can be served either hot, cold or both.

You can have puffed amaranth for a cold cereal and amaranth flakes for a hot breakfast cereal. For a cold cereal, serve puffed buckwheat and for a hot cereal, serve cream of buckwheat. For a cold cereal serving, you can have puffed corn or cornflakes. For a hot corn cereal serving, you can choose from polenta, hominy grits or cornmeal. You can find ground flax and the whole small brown flax seeds being used to fortify both hot and cold cereals. Millet can be found as millet flakes and puffed millet for cold cereal options and it is added to hot cereal mixes. You can serve puffed rice for a cold cereal and cream of rice for a hot cereal. Sorghum is used as ground flour and it can be added to flakes or in a hot cereal mixture.

You can also find gluten free cereal bars that offer a variety of wheat alternative cereal grains in their recipes. You may also find flakes and hot cereals that are made of different gluten free cereal grains and these are blended to create flavorsome and nutritious cereal choices. You can find gluten free cereal choices that are just as delicious and healthy as the cereals that are made from glutinous grains so you will not be missing anything by choosing a gluten free cereal.