Gluten Free Products

Here I will review gluten free products that I’ve tried.

Our Favorite Gluten Free Chicken Tenders

Carrie

Some gluten free substitutes for breaded items have a weird texture and taste.  We’ve found at our local Krogers the Saffron Road brand to make excellent chicken tenders!  You can’t even tell they are gluten free!  The texture is great and works best when you put them in the oven.  We like to use our toaster oven for these so we aren’t heating up our big oven to bake them.  I hope you like them!

The great thing about these is they are Certified Gluten Free!

Saffron Road Chicken Tenders

Saffron Road Gluten Free Chicken Tenders

Saffron Road Gluten Free Chicken Tenders

Our Favorite Gluten Free Cereals

Carrie

Most American families are used to eating processed foods for breakfast.  This can be a great issue for those trying to learn to be gluten free.  Fortunately we have many options when it comes to safe cereals!

I’ve included links to all of them on Amazon so you can see what they look like.  I get these though at our local store for a reasonable price.

Our Favorite Gluten Free Cereals:

Below is a list of cereals you might think are gluten free but actually aren’t!  Always look at all the ingredients!  Many cereals contain ‘malt flavoring’ which is made from barley!

NOT Gluten Free:

  • Kellog’s Frosted Flakes (malt flavoring)
  • Kellog’s Corn Flakes (malt flavoring)
  • Rice Krispies (malt flavoring..except for the specially marked Gluten Free ones!)
  • Cheerios (non certified GF oats plus wheat starch)
  • Corn Pops (wheat starch)

Always check ingredients lists every time you buy!  Ingredients change frequently.  Also be cautious of getting store brand cereals.  They don’t always have the same ingredients as brand names!

 

Gluten Free Soy Sauce

Carrie

One of the items that is typically not gluten free that surprises people is Soy Sauce.  Look at your favorite soy sauce.  Almost all of them have wheat as the 1st or 2nd ingredient!  This makes eating out at Chinese restaurants pretty tricky for those needing to be gluten free!

To solve this we’ve been making a lot of Chinese dishes at home.  Our main staple is San-J’s Gluten Free Tamari soy sauce.  It’s very reasonably priced at our grocery store.  It’s the same as ‘regular’ soy sauce as far as price goes and I think tastes better!

San-J also has a line of other sauces.  I’ve also tried the Szechuan Cooking Sauce.  I love this sauce!  It’s nice and spicy with good flavor at the same time.  I can’t go crazy with it though because my body can’t handle too spicy.  I’m assuming it is from all the damage to my system.  So be careful if you’ve been undiagnosed for a while and use sparingly until you know how your body will handle the spicy.

I hope this is helpful to you.  Feel free to comment on what your favorite brand is!

Cookies | Moondance Desserts

Carrie

Cookies | Moondance Desserts.

So a friend at church found these in our local Krogers and brought them to our fellowship time so that myself and my oldest had some sweets to eat.  Boy are these good!  She brought the Mexican Wedding Cookie which was very good, but my favorite of the two was the Chocolate Crinkle Cookie.  It was a cookie and a brownie mixed into one.  Delicious!  I almost regret her finding these as I will have a hard time not eating them all the time!  They were gobbled up in no time and I don’t think anyone but myself and her knew they were gluten free!

Thanks Martha!