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Tandoor Chef Authentic Indian Cuisine Frozen Meals

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Tandoor Chef Authentic Indian Cuisine Frozen Meals

Gluten Free Frozen Meals from Tandoor Chef

I was recently sent a few coupons to try and review the Tandoor Chef Authentic Indian Cuisine Frozen meals and I, literally, went immediately to Kroger.  I’d actually seen these enticing looking meals the week before and had made a mental note to try a few. I love Indian Cuisine so much, I was almost afraid to try them.  My reasoning was that there was no way they could capture that unique something something that makes Indian cuisine so exotic and unmistakable.

So, I was wrong. I mean, I was way wrong. The Tandoor Chef frozen meals are full of so much flavor it’s not even reasonable. Seriously.  There is a bit of spiciness but it isn’t remotely overwhelming.

The first one I tried was the Chicken Tandoori with Spinach, simply because I’m a sucker for anything and everything with spinach in it.  My inner Popeye just can’t get enough, so we were both pretty excited.

It won’t win any beauty contests, mind you, but it’d win any flavor contest it entered. SO MUCH FLAVOR! The something something I doubted frozen meals could capture was there – unmistakably so. Each and every bite was a beautiful experience.

Chicken Tandoori with Spinach

Chicken Tandoori with Spinach

When it was time to try the Chicken Tikka Masala, I thought, “Poor guy has an impossible act to follow…” but he more than held his own. The rice was surprisingly good to have been frozen (I mean surprisingly good), but the star of the show was the sauce.

My youngest daughter and I each tried the Chicken Tikka Masala and we’re still talking about that sauce. It’s just insanely delicious.

Like the amazing spinach in the Chicken tandoori, the beautiful flavors of Indian Cuisine are there and they are exquisite.

Look for these delicious gluten free meals in your frozen section of your favorite grocery store. At Kroger, they’re in the gluten free/health food section.

The flavors will blow your mind.

Tandoor Chef Chicken Tikka Masala

Tandoor Chef Chicken Tikka Masala 

Review: Gluten Free Wraps from BFree (Gluten Free, Wheat Free, Dairy Free, and Egg Free)

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BFree Gluten Free White Wrap Bowl
This will wrap up my reviews of delicious BFree gluten free breads, bagels, and wraps. You can find links below to my reviews of each BFree product I’ve enjoyed.

BFree’s breads, wraps, and bagels aren’t just gluten free and wheat free, they’re also dairy free and egg free – meaning they’re perfect for A LOT of different people.

This review is for their two amazing wraps – the Quinoa & Chia Seed Wrap and the traditional white tortilla style wrap. Both are outrageously delicious and, because they’re very pliable, the possibilities are endless.

I’ve used each for sandwich wraps and they blew me away with their pliability. I’ve come to expect “issues” with gluten free wraps – and by “issues” I mean that the whole shebang ends up on a heap in the middle of my plate, creating a kind of unattractive wrap salad.

My favorite ways to enjoy the traditional style wrap:

  • Rice, Tomato, and Eggs Breakfast Bowl (pictured at the top)
  • Black Beans, Cilantro, Cheese and Rice Bowl – top with guacamole or salsa and it’s HEAVEN!
  • Peanut Butter & Jelly “Wedges” (make “sandwiches,” then cut into triangle shapes)
  • Cream Cheese & Chive “Wedges”

My favorite ways to enjoy the Quinoa & Chia Seed Wrap:

  • They’re all but made for chicken salad and tuna fish wraps!
  • Peanut Butter & Honey “Wedges”
  • Cream Cheese “Wedges”
  • Wraps with different combos of veggies and bean sprouts or alfalfa sprouts.

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BFree Gluten Free Wraps - Quinoa and Chia Seed
BFree Quinoa & Chia Seed Wrap – Knock Out with Chicken Salad and Tuna Fish
BFree wraps are as excellent as every other BFree product I’ve had. There’s little doubt in my mind that soon… very soon… BFree will be a household name in every gluten free, vegan, and dairy free kitchen in the country.

To find BFree Products, see the store locator on their website.

BFree Gluten Free Wraps

BFree Gluten Free Wraps – Delicious!

Also on the Food Blog:

BFree Gluten Free Bagels Review

BFree Gluten Free Sandwich Bread Review

BFree Gluten Free Rolls Review

More Gluten Free Food Reviews!

Gluten Free 101: The Importance of Reading Labels

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Free for All Kitchen Brownie Thins

Free for All Kitchen Brownie Thins Review

If you have to (choose to, want to, get to…) eat gluten free, you know that finding food with “Gluten Free” on the label is imperative. I’ve known this for years but was recently reminded of the fact.

After MONTHS with zero issues, I was recently accidentally “glutened” twice within 10 days. The double whammy knocked me off my game for weeks.

My personal responses to being glutened include the following lovelies:

  •  Stomach pain – sometimes so bad I walked hunched over like the Humpback of Notre Dame for a few days. I belted out, “Sanctuary! Sanctuary!” at my cat once but she didn’t even blink. She’s grown accustomed to my ways.
  • Inability to sleep or stay asleep if, by some miracle named Benadryl, I happen to arrive.
  • Weight gain. You can imagine what back to back issues did for me.
  • Pounding headaches – the kind Ibuprofen can’t touch.
  • Itchy hives… a trick my body has only recently learned. Luckily for me, it has upped its game.
  • Inability to concentrate. My mind becomes a two year old – running all over the place and staying nowhere for more than a minute and a half.
  • Achy legs and arms. I can only describe the feeling as “flu like.”
  • Ballooned belly. I don’t think we need to elaborate on this one.
  • Zero appetite – usually not that big a deal for someone, but I happen to have low blood sugar and experience hypoglycemia when I haven’t eaten within what my body thinks is a reasonable time frame.
  • Mouth or tongue sores.
  • A general feeling of the “nasties.” Again, like the flu – with a few extra tricks up its sleeve.

My body reacts to gluten and wheat as though it’s been poisoned, Disney style. What basically happens is it hits panic mode and any combo of the above symptoms start coming at me left and right. Within the ten day double-poisoning last month, every single bell was rung. In spite of my misery, I couldn’t help being impressed.

One poisoning came from eating something off of a menu that I wasn’t sure was gluten free. We were at a Japanese restaurant where (like authentic Mexican restaurants) you have to do a lot of guess work. I guessed wrong.

A mere 10 days later, I took my chances (can you say DUMB??) with a bottle of BBQ sauce. While it didn’t actually say the words “Gluten Free” on the label, I scoured over the ingredients and felt it had to be safe.

Wrong.

It may sound like I’m making excuses, but I’m not entirely certain my brain had recovered from the first glutening. Unless you’ve experienced this, first hand, you cannot possibly imagine what it does to every corner of your body – brain included. That’s why it’s so important to have people around you who understand the gravity of the situation and can help look out for you.

Being glutened isn’t just about the miserable weeks it takes you to convince your body it isn’t under attack. It goes further than that. Each time you’re glutened, the damage is done. If you have intense allergic reactions to gluten or wheat, the reactions could actually be fatal.

In other words – don’t eat or drink anything unless it assures you that it’s gluten free. I will not let my guard down again.  I have adopted a new code word and it’s DILIGENCE. I will be completely diligent about making sure everything I buy says Gluten Free on the label and I’ll be diligent about ordering food that I know is gluten free in restaurants. If you’re in the same wheatless and gluten free boat I’m in, I hope with all that’s within me that you’ll do the same.

Be diligent and never let your guard down.

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Gluten Free Aisle - Schnucks Store in Newburgh Indiana
Gluten Free Aisle in Schnucks
When it comes to finding a great variety of gluten free food, I want to tell you about some of my own favorite goldmines and tips:

  1. Think Outside of the Grocery Store Box. Wal-Mart, Meijer, Target, Big Lots, and TJ Maxx are some of my favorite places to find gluten free products.  Most Wal-Marts even have “gluten free sections” where you can find products you can’t find anywhere else. What’s more, they’re adding a lot of gluten free products to their store brand and the ones I’ve tried have been great. Wal-Mart’s gluten free food is cheaper than just about anywhere else, too, which is a plus. Be sure to check throughout the store as well as the gluten free section. They have gluten free food spread out everywhere! TJ Maxx might be the most surprising store in the list, but they’ve been blowing me away with their gluten free cookies, candy, and snacks. Some of the best gluten free cookies I’ve ever bought have come from TJ Maxx. Target and Meijer are also wonderful places to check and Big Lots can knock you over with their savings on Bob’s Red Mill Gluten Free products.
  2. Cheat on Your Favorite Grocery Store.. I Won’t Tell. Check out other grocery stores in your town and even in surrounding towns. They may carry a gluten free product you’ve never even heard of.  When travelling, be sure to check out grocery stores in other states as well. If you find something you fall in love with – stock up, then order online or, better yet, ask your grocery store to start selling your new find. The picture above is from a Schnucks store in a neighboring state (Indiana). They carry a lot of different gluten free items my own beloved Kroger (here in Kentucky) doesn’t, so it’s worth the occasional drive to stock up on a few rare gems.
  3. Check out My Reviews. I frequently write gluten free food reviews in an effort to let you know what’s the best of the best.
  4. Check out Farmer’s Markets and Local Stores.  A few weeks ago, I was in a local Farmer’s Market and, literally, lost track of the number of “Gluten Free” labels I saw. Farmer’s Markets are all about wholesomeness, freshness, and food that is as unprocessed as possible, so it’s only natural that they’d want to offer gluten free food.
  5. Amazon, Amazon, Amazon. I can wear my favorite pajamas and fuzzy pink house-shoes to one of my favorite places to shop for gluten free food: Amazon. I use Amazon religiously for gift-buying, cookbooks, and kitchen gadgets and, with each order, I throw in a couple of gluten free foods to keep things delicious. There are countless brands of gluten free products on Amazon that you simply won’t find anywhere else. For example, I can find several Pamela’s Products Gluten Free foods, which I love, in stores but Amazon has Pamela’s Products I’ve never even heard of. The same is true of Katz – another favorite brand. OMG, their gluten free doughnuts!!!  When shopping online, as is the case in stores, always look for the magic words: Gluten Free.

Final words to the wise – be diligent and read those labels. If it doesn’t say, “gluten free,” walk away. While you can do so without looking like Quasimodo…. Just sayin’. – Joi (“Joy”)

Endangered Species Chocolate and Hazelnut Spreads (Review)

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Endangered Species Cocoa Spreads
Whenever I’m asked to describe myself (in a short bio, social media blurb…), I always have a difficult time. For one, if I were totally honest in my assessment, it’d read like something out of a old school sitcom. An I Love Lucy episode, to be exact. For another, I’m a scatterbrain’s scatterbrain, with thoughts running all over creation, top speed, at any given time. Hobbies, interests, passions… they’re all over the place. Give it to you in 100 words or less? You’ve got to be kidding, right?

However, there are a few things that always, always, always make the cut. Right after God and my family/cats, my boundless love for animals and chocolate will always get top billing. When I had the honor to review Endangered Species’ Chocolate Spreads, how could I NOT jump at the chance? I was on board before they even asked me.

10 percent of Endangered Species’ net profits are DONATED to Non-Profit partners that protect and preserve WILDLIFE. Maybe you’ve seen their candy bars in grocery stores? They are out of this world delicious – if you haven’t seen them, do your taste buds (and wildlife) a favor and search them out. You can find more information about the candy bars and more Endangered Species products at ChocolateBar.com.

Endangered Species Cocoa Spreads
I had never seen or even heard of their cocoa spreads before they contacted me, but now that I’ve tasted them, I can guarantee you my kitchen will never be without each flavor. Each time I think I’ve decided on a favorite, I’ll taste another and… zoom, right back to indecisiveness. Each one is uncommonly delicious and downright addictive.

These spreads have more than just GREAT taste in common – they’re also gluten free, Non-GMO verified, and proudly carry the Fairtrade symbol.

10% of our net profits are donated annually to current 10% GiveBack Partners;  each is guaranteed a minimum annual donation of $10,000 and is free to use the funds on projects they deem most important. With over $1 million generated in the past three years alone, each chocolate purchase adds up to big support that helps wildlife thrive. –  From Endangered Species

I’ll give each of these fantastic spreads a little bio below, but the best way for you to find out just how impossibly delicious they are is to buy your own beautiful little jars and lose yourself in the deliciousness.

Endangered Species Cocoa Spreads
Hazelnut Spread with Cocoa

As you’d imagine, the Endangered Species Hazelnut Spread tastes a lot like Nutella. Except, I personally think it’s even better. It’s about 4 times creamier and spreads a lot more easily. Dipping fruit, crackers, cookies, fingers, and nuts into the spread goes more smoothly.

There’s a distinct flavor of hazelnut that pairs beautifully with the insanely delicious cocoa flavor.

The Hazelnut Spread is perfect served on cookies or crackers and makes an ideal dip for strawberries and almonds.

Learn more about the Hazelnut Spread with Cocoa by clicking the link.

Almond Spread with Cocoa

The Almond Spread with Cocoa tasted like the outside of the most delicious candy bar you ever ate. It’s creamy and addictively good.  My favorite way to eat this great spread is on shortbread cookies (Walkers makes outstanding gluten free shortbread cookies – I’ll be reviewing them very soon on the food blog),

The Almond Spread is just as fantastic as the Hazelnut spread is, which is really saying something. The only difference is that the subtle but wonderful taste of almonds takes the place of hazelnuts. Learn more about the Almond Spread here.

Cocoa Spread

Cocoa Spread – that’s short and to the point isn’t it??  With the two magic words, you know exactly what you’re getting into: cocoa! I could cover my entire arm with this cocoa spread and lick every inch clean. It’s outrageously delicious. I’ve eaten this one on cookies, strawberries, almonds, and… yes… off the back of a spoon.  I’ve also dipped gluten free pretzels into the cocoa spread with mind-popping results. Read more about the Cocoa Spread on the Endangered Species website.

Whether you have to/choose to/get to eat gluten free or not, the possibilities for these spreads are endless.

  • fruit
  • ice cream
  • pretzels
  • cookies
  • wafers
  • crackers
  • almonds
  • walnuts
  • brownies
  • etc…

I even spread some of the cocoa spread onto some peanut butter fudge once, just to…. I dunno…. sweeten the deal.

In the picture below, you’ll find what has become my favorite way to eat these delicious spreads: with Gluten Free Shortbread Cookies from Walkers. The taste of these spreads with these cookies is out of this world.

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Endangered Species Cocoa Spreads

You can find Endangered Species products in most grocery stores as well as on Amazon (click the link to see a ton of Endangered Species candy bars, spreads, and more).

Learn more about Endangered Species wonderful products and program by visiting ChocolateBar.com today.


*** You can also find Walkers Shortbread Gluten-Free Shortbread, Rounds, 4.9 Ounce (Pack of 6) on Amazon!

Review: Lean Cuisine Gluten Free Ranchero Braised Beef Frozen Meal

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Lean Cuisine Gluten Free Ranchero Braised Beef Frozen Meal

Lean Cuisine Gluten Free Ranchero Braised Beef Frozen Meal

When I read on Twitter that Lean Cuisine was introducing several new Gluten Free frozen meals, I literally went straight to Kroger to grab one… as in one of each.

Before I had to start eating gluten free, I was on a first name basis with Lean Cuisine frozen meals. I frequently had either their spaghetti or cheese ravioli meals for lunch and savored every bite.

The first gluten free Lean Cuisine meal I tried was the Ranchero Braised Beef and this proved to be a mistake. Why? Because now I don’t want to move away from this one long enough to try the others!

Seriously. This is quite possibly the best frozen meal I’ve ever had.  I can’t possibly tell you how delicious the flavors are, which is frustrating because I really want you to know.

I will allow you this – the description of this exceptional meal might not appeal to everyone. I happen to be sweet potatoes’ most avid fangirl, so it sounds like culinary Heaven to me, “Braised beef in a spicy red chile sauce served with a side of chipotle mashed sweet potatoes.”

Yes, please and thank you very much!

But here’s the thing, the combination of flavors is out of this world – the red sauce is full of wonderful deliciousness that defies reason. The beef is more tender than any beef has a right to be and, also filled with flavor.

As for the sweet potatoes, they are actually the PERFECT choice to accompany the beef and hella good sauce because they bring their own humble, delicate, and sweet flavor which proves to be a perfect fit.

The sweet potatoes are Ricky to the Beef’s Lucy. Match made in Heaven.

The picture on the box shows the beef and sauce on the mashed sweet potatoes and, around the fifth or sixth time I had this meal (told you I was obsessed), I arranged it on my plate just like they depict on the box. I even added a couple of pickled jalapeno slices and it looked beautiful.

I fully intended to take a picture… but… um… it looked so delicious I dove right in. What can I say? My hunger drowned out my intentions.

Lean Cuisine has a very impressive line of gluten free frozen meals  (See Lean Cuisine’s Gluten Free Frozen Meals) and I will be trying each and every one. Everything Lean Cuisine makes is uncommonly delicious, so I know they’ll each be outstanding. I’ll review each one I try here on the food blog.

Of course, I’ll be trying each one with the Ranchero Braised Beef served in between them. Again, I just can’t tell you how much flavor is in this meal!

It’s the perfect size for a great lunch or even a dinner for most of us – especially if you have a salad on the side.

I hope you’ll grab the Lean Cuisine Gluten Free Meals and check them out. If you love flavor, start with the Ranchero Braised Beef – you will NOT be sorry.

Delicious Free for All Kitchen Brownie Thins

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Free for All Kitchen Brownie Thins

Free for All Brownie Thins: Crunchy and Delicious

Before I get to my review of my newest favorite gluten free snack, Free For All Brownie Thins, I just want to give a huge shout out and thank you to all companies like Partners (the makers of these delicious Brownie Thins) who are making eating gluten free totally painless, beautifully easy, and completely delicious.

Now for the review…

I was sent a couple of bags of the Free for All Brownie Thins to review on Get Cooking. Like all of  the gluten free food reviews I do on the food blog, the opinions and images are my own. No one even suggests what I should or should not say. So, when I say that this chocoholic’s world has been rocked and rocked but good, know this – these are my own words, straight from my own lips and my own feelings, straight from my own heart.

Free for All Kitchen Brownie Thins

 Brownie Thins – a New Favorite Gluten Free Snack

These delicious Brownie Thins do not taste like some gluten free snacks – you know the ones, the snacks that taste as gluten free as their name.  Free for All Kitchen’s Brownie Thins do not have one single ounce of flavor that even whispers gluten free.  The flavor screams CHOCOLATE with echoes of DELICIOUS!

The crunchiness of these brownie thins makes them as fun to eat as they are yummy – it also makes them a dream come true with a glass of milk or a cup of hot chocolate or coffee.

Free for All Kitchen Brownie Thins with Milk

 Brownie Thins with Milk (Perfect!)

The light dusting of sea salt just adds to the addictive mojo of these little beauties. When you think about the most prominent ingredients – Dutch Cocoa, Buttermilk, and Sea Salt.. is it any wonder these Gluten Free Brownie Thins are so uncommonly delicious?

Free for All Kitchen Brownie Thins

One of My Ceramic Pigs is Getting Ideas…

In addition to eating these brownie thins with coffee and milk, I’ve also put peanut butter on them, which is outstanding.  Another favorite spread is good old fashioned, always delicious cream cheese.

Fantastic!

I have also made tiny little ice cream sandwiches with them by placing a spoonful of vanilla ice cream between two – out of this world good on a warm afternoon. I didn’t realize how much I’d missed ice cream sandwiches until I took a bite. Amazing, amazing, amazing.

I can also see using the Free for All Brownie Thins to build a great truffle with layers of brownie thins, whipped topping, and vanilla pudding. Throw raspberries on top and you have a dessert fit for any get together or party!

 

Free for All Kitchen Gluten Free Brownie Thins with Peanut Butter

 

Free for All Brownie Thins with Peanut Butter – YUM!

Basically, the options and ideas are limitless because these little guys are so delicious. I was going to experiment with them by crunching them up in my food processor and making a pie crust with them, but, alas, I could not stay out of them and have eaten them all.

Hey, don’t blame me… they’re the ones that taste so addictive and delicious!

They’re delicious, crunchy, and perfect and there’s no wrong way to enjoy them, but when all’s said and done, my favorite way to eat these brownie thins is right out of the bag. One after the other after the other…

Which is why they are gone.

No problem, though..  I can order more any time I want to. So there’s hope for that chocolate pie crust after all.

I 110 percent urge you to check these brownie thins out for yourself. You will be blown away – they are just do darn good!  Click HERE for all the information you need and to order your own sweet new chocolate addiction.

 

 

CedarLane Gluten Free Sweet Corn Tamales (Review from a Raving Fan)

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CedarLane Sweet Corn Tamales

Naturally Gluten Free: CedarLane Sweet Corn Tamales! 

Granted, when it comes to my food reviews on Get Cooking, I tend to get carried away. The more I like something, the more apt I am to turn into a raving, adjective hurling foodie right before your eyes.

You might want to duck because the flying adjectives are about to take flight.

A few nights ago, I was recovering from a NASTY respiratory infection and just didn’t want to cook. Believe me, I have to be feeling miserable to not want to cook.. and I was.

I also didn’t want to get gussied up and go out to eat and I couldn’t think of anything that sounded particularly good for my husband to pick up and bring home. Besides, when you have to eat gluten free, those options are grossly limited.

He stopped by Kroger and picked up a few frozen meals in the Gluten free section. I’d made up a huge salad and we figured we just needed a little something to go along with them.

One of the boxes he grabbed is shown here: CedarLane Sweet Corn Tamales, which are naturally gluten free. I had’t’ been this intrigued by anything in a long time, so I pulled myself together enough to fix them. These guys can be cooked in the microwave or steamed and I chose to nuke them because it was faster and easier.

CedarLane Sweet Corn Tamales

CedarLane Sweet Corn Tamales

Fortunately for this weakling dosed up on antibiotics, the process was painless and simple.

  1. You take the tamales out of their plastic wrappers.
  2. Wrap the tamales in damp paper towels.
  3. Microwave for the specified time.
  4. Remove the paper towels and take the tamales out of their corn shucks.
  5. Plate them and add some salsa verde (optional, but it’s ridiculously delicious).
  6. Eat them and wonder how you ever lived without them.

I topped ours with Herdez Salsa Verde, but any good Salsa Verde will suffice. There’s just something extra magical about the combination of these sweet corn tamales and the Salsa Verde.  Can you say match made in Heaven?

CedarLane Sweet Corn Tamales

CedarLane Sweet Corn Tamale with Salsa Verde

One of my favorite restaurants, years ago, was Chi Chi’s. They had these insanely delicious little corn cakes. The flavor from these tamales remind me a LOT of Chi Chi’s corn cakes… except they’re even better.

CedarLane Sweet Corn Tamales

CedarLane Sweet Corn Tamale 

I 100 percent suggest you head on out and see if your favorite grocery store has these beauties. They’ll be in the freezer section, probably near the other gluten free meals.  Case the entire store until you find them…. then, whatever you do… do not buy just one box!

CedarLane Sweet Corn Tamales

CedarLane Sweet Corn Tamale with Salsa Verde

For more gluten free food reviews I’ve written, click the link. Just watch out for flying adjectives…

Kinninnick: The Best Gluten Free Sandwich Bread

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Kinnikinnick Gluten Free Bread
 

As I’ve often said in my Gluten Free Food Reviews, we are VERY lucky to live in the time we do. There are so many wonderful companies churning out delicious gluten free food products that it has become a case of “I GET to eat gluten free” instead of “I HAVE to eat gluten free!”

Kinnikinnick is one of these companies and, to be honest with you, there doesn’t seem to be anything they can’t do beautifully.  I truthfully don’t know how I ever lived without the amazing Kinnikinnick Gluten Free Pizza Crusts. They are SO GOOD!

When I first saw a loaf of Kinnikinnick Gluten Free White Bread in the freezer at Kroger, I grabbed a loaf so fast you’d think I was a pick-pocket.  I hadn’t seen their bread before, but I was familiar enough with their other gluten free foods to know that it’d be amazing.

I wasn’t just right… I was off the charts right.

In fact, when asked for the best gluten free sandwich bread, I don’t hesitate for a minute to say Kinnikinnick. It looks like “normal” bread, smells like “normal” bread, and even tastes like “normal” bread.

If you’re at all familiar with gluten free bread, you know there isn’t anything “normal” about any of that.

Most store-bought gluten free bread is hard, dense, uncommonly bad  tasting, and fall apart under the least bit of pressure.  It’s like, “Make a grilled cheese sandwich… you have GOT to be kidding. I can’t get it to stay together long enough to even butter it.”

While other gluten free bread is falling apart, Kinnikinnick bread holds it together and makes one great sandwich after another. Whether it’s egg salad sandwiches, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, grilled cheese, Ham and Swiss sandwiches, or a combination Dagwood would be proud of, this is the best gluten free sandwich bread I’ve ever had.

(Review continued beneath the piece of bread!)

Kinnikinnick Gluten Free Bread
Kinnikinnick also allowed me to fall back in love with toast with butter and jelly again – as well as an old favorite, cinnamon toast. I can also enjoy garlic bread with Italian meals again.  I lightly butter the bread, sprinkle on a little garlic powder and toast it on a griddle or in a skillet.  Delicious!

Kinnikinnick also makes the best French Toast you ever put in your mouth.

Unfortunately, gluten free bread is usually only found in the freezer section of grocery stores, but with Kinnikinnick, it doesn’t matter – it honestly thaws out beautifully… without going all Patsy Cline on you as it “Falls to Pieces.”

This one’s a winner and I do not not not not not know where I’d be without it.

You can find a lot of delicious gluten free foods from Kinnikinnick on Amazon.

Kinnikinnick Gluten Free Bread

Garden Lites Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

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Garden Lites Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins
Before I get to the review of Garden Lites Gluten Free Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins, I just have to sing Garden Lites praises for a minute. I did so recently in a raving review of Garden Lites Carrot Berry Muffins. I’m certain I mentioned in the review that you’d be hearing about more Garden Lites foods, simply because I’ve become obsessed with the line.

Seriously, everything I’ve had has elicited the exact same response:

  • This is too delicious to be frozen..
  • This is too delicious to be gluten free…
  • This tastes homemade!
  • I have to have another…

I also, inevitably, think the one I’m enjoying at the moment is the best and is “my favorite.”  Problem is, that changes as soon as I take a bite of the next one.

Oh well, suffice to say Garden Lites makes exceptional foods and you’d better act fast before your’s truly buys them all up.

Months ago, I was sent a few boxes of Garden Lites Muffins to review and my freezer has never seen a day without at least one box since. I’m hooked.

The Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins (Gluten Free and Dairy Free) are one of my absolute favorites – as in one of the ones I buy again and again and again… They honestly taste homemade and not even remotely frozen OR gluten free OR dairy free.

They simply taste extraordinary.

Garden Lites Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins with Zucchini
 

I mean… these muffins taste so good you could bake them and give them as a gift to someone. They don’t have to know you didn’t bake them from scratch… because, trust me, they’ll taste like you did just that.

Garden Lites Gluten Free Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins
 Eating gluten free or dairy free, and even gluten free AND dairy free isn’t just possible these days, it’s deliciously and easily possible – thanks to companies like Garden Lites that have made it their mission to keep us smiling ear to ear.

Visit Garden Lites Locations page for retailers near you who carry this deliciousness.  Here in Kentucky, I’ve found them at both Target and Kroger. Garden Lites is also available on Amazon! Click the link to see the many choices… and, yes, I have probably tried them all – and those I haven’t? It’s just a matter of time.

Kinnikinnick Gluten Free Pizza Crusts Review

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Kinnikinnick Pizza Crust Pizzas

Kinnikinnick Pizza Crust Pizzas

I recently wrote a review of delicious Kinnikinnick Gluten Free Doughnuts (click the link to find out how delicious). As much as I love their doughnuts, I’m and EVEN bigger fan of their gluten free pizza crusts.

In fact, I love these crusts so much I actually prefer them to other pizza crusts now!  I don’t know, there’s just something about them that’s outrageously delicious.

Kinnikinnick Pizza Crusts and Classico Pizza Sauce

Kinnikinnick Pizza Crust Pizzas & Classico

The main thing, of course, is the taste, but I also like how convenient they are. Simply take out the number of individual crusts you want (four really generously-sized individual pizza crusts come to a box), top them with sauce, cheese, and toppings, and throw them into the oven or onto the grill.

My husband has become a huge fan of grilling pizzas and I was THRILLED when my beloved Kinnikinnick crusts took to grilling like a a duck takes to water.  They were absolutely amazing.  They’re just as great baked in the oven – which is the way I fix them 98% of the time.

Look for Kinnikinnick Gluten Free Personal Size Pizza Crusts in the “Health Food” or “Gluten Free” section of your favorite grocery store.

Take it from me, these are out of this world delicious.

Kinnikinnick Pizza Crust Pizzas

Kinnikinnick Pizza Crust Pizzas