New Favorites

Nowadays there are SO many gluten free products out there.  Sadly, not all of them are fully allergy friendly.  And too many of those products use soy flour.  Not good. 

Between following a bunch of bloggers, scouring the food aisles each time we go to the grocery store, Jess and I actually find a bunch of new products.  And of course we try them all!

Jess introduced me to Manini's products.  They make allergy safe breads, pastas and mixes.  First, these are not just any pastas.  It is fresh pasta.  The kind you buy in the refrigerator section.  And oh man is it good.  I think I have eaten more pasta in the past month than I have since going GF 2 years ago!  I have yet to try their bread... but the mixes are just plain amazing.  I have used the Peasant Bread mix to make an Irish Soda Bread.  It came out of the oven -- hubby and I ate the whole loaf in about 5 minutes!

the peasant bread mix

Even better is the Multi-Purpose GF Flour mix.  It is a 1:1 substitute for regular all purpose flour.  It already has xanthum gum in it -- it is the perfect flour mixture.  I just made ginger cookies following a regular recipe, used the Multi-Purpose Flour and they turned out great!  Hubby didn't even realize they were gluten free!

the multi-purpose flour

Another great product is Jovial pastas.  They are dry pastas but so far my favorite ones!  They are actually made in Italy which is just awesome!  They do have other GF products but they have soy in them.  Sad.  But at least I can have the yummy pasta!

brown rice pasta

Finally, something sweet!  Enjoy Life Foods have really perfected their cookies over the past couple of years.  When I first started eating allergy-free, Enjoy Life were one of the only companies that made cookies.  However, they were not so great!  But I recently discovered these:

yummy cookies

They are vanilla honey graham cookies.  They taste like sweeter graham crackers and a little like 'Nilla Waffers (which used to be my favorite).  I have recently tried the chocolate version and they are also awesome! 

Lucky for me, and everyone else who has food allergies -- there are many new products coming out each day!