Sadly, Wade has thrown up twice now, both times after having gluten free macaroni for dinner. It's very sad, and he's okay now, but I'm rather upset because these gluten free elbows were bought in bulk at Winco and I suspect that someone wasn't doing their job right and mixed the regular noodles in the bin with the Wade-friendly ones. (The bulk bins are self serve--scoop and bag, self labeling.)
We've hooked up an awesome mac n' cheese recipe for Wade as follows:
Gluten Free Mac N' Cheese
1 1/4 cup gluten free macaroni
1/4 cup cheese powder
1/4 cup almond milk
4 tbsp. margarine
And it's great because those noodles are a little over a buck a pound, so buying 10 pounds of the stuff will last a month if not longer. Now we've got a bag of tainted noodles that we can't use! And Winco isn't exactly close by.
So I call Winco. Oh god. Some lady with an accent answers and I ask to speak to the manager and she says "What are you griping about?"
"I'm sorry, what?"
"What are you griping about today?"
"What am I what?"
"Griping. What are you calling to gripe for today?"
I'm maybe thinking English isn't her first language and she doesn't quite have the right word in place. Anyway, she tells me that she is the person in charge (I don't know if that was true) and I told her that I suspect someone in the bulk department switched the noodles because my son is having allergic reactions and she was like "Oh. Oh. Oh. I'm sorry. Okay. Um...Just bring them back, okay?"
I'm not really sure if my message got across.
Good gluten free macaroni that we have tried and had success with is Annie's Homegrown Gluten Free Mac & Cheese. It's made from rice pasta, which is excellent in my book, except that it also does the weird rice pasta slimy water thing when it cooks but it evens out at the end.
Trouble is Annie's is not cheap and it's somewhere around $4 a box. The bulk elbow noodles were kind of a staple for Wade since he's not into rice. I can't really do bulk Annie's and get the same amount of gluten free elbows that I was getting for the price I was getting them at, and I'm worried about ever buying the bulk noodles again.
Was it a fluke though? Was this a one time accidental thing?
See, speaking of flukes we thought maybe Wade's allergy was a fluke because he demolished a gingerbread house about 3/4 of the way before David caught him and had no ill effects that we knew of. No barf, no runny poop that we know of, and we thought "huh."
But then he barfed up this mac n' cheese and it's like...what do we do?
What is your opinion? Should I buy the bulk gluten free macaroni again or should I avoid it now?
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Poor Man's Gluten Free Bread Substitute
Sorry for my absence. I've been editing a MASS amount of pictures and I'm just now able to get the time to update any of my auxiliary blogs. I also owe a gluten free pizza crust mix post to you and I will deliver it.
But for now, let's think back on that Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free Bread Mix I raved about in October. Tasty is it? Yes. Cheap however? Hell no. Depending on where I can find the stuff, $5-$7 is way too much to pay for bread, even if it is just for one little gluten free guy. Especially since we started finding that the bread would start to mold in just 2-3 days sometimes. And yes, keeping it in the freezer is an option but again, see price.
Now, it was rather convenient that David happened to find a gluten free bread in the mark down bin at Stater's that we'd never seen before in our lives. Food For Life Brown Rice Bread. It says that it is wheat and gluten free and even sweetened. The Food For Life Baking Co., Inc (located in Corona, CA) says:
This unique bread is designed to meet the needs of those who are not able to tolerate wheat or gluten.
Ingredients include brown rice flour, filtered water, fruit juice concentrate (pineapple, peach and pear,) tapioca flour, safflower oil, yeast, xanthan and cellulose gum, rice bran, and sea salt.
It also warns that the facility that it is processed in also handles tree nuts.
As for taste, Wade says it's good but it's kind of hard--though that might be a result of it being slightly old, but it doesn't even have a date on it. One of those mysteries of life I guess. Perhaps this would be better for toast and grilled cheese.
Another alternative to bread that we've discovered, and it's sort of the "poor man's" gluten free bread substitute is corn tortillas. We don't even do them "wrap" style, we actually just put everything between two tortillas and call it a super flat sandwich. We've totally pan fried ham and (light) cheese, peanut butter and banana, or he can just eat it raw.
They come about 100 to a pack and they're anywhere from $0.50 to $3. And he's not complaining.
The Gluten Free Wonderful Bread is nice, and I don't want to totally knock it, but for the price and for how it doesn't seem to last long, I think the corn tortillas do the trick for now.
By the way, have you seen the pretzel filled M&M's
? And there's no real way to tell them from regular non deadly M&M's. This is a glutening waiting to happen to some poor kid. Talk about death by chocolate.
But for now, let's think back on that Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free Bread Mix I raved about in October. Tasty is it? Yes. Cheap however? Hell no. Depending on where I can find the stuff, $5-$7 is way too much to pay for bread, even if it is just for one little gluten free guy. Especially since we started finding that the bread would start to mold in just 2-3 days sometimes. And yes, keeping it in the freezer is an option but again, see price.
Now, it was rather convenient that David happened to find a gluten free bread in the mark down bin at Stater's that we'd never seen before in our lives. Food For Life Brown Rice Bread. It says that it is wheat and gluten free and even sweetened. The Food For Life Baking Co., Inc (located in Corona, CA) says:
This unique bread is designed to meet the needs of those who are not able to tolerate wheat or gluten.
Ingredients include brown rice flour, filtered water, fruit juice concentrate (pineapple, peach and pear,) tapioca flour, safflower oil, yeast, xanthan and cellulose gum, rice bran, and sea salt.
It also warns that the facility that it is processed in also handles tree nuts.
As for taste, Wade says it's good but it's kind of hard--though that might be a result of it being slightly old, but it doesn't even have a date on it. One of those mysteries of life I guess. Perhaps this would be better for toast and grilled cheese.
Another alternative to bread that we've discovered, and it's sort of the "poor man's" gluten free bread substitute is corn tortillas. We don't even do them "wrap" style, we actually just put everything between two tortillas and call it a super flat sandwich. We've totally pan fried ham and (light) cheese, peanut butter and banana, or he can just eat it raw.
They come about 100 to a pack and they're anywhere from $0.50 to $3. And he's not complaining.
The Gluten Free Wonderful Bread is nice, and I don't want to totally knock it, but for the price and for how it doesn't seem to last long, I think the corn tortillas do the trick for now.
By the way, have you seen the pretzel filled M&M's
? And there's no real way to tell them from regular non deadly M&M's. This is a glutening waiting to happen to some poor kid. Talk about death by chocolate.
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