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Ravings of a Gluten Free Baker


Ennis-TX

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So diagnosed with celiac years ago, I opted to make the best of my cooking and culinary skills and start baking and doing chef jobs for others with these diet restrictions. This enabled me to better myself, help others, and PAY for this diet. I opened up a cottage home bakery, sold at farmers markets, and did local deliveries. This went on for several years, and I changed up my lines to grain free and vegan and all was well for several years. 

Lately things have changed, whole foods started having tons of gluten free options, making in store cookies, breads, muffins, croutons. Other stores started to carry UDIs meals, Ians foods, and a whole bunch of other gluten free products are now available. Food delivery services started doing gluten free options and these further took my business away in chef jobs.  I BAKE, I COOK, I DO ALL OF THIS to AFFORD to feed myself and live.....all of these have been taken away from me as others prefer constant convenience of picking it up ready made over ordering custom made goods. My almond butter lines are also being ousted by local stores carrying more....only things I am still selling well are my sugar free blends and my keto breads and not enough for me to get by on. I feel like a rat in a cage, I am dealing with other life issues right now and might need to have surgery to remove a infection in my jaw.

Debating trying to sell my flour blends in bags for people ot make in house for my muffins and focusing my efforts on my Keto Breads, nut butters, and fried ice catering for income. Unsure if my Vegan Grain free muffins mixes can be done this way as I have the flour blends, I mix up flax eggs, fillings, and the liquids and oils then combine in a mixer before scooping them out.  I think I can add in the ground flax into the flour mixes and tell them to mix with warmed water/oil. I need to do a test batch.

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kareng

Have you talked to WF, local groceries , coffee shops and juice places about carrying your products?  The WF and groceries here like to carry local brands - either fresh, refidgerated or frozen.  

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Ennis-TX
13 hours ago, kareng said:

Have you talked to WF, local groceries , coffee shops and juice places about carrying your products?  The WF and groceries here like to carry local brands - either fresh, refidgerated or frozen.  

Yeah my facility is not large enough nor does it meet the criteria. >.< Major issue is while my kitchen is all stainless counters, and NTF styled with commercial ware the fact I live in the same building and use the kitchen for personal use prevents me from using it for commercial sales, I would also need to upgrade with a new bakers oven for more production, and upgrade my nut butter stone mill. PS the "Rental" kitchens here that fit the criteria are shared....I would not do that to a fellow celiac or someone with peanut issues.

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tessa25

You can try selling your goods at farmers markets. Then maybe you will get a following for online sales.

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Ennis-TX
3 hours ago, tessa25 said:

You can try selling your goods at farmers markets. Then maybe you will get a following for online sales.

That is my primary sales, farmers markets. But due to STORES selling stuff cheaper, people go there now days. I used to be the only source for good muffins, breads, cakes, artisan almond butters etc. I am getting cut out by the local stores now. The diabetic and organic customers are the only ones that stuck around so I only have 3 regulars that order about once or so a month. -_- this has honestly left me in such a hole with living expenses ....yeah I do not want to talk about how I am getting food now.

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