Best Gluten Free Food

[lapetit8]

So, I thought that it would be informative for everyone if we each posted our absolute favorite gluten free food item for a variety of different categories. Hopefully this will help all of us avoid wasting our money on gluten free products that taste disgusting and lead us in the right direction to finding more tasty gluten free products. The categories include 25 different items that are often NOT gluten free. Please post your Top 25 Favorites, so that we can keep learning about different products. Your favorite items can be from stores, online retailers, or local restaurants. Here's my list:

*Best Bread = Celiac Specialities' Navy Bean Bread

*Best Bagels = Energy Foods Classic Bagels

*Best Pasta = Tinkyinada Brown Rice Pasta & Cafe Baldo's Ravioli

*Best Pizza = Mama's Italian Restaurant & Risotteria

*Best Rolls = Risotteria's Garlic rolls

*Best Crackers = Nut Thins (Almond)

*Best Cereal = Arrowhead Mills Maple Buckwheat

*Best Waffles = ?????

*Best Donuts = Celiac Specialties' Glazed and Cinnamon Sugar

*Best Muffins = Celiac Specialties' Banana Chocolate Chip

*Best Cupcakes = ?????

*Best Cake = gluten-free Pantry's Angel Food Cake Mix, Asia de Cuba's Latin Lover cake, Cafe Baldo's Chocolate & Vanilla Cakes.

*Best Cookies = Pamela's Organic Dark Chocolate Chunk

*Best Chocolate = Cadbury Eggs

*Best Candy = Jelly Belly Jelly Beans, Ricola lozenges & Just Born Peeps

*Best Gum = ?????

*Best Ice Cream = Ciao Bella, Ben & Jerry's, Haagen Daz, & Tasti-D-Lite

*Best Sprinkles = Mr. Ritt's

*Best Sorbet = ?????

*Best Chips = Glenny's Soy Crisps

*Best Pretzels = ?????

*Best Drink = Vitamin Water, Dr. Brandt's Anti-Oxidant Water Booster (Pomegranate)

*Best Soup = Whole Foods Chicken Rice Soup & Hale and Hearty's Fourteen Vegetable Soup

*Best Frozen Meals = Amy's Asian Vegetable Stir-Fry, Garden Vegetable Rice Lasagna, & Mac N' Cheese

*Best Nutrition Bars = Balance Bars (Mocha Chip & Chocolate Raspberry)

[tarnalberry]

*Best Bread = don't eat it

*Best Bagels = don't eat it

*Best Pasta = Tinkyinada

*Best Pizza = don't eat it

*Best Rolls = don't eat it

*Best Crackers = homemade flax crackers

*Best Cereal = Nutty Rice or hot cereal (amaranth, rice, flax mix)

*Best Waffles = homemade, Namaste mix

*Best Donuts = don't eat it

*Best Muffins = homemade banana muffins (or blueberry)

*Best Cupcakes = don't eat it

*Best Cake = don't eat it

*Best Cookies = don't eat it

*Best Chocolate = Tropical Source or Dagoba

*Best Candy = see chocolate response

*Best Gum = Eclipse

*Best Ice Cream = Soy Delicious Chocolate Velvet

*Best Sprinkles = don't eat it

*Best Sorbet = homemade

*Best Chips = Lundberg's Rice Chips

*Best Pretzels = don't eat it

*Best Drink = Vitamin Water or green tea

*Best Soup = Imagine Tomato Soup (with added veggies and shrimp)

*Best Frozen Meals = don't eat it

*Best Nutrition Bars = Clif Nectar Bars or Ruth's Flax Bars

[angel-jd1]

*Best Bread = **Don't eat it**

*Best Bagels = **Don't eat it**

*Best Pasta = Tinkyinada

*Best Pizza = Homemade with Chebe or Amy's Rice Crust with tons of additional toppings and extra cheese

*Best Rolls = **Don't eat it**

*Best Crackers = Blue Diamond Almond Nut Thins

*Best Cereal = Dora the Explorer

*Best Waffles = Van's

*Best Donuts = Kinnikinnick Maple Glazed

*Best Muffins = Analise Roberts Blueberry Muffin Recipe with strusel topping (have to make it yourself, but wonderful recipe!!

*Best Cupcakes = Analise Roberts Wedding Cake recipe made into cuppey cakes (again have to cook it yourself, but I LOVE to cook )

*Best Cake = Analise Roberts Wedding cake recipe, coconut cake recipe too!! (another cook it yourself)

*Best Cookies = Homemade peanutbutter chocolate chip

*Best Chocolate = Hersheys

*Best Candy = Reeses Pieces

*Best Gum = Wrigleys

*Best Ice Cream = Blue Bunny Chocolate Chip

*Best Sprinkles = **Don't eat it**

*Best Sorbet = **Don't eat it**

*Best Chips = Tostitos Tortilla Chips

*Best Pretzels = Ener-G

*Best Drink = Orange Juice or Powerade (blue kind)

*Best Soup = Homemade....I don't really buy soup

*Best Frozen Meals = Amy's

*Best Nutrition Bars =Kraft South Beach Diet Meal Replacement (peanut butter is good, also cinnamon)

[astyanax]

best waffles (better even than normal waffles!) is definitely trader joe's !!

[Mango04]

*Best Bread = Glutino

*Best Bagels = don't eat it

*Best Pasta = Tinkyinada

*Best Pizza = Chebe and Cause Your Special mixes

*Best Rolls = don't eat it

*Best Crackers =

*Best Cereal = Arrowhead Mills Maple Buckwheat Flakes

*Best Waffles =

*Best Donuts = don't eat it

*Best Muffins = carrot/apple/flax (I make them)

*Best Cupcakes = Cause Your Special

*Best Cake = Cause Your Special

*Best Cookies =

*Best Chocolate = Green and Blacks Dark Chocolate Mint

*Best Candy =

*Best Gum = Glee Gum

*Best Ice Cream = Good Karma Organic Rice Cream

*Best Sprinkles = don't eat it

*Best Sorbet =

*Best Chips = Lundberg's Rice Chips

*Best Pretzels = don't eat it

*Best Drink = Water or Kombucha

*Best Soup = Imagine Tomato Soup

*Best Frozen Meals = Amy's

*Best Nutrition Bars = Clif Nectar Bars, Alpsnak bars and everything from Go Raw

[Guhlia]

*Best Bread = Gluten Free Pantry's Sandwich Bread

*Best Bagels = Bette Hagaman's Healthy Bagel Recipe

*Best Pasta = Tinkyada

*Best Pizza = Amy's Rice Crust

*Best Rolls = ???

*Best Crackers = Mary's Gone Crackers Black Pepper Crackers (with garlic cream cheese dip)

*Best Cereal = Perky-O's Apple Cinnamon

*Best Waffles = ?????

*Best Donuts = ???

*Best Muffins = Chocolate chip muffins made from the Incredible Edible Cookbook

*Best Cupcakes = ?????

*Best Cake = ???

*Best Cookies = Mi-Del Pecan Sandies

*Best Chocolate = Hershey's w/ Almonds

*Best Candy = Peeps

*Best Gum = Trident

*Best Ice Cream = Turkey Hill Peanut Butter Ripple

*Best Sprinkles = ???

*Best Sorbet = ?????

*Best Chips = Grandma Utz

*Best Pretzels = Glutano and Glutino Sesame Pretzel Rings

*Best Drink = Propel

*Best Soup = Progresso New England Clam Chowder

*Best Frozen Meals = Amy's Mac n Cheese

*Best Nutrition Bars = Lara Bars - all of them except Banana Cookie

[Clark Bent as Stupor-Man]

I haven't tried a number of foods yet with the current restrictions in my diet but I'll add on some things I've liked...

*Best Crackers = the Tamari Rice Snaps were good (I think they were called "tamari", haven't had them in a while due to the soy... toasted onion are decent and free of common allergens)

*Best Cereal = the Panda Puffs cereal was pretty good..

*Best Cookies = Pamela's had some decent cookies, I liked the peanut butter ones.. haven't tried others.. jennie's macaroons are good too

*Best Gum = glee gum (cinnamon and tangerine flavors are both decent and free of allergens.. much better than the peelu gum I had before)

*Best Chips = Lundberg Rice chips are good... I only tried the sea salt ones but they were one of my favorite gluten-free foods

*Best Nutrition Bars = Blueberry Organic Food Bars...

[jkmunchkin]

*Best Bread = (Self Made) - Submarine Sandwich Bread from Annalise Roberts

(Store Bought) - Sandwich Bread from the gluten-free Bread Basket in Chester, NY

*Best Bagels = Joan's gluten-free Great Bakes

*Best Pasta = Tinkyinada Brown Rice Pasta & Pasta with Shrimp & Asparagus from Lumi

*Best Pizza = Risotteria

*Best Rolls = Risotteria's Garlic rolls

*Best Crackers = Nut Thins (Almond)

*Best Cereal = Nature's Path Honey'd Cornflakes

*Best Waffles = Van's Wheat Free Blueberry

*Best Donuts = Havne't tried any

*Best Muffins = Have only tried Whole Foods Blueberry Muffins, but like them

*Best Cupcakes = Cupcakes using Namaste chocolate cake mix and Pillsbury Vanilla Frosting

*Best Cake = Same as cupcakes or Annalise Roberts Coconut Cake (haven't tried her other cake recipes yet but I'm sure I'll be adding them to my favorites based on all heer other stuff).

*Best Cookies = Wild Oat's Chocolate Chip cookies (But again, still want to try the recipes from Annalise)

*Best Chocolate = Dove

*Best Candy = Reese's Pieces

*Best Gum = Don't chew gum

*Best Ice Cream = Ben & Jerry's (Chunky Monkey, Cherry Garcia, Pistachio), Haagen Dasz (Rocky Road, Coffee)

*Best Sprinkles = Haven't had any

*Best Sorbet = Haagen Dasz

*Best Chips = Tostitos

*Best Pretzels = EnerG Sesame Pretzel Rings

*Best Drink = Any iced tea

*Best Soup = Whole Foods Shrimp Bisque

*Best Frozen Meals = Trader Joe's Chicken & Cheese Taquitos and Comfy Cuisine Spinach Ravioli

*Best Nutrition Bars = Never liked any of them

[jnifred]

I'm still figuring out a lot of these things, but for

Pancakes I have to say the Pamela's baking and pancake mix is the best

Muffins...homemade banana chocolate chip from Namaste mix......eating them fresh now......can't keep the kids out of them!!!!

Brownies...Namaste by far the best!!!

Cookies...Pamela's Brownie mix made into cookies...YUM!!!

Crackers...Chebe mixes make AWESOME crackers!!!

Pizza..again Chebe mixes

Bread...I haven't made any that is awesome yet, but don't eat much anyway...buy what I do eat from the gluten bakeries in the area

I'd LOVE a good peanut butter cookie recipe...still haven't figured that one out....they always end up too sweet...blechy

[Mango04]

I'd LOVE a good peanut butter cookie recipe...still haven't figured that one out....they always end up too sweet...blechy

I do one cup peanut butter, one egg and less than 1/2 cup raw sugar (maybe a little over 1/4 cup- but I really don't like sugary things) . Works pretty well.

[TCA]

*Best Bread = Cause You're Special

*Best Bagels = don't eat it

*Best Pasta = Tinkyinada

*Best Pizza = Chebe and Kinnikinnik frozen crusts

*Best Rolls = don't eat it

*Best Crackers = Blue Diamond Nut thins

*Best Cereal = Panda PB puffs

*Best Waffles = LifeStream Buckwheat

*Best Donuts = Kinnikinnik

*Best Muffins = Authentic foods Blueberry

*Best Cupcakes = Cause You're Special Yellow Cake Mix

*Best Cake = Cause You're Special Yellow Cake Mix

*Best Cookies = My homemade PB ones and Pamela's Pecan shortbread, and Enjoy LIfe snickerdoodles

*Best Chocolate = Reece's PB cups

*Best Candy = Reece's Pieces

*Best Gum = Trident

*Best Ice Cream = Edy's

*Best Sprinkles = don't eat it

*Best Sorbet = ???

*Best Chips = ????

*Best Pretzels = Glutino

*Best Drink = Tea

*Best Soup = Homemade Potato, chili, or stew

*Best Frozen Meals = Amy's enchiladas

*Best Nutrition Bars = ?????

[Green12]

I personally think everyone should try out and taste all the different brands, because what one person loves, another person hates. It all comes down to personal taste.

*Best Bread = Food For Life

*Best Pasta = Pastariso

*Best Pizza = Deby's gluten-free Bakery and Cafe, or Beau Jo's

*Best Crackers = Outside the Breadbox Multi-Grain

*Best Cereal = Erewhon Brown Rice Cream or Twice Rice, Nature's Path Mesa Sunrise

*Best Cake = Pamela's Luscious Chocolate Cake Mix

*Best Cookies = Pamela's Organic Dark Chocolate Chunk, Chunky Chocolate Chip, Peanut Butter, Almond Anise Biscotti, Enjoy Life Foods Snickerdoodles

*Best Chocolate = Rapunzel

*Best Ice Cream = Haagen Dazs Mayan Chocolate, Dulce De Leche, Mango, Peaches & Cream

*Best Chips = Lundberg Rice Chips

*Best Nutrition Bars = LaraBars

[lorka150]

I don't eat all of the things you wrote out, but I will post from the ones I eat.

*Best Cereal = Nature's Path Fruit Juice Sweetened Cornflakes, or hot quinoa

*Best Muffins = my basic homemade recipe that can be adapted to anything

*Best Chocolate = i use Chetfield's carob powder in baking

*Best Candy = Let's Do Organic Vegan Gummies

*Best Gum = Trident

*Best Ice Cream = homemade tofu ice cream

*Best Drink = water and Celestial Seasoning's Blueberry Tea

*Best Frozen Meals = if frozen vegetables count, then that's my favourite!

[Carriefaith]

Best Bread = Kinnikinnik

Best Bagels = Sterk's

Best Pasta = Tinkyada

Best Pizza = Kinnikinnik

Best Rolls = Sterk's

Best Crackers = Rice Crisps

Best Cereal = EnviroKidz

Best Waffles = Nature's Path Buckwheat Wildberry Waffles

Best Donuts = Kinnikinnik

Best Muffins = Kinnikinnik

Best Cupcakes = don't eat it

Best Cake = Sterk's

Best Cookies = Kinnikinnik

Best Chocolate = don't eat it

Best Candy = Skittles

Best Gum = don't eat it

Best Ice Cream = So Good Chocolate soy ice cream

Best Sprinkles = don't eat it

Best Sorbet = don't eat it

Best Chips = still having a hard time with this one

Best Pretzels = don't eat it

Best Drink = Tropicana orange juice fortified with calcium

Best Soup = Thai Kitchen Sping Onion

Best Frozen Meals = Amy's

Best Nutrition Bars = don't eat it

[VegasCeliacBuckeye]

*Best Bread = Kinnikinnick Brown Sandwich Bread

*Best Bagels = Glutino

*Best Pasta = Tinkyinada

*Best Pizza = Picazzo's (In Arizona)

*Best Rolls = Haven't had any worth a darn

*Best Crackers = Nut Thins Almond Smokehouse Crackers

*Best Cereal = Cocoa Pebbles

*Best Waffles = Van's gluten Free Blueberry

*Best Donuts = none are worth mentioning

*Best Muffins = Deby's from Denver's Blueberry Muffins

*Best Cupcakes = don't eat it

*Best Cake = don't eat it

*Best Cookies = Pamela's

*Best Chocolate = Hershey

*Best Candy = Jolly Ranchers

*Best Gum = Eclipse

*Best Ice Cream = Ben N Jerry's Phish Food

*Best Sprinkles = don't eat it

*Best Sorbet = lemon

*Best Chips = Ruffles with Dip

*Best Pretzels = Glutino

*Best Drink = Gatorade or Homemade Ice Tea

*Best Soup = Shelton's Chicken Tortilla

*Best Frozen Meals = Amy's Mac N Cheese

*Best Nutrition Bars = Apple Lara Bar

[jnifred]

*Best Muffins = my basic homemade recipe that can be adapted to anything

Can I have this recipe???? I had one before gluten-free that was adaptable like that, but obviously can't use it anymore...would lOVE to stop buying the mixes and adapting them.... THANKS

[suziew]

*Best Bread = Pamelas amazing bread mix

*Best Bagels = KinniKinnicks

*Best Pasta = Tinkyinada

*Best Pizza = Haven't found one yet

*Best Crackers = Glutino Crackers (the ritz like cracker)

*Best Cereal = Cocoa Pebbles

*Best Donuts = Kinnikinnicks chocolate with chocolate icing

*Best Muffins = Blueberry muffins I made from Pamelas baking mix

*Best Cake = Pamelas chocolate cake mix

*Best Candy = Reeses Peanut butter cups

*Best Gum = orbitz

*Best Ice Cream = edy's vanilla bean

*Best Chips = Stax KC masterpiece BBQ

*Best Drink = Mountain Dew Code Red

[penguin]

*Best Bread = Don't eat it

*Best Bagels = Don't eat it

*Best Pasta = Tinkyinada

*Best Pizza = Chebe

*Best Rolls = Chebe

*Best Crackers = Nut Thins (Almond)

*Best Cereal = Honey Rice Puffins

*Best Waffles = Van's Buckwheat

*Best Donuts = Don't like them, don't eat them

*Best Muffins = Homemade (still looking for perfect recipe)

*Best Cupcakes = Homemade

*Best Cake = Don't eat it

*Best Cookies = 3 ingredient peanut butter cookies

*Best Chocolate = Don't like it, don't eat it

*Best Candy = Starburst

*Best Gum = Orbit sweetmint

*Best Ice Cream = Breyer's mint chocolate chip

*Best Sprinkles = Never thought to try

*Best Sorbet = Don't eat it

*Best Chips = Lays Stax Salt & Vinegar, Mission corn

*Best Pretzels = Ener-g sesame

*Best Drink = Coke

*Best Soup = Homemade

*Best Frozen Meals = Amy's Mac N' Cheese

*Best Nutrition Bars = Don't eat them

[floridanative]

Best brownies - 123 Gluten Free

Best scones - pre-made - Gluten Free Bakehouse / mix - Gluten Free Pantry

Best pizza - Chebe mix

Best pretzels - Ener-G sesame pretzels

Best crackers - Ener-G crackers

Best frozen meal - Amy's enchiladas

Best lemon curd - Stonewall Kitchens

Best cookies - pre-made - Choc. chunk from Chat. bakery, KK oreo type cookies / mix - Pamela's choc. chip

Best pancakes - Pamela's

Best pasta - Bi-Aglut, Schar and Tinkyada

Best nutrition bars - Larabars

Best soup - Amy's potato leek, Thai Kitchen

Best waffles - Van's plain

Best bread - pre-made - French baguette from Chat. gluten-free bakery / mix - Breads from Anna

Best pan bars - 123 Gluten Free

The things I didn't list I either don't eat or I haven't found anything I like in the catagory. I'm going to try a few things I see here that I haven't tried. Thanks for this thread - it's great!

[jabberwife]

I'm new to the diet, but will contribute! Thanks to everyone else for your responses, because there are a few things on here I am happy to go try out!

*Best Crackers = Nut Thins (Almond)

*Best Cereal = Bob's Gluten-free hot cereal

*Best Waffles = Van's Wheat Free Gluten Free Waffles (regular or blueberry)

*Best Chocolate = Hershey's Special Dark

*Best Candy = Jelly Belly Jelly Beans <--so glad someone posted this, cause I love these and saw "modified food starch" and wasn't sure it was ok! YAY!!!

*Best Gum = Orbit

*Best Ice Cream = Dreyer's reduced fat Slow Churned--Coffee

*Best Chips = Tostitos' Naturals Blue Corn Chips

Anyone know a wonderful breading mix available to coat chicken Shake-n-Bake style? I bought some Kinnikinick and it was terrible! Any ideas?

[luvs2eat]

*Best Bread = Manna from Anna mix

*Best Bagels = Don't eat 'em... haven't found one.

*Best Pasta = Tinkyinada

*Best Pizza = Mr. Ritt's frozen crust or Jules in Doylestown, PA

*Best Rolls = Manna from Anna mix

*Best Crackers = Nut Thins (Almond)

*Best Cereal = Gorilla Munch

*Best Waffles = Don't eat 'em

*Best Donuts = Don't eat 'em

*Best Muffins = Homemade

*Best Cupcakes = Homemade

*Best Cake = Homemade

*Best Cookies = 3 ingredient peanut butter cookies

*Best Chocolate = the eating kind

*Best Candy = also the eating kind

*Best Gum = Don't eat it

*Best Ice Cream = Haagan Daas Vanilla Swiss Almond

*Best Sprinkles = Don't eat 'em

*Best Sorbet = Peach!

*Best Chips = Lays or Herrs Kettle chips

*Best Pretzels = Don't eat 'em

*Best Drink = Water

*Best Soup = Homemade

*Best Frozen Meals = Don't eat 'em

*Best Nutrition Bars = Don't eat 'em

[rlemmon]

The best gluten-free pizza i have tried has to be foods by George pizzas they are delicious. They taste just like real pizza.

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[floridanative]

The best gluten-free pizza i have tried has to be foods by George pizzas they are delicious. They taste just like real pizza.

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I heard this pizza won some award at a food show - but it was not a gluten free food show - so they must be really good. Thanks for reminding me about them. I was not gluten free yet when I read about the product before and I'd forgotten all about it.

[blueeyedmanda]

*Best Bread = Celiac Specialities' Grainless Baker Sandwich Bread

*Best Bagels = Don't eat

*Best Pasta = Tinkyinada any type

*Best Pizza = Grainless baker

*Best Rolls = Don't eat

*Best Crackers = Nut Thins (Almond)

*Best Cereal = It depends on the day and mood, I try mainstream when I really want cereal

*Best Waffles = Van's

*Best Donuts = Celiac Specialties' Glazed and Cinnamon Sugar

*Best Muffins =

*Best Cupcakes = Grainless baker vanilla cupcakes with sprinkles

*Best Cake =

*Best Cookies = I love the butterfly cookies from Grainless baker as well as Gluten free for Me

*Best Chocolate = Cadbury Mini Eggs

*Best Candy = Nerds, Reeses Pieces

*Best Gum = Can't chew that right now

*Best Ice Cream = Haagen Daz Creme Burlee!!!

*Best Sprinkles = hmm...

*Best Sorbet = ??

*Best Chips = Wegmans Roasted Garlic and Onion or Utz Barbque

*Best Pretzels = Glutino

*Best Drink = Arizona or Snapple iced tea...whichever is on sale

*Best Soup = homemade cream of broccoli

*Best Frozen Meals = can't decide.

*Best Nutrition Bars = Enjoy Life

[Girl Ninja]

Mango04 - Then what??

jabberwife - I brush with egg and then cover with crushed nuts and whatever spices or marinade strikes my fancy.

I made the rice pizza crust recipe someone posted. It was awesome! And Pamela's chocolate chunk cookies were really good too.