Jump to content
This site uses cookies. Continued use is acceptance of our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. More Info... ×
  • Welcome to Celiac.com!

    You have found your celiac tribe! Join us and ask questions in our forum, share your story, and connect with others.




  • Celiac.com Sponsor (A1):



    Celiac.com Sponsor (A1-M):


  • Get Celiac.com Updates:
    Support Our Content
    eNewsletter
    Donate

Opinion On Joan's gluten-free Great Bakes


Guest KG in FL

Recommended Posts

harriedlate Newbie
I just checked out the website, and gosh, everything looks amazing! But the prices--holy cat, $12 for 6 English muffins even before shipping charges? And I looked at the ingredients, and there's nothing expensive there--just cornstarch (89 cents a pound), tapioca (69 cents a pound), rice flour (69 cents a pound), and corn meal (79 cents for 12 ounces). Just like the English muffin recipes in my gluten-free cookbooks!

I'm willing to pay a premium for convenience, but not 20 times what it would cost me to make it myself. I simply can't afford it. :(

If you have bought all the other English Muffins like I have ,and then tasted Joan's you would know that there is something very different about them.The taste,texture appearance are so superior maybe the way they make them is very different. All I know is I threw the others out because they crumble and taste awful.These taste like really good food.


Celiac.com Sponsor (A8):
Celiac.com Sponsor (A8):



Celiac.com Sponsor (A8-M):



sansglutengrl Explorer

ATTENTION all you people who are throwing out inedible bagels and other breads!!

I discovered a great way to use these things without having to eat them. :) Take a cheese grater or a food processor (cut the bread or bagels up before you put them in there) and "grate" the whole thing and then put the remaining crumbs in a bag with a bunch of spices that you like - and then you can use them like normal bread crumbs! They're great on chicken or fish or sprinkled on a salad, whatever! I just can't bear to throw out incredibly expensive food, but I can't eat it either. Seriously, some of that stuff has actually made me gag. <shivers>

Fiddle-Faddle Community Regular
If you have bought all the other English Muffins like I have ,and then tasted Joan's you would know that there is something very different about them.The taste,texture appearance are so superior maybe the way they make them is very different. All I know is I threw the others out because they crumble and taste awful.These taste like really good food.

Oh, I absolutely agree with you about all the pre-made English Muffins!

My point, though, is that, unlike bagels, English Muffins are relatively easy to make from scratch (about on the same level as making biscuits from Bisquick), and all the recipes I have tried taste great.

Excellent point from sansglutengirl about inedible gluten-free breadstuff--I have made croutons from too-dry bread (fry cubes in butter, olive oil, garlic, and Italian seasoning) and used crumbs as breading for chicken fingers.

  • 2 weeks later...
harriedlate Newbie
I am very excited to try the bagels (after Passover of course!) I haven't had a decent gluten-free bagel. The Enjoy Life ones are awful and don't deserve to even be called "bagels".

I CAN NOT WAIT TILL IT IS OVER!!! I MADE A MATZOH THAT TASTES LIKE CARDBOARD AND I CAN'T WAIT TO SINK MY TEETH INTO AN EVERYTHING BAGEL!jOAN'S BAGELS ARE DELICIOUS AND i AM SOO TIRED OF CARDBOARD! IT IS ALMOST OVER.

  • 4 weeks later...
harriedlate Newbie
For anyone who is interested, and lives in the area, Joans will be at the celiac fair in NY coming up! I am not ordering anything online, I hope she will be selling it there and I can just bring it home without paying a shipping charge.. some vendors will be selling, others I am not sure, but her name was on the vendor list last time I looked!

Hi Tinkerbell, the vendor fair was great,so many people and sellers of all kinds of gluten-free products,It was wonderfull to be able to walk around and just eat and taste everything. The standout was Joan's pizza OMG it is a real pizza. Did yoou try it ?She had about 10 pies made up for sampling and they disappeared in a minute. She is now selling the crusts but ran out right away at the fair. I have not had those blisters in the roof of my mouth in years ,yeah pizza burn. Hers is great!!!

  • 2 weeks later...
smowheet Newbie
I got my bagels, muffin and the date nut bread. They are all excellent!! Did you get yours broncobux? I am going in for some surgery and am really happy knowing I have a stash safely in my freezer as my husband will have to cook for me for a couple weeks! Oh, and Joan has said she is going to sell a chewy ready made pizza dough and bread dough soon on her web site! I can't wait. I love knowing I don't always have to make things from scratch, sometimes I'm too busy or sickly. Plus Joan's tastes WAY better! If anyone else tries Joan's, I'd love to hear how you like it.

Open Original Shared Link

I started with pizza at the vendor fair,but the English Muffins were gone by the time I got there. I just got my first order today and now I know what you all mean WOW they are ENGLISH MUFFINS,nooks,crannys and taste!The pizza is amazing,the muffins are amazing . I havent made the bagels yet.Cant wait for the Sunday times and some lox and cream cheese

VegasCeliacBuckeye Collaborator

I know what you mean.

I got my Vegas Celiac Support Group to do a big order from Joan's (to save money on shipping) and so far, it has been a hit!

Love those English Muffins - they taste like the real thing - I make Sausage McMuffins at home with them when I can!

:)


Celiac.com Sponsor (A8):
Celiac.com Sponsor (A8):



Celiac.com Sponsor (A8-M):



loraleena Contributor

What are the main ingredients??

smowheet Newbie
What are the main ingredients??

Hi Loraleena,As far as I am concerned the main ingrediet is MAGIC ,but there is an ingredients page on the website www.gfgreatbakes.com.Almost all the products are listed.

mamaw Community Regular

Joan ROCKS--- she's got my vote for the best bagels & engllish muffins....

  • 3 weeks later...
harriedlate Newbie
Joan ROCKS--- she's got my vote for the best bagels & engllish muffins....

Mamaw, It looks like we both know who makes the best bagels . I come from Brooklyn,the home of the real bagel and joan comes the closest I have ever had

  • 4 weeks later...
smowheet Newbie
Mamaw, It looks like we both know who makes the best bagels . I come from Brooklyn,the home of the real bagel and joan comes the closest I have ever had

I didn't really know where to put this. I just wanted to let Joan's fans and any body else who doesn't know her yet to take a look at http;//iamglutenfree.blogspot.com/2007/06/lots-to-share for the latest opinion about her English Muffins. Another fan is born

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.


  • Celiac.com Sponsor (A19):



  • Member Statistics

    • Total Members
      127,948
    • Most Online (within 30 mins)
      7,748

    Completely Curious
    Newest Member
    Completely Curious
    Joined

  • Celiac.com Sponsor (A20):


  • Forum Statistics

    • Total Topics
      121k
    • Total Posts
      70.5k

  • Celiac.com Sponsor (A22):





  • Celiac.com Sponsor (A21):



  • Upcoming Events

  • Posts

    • cookiesyum
      The easiest way to remember the difference between the cholesterol types is HDL;   H=healthy equals healthy (omega 3, 7, limit 6 & 9 MCFA'S =Medium Chain Fatty Acids. 3= coconut oil, 7= sunflower oil, avocado. The higher your HDL the healthier you are & less likely to experience strokes, clogged arteries Etc. You can even use cold expeller pressed coconut oil on your skin and that is the best kind of coconut oil to eat as well. You want your HDL much higher than your LDL, it will help you stay healthy.   LDL;    L=Lousy. Meat fats, processed fats.  The higher your LDL is the more likely you will have strokes, clogged artery is, heart disease, fatty liver.   Then there's lipids... they are the culprit to be blamed for many heart attacks and things like that they are very small round particles that transport fats. You can have a low overall cholesterol reading and most of it be healthy cholesterol and have a ton of lipids and there's nothing you can do to change the lipid count. High number of lipids is very dangerous.   I'm going on statins is extremely dangerous if you ask me it's just completely my opinion, because I have seen so many of my elderly friends bleed to death internally because of the statins. I mean you wouldn't take all the oil and grease out of your car or a motorcycle and then try to drive it that way would you? You see that's what statins do they remove all of your bodies fats and it doesn't matter whether it's healthy fats or a lousy fats. It removes all of them and then your body can't function properly. You have to have fats to keep your skin supple and to stay warm. Your body also needs fats to digest & process certain nutrients, amino acids & vitamins.   Your brain is composed of fat so is that something you really want to remove with a pill every morning and night?   The thing about statins is that they also make the blood vessels and capillaries permeable. So this is how my friends who were on cardiac medication for a long time and statins ended up bleeding internally to death.   If you want to make sure that your heart is healthy, take odorless garlic at night and magnesium, vitamin K & calcium.     
    • pdm1981
      It's also a symptom of EPI.
    • Wheatwacked
      Yes.  Proportionately a small piece to a toddler is like a whole slice to an adult.  This is an important clue.  She was doing well, accidentally ate gluten and later the old behavior returned. I remember reading posts here of people reacting to a kiss from someone who had just eaten gluten. Recent research indicates that 40% of first degree relatives of someone with Celiac have undiagnosed Celiac Disease.  Father, mother, siblings.  There is a whole list of symtoms of "silent celiac".  Here is an article of symptoms possibly mistaken for other causes than Celiac Disease.  When I finally stopped gluten at 63 years old, I counted 19 things that improved, including lifelong mouthbreathing.  I never smelled bad things, so I as a kid, I learned to respond to the other kid's response in order to not seem weird. I really recommend you pursue testing for all the family if you can, and the whole family following GFD.  It is difficult at first, but the benefits will be worth it.  
    • Visionaerie
      I get these but where we are, they are called chicken potstickers. I would obviously suggest that it is the ginger in the product that is causing a stimulative digestive effect! So you might want to do what I do, just cook one of them with the rest of your meal so you don't have the same effect. I love the Feel Good products but they are on the expensive side. (I also drink Reed's ginger brew so in general, ginger is a friend of mine..when delivered at the right dose). Hope this helps and have a warm healthy week!
    • ognam
      Has anyone had Steatorrhea (oily/fatty poop) as a temporary glutening symptom or should I be concerned I've introduced chronic gluten somewhere (like in meds)? I haven't gotten Steatorrhea since before I went gluten free. However, I moved in the past few weeks and haven't been as careful - I've eaten at restauraunts with cross contamination but only experienced minor symptoms like headache. The past week, I ate only gluten free food at home except I went to Red Robin and got fries (told them gluten-free; allergy). The next day I had Steatorrhea and the day after that.   I know it's a symptom of malabsorption so I was wondering if it was the kind of thing that could be caused by one event or if it was due to a more chronic issue. Of course I will speak to a GI but I recently moved and need to find one.   Thank you for any info
×
×
  • Create New...