Allergen Free Foods

[Juliebove]

I needed some more faux parmesan cheese. There's is wonderful! Looks, smells and tastes just like the real thing. It's beef based. I love their other cheeses as well, but I think there is too much fat in them for my stomach or something. They don't seem to set well with me. So I will stick to rice cheese for my other dishes.

I noticed that they now sell chocolate cakes, oatmeal raisin cookie bars and cornbread. So I ordered them, not really knowing how big they would be or when they would come.

I am used to Ener-G stuff. That's small. These things are HUGE! Probably best to get if you have a separate freezer or plenty of freezer space, which I do not.

I have placed three orders with the company. The first one said it would take 6 to 8 weeks to arrive. I think it took about 6. The website no longer says that. The next two orders came in a few days. This one was maybe 2 weeks.

So yesterday when I was in a hurry to get to the movies, the Fed Ex truck pulled up behind me. And sat. Daughter told me to honk at it, but I figured it was my order. And it was. Of course I needed to deal with it right away because the stuff is supposed to be kept refrigerated.

In the past, it was sent with ice packs. Not so this time. But it was in a big insulated container. I put the cheese in the fridge and left the other things in the garage. I had no choice. They were too big for my fridge or freezer (it's quite full) and I figures it was cold in the garage.

When we returned, I noticed that the cake was supposed to be kept frozen until ready to eat. Oops! The first piece I tried to take out crumbled. I gave that to daughter to eat. I put the rest in individual containers. 3 went into the fridge and the rest in the freezer for upcoming birthdays. Daughter loved the cake and wanted another piece right away. I tasted a small amount of cake and frosting. I am not a cake lover, but this tasted good to me. Shouldn't have had it though because chocolate messes with my GERD.

Daughter said that the oatmeal raisin cookies were disgusting. She doesn't like raisins though and that was the problem. I had hoped she would eat them. I don't like raisins either and feel they would be better without. But the oatmeal part was very good and they taste just like the real thing. So much so that husband has been eating them like a pig and he doesn't know they are allergen free.

We were going to have the cornbread tonight but it had an accident. I am pretty sure daughter was involved. I left it sitting in the garage on a case of gluten-free bread products. She had toast for breakfast. But she claims she didn't do it. At any rate, it was dumped upside down on the floor and broken. There is a large chunk intact. I plan to cut three pieces out for dinner and then save the rest in the freezer (hopefully it will fit) for stuffing for Thanksgiving dinner. Hopefully I can make something edible. We didn't like my last attempt. I used Ener-G bread for that. Oddly the rest of the family liked it but the three of us did not. I am not much of a stuffing person though. I need to find a recipe without eggs. I found one that calls for chopped hard boiled eggs and pecans and I figured I would just leave those things out. Daughter hates nuts as well.

[Juliebove]

We just tried the cornbread and it was excellent! Not the overly sweet kind. And it held together. I have tried to make it from mixes without using eggs and it has never worked, or tasted good. I'll be ordering this again and soon.