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Betty Crocker New gluten-free Line

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Tica Apprentice
Tica
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Hi everyone I just reiceved this email from General Mills (makers of Betty Crocker foods):

"Thank you for contacting General Mills regarding the availability of Betty Crocker gluten free mix. The New Gluten Free product line will be out June 1, 2009.

We appreciate your loyalty to our products. Please let us know if we can be of further assistance.

Sincerely,

Aneisa McDuff

Consumer Services"

I guess I will be heading to my local grocery stores to make sure they carry the line :) This will make baking quick gluten-free goddies for my kids a bit quicker and easier.

Tica :D

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samcarter Contributor
samcarter
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Hi everyone I just reiceved this email from General Mills (makers of Betty Crocker foods):

"Thank you for contacting General Mills regarding the availability of Betty Crocker gluten free mix. The New Gluten Free product line will be out June 1, 2009.

We appreciate your loyalty to our products. Please let us know if we can be of further assistance.

Sincerely,

Aneisa McDuff

Consumer Services"

I guess I will be heading to my local grocery stores to make sure they carry the line :) This will make baking quick gluten-free goddies for my kids a bit quicker and easier.

Tica :D

Oh WOW! Just in time for my birthday! We have a rule in our house that nobody bakes their own birthday cake (My husband made this rule after he found out that as a kid, i was told to bake my own cake once I was old enough. He thought that incredibly sad.) This last year, he got me an ice cream cake but it still had little "crunchies" in it. He would love to be able to bake a cake for me with the kids! I'll keep an eye out.

IAmSara Newbie
IAmSara
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Wow!! Maybe it'll be affordable, since it is General Mills? I hope so!!

I will be making cupcakes every weekend when they debut!

-Sara

DakotaRN Newbie
DakotaRN
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I hope it doesn't take too long for it to come to ND. :)

ptkds Community Regular
ptkds
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I hope they stock it everywhere! My walmart doesn't like to stock stuff that doesnt sell.

Tica Apprentice
Tica
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Oh WOW! Just in time for my birthday! We have a rule in our house that nobody bakes their own birthday cake (My husband made this rule after he found out that as a kid, i was told to bake my own cake once I was old enough. He thought that incredibly sad.) This last year, he got me an ice cream cake but it still had little "crunchies" in it. He would love to be able to bake a cake for me with the kids! I'll keep an eye out.

Carvel will actually make you a cake without the "crunchies", contact the company and speak to the individual mananger and they will help you out.

Tica Apprentice
Tica
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Be sure to speka to the store manager where you shop. If there is a local celiac chapter or group involve them as advocates to call the store. Usually if the store sees that there is a demand for it, the will carry it.

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daphniela Explorer
daphniela
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It will be in stores on June 1st.

  • 2 weeks later...
njbeachbum Explorer
njbeachbum
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just looking at the betty crocker website today which is updated for the gluten free product line! there's lots of good info there... here is something i found in the faq section; does the third answer mean that all of the frostings are currently gluten free and just need to be relabeled in the fall? i would LOVE to bake my devil's food birthday cake on July 3rd and top it with a real, whipped, delicious vanilla frosting! Mmmmmmmmmmm

Q: What products are available gluten free from Betty Crocker

Juliet Newbie
Juliet
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Just so you all know, At the CDF Food fair & conference from the first Saturday in May, the reps from General Mills were giving out samples of the brownies, and they tasted just like the original non-gluten free mix. Also, I was told that Target & Wal-Mart will be carrying the gluten free mixes, as well as Ralph's and Vons and their affiliated grocery stores.

I actually prefer the homemade flourless, fudgey brownies, but the taste & texture really brought back memories when I'd just grab a mix, add some chocolate chips & nuts, and eat warm brownies about 20 minutes later. I really do look forward to the mixes coming out!

Silly Yak Pete Rookie
Silly Yak Pete
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Did any stores sneak them out early yet? I have been dying for these mixes for months already.

taweavmo3 Enthusiast
taweavmo3
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Funny, a couple of years ago I would have been over the moon happy about Betty Crocker gluten free mixes. But now, I've become so used to homemade versions that are so good, I don't think I'd go back to mixes anymore. Even my husband has said that as long as the flour mix is mixed up, homemade is only a few more steps than a mix.

But, this is still great for the gluten free community. It's more publicity, more people will find out about Celiac after seeing all these new gluten free foods on the mainstream shelves. And it's great for the newly diagnosed, I would have killed for a Betty Crocker mix those first few daunting shopping trips!!! And I'm thinking this will be great for my kids when they are older and want to make something on their own and they can just grab something off the Walmart shelf.

Gluten free is just getting easier and easier these days!

samcarter Contributor
samcarter
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Carvel will actually make you a cake without the "crunchies", contact the company and speak to the individual mananger and they will help you out.

That's good info, but unfortunately I have determined that dairy also causes me problems as well. For Mother's Day DH found a Gluten Free Pantry cake mix and made me a little cake. He said, "This doesn't taste as good as regular cake," while I was savoring it. When you haven't had cake in eons, ANY cake with frosting is tasty! :D

Pegleg84 Collaborator
Pegleg84
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we used Betty Crocker frosting on my bday cake this year. It's totally gluten free already.

Do you know if the new gluten-free line will be available in Canada right away. My mouth is watering just thinking about it. mmm... gluten-free brownies.... I just hope a pack doesn't cost a fortune. Under 5$ would be wonderful

BigDogz Explorer
BigDogz
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I'm ecstatic about these new Betty Crocker mixes...especially about the brownie mix...but they need to come out with a gluten-free bread mix that I can throw in my bread machine, set it and go! I'd kill for a sandwich about now but can't find anything other than corn meal, soy flour or ground flax locally so a gluten-free boxed mix would be a boon for me!

GottaSki Mentor
GottaSki
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ahhhh...hot brownie crumbles in gluten-free vanilla ice cream...i can hardly wait!

JNBunnie1 Community Regular
JNBunnie1
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I'm ecstatic about these new Betty Crocker mixes...especially about the brownie mix...but they need to come out with a gluten-free bread mix that I can throw in my bread machine, set it and go! I'd kill for a sandwich about now but can't find anything other than corn meal, soy flour or ground flax locally so a gluten-free boxed mix would be a boon for me!

You could always order stuff online.

HiDee Rookie
HiDee
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I'm so excited they made their frostings gluten free as well. My favorite used to be the rainbow chip and I couldn't have it for so long after going gluten-free because they used to make it with wheat starch. Hooray for General Mills!

zip2play Apprentice
zip2play
Posted

OH Yellow cake with chocolate icing! Bring it on! YUMMO

  • 6 months later...
soke Newbie
soke
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Here's an online petition to try to bring the Betty Crocker Gluten Free mixes to Canada. They're made in Canada but only sold in the US. Maybe if big companies like General Mills start realizing that there is a demand for it here they'll start to look at how they can make some of their other products gluten free too.

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GFinDC Veteran
GFinDC
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Here's an online petition to try to bring the Betty Crocker Gluten Free mixes to Canada. They're made in Canada but only sold in the US. Maybe if big companies like General Mills start realizing that there is a demand for it here they'll start to look at how they can make some of their other products gluten free too.

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Hi Sarah,

I just signed your online petition to get Betty Crocker cake mixes sold in Canada. I am not in Canada myself, but I hope that isn't a problem. I did come real close to going there once though. :D:-) Us celiacs needs to stick together and support each other though so I am happy to sign it.

I think you might get more response if you start a new thread for the petition issue. We have several threads about the Betty Crocker cake mixes and people mostly like them here. You could ask one of the mods to suggest the best location for a thread on the petition effort too. There are several forums like the international forum that might get more response from Canadian members. The coping with celiac forum gets a lot of attention from members too.

ladybugjaimes Newbie
ladybugjaimes
Posted
OH Yellow cake with chocolate icing! Bring it on! YUMMO

This is totally what i did. I went gluten free about a week ago,(I do not have celiac or a wheat allergy. I went gluten free to see if it would help so other health problems) my parents laughed cuz i could not have cake. So i bought the yellow cake and made it one night and they loved it!!

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