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Atn: Food Lion Shoppers: Betty Crocker gluten-free Mixes On Closeout

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For anyone who has a Food Lion grocery store nearby, they had Betty Crocker gluten-free Yellow Cake mix and Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix on Closeout price for $1.88 each. These are regular $3.79, so it's huge savings. I looked at the boxes carefully and could not see anything wrong with them, (but they did say "may contain soy on the cake and "contains soy" on the cookies.) I found them on a closeout shelf in the middle of the freezer section. I checked the regular aisle and they no longer had a space for these products, but they did still have Betty Crocker gluten-free brownie mix for full price on the shelf. So go out and buy these while you can, Food Lion may not be selling them anymore.

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Lisa Mentor
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Well that's not good news. :angry: I did notice the disarray on the shelf the other day.

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Hopefully this is just at Food Lion stores or maybe even select stores within the chain. In the last few months I have seen my Food Lion stores phase out many of their organic products and one store practically eliminated the organics section completely, which was where most the gluten free stuff was. This particular store where I saw the closeouts never had an organics section in the first place. Either way, a closeout means Food Lion either won't be selling it anymore OR Betty Crocker is redesigning the packaging and the old product is getting closed out to make room for new. Since there were no spaces on the shelf for the product it's likely they won't be carrying it because it didn't sell well. :(

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It looks like the Betty Crocker gluten free mixes aren't moving in the stores that I shop at. I'm hoping they won't discontinue them here. I know there are other gluten intolerant people in this town.

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For anyone who has a Food Lion grocery store nearby, they had Betty Crocker gluten-free Yellow Cake mix and Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix on Closeout price for $1.88 each. These are regular $3.79, so it's huge savings. I looked at the boxes carefully and could not see anything wrong with them, (but they did say "may contain soy on the cake and "contains soy" on the cookies.) I found them on a closeout shelf in the middle of the freezer section. I checked the regular aisle and they no longer had a space for these products, but they did still have Betty Crocker gluten-free brownie mix for full price on the shelf. So go out and buy these while you can, Food Lion may not be selling them anymore.

I do hope they aren't phasing them out. It would be a shame as so many like them. We don't have Food Lion stores here but you post was really helpful for me.

I somehow missed this "(but they did say "may contain soy on the cake and "contains soy" on the cookies.)" on the packages. The mystery of why they didn't agree with me is now solved. :blink:

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I may have to check out Food Lion today. Also on a side note when I was up in PA the end of June, Big Lots had Perky's nutty rice and nutty flax for $2.00 a box. They were clearing out the old style boxes since the box changed. I bought 5 boxes. It was really nice not paying tax on food too. I don't know if it was a regional thing or if other Big Lots would have it.

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I do hope they aren't phasing them out. It would be a shame as so many like them. We don't have Food Lion stores here but you post was really helpful for me.

I somehow missed this "(but they did say "may contain soy on the cake and "contains soy" on the cookies.)" on the packages. The mystery of why they didn't agree with me is now solved. :blink:

Shoot, I had to pass on the cookies, but at that price I decided to risk trying the yellow cake. I'm not super sensitive to cc soy like I am cc gluten so maybe it will be okay when I try it. Now that I'm thinking about it my guess is that they make all the gluten-free mixes on the same equipment. Pretty much anything with chocolate has soy added. That's why they have to put "may contain soy" on the yellow cake mix.

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I may have to check out Food Lion today. Also on a side note when I was up in PA the end of June, Big Lots had Perky's nutty rice and nutty flax for $2.00 a box. They were clearing out the old style boxes since the box changed. I bought 5 boxes. It was really nice not paying tax on food too. I don't know if it was a regional thing or if other Big Lots would have it.

Thanks for the tip, I never would have thought to look for gluten-free stuff at Big Lots. I bet they have a lot of stuff come through when packaging changes.

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Thanks for the tip, I never would have thought to look for gluten-free stuff at Big Lots. I bet they have a lot of stuff come through when packaging changes.

Well here were my finds today. Went to Food Lion and they indeed had the chocolate and yellow cake mixs and the cookies marked down to $1.88. I bought two boxes of each. Went to Big Lots and they had Perky's nutty flax cereal ($2.00/box), Envirokidz orgainic gorilla munch and panda puffs cereal ($2.50/box), Thai kitchen instant rice noodle soups ($0.50/package), and Hokan Rice Sticks(rice vermicelli noodles $1.20/package). I'm sure there were other things but that was just what I was interested in. I did buy one box of the gorilla munch to try, three packages of the Thai instant rice noodle soup, and one package of the rice sticks. I like to go in there every now and then because you never know what you are going to find.

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Well here were my finds today. Went to Food Lion and they indeed had the chocolate and yellow cake mixs and the cookies marked down to $1.88. I bought two boxes of each. Went to Big Lots and they had Perky's nutty flax cereal ($2.00/box), Envirokidz orgainic gorilla munch and panda puffs cereal ($2.50/box), Thai kitchen instant rice noodle soups ($0.50/package), and Hokan Rice Sticks(rice vermicelli noodles $1.20/package). I'm sure there were other things but that was just what I was interested in. I did buy one box of the gorilla munch to try, three packages of the Thai instant rice noodle soup, and one package of the rice sticks. I like to go in there every now and then because you never know what you are going to find.

I'm glad you found the closeout Betty Crocker mixes. I went to Big Lots and saw the Envirokidz cereal. I also saw (and bought) Sam Mill's Corn Pasta for 1.20 and Mother's Rice cakes for 1.29. The rice cakes are the first I have found that don't contain soy. They do contain milk (butter) but it hasn't been bothering me in small amounts. I made Peanut Butter and jelly rice cake sandwiches out of these this week and I have nearly eaten the whole package. I'll be going back to stock up I think. I'm going to try the corn pasta tonight for dinner and I will stock up if it's good. I really liked Mrs. Leeper Corn spaghetti but it is $4.99 a box, so I hope I will like this brand just as well.

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