Enjoy Life Bagels - Tried 'em

[tarnalberry]

Wild Oats in our area (Long Beach) just started carrying a lot more gluten-free stuff (Enjoy Life foods, Montina flour, Kinnikinnik mixes, etc.) and I picked up some blueberry bagels from Enjoy Life. (And their Cranapple granola.) The bagels looked... small and very dense, and ... not exactly "delectable".

Not having a separate toaster (I don't toast anything anyway... Not a big bread fan any more...), I just nuked it for a minute, and then ate it. (I put peanut butter on half of it to up the fat content of the breakfast. Peanut butter and blueberry... different. ;-) ) It wasn't bad. It certainly wasn't a fabulous gourmet bagel. And there's plenty of room for improvement, but it was edible, and I'll be finishing the bag.

For me, to say that a store-bought gluten-free bread-type food replacement wasn't bad and I'll be finishing it is practically a miracle! So I thought I'd encourage any reluctant folks to give their bagels a try, and if the toaster doesn't make it edible, try the microwave before throwing them out. Still not cheap, but not something I'd want to eat every day either.

[KaitiUSA]

I tried them too...they have cinnamon raisin ones too. The blueberry ones are very edible. The first time I tried them we broiled them too long so they were hard and I did not like them. The second time I did not put them in as long and I must say they were not bad at all but they aren't like delicious though either.

[Guest nini]

I like them ok... not great, but not terrible either.

[rma451]

Wild Oats in our area (Long Beach) just started carrying a lot more gluten-free stuff (Enjoy Life foods, Montina flour, Kinnikinnik mixes, etc.) and I picked up some blueberry bagels from Enjoy Life.  (And their Cranapple granola.)  The bagels looked... small and very dense, and ... not exactly "delectable". 

Not having a separate toaster (I don't toast anything anyway... Not a big bread fan any more...), I just nuked it for a minute, and then ate it.  (I put peanut butter on half of it to up the fat content of the breakfast.  Peanut butter and blueberry... different. ;-) )  It wasn't bad.  It certainly wasn't a fabulous gourmet bagel.  And there's plenty of room for improvement, but it was edible, and I'll be finishing the bag.

For me, to say that a store-bought gluten-free bread-type food replacement wasn't bad and I'll be finishing it is practically a miracle!  So I thought I'd encourage any reluctant folks to give their bagels a try, and if the toaster doesn't make it edible, try the microwave before throwing them out.  Still not cheap, but not something I'd want to eat every day either.

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[rma451]

hi, there is a recipe floating around for bagels on one of the sites, but I just made them this morinng for my husband and myself,

very good , they were chewy and yet had a nice crust, after following directions on recipe I just brushed them with egg yolk and then put poppy seeds on then baked.

I f any one would like the recipe, will share, although need to give credit to who ever it belongs too, dont have in front of me right now .

told my husband only change would be to double the recipe so could make them a little bigger next time , we both really liked them and my husband is a bagel junky,lol, growing up with them every sunday .

rosie