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I was recently told that regular vanilla extract is okay to use and is gluten-free because the alcohol in the extract is distilled. I'm wondering if (and hoping that) this is true. Also, is it okay to use vanillin? My youngest has celiac and I'm making Christmas candy, and one of his teachers also has it and I'd like to make it gluten-free so she can eat...

We don't always eat gluten free because we don't have full custody of my step son, but he is with us 50% of the time and when we have him our meals usually cater to children....but they are good. He LOVES what we call pizza chicken, which is just chicken breasts cooked all day in the crock pot with Contadina pizza sauce poured all over them. This was something...

Collette, this sounds amazing! I absolutely love mushrooms. I made a beef stew last week that was delicious, but would have never thought to serve with quinoa. Thanks for the ideas!

I was sitting in my doctor's office this afternoon and they have a tv on at all times with a health watch tv program. There was a lady on there talking about how good quinoa is for you, and she made a dish that looked delicious! She had some cooked quinoa, and made her own version of a fresh pesto (she basically said to make it however you like it) and...

I'm definitely going to try this one! Thanks!

Julie, I believe Cheetos cheese curls are gluten-free. In fact, we have checked on this and have been feeding them to our youngest, and he just had his blood tests done and is testing negative for celiac antibodies so if they aren't gluten-free then he has been healed!!! Double check, of course, but from what we have seen they are gluten-free.

Well, I went through all that trouble for nothing. My step son's mother was going to the field trip with him today, so I e-mailed her to tell her where his snack was and how we put them together....she e-mailed me after they got home from school and said he never got around to doing the snack station part of the field trip and that she forgot to bring all...

Thanks for letting me know that because I have had the same hesitance with any gluten free white cake mix. I will definitely have to try it!

I have tried just about every gluten-free brownie mix out there, and while most of them are okay...I have to say that Pamela's is THE BEST! I hadn't tried Pamela's until this past week, and I happened to run across a box of the brownies with chocolate chunks, and I made the recipe for the 'fudgy' ones on the back and added some more chocolate chips, and...

This is what I did for tomorrow's spiders..... I found some gluten-free round crackers, spreading them with peanut butter, using chocolate chips for eyes, and since I couldn't find any gluten-free pretzel sticks (only rounds) I got some fruit rollups and cut them so that they can be used for the legs. Not the prettiest things, but he liked them! I knew...

Thank you so much! I was thinking about something along the same lines with the pretzels and crackers if I could find them. I'm not that creative, though! The other thing is that I will not be there, his mother is going to be there but she will not provide a snack. So if I send the ingredients in she will have to make them with him and who knows if she...

My step son's school is having a safari day this Friday and they are making spiders with crakers and pretzel sticks. Anyone have any ideas on how I can make some sort of 'creature' for him out of gluten free foods? I hate to think of him not being able to make something cool. Also, would anyone know how I could make blini's gluten free? (Russian pancakes...

I do like Pamelas, but I've also had luck with Bob's Red Mill mixtures and Gluten Free Pantry as well. If you read the ingredients on the back of the label it says what mixture is in there and I've had good luck with all of them. The pancake mixes and things like that already have the xantham gum in them...I have never used anything but xantham gum and...

I made a loaf of the most delicious banana bread yesterday using Gluten Free Pantry's Muffin and Scone mix. I usually make it from scratch, but when I went to the store yesterday to get some gluten free flour, all they had were the mixes. I followed the recipe on the box for the muffins and added four mashed over ripe bananas and baked it at 350 until it...