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  1. lpellegr
    A little further south in Mercer county, there is a PF Chang's near Princeton and an Uno in Hamilton, both of which are chains with gluten-free menus. Otherwise not much. The Blue Bottle Inn in Hopewell marks their menu items when they are gluten-free and they know what it means. Brothers Moon in Hopewell usually has some things that are or can be gluten...
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    You're going to have to spend some money, unfortunately, for some of these flours but if you shop around you might be able to find them cheaper in some places than others. No, don't buy from bulk bins because someone could have used the wheat flour scoop in the rice flour which would make it no longer gluten-free. Rice flour can be found cheapest at Asian...
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    It's a "maybe" on the cakes, cookies, pancakes, etc, but a definite NO on making bread by just substituting gluten-free flour. Our breads are not kneaded and are very fussy. You should consult a gluten-free cookbook for bread recipes or search this site. If you want your family to eat gluten-free, there's a lot more to it than just switching the flour...
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    Cornstarch: check the box. Some of them now say "gluten-free". I haven't had a problem with any of the brands I've used.
  5. lpellegr
    I've had mixed results from our local Aldi. I haven't seen anything labeled gluten-free (maybe they don't do it in the US), and there's little information about whether things are made on lines or in facilities with gluten. Some products have been fine, and others gave me a reaction (pistachios? deli ham? Really?). They have no consumer contact info...
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    If you haven't already divided things like margarine, peanut butter, mayo, etc into the gluten-free jar and the other jar, then make sure you do that for anything they could possibly want to share with you. Dedicate a drawer in your fridge to your food. Get a big Rubbermaid bin for your dry foods and mark it "Gluten-free only". Get a scissors just...
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    Do you mean premixed flours or components to make your own? I mix my own blends from components using Bette Hagman's cookbooks, and here is where I get flours: Rice flour, tapioca flour, sweet rice flour - Asian grocery stores carry these at the best price. I use Flying Horse brand. You should be able to get them at less than a dollar a pound. Brown...
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    Awesome! I was wondering about those. A lot of their other products make me react, so I would like to know whether they are made on gluten-free lines before I indulge.
  9. lpellegr
    If some food disappoints, you can sometimes use it for another purpose so you haven't wasted your money. The day-old cake would probably make a great trifle - layer cubes or slices of it in a bowl with fruit preserves and vanilla pudding (or chocolate pudding for chocolate cake). Crappy bread can be reborn as croutons or bread crumbs - cut into cubes, dry...
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    Ever since the forum format changed, I randomly get a warning popup when using my browser's "back" arrow button after reading a post. It's not every time, either, which is especially weird. I'm using Safari. When I hit the back button to get back to the list of posts, the popup asks me if I really want to send a form again. Sometimes, though, it just...
  11. lpellegr
    If you're familiar with how to make regular wheat pie crusts, this one from Bette Hagman should be easy for you. It always works for me and gluten-eaters can't tell the difference. From The Gluten-Free Gourmet by Bette Hagman (with some editing from me): Vinegar Pastry 1 c white rice flour 3/4 c tapioca flour 3/4 c cornstarch 1 rounded t xanthan...
  12. lpellegr
    You might be able to use some Crisco, lightly. You'd have to pack some in a portable container and hope it wouldn't melt in your pocket. Maybe melt it with some beeswax first. You could try taking 500 mg of lysine daily - this fights both herpesviruses and weak connective tissue. I was getting flaking skin around my mouth and cracks in the corners, and...
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    Same here - I bought gluten-free oats to test it out, and I reacted. So now I avoid oats, which irritates me when I read some label that says their product is gluten-free, but turns out to be oat based. I guess that's Karma for eating 3 bowls of Cheerios a day for 30 years.
  14. lpellegr
    I gave up eating anything from Frito-Lay. I always had a reaction to Fritos, Lays chips, or any of their other products, so even though the ingredients are not gluten-containing, I have to assume that there is significant cross-contamination on their lines. And I used to love Fritos.
  15. lpellegr
    Homemade Chex mix! Make with Rice Chex only, gluten free pretzels, and nuts. Salty, crunchy. Other options are Rice Chips from Lundberg and Pirate Booty - you can usually find those in the chip aisle, although you might have to search the bottom shelves. Crap, now I gave myself a craving.
  16. lpellegr
    Read the ingredient list. If it is nothing but rice, then you're fine. If it is a mix with other ingredients, then you need to check whether each ingredient could harbor gluten. We could help you better if you post all the ingredients here.
  17. lpellegr
    Keebler has new nut crackers out called Wheatables Nut Crisps, which are not gluten-free, but their packaging looks very similar to Blue Diamond's Nut Thins. If you eat Nut Thins, make sure you don't get fooled by these new crackers.
  18. lpellegr
    One of my grandmother's recipes that came out great! I had to share. These are very chewy fudgy cookies. Chocolate Drop Cookies 2 c brown sugar 1/2 c shortening (Crisco) 1 t vanilla 1 egg yolk 1/2 c "sour" milk - put 2 t vinegar in a measuring cup and fill to 1/2 c with milk 2-1/2 c your choice of flour - I used Bette Hagman's original blend...
  19. lpellegr
    Devilled eggs?
  20. lpellegr
    IMHO the Enjoy Life cookies are the nastiest of all the gluten-free cookies out there, so I'm not surprised their cookbook cookies aren't good. Thanks for warning the rest of us to stay away. Sorry you had all that trouble - it really stinks when you put all that work into it and end up with a plate full of disappointment.
  21. lpellegr
    You could probably replace the egg replacer with ground flax seed, like you can replace real eggs with ground flax and water - look online. You might also want to experiment with a recipe or two to see if leaving out the egg replacer matters. If it doesn't work, you can always break the bread down into crumbs and try again. Bette Hagman's recipes are okay...
  22. lpellegr
    The original dump cake recipes call for a standard box of cake mix, but since the results is just basically to turn the cake mix, butter, and nuts into a kind of crumb topping, the amount probably isn't crucial. You could reduce the amount of fruit filling you use to account for the (probably) smaller amount of cake mix in the gluten-free version. It will...
  23. lpellegr
    It's around, but apparently it's the ugly stepsister of Cream of Wheat - small boxes, and only a few among all its wheaty brothers. I'm not even sure if every store has it. No idea whether it's safe from cc.
  24. lpellegr
    This works well for me in a cookie press, although I use disks that produce a long "snake" of dough and then curl it into O shapes or make a long ribbon of dough to cut into bars - I'm not sure how it would work for the flower and tree shapes. I always have trouble with those shapes no matter what dough I use - they don't want to stick to the pan! These...
  25. lpellegr
    Heinz tomato soup tastes just like Campbell's but is made with rice flour instead of wheat flour. I can't remember if it's condensed, but it's good!
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