Tastes Like Real Food, founded in 2007 by the Bosking family of Cedar Rapids, Iowa was purchased by Gluten-Free Trading Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a Midwestern family-owned business. The brand’s mission is the same, however—to help celiac and gluten-intolerant people enjoy GF foods that taste great!

Perhaps you’re familiar with the Toro brand baking mixes, imported from Norway, which are known in the celiac community to have an incredible taste and texture.

The Gluten-Free Trading Company will be using the Tastes Like Real Food website to launch two new baking mix lines, Happy Kitchen and Easy Cake. Check them out at: http://www.tasteslikerealfood.com.

HAPPY KITCHEN Home Cafe Supreme cake mixes are supposed to have a super-moist texture, and they’re wheat-free, gluten-free, and milk/casein-free and are sweetened with natural cane sugar and made in a dedicated gluten-free facility.

EASY CAKE Instant Microwave Cake Mixes are a super easy way to bake gluten-free—in a microwave oven! Cakes take only 3 minutes to prepare and come in two flavors, Chocolate with Dark Chocolate Frosting and Vanilla with White Chocolate Frosting. I recommend these mixes for kids to use themselves, with your supervision of course.

Tina Turbin
www.GlutenFreeHelp.info

(Above) Coconut pie made with “Gluten Free Impossible Coconut Pie Mix”

Tucked away in Texas this gluten free company, Mixes from the Heartland, offers a diverse assortment of mixes from muffin and bread mixes to delicious soup mixes.

My test-staff and I, in California and Florida, found every one of their products to be easy and quick to make, conformed to alterations and additions with success, and were absolutely delicious. These are mixes the entire family can enjoy.

(Above) Chicken Veggie Soup made from the Gluten Free Chicken Veggie Soup Mix

Mixes from the Heartland is a family-owned company with a sincere care for the gluten-free and celiac community. With the cost of gluten free  products typically being high, owner and CEO Teri Whisenhunt has steadfast determination to keep her products affordable by keeping middlemen off of her purchasing lines. According to Teri, they proudly carry the Celiac Sprue Seal of Approval, and they’re tested at under 5 ppm for wheat. They’ll soon carry a Vegetarian and All-Natural Seal of Approval. They are a 100% gluten-free factory.

With over 45 soup mixes and 25 meals, you can’t be at a loss for choices. They are a fast-growing company, always adding more, like their new sugar-free gluten-free mixes. Their desserts turned out light and true to the package. Teri goes on to say that any product that enters their factory must carry their own certification by the producer that it can pass the Eliza Test of less than 5 ppm of wheat.

This company goes the extra mile to ensure that any product their consumer purchases will be free of eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, oats, and gluten, and without bean flours used either.

Go to their site to order an item, a case or even fifty lbs. A shopping club is in the works, which will offer monthly giveaways and specials.

With their goal to be a focus point in the gluten-free industry, adhering to their standards stated earlier, and maintaining costs most families can afford, I know this company will be a household name in any GF home. This growing company has that family touch in each of the well though-out and developed mixes. Such variety and taste! You won’t be sorry.

Enjoy Mixes from the Heartland recipes we have shared on the site from my test kitchens.

Tina Turbin

www.GlutenFreeHelp.info

This food company is given a thumbs up and is HIGHLY recommended by award-winning author Tina Turbin and founder of www.GlutenFreeHelp.info.

Excerpted from the Mixes in the Heartland website:

Located in the Panhandle of West Texas, Mixes From The Heartland, Inc. new factory is over 30,000 square feet, and is completely dedicated to manufacturing Gluten Free products. We proudly produce our gluten free mixes using only the highest quality natural, freeze dried foods offered on the market.

Mixes From The Heartland has exploded onto the market with our revolutionary new line of Gluten Free Mixes and Sugar Free Gluten Free Mixes – Food products. Unlike other gluten-free companies we have NO cross contamination issues since our production rooms and warehouses are free of wheat, rye, and barley. While some of our competitors suggest that they are Gluten Free, some of them have factories that have wheat, rye, oats and barley in their facilities. If applicable, this can pose two potential problems, Gluten contamination which is air-born and using the same machines to run Gluten Free products and wheat related products. Even the most thorough cleaning can leave traces of Gluten behind.

Mixes From The Heartland Inc. makes sure that our suppliers of raw materials also avoid cross continuation in order to uphold the integrity of our finished product. Our goal is to provide healthy Gluten Free meals.