Liz Lovely

Liz Lovely

I need to start out by letting you know that what I share with you in this review may just change your life! The subject at hand is cookies. Yes, cookies. Those delectable little (or large) morsels of “yum.” When it comes to gluten-free cookies, we celiacs tend to compromise and like our newfound cookies. […]

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Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Avocado Cupcakes (Vegan)

Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Avocado Cupcakes (Vegan)

  A dear friend sent me this unique cupcake recipe.  So unique in fact that it would go perfectly with my one-of-a-kind recipe for Aztec hot chocolate. Vegan & GF Chocolate Chip Avocado Cupcakes Ingredients: 1 ½ cups Dakota Prairie GF Millet Flour Blend ( or any other GF flour blend of your choice) ¾ cup Enjoy […]

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Company & Product Review: Sweet Christine’s

Company & Product Review: Sweet Christine’s

www.sweetchristinesglutenfree.com Safe to eat, healthy, gluten-free, and top-of-the-line yummy—that is how we are summing up Sweet Christine’s. Oh my, folks, brownies that are the best ever, better than the best wheat brownies I’ve had in the past—no kidding!—donuts that taste like donuts should, and a truly decadent chocolate lava cake that oozed with chocolate as […]

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Road Trips with Your Celiac Child

Road Trips with Your Celiac Child

For car trips, bring along a cooler or two with already-prepared gluten-free foods and snacks for your celiac child. Luckily for your child, there are more and more gluten-free snacks available which are perfect for road trips. For instance, you can order online various snacks such as gluten-free jerky, gluten-free potato puffs, and gluten-free popcorn. […]

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Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free Roasted Eggplant and Garlic Spread

Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free Roasted Eggplant and Garlic Spread

This Mediterranean dish livens up the winter season and perfectly complements warmer weather. Make some gluten-free crackers for dipping. INGREDIENTS   2 medium eggplants (1 ½ lbs.), with skin, cut lengthwise in half 1 small yellow onion, with skin, cut in half 1 ½ tbsp olive oil, divided 2 large cloves garlic ½ c bottled […]

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Food Review: Heaven Mills Gluten-Free Bakery

Food Review: Heaven Mills Gluten-Free Bakery

Alta Schlesinger had a dream after some of her family members were diagnosed with celiac disease. Already with a propensity toward good cooking, she quickly turned a diagnosis into a fun challenge. Alta took many kosher traditional family dishes and turned them into gluten-free ones. Neighbors soon were asking for recipes and to purchase meals […]

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Celiac Disease Research Needs Support

Celiac Disease Research Needs Support

     Why is it that you and your doctors probably haven’t heard about celiac disease? Although the amount of research on celiac disease is growing, it depends entirely on the generosity of benefactors for its funding. Without these charitable donations, there would be no way to continue this research and the efforts to raise awareness. […]

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Desert Wind Skin Care and Emu Oil

Desert Wind Skin Care and Emu Oil

(No chemicals, detergents, alcohols, solvents, parabens, or petroleum-based products.) Many people have sensitive skin and many of these sensitivities derive from basic allergies or from the fact that so many topicals, shampoos, and soaps are laden with chemicals. So, what’s emu oil have to do with all this? Read on. Celiacs or gluten-sensitive individuals can […]

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Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies

Gluten-Free Peanut Butter Kiss Cookies

  This recipes, donated by a participant at the 2009 Tampa Bay Celiac Group Cookie Exchange, is sure to be a hit! INGREDIENTS   ¼ c butter-flavored shortening 1 ¼ c packed brown sugar ¾ c creamy peanut butter 1 egg ¼ c unsweetened applesauce 3 tsp vanilla extract 1 c white rice flour ½ […]

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Gluten-Free Essentials – A Company Thinking Outside the Box

Gluten-Free Essentials – A Company Thinking Outside the Box

This company is not only gluten-free, but it’s run by 2 women who understand the gluten-free business and who are fun.  Between the two of them they count 15 grandchildren with immense care for the celiac. With children in mind they also evolved a line – Speedy Bake.  These well designed and delicious mixes are […]

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Help Your Celiac Child Avoid Cross-Contamination

Help Your Celiac Child Avoid Cross-Contamination

I can’t insist enough the importance of teaching your child about his own condition and cross-contamination. How much your child can absorb depends on his age and maturity level. You’ll be surprised by how much a child is capable of understanding, though. Even two-year-olds can practice “reading” labels with you at the grocery store. Practice […]

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Product Company Review: Custom Choice Cereal

Product Company Review: Custom Choice Cereal

I’m sitting here with three gluten-free custom cereals, each one blended to my specifications, even down to the name. Custom Choice Cereal is really an innovative idea to help those on the gluten-free diet. The company allows anyone to choose a base for their mix, then choose out 1-11 out of 13 “ingredients,” then (get […]

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Gluten-Free Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies

Gluten-Free Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies

This delicious cross between peanut butter and chocolate cookies will be sure to please the whole family! Make some gluten-free chocolate brownies too! INGREDIENTS   1 (1-qt.) jar Gluten-Free Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookie Mix ½ c butter, softened 1 large egg 1 tsp vanilla extract   DIRECTIONS 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line baking […]

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PUMPKIN BREAD OR MUFFINS

PUMPKIN BREAD OR MUFFINS

I like to make Pumpkin Bread in the autumn, when the fall colors are peeking through my window. It seems so perfect for morning coffee or afternoon snacks once the weather starts to get cool. Your home will be filled with the warm aroma of sweet cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves. This recipe makes traditionally […]

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How Much Gluten is Too Much for Your Celiac Child?

How Much Gluten is Too Much for Your Celiac Child?

     The amount of gluten that can be tolerated varies among people with celiac disease. In general, research suggests that less than 10 milligrams (mg) of gluten daily is unlikely to cause significant damage to the intestines in most celiac people. However, these small amounts could still be enough to make a person feel unwell. […]

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Food Review: Bio-K+ Does It Again

Food Review: Bio-K+ Does It Again

Bio K Plus has just released a new probiotic supplement for celiacs and dairy-free, soy-free, and sugar-free individuals. Each little bottle offers 50 billion—yes, billion—beneficial bacteria at the time of consumption.  The recent product is organic-sprouted-rice-based and free of dairy, wheat, corn, soy, and sugar, not to mention certified organic. When we originally product-tested Bio-K+’s […]

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Food Review: Better Batter Gluten-Free

Food Review: Better Batter Gluten-Free

(I am not paid or given any incentive to write one way or the other. What you are about to read is from me to you, my honest opinion.) Three products and over 10 recipes – that’s Better Batter Gluten-Free. My testers and I cooked our own 9 dishes out of the 3 mixes and […]

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Tastes Like Real Food – News

Tastes Like Real Food – News

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, […]

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Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free Pesto

Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free Pesto

The more garlic, the better! you can put this on any dish including gluten-free bacon roasted chicken. INGREDIENTS   Handful of pine nuts 3 cloves of garlic, depending on taste Salt & freshly ground black pepper 3 handfuls of fresh basil, chopped Olive oil Drop or two of lemon juice to taste   DIRECTIONS   […]

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Food Company Review: Natasha’s Health Nut Cookies

Food Company Review: Natasha’s Health Nut Cookies

Ever eat a cookie that tastes good and you know to also be beneficial for you? Today we did!Natasha’s cookies—the healthy snack. Natasha Becker has been creating three flavors of her grain-free healthy cookies for about sevenyears, serving health-conscious, gluten-free, celiac, diabetic, and Specific Carbohydrate Diet eaterswith rave reviews. One of my testers tested well […]

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