My Celiac Blog

Recently I noticed a new ready to heat item offered at Amazon, a new product from Tasty Bite. Tasty Bite offers ready made foods from India. I've often used their products in the past because I like curry and other types of Indian cooking. They have always indicated which of their items are vegetarian, vegan, and/or gluten free. Since this item is both vegan and gluten free it meets my requirements. Best of all it is delicious. This is not a very spicy product, in fact some might say it is not spicy at all. But the spinach and potatoes do come through (Aloo means potatoes and Palak means spinach). It immediately became my favorite Tasty Bite item.

Previous products from Tasty Bite came in a foil lined pouch that could not be put in a microwave oven, this new product is in a plastic pouch and it comes out just right after 60 seconds in our average-powered (1KW) microwave oven.

As with all other ready to heat meals of this genre, I always have mine over a half bowl of rice, and this product goes very well with rice. It gives me Happy Tummy and it tastes good too. I'd give it 4 stars, it could get one more if it was a little bit spicier.

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I was hankering for a delicious gluten free and vegan snack about a week ago when I looked at the Amazon Daily Deals page and saw Prana Organic BarCashew Almond on a sale that reduced their cost to about a dollar each. Since I'm a cheapskate with virtually no income these days (I paid $40 taxes last year) I thought I might give these a try.

They are absolutely delicious, wonderful, a delight in every way. The bars are made primarily of date paste in much the same way as Larabars (which are also OK) but the percentage of delicious tasty nuts in these bars is much higher than in Larabars. Perhaps this accounts for the fact that they do cost a little bit more.

After eating one of these for my mid-afternoon snack it was not at all unpleasant to wait until 6:30PM for dinner. And when you do eat one of these truly delicious bars you really do get the sensation that you just ate something nice.

They are clearly gluten free and vegan, but if you are allergic to tree nuts run away!

	Prana Organic BarCashew Almond, 1.7-Ounce Bars (Pack of 24) List Price: $54.96 Sale Price: $42.09 Average Rating:

I'll certainly be buying more of thes in the future. I give them 5 stars.

Our latest website designed to help people with celiac disease is now online, and it supports users of cell phones and other mobile devices. Gluten-FreeStore.com features GF food items from the two largest retailers in the gluten free food market, glutenfree.com and Amazon.com.

The site uses Wordpress blogging software, and features listings of a number of gluten free food categories you may select. Prices are shown on the individual item pages, which are in effect each a blog post, and in addition there are pages that list top selling gluten-free items at Amazon.

If you access the site using a mobile device it detects your device type and formats the display layout to better fit your screen.

Please consider visiting http://gluten-freestore.com/ for your GF shopping needs, you can compare the deals from the two top vendors in the business in order to get the best pricing and shipping available.

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Woo Hoo! Food scientists working together at Washington State University and Oregon State University are planning to develop a new variant of wheat that would not contain the gliadin proteins which cause trouble for people with celiac disease. This, if it comes to pass, would be earth shatteringly good news for those of us with grouchy tummies!

An article on the website Capital Press, which caters to the agriculture industry, reports the good news.

I'd like to thank these food scientists for caring about this issue, and wanting to help overcome this annoying disease.

Imagine sinking your teeth deep into a nice French Baguette like the one shown here, then pulling it ever so slowly away, teeth still clenched firmly, and watching as it stretches and then tears in a way that gluten-free bread just does not do at all.

Imagine eating bread that tastes like bread. Oh yes, I am so there. I might gain 10 pounds in the first week such a wheat-based gluten-free bread becomes available, but I would cherish each and every one of those pounds. Sock it to me, science!

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