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Chebe Mixes
Breads, Pizza Dough, Sweet Rolls, and More
Chebe Bread Pizza Crust Mix, 7.5-Ounce Bags (Pack of 8)
Gluten-free and great taste
Lactose and casein-free
Yeast-free
Amazon Price: $18.62 (as of 01/01/2010) 
Chebe Bread All-Purpose Mix, 7.5-Ounce Bags (Pack of 8)
Amazon Price: $18.62 (as of 01/01/2010)
Chebe Bread Focaccia Flat Bread Mix, 7.5-Ounce Bags (Pack of 8)
Amazon Price: $18.62 (as of 01/01/2010)
PIZZA
We LOVE pizza! Since the local delivery place is out of the question, we've learned how to make our own that is inexpensive, EASY, and yummy!Chebe Flat Bread Mix is easy to prepare. Just mix with water, knead a bit, and press on to a baking sheet. Chebe products are free of all common allergens - no wheat, soy, corn, dairy, eggs, oats, rice, or sesame. They're vegan and the end product is soft and thick like a real pizza crust should be!
Bake until just browned and then add your toppings.
Since my husband is allergic to tomatoes, he uses olive oil, crushed garlic, and fresh, crushed basil to make a basic pesto sauce then tops it with cheese and organic sausage crumbles.
I like "white" pizza, so I use the same pesto sauce base and add feta crumbles, black olives, chopped, cooked, chicken, and artichokes.
The kids use natural tomato sauce, a ton of cheese, and a ton of veggies.
Then, just pop the pizzas back in to the oven until the toppings are lightly browned and the cheese is bubbly (if you use cheese).
The crusts can be made ahead of time and refrigerated until you're ready to use them.
Get To Know Quinoa
Quinoa flour is gluten-free and makes tasty tortillas! Using an inexpensive tortilla press, form rounds and then bake in a medium oven. You can use them as you would corn or flour tortillas or cut them up and fry for your own tortilla chips.
The World's BEST Cookie Mix
Unfortunately, my son can't eat them - but the rest of us can!!
Cookie Mix, Incredible Chocolate Chunk, Wheat Free, Gluten Free, 13.6 oz.
Amazon Price: (as of 01/01/2010)
These cookies are quick and easy to make, have instructions for accomodating your personal allergies, and are SO INCREDIBLY DELICIOUS YOU WON'T BELIEVE IT!!!
*I haven't received any compensation for this endorsement. However, if Pamela's ever needs a taste tester, well, you know where to find me.......
Pamela's Products
From the Queen of Living Gluten Free
In 1941, Pamela Giusto-Sorrells' grandparents owned one of the first health food stores in San Francisco, the Golden Crescent. It was a small neighborhood natural food bakery and store offering "brick-like" rice, soy, and potato/lima bean breads, as well as rice and soy cookies. These were some of the first available gluten-free foods. In her youth, she had one of the few "female" jobs in the bakery as a cookie packer. Even as a child, and then as a bakery employee, "I was continually amazed that dedicated customers were so thankful to find our gluten-free foods. I personally thought these products looked and tasted awful and wondered why people ate them. The typical reply was, 'Let them be happy there is something on the market for them to eat,'" she says.Always the dessert baker at home, and after all those hours on the cookie line in the family business, she started experimenting with wheat-free baking. The challenge was to make products that tasted so good that no one would be able to tell that they were wheat-free. "My career was born," she says. "In 1988, I left the family business taking one small pallet of my belongings with my first forklift and moved two blocks away." On April Fool's Day, Pamela's Products became an independent business featuring wheat-free and gluten-free foods, each bite prompting the incredulous food lover to ask: "Are you sure these are wheat-free?"
Pamela's, based in Ukiah, Calif., continues to maintain its indulgent reputation by using the finest natural ingredients, and always striving to delight the customer with delicious, decadent wheat-free and gluten-free cookies, biscotti, and baking mixes. Its products can be found throughout North America.
Why Wheat-Free & Gluten-Free?
People who have a wheat allergy or gluten sensitivity suffer a range of physical symptoms (for example: abdominal bloating, diarrhea, gas and low energy) as a result of eating certain grains. Gluten Intolerance, also known as Celiac Sprue, irritates the intestinal lining preventing the absorption of nutrients into the body through the small intestine. Gluten is a protein found in wheat, rye, barley, possibly oats, and other grains.
Pamela's Products
Pamela's Products Wheat-Free & Gluten-Free Bread Mix, 19-Ounce Packages (Pack of 6)
This mix makes a large loaf of soft, delicious bread. The aroma fills your kitchen as your bread bakes up golden brown. Easy to make, quick and versatile, serve with all your meals. This amazing, great tasting bread stays soft for days. Also, makes great pizza crust, dinner rolls, and more. So delicious you won't believe it's wheat-free and gluten-free. Yeast packet included.
Amazon Price: $26.54 (as of 01/01/2010)
Pamela's Wheat Free, Gluten Free Ultra Chocolate Brownie Mix, 16-Ounce Packages (Pack of 6)
Includes chocolate chunks. Wheat-free and gluten-free. Made with premium, all-natural ingredients for the extreme chocolate lover. Pamela's chocolate brownie mix creates deserts so tantalizing and decadent, you won't believe they're wheat-free and gluten-free. Incredibly versatile and easy to make.
Amazon Price: $29.23 (as of 01/01/2010)
Pamela's Products Simplebites, Ginger Mini Snapz, 7-Ounce Pouch (Pack of 6)
All natural. Wheat-free. Gluten-free. 0 g Trans fat. Non-dairy. Pamela's mini cookies are a wonderful addition to our scrumptious line of traditional and organic cookies, crunchy biscotti, and our five fast, easy & delicious baking mixes. Our products are so delicious, you won't believe they're wheat-free and gluten-free! Pamela's Ginger Mini Snapz are the perfect size for snacking; you'll have a hard time stopping with just one! You can also use our mini cookies for making great desserts! Product of the U.S.A.
Amazon Price: $16.92 (as of 01/01/2010)
Pamela's Products Almond Anise Biscotti, 5-Ounce Packages (Pack of 8)
Case of eight 5-ounce packages, each containing six cookies (total of 32 ounces, 48 cookies)
All-natural biscotti with anise and chunks of almonds, the traditional flavor of Italy
Wheat-free, gluten-free
Crunchy twice-baked cookies, perfect for dunking
Amazon Price: (as of 01/01/2010)
Pamela's Products Lemon Shortbread Cookies, 7.25-Ounce Boxes (Pack of 6)
Pamela's all-natural Lemon Shortbread is a wonderful shortbread made using rice flour, and is full of lemon with a refreshing zing. Plus, it's completely wheat-free and gluten-free.
Amazon Price: $18.37 (as of 01/01/2010)
Cool Off This Summer
Take an assortment of frozen fruits, add milk or soy milk, add some water, and liquify in your blender. Pour in to popsicle molds and freeze for a yummy, gluten-free, frozen treat!
Gluten Free Cook Books
Before You Panic!
- Gluten Free Kitchen Therapy
- Overcome your fear of using your own kitchen!
- Allergic Child
- A tremendous resource of information and gluten free food stores.
- Chebe Bread Products
- Definately a favorite brand around here. And the site has CINNAMON ROLLS!!!
- Pamela's Products
- All Hail The Queen of the Gluten Free Cookie!!!!
- Allergen Free Comfort Foods
- A fairly comprehensive list of foods and what they are usually free of when you're on the look out for a certain allergen.
More Healthy Goodies
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Quinoa - The Wonder Grain
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Quinoa (pronounced KEEN-wah) is a native of Peru where it grows both wild and under cultivation for centuries begining with the Incas. It is technically a pseudo-cereal since it is not a member of the grass family, but rather produces seeds (usually...
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Food Allergy Testing
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Many common health problems are a direct result of food sensitivities or allergies which you may not even be aware that you have. If you have concerns about your health it's a good idea to speak with your doctor about getting blood and skin tests don...
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The Hygiene Hypothesis
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The hygiene hypothesis holds that a lack of exposure to germs, allergens, and parasites increases susceptibility to allergic diseases and weakens the human immune system. This explains the sharply rising rate of allergies and asthma in the western wo...
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Avoiding High Fructose Corn Syrup
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You know that it's not good for you, but it's in nearly everything - how can you avoid it? Unless you are super-diligent, it's hard to not let it slip in, but there are some very easy and inexpesive ways to drastically reduce your family's consumptio...
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All-Purpose, Handy-Dandy, Calorie-Free, Bake Sale
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No calories if you just look? We all love a good bake sale, so grab your glass of milk, sit back, and indulge in some virtual goodies (allergy-free too!). This page supports Longhopes Donkey Shelter and The Wild Animal Sanctuary - pretending to have...
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- O2BGlutenFree O2BGlutenFree Dec 22, 2009 @ 2:41 pm
- Lots of great information! I'll have to try the Chebe products.
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- Emily Carson Emily Carson Jul 13, 2009 @ 7:03 pm
- It's nice that there are so many good gluten free products now. I'm getting hungry looking at all of these options! lol :) There seems to be more awareness about gluten issues so hopefully that will mean that more companies will create gluten free stuff.
Another site I like - gluten free smorgasbord for me, haha - is http://www.glutenfreefoodonline.org
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- BunnyFabulous BunnyFabulous Jun 27, 2009 @ 1:34 pm
- I am a HUGE fan of Pamela's products and Chebe mixes. I've fooled many people without allergies/food sensitivities with both. They've been shocked when I tell them they're eating a wheat-free item. Great lens with good variety of products and suggestions.
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- Shreela Shreela Aug 26, 2008 @ 7:35 pm
- I thought I had Celiac (it was IBS instead), and can personally vouch for Pamela's Products -- even my husband loves their muffins.
By the time I found Pamela's Products, I hadn't had any baked goods at all for maybe six weeks. I almost cried when finally tasted baked goods again, and they tasted the same as my muffins had (I'm not kidding, my husband was laughing at that LOL).
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- momsherbs momsherbs Aug 19, 2008 @ 12:37 am
- Nice lense. I know this page is helpful to many people.
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