Prompt: Favorite Products

[runpunkrun]

Fresh, frozen, boxed, or canned. It's that thing that replaces a product you can't eat—GF flour tortillas, GF cookies, GF beer, GF cake mix, GF crackers, GF pizza—and makes life easier for you.

Slide on into the comments and tell us about something that's always on your shopping list, or share a recipe that you like to use with a specific gluten-free product.

We're an international group, so not all these things will be available in all markets, but don't let that stop you from sharing. I'm always interested in what it's like to be gluten free—and what kind of products are available—in other parts of the world.

Comments

how sweet it is!

[harmonic_tabby]

Luna Bars and Clif Bars, too. Luna Bars are gluten free (and several other things free that I don't need to worry about) and some Clif Bars are too. Read the Clif labels. I love the white chocolate macadamia bars of either brand and my daughter-in-law favors the lemonzest.

I mentioned Pamela's cookies elsewhere but I must mention the figgies & jammies in particular. I know unicornduke just posted a fig newton recipe but if you aren't a baking type you can feast on Pamela's figgies & jammies.

Glutino's. Chocolate vanilla creme cookies and milk chocolate wafers taste just like the ones from my childhood memories, and the pretzel twists are a treat.

Namaste chocolate cake mix. Just added this to my regular shopping list and it's another I need to get out the ruler for. Poking the grandkids so hubby and I get a least a slice from each baking...maybe I shouldn't use the cream cheese frosting mix on it??

And lastly, since it's the season I checked and Cadbury creme eggs are gluten-free. Maybe I'll hit up the grandkids easter baskets, heehee.

Pamela's Ginger Snapz SimpleBites Mini Cookies

[runpunkrun]

Chiming in to say that Pamela's Ginger Snapz SimpleBites Mini Cookies were a favorite of mine. They're seriously gingery in a way that will set your mouth on fire, but in a good way. They are hard as heck, though, so be prepared. And they don't contain milk or soy ingredients, either.

Re: Pamela's Ginger Snapz SimpleBites Mini Cookies

[jesse_the_k]

If very gingery is your jam, you might love Tate's Bakehouse Ginger Zinger cookies. They're a nice gingery sugar cookie studded with crystalized ginger bits. Be sure to get the white bag--Tate's also has a complete line of cookies in green bags that use wheat.

Re: Pamela's Ginger Snapz SimpleBites Mini Cookies

[runpunkrun]

I think I tried those back in the day. I remember them as being crisp, a bit gritty, and very gingery.

Re: Pamela's Ginger Snapz SimpleBites Mini Cookies

[harmonic_tabby]

that Snapz is well deserved and dunked in vanilla chai...

I waffle back and forth between those and the Snickerdoodles as to the favorite but either is excellent with spiced tea.

Re: Pamela's Ginger Snapz SimpleBites Mini Cookies

[miella]

If super-duper ginger is your thing, I know where to find a recipe for a "Nuclear Ginger Scones." And they are.

Re: Pamela's Ginger Snapz SimpleBites Mini Cookies

[runpunkrun]

That sounds terrifying and I would like to know more.

Re: Pamela's Ginger Snapz SimpleBites Mini Cookies

[miella]

They originally came from a family friend, and I have previously described them as basically just a brick of powdered ginger with just enough other ingredients to hold them together and disguise them as a bread product to trick the unwary. That's an exaggeration, but, like. Not by as much as one might think. They have a LOT of powdered ginger in them. They're pretty good scone texture as I recall, and I think the main flour is buckwheat. But you have to really enjoy that punch in the face by the powdered ginger, which is, uh, usually past my particular limit. My brother absolutely loves them, though.

Re: Pamela's Ginger Snapz SimpleBites Mini Cookies

[runpunkrun]

Those sound too powerful for me, but it makes me happy to know they're out there in the world, tricking the unwary, and that your brother's a huge fan.

Re: Pamela's Ginger Snapz SimpleBites Mini Cookies

[miella]

I told him they are medicinal and not recreational, and that he likes them because he is a recreational masochist. ...I may be overstating the ginger-ness a little. But, like. They are VERY GINGERY.

Nuclear Ginger Scones

[harmonic_tabby]

Please? I'm afraid this old tabby can't do kitten eyes but they sound like something we would very much like to try.

Re: Nuclear Ginger Scones

[miella]

I can't find a copy in my house, but I've reached out to The Source, and I'll post it once it arrives. (I am going offline for a few days, so it will likely be next week!)

Re: how sweet it is!

[lunabee34]

I like the chocolate mint Luna bars a lot.