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runpunkrunCurrent Ingredients: Powdered Sugar (Sugar, Corn Starch), Sugar, Palm Oil, Tapioca Starch, Rice Flour, Cocoa (Processed With Alkali), Tapioca Syrup; Less than 2% of: Cassava Flour, Cocoa Powder, Water, Potato Flour, Soy Lecithin, Salt, Xanthan Gum, Baking Soda, Natural Flavor.
soniarunpunkrunCoco Whip Original: This has the exact vibes of Cool Whip, only dairy-free (and soy-free!):
It has a slight taste of coconut, but it's not overwhelming. I put it on some strawberries and a slice of orange almond loaf and it was a perfectly appropriate topping for a strawberry shortcake, even with the hint of coconut, but it'd also be great in a tropical desert like a banana cream pie, where you can lean into the coconut flavor.
I keep this in the freezer, and it defrosts pretty quickly if you leave it out on the counter. After an hour it softens enough to spoon around the edges of the carton, or you can just dig into it frozen where it'll have the texture of ice cream. You can then put it in the fridge or refreeze it, which makes this a very tasty and convenient topping. I'm looking forward to trying it on top of some gingerbread.
Also comes in a "Light" version with half the fat.
Certified GF & vegan.
Current Ingredients: Filtered Water, Organic Coconut Oil, Organic Tapioca Syrup, Organic Cane Sugar, Pea Protein, Guar Gum, Sunflower Lecithin, Xanthan Gum, Natural Flavor.
jesse_the_kThese are graham crackers, except graham flour by definition is wheat. Crispy and decorative diamonds a little bigger than your thumb, these cookies are really tasty. They claim that watermelon seed(!) contributes to the crispiness but my money is on the tapioca. As my local GF pal put it, "1 box = 1 serving." (Actually, 1 box has ~120g, or four servings.)
Dairy-free as well as gluten-free.
Current Ingredients Seed & Nut Flour Blend (watermelon, cashew, sunflower, flax), Tapioca Starch, Arrowroot, Coconut Sugar, Organic Coconut Oil, Honey, Honey Extract, Organic Cinnamon, Baking Soda, Rosemary Extract (for freshness), Sea Salt, Cream of Tartar, Vanilla Extract
My first GF graham cracker was Pamela’s, available in either honey or honey cinnamon. Now they sell rectangular ones, but I loved the mini hexagons sized for snacking. The Simple Mills version are just as tasty and don’t have milk.
runpunkrunGoodie Girl Magical Animal Crackers: I think we can all agree, the most important thing about animal crackers is what kind of animals we'll be eating. "Magical" ones according to the box. This includes:
Despite its non-magical nature, the narwhal was my favorite because it was a nice shape and noticeably thicker than the other cookies, more like what I expect from an animal cracker. The guitar-playing unicorn was particularly thin as well as being a weird narrow rectangle because the unicorn was at open mic night, I guess, and standing upright on its hind legs. It just raises a lot of questions is all. Anyway. How do they taste? The oat flavor is quite pronounced, which I normally don't mind, but found distracting here, and I missed the traditional animal cracker flavor of lemon or vanilla. So they're not my platonic ideal of an animal cracker, but once I managed my expectations, they were good enough.
Current Ingredients: gluten free whole grain oat flour, cane sugar, palm oil, rice flour, invert sugar. Contains 2% or less of: natural flavors, sodium bicarbonate, soy lecithin, inulin, salt, xanthan gum.
runpunkrunCurrent Ingredients: confectionery coating (sugar, vegetable oil [palm kernel and/or palm], cocoa powder, processed with alkali, buttermilk, soy lecithin, natural flavors), gluten-free whole grain oat flour, cane sugar, palm oil, cocoa processed with alkali; contains 2% or less of: molasses, sodium bicarbonate, salt, inulin, soy lecithin, peppermint oil, ammonium bicarbonate.
reeby10runpunkrunCurrent Ingredients: cane sugar, gluten free whole grain oat flour, rice flour, palm oil, high oleic sunflower oil (or canola oil), tapioca starch, invert sugar. Contains less than 2% each of the following: cocoa (processed with alkali), soy lecithin, corn starch, inulin, baking soda, xanthan gum, salt, cinnamon, natural flavors, organic maltodextrin, tricalcium phosphate, ammonium bicarbonate.
mificmificmificI have this low-effort way of making oatmeal, developed as I got fed up with burning it in saucepans on the stove, or having to stand over it stirring, and then all the tedious clean-up of the pot.
In a medium-to-large microwave-safe bowl (mine's about 8" across):
1/2 cup rolled oats (ordinary rolled oats/oatmeal - if you use steel cut oats you need to cook it almost twice as long or remember to soak it overnight first)
3 heaped tsps skim milk powder
1/3 tsp salt
1.5 cups cold water
Stir well until the milk powder is dissolved. (Stir it throughout this process with a spatula as that's what you'll eventually use to dish it up and it saves washing a spoon.) Then microwave for 3 min (my microwave is cheap and not very powerful so I always use it on full). Wander off and do something else. It's good if you forget the oatmeal for at least 30 min. It's now half cooked and soaked. Stir well, then microwave again for 2 min. (Longer cooking periods make it boil and splatter all over your microwave, and you don't want that!) Probably forget it again. When you remember it again, if it's cooled, can do another 2 min blast. If it's still hot, just 1 min at a time between stirrings. Repeat this a few times until it's as cooked as you like it. Use the spatula to get it into a serving bowl if you're feeling posh, or if not, eat it from the microwave bowl. Serve it how you like it - I like mine with cream and muscovado sugar - this also doubles as a dessert. :) Put the microwave bowl and spatula in the sink and fill with water. Wander off and do something else. They'll just need a quick rinse when you remember later.
soniarunpunkrunCurrent Ingredients: Brown Rice Flour, Brown Rice Syrup, Fig Paste, Raspberry Jam (Naturally Milled Sugar, Cane Sugar, Glycerin, Rice Starch, Raspberries, Apple Powder, Natural Flavor, Pectin, Citric Acid, Locust Bean Gum), Canola Oil, Cane Sugar, Gluten Free Five Grain Flour (Amaranth, Quinoa, Millet, Sorghum, Teff), Date Paste, Whole Grain Oats, Glycerin, Flaxseed, Leavening (Monocalcium Phosphate, Baking Soda), Sea Salt, Xanthan Gum, Natural Flavor, Citric Acid.
soniarunpunkrunCurrent Ingredients: organic cane sugar, organic chocolate, organic cocoa butter.
mificunicorndukenerakrosejesse_the_kEasy, quick high protein meal. My microwave is 1600 watts; see notes below on adjust timing for your microwave’s power.
( zap and snack )
mificmificmifichighlyeccentricjesse_the_kThe European Schär company, located in South Tyrol, produces a range of gluten-free savory and sweet eating in cheery yellow and blue packages. My recent experience is with two of their crackers.
Schär's Gluten Free Table Crackers are all about the crunch -- the closest I've tasted to Saltines since I quit gluten. They're so fragile I couldn't spread anything on them: the weight of the knife crushed the cracker. That's probably because they're all starch:
corn starch, corn flour, blend of vegetable fats and oils (palm fat, sunflower oil), maltodextrin, rice syrup, modified tapioca starch, soy flour, sea salt, yeast, guar gum, modified cellulose, cream of tartar, ammonium bicarbonate, baking soda, citric acid, natural rosemary flavor. Contains: Soy May Contain: Tree Nuts
On the other hand, they are the perfect thing to crumble in a soothing soup. I've only tasted the plain ones; the multigrain version has some flours with protein (millet, buckwheat, sorghum, flaxseed, poppy seeds) so they could be more elastic.
Schär's Gluten Free Crispbread "Cracker Toast" is indeed crispy crunchy, and not only can I spread jam on them, they stand up to melting cheese in the toaster oven. All structure and taste like absolutely nothing -- seems like just air in there. Well, there's a wee bit of flour:
rice flour, corn flour, sugar, salt. May contain: soy, tree nuts (chestnut)
Schär also sells a multigrain crispbread which could taste of something. I hope it will be a replacement for my pseudo rye-bread buckwheat Pain des Fleurs, which is no longer sold locally.
corn flour, rice flour, teff flour, buckwheat flour, pea fibre, salt, maltodextrin, apple extract, May contain: soy, tree nuts (chestnut)
Schär sell nine types of bread and rolls, as well as corn/rice pastas. Have you tried them?
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