Sunday, October 13, 2013

Week 6: D-E-S-S-E-R-T for ALL


FUN FACT: Wheat is one of the top eight most common food allergies in America, the others are milk, eggs, shellfish, soy, peanut, and tree nuts. 


Many of you have friends that are vegan, and some that are gluten-free, and you are like ummm here is a fruit salad for dessert! Well I want to give y'all a couple of easy fixes that you can buy and then some easy and different recipes. 


If you are not the baking type no fear, Trader Joe's is here and by here i mean 252 S Stratford Rd, Winston-Salem NC 27103. If not in Winston go to http://www.traderjoes.com/ and find the store near you. 
     Something unique that they carry is the Soft-Baked Snickerdoodles cookie that is free of 8 common food allergies, not sure how they say eight because they list milk, dairy and wheat, gluten, and those are basically the same thing. But any who, even if you do not have any of these allergies they are a must try! My fiends who are completely against healthy eating will down a box of these easily! 
Trader Joe's Snickerdoodles

       Joe- Joe's Gluten- Free chocolate vanilla creme cookies are deadly... they are like an Oreo but better... my Mom won't buy them anymore because I killed a box in two days once and she wasn't amused...okay it was one day! They are soooo delicious though so now that I am back at school I bought them once and they lasted a week... I was proud of that self control!Even though they are gluten-free they are not healthy, which many  would think. That's why you always need to read labels. 




Another cookie at Trader Joe's that is perfect for this time of year is their Gluten-Free Ginger Snaps they are perfection!



















Okay so you enjoy baking but don't know even know where to start making a gluten-free baked good...Well Harris Teeter is here to rescue you in their baking section Betty Crocker has some of the most reasonably priced and best tasting GF chocolate chip cookie mix, yellow cake, brownies, and Devil's Food Cake. I always keep one of these mixes in my kitchen.                                       
1 11 gluten free betty crocker products



So you want get crazy? Here are some out of the box recipes that you will not believe...


So sometimes ice cream can contain gluten, and it is not  simple to make homemade ice cream... Well because I also cannot have dairy I found a fantastic VEGAN ice cream recipe! 
The main ingredient is BANANAS!!!!!!

The KEY in making this to have fully frozen VERY RIPE bananas 
Check out the website below for the recipe I use:

Then when I was researching other recipes, and other ways to make ice cream I found this and I want to try all of them now...






Brownies I would normally make from the Betty Crocker mix that I mentioned previously... until I was at the barn, and a Mom was talking about a simple gluten-free brownie recipe with the main  ingredient being BLACK BEANS!!
The Ultimate Black Bean Brownies


That is by far the best recipe that I have found, and I know that is sounds freaky but it is delicious and sooo much healthier than now brownies... It is definitely worth a try!!









1 comment:

  1. This post made me hungry. It's one of your best ones so far.

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