Life Cuisine Cauliflower Crust Pizza

I highly recommend this personal sized frozen pizza.

There’s the fun factor: Place the frozen pizza on the box turned inside out and 3 1/2 minutes of microwave magic produces gooey cheesy goodness.

Sure the crust could be crisper. Might be worth trying the alternate oven baking instructions. I chose to embrace the soft bready texture and folded the pizza, eating it as a sandwich.

The sauce has a pleasantly strong tomato flavor. The cheese is mild. And the cauliflower provided minimal vegetable essence to the crust.

The Life Cuisine line has frozen entrees for different diets. The only gluten free choices are the pizzas – three cheese or pepperoni.

I’ve seen these pizzas at Giant Eagle and Walmart.

Crepini Egg Wraps With Cauliflower

Crepini makes an interesting product: eggy crepes with cauliflower.

The package suggests using them to replace your wraps, buns, breads, taco shells, crepes and pancakes.

Crepini describes the crepes as a healthy alternative to breads as they have no sugar, dairy, grains or carbs. Perfect for people with diet restrictions.

But they are really tasty and fun. Family without diet restrictions loved them, too.

They don’t taste like much of anything. A bit eggy. The caulifloweriness was minimal. While I made savory wraps, they’d also work well with sweet fillings.

They are quite sturdy and hold up well while filling and eating.

The package suggests eating them straight from the refrigerator or heating for 10 seconds in a microwave or skillet. Didn’t seem to make much of a difference in my experience.

The package I bought at Costco is labeled gluten free, with fourteen 10 inch wraps for $8.99. Ingredients are eggs, cauliflower powder, olive oil, sea salt, xanthan gum, spices, and citric acid. Each large wrap has 30 calories.

The Crepini website notes a number of versions of the product. A friend found smaller size wraps at Aldi’s. And the Crepini website product finder says some are available at Walmart.

Martha White Muffin Mix

Archived by Diane on 9/13/2023 -> no longer available

Found at Walmart on Warrensville Center Road in South Euclid:

Martha White Chocolate Chocolate Chip Muffin Mix and Martha White Gluten Free Blueberry Muffin Mix.

These 7 ounce pouches, $1.48, were located in the regular baking aisle, and not in the special gluten free section of the store.  Only 50 cents more than their gluten containing counterparts.

They could not be much easier to make: Just Add Milk! proclaims the package.  Indeed, the directions call for 1/2 cup to be combined with the mix, fill muffin cups, bake for 11-12 minutes and cool 2-3 minutes.

The main ingredients are rice flour, then sugar, then respectively semi-sweet chocolate chips or artificial blueberry bits (not a berry to be found). The chocolate mix contains egg, milk and soybean ingredients and the blueberry mix contains egg ingredients.

So, how did they come out?  Remember your mileage may vary as you are driving a different oven and pans.

The “blueberry” muffin batter was the thinner of the two and the muffins were done at the suggested time.  In fact, I probably overcooked them by a minute or so as they were darker than golden brown.  Despite liberally spraying the non-stick muffin cups with non-stick spray, the muffins still stuck with half coming out in pieces.  Next time I’d use paper liners.

The “chocolate” muffins required an extra 2 minutes to be fully cooked and were easier to remove from the pan.

Both had good texture with an expected gluten free crumb.  The chocolate had a few chips and the distinct chocolate flavor.  The “blueberry bits” resembled the real thing in look and taste.

Martha White Muffins Cut

Each mix made 6 medium size muffins.

The packages each have an additional recipe: Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Banana Muffins and Gluten Free Blueberry Peach Crisp.

GF Chicken Nuggets

From Tim:

Giant Eagle in Beachwood is carrying Gluten Free Tyson chicken bags.  They
were the same price ($6.99) as the regular with almost the same quantity.

Thanks, Tim, for sharing.

I saw both Tyson and Purdue GF chicken nuggets at the Giant Eagle in Willoughby.

I haven’t tried these products.  But I am a big fan of the Bell and Evans

GF chicken tenders.

Have you tried them?  Do you have a favorite GF chicken nugget or tender?  Do you make your own?  Please share your comments.