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Flour, GF Pillsbury and Bob’s Red Mill, Cup for Cup

In time for the Holidays! Have you tried either of these two new gluten free flours?

Pillsbury’s Brand New Gluten Free Flour Blend  has been spotted at area grocery stores.  A blend of rice, potato starch, pea fiber, tapioca starch and xanthan gum, it is meant to be a substitute for regular flour in your family recipes.

Bob’s Red Mill has also come out with  “1 to 1 Baking Flour”. Previously their GF flour had garbanzo bean that gave a bitter aftertaste to some baked goods. This new flour is made of sweet rice flour, whole grain brown rice flour, potato starch, whole grain sweet white sorghum flour, tapioca flour and xanthan gum.

Try either of these new flours in your recipes and let us know if it works for you!

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Chex Oatmeal

From Joan:

Chex Gluten Free Oatmeal is available at Marc’s – 2/$5.

Chex Oatmeal

 

Diane adds:

The packaging is labeled “gluten free” but the ingredient listing just says “whole grain oats”.

So, I was unsure whether pure gluten free oats were used in this product.

A statement on the company’s facebook page is reassuring:

The oats used for the oats & oatmeal products are sourced from a vertically integrated gluten free oat source. We also validate our cleaning and changeover methods at the plants for any system/line that will run a gluten free product. Ongoing verification gluten testing is performed at the finished product level. As such, any General Mills product that contains a “gluten free” claim meets the safety and regulatory definition of less than 20 ppm. While there are many “gluten free” certification bodies, General Mills’ standards meet and/or exceed the qualifications defined by these organizations. Therefore, you can be confident that our “gluten free” products are safe and meet global certification and regulatory standards.

Have you tried it? Have you seen it in other stores?

NOTE by Diane 9/30/15:
Gluten Free Chex Oatmeal has been discontinued.

Bob’s Red Mill

Local Grocers and Manufacturer’s Website

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Available from local grocers and direct via manufacturer’s website

 

Mariann writes:

The BRM line has many options for the gluten-free cook and baker including Rice flours, Tapioca, Almond, Corn, etc.

 Recently I purchased a bag of BRM corn flour. When I got it home I noticed that it did not have a gluten-free statement on the package so I contacted the company. According to their representative, BRM has two separate manufacturing facilities – one for traditional processing and another dedicated to gluten-free processing.

It is important if you are purchasing BRM that the package contain the BRM symbol for gluten-free – that symbol will only appear on packages processed in the dedicated facility – the symbol is a red circle with a chaff of wheat in the middle and a slash mark through it to indicate ‘no wheat’.  

 If there is no symbol then the grain was processed in the traditional facility and cannot be considered gluten-free.

 

Passover – A Gluten Free Holiday

Spotted at Marc’s in Mayfield Heights: image The Jewish holiday of Passover begins the evening of Friday, April 6, 2012, and ends the evening of Saturday, April 14, 2012.  Observant Jews do not eat or possess chametz during the week of Passover. Chametz is wheat, spelt, barley, oats, and rye which has come into contact with water for more than 18 minutes.  Instead they eat matzoh, a flat unleavened cracker made from one of those grains, or products that have been made from matzoh (matzoh flour, or matzoh meal, or matzoh cake meal). So, why is this holiday different from all other holidays?  You may find stores stocked with special kosher for passover products. It is very important to read labels to make sure the product does not contain matzoh in any form.  Some products will be labeled “Non-Gebrokts” or “Gluten-Free”. Many manufacturers produce special products for people who follow the Non-Gebrokts Kosher for Passover diet, using specially cleaned or completely dedicated equipment and facilities. Ungar’s Kosher Bakery and Store in Cleveland Heights, (216) 321-7176, carries kosher for passover gluten free items all year long, with many more, including fresh baked items, for the holiday. Yehuda Matzo now has gluten free versions. Kedem products are a proud sponsor of the Celiac Disease Foundation.