Bread Mixes:

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Gluten-Free Pantry’s Country French Bread Mix and Favorite Sandwich Bread by The Gluten Free Pantry (www.glutenfree.com).

The Country French bread mix makes great French bread and baguettes, perfect for Italian dinners and a variety of crostini appetizers. We have also found that this bread mix makes a perfect substitution for an all purpose gf flour. Simply substitute this flour mix for wheat flour in your favorite recipes and prepare to be amazed with the results. The Favorite Sandwich Bread is also great for sack lunches and cinnamon toast!

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Mona’s French Bread Mix by Made by Mona Enterprises (www.madebymona.com)

A great gluten-free French bread with a nice, crisp crust. Click here for a complete product test review!

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Bob’s Red Mill Homemade Wonderful Bread Mix by Bob’s Red Mill
(www.bobsredmill.com)

A bread mix using bean flours as one of the main ingredients. This mix yields a nice loaf perfect for sandwich’s, croutons, and breadcrumbs.

Dried Pasta’s

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Bi-Aglut Pasta’s distributed by Glutino
(www.glutino.com)

Direct from Italy, this pasta is absolutely outstanding! You won’t believe how close it comes to the real thing. The shape, texture, color and taste is just like good ol’ gluten-enriched pasta. Bi-Aglut pasta comes in a variety of shapes — fusilli, maccheroncini, penne and spaghetti. Click here for a complete product test review!

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Dr. Schar Pasta’s distributed by Glutino
(www.glutino.com)

The pasta is made from a skillful combination of gluten-free ingredients including corn starch and rice flour. Dr.Schar offers great taste and peace of mind pasta that won’t overcook. Available in a variety of shapes — conchigliette (small shells), fusilli, penne, lasagna, pipette, rigati, spaghetti, anellini, and angel hair. Click here for a complete product test review!

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Tinkyada Pasta by Food Directions Inc.
(www.tinkyada.com)

Made from 100% brown and white rice and water. Wheat-free, gluten- free, cholesterol-free, fat-free, easy to digest, source of fiber, kosher certified, and certified organic. This is amazing rice pasta that doesn’t overcook and tastes great!

Cookies

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Mi-Del Arrowroot Cookies by American Natural Snacks
(www.ans-natural.com)

Made with all natural ingredients, these cookies will satisfy the snacking urges of anyone, while they meet the strict dietary requirements of those who are gluten sensitive.  These animal cookies are great! A perfect snack for the kid in all of us. Click here for a complete product test review!

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Dr. Schar’s Cookies distributed by Glutino
(www.glutino.com)

Dr. Schar offers a wide assortment of delicious cookies. All are buttery, crisp and delicious. We really enjoyed the Frollini biscuits, Vanilla wafers, Tea biscuits, and Chocolate wafers.

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Glutafin distributed by Glutino
(www.glutino.com)

Glutafin cookies are delicious and cater to a wide array of dietary needs. Try their Custard Creams and Bourbon Chocolate Cream Filled cookies for a delicious Gluten-free, wheat starch-free, milk free, lactose-free, egg-free cookie.

Snacks

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Ener-g Foods Wheat Free Pretzels by Ener-g Foods, Inc.,
(www.ener-g.com)

Gluten-free, wheat-free, low protein, milk-free, lactose-free, egg-free, and low phenylalanine. These pretzels are very near to the ‘real thing’. The taste is almost indistinguishable to the gluten variety. These pretzels are crunchy and delicious. This is a perfect snack for traveling or for lunch for adults and children. Click here for a complete product test review!

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Blue Diamond Nut Thins

These are light, crunchy and very good! The combination of rice flour and nuts produces a delicious cracker that is great eaten alone, or with any combination of toppings. We served these to our non-gluten intolerant company with rave reviews.

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Pirate’s Booty by Robert’s American Gourmet (www.robscape.com)

Pirate’s Booty with Aged White Cheddar and Pirate’s Booty with Caramel are great snacks. Everyone will enjoy these tasty, all natural and gourmet snacks

Cereals

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Environkidz Peanut Butter Panda Puffs by Nature’s Path Food’s Inc.
(www.naturespath.com)

This cereal is made from all organic ingredients and rivals any similar flavored ‘mainstream’ cereal. (We think it is better!) The Peanut Butter Panda Puffs are round and crunchy with a mild peanut butter taste. The packaging is creative, attractive and playful. This company not only produces wonderful cereals, they also donate 1% of Environkidz cereal each year to wildlife conservation groups all over the world. Click here for a complete product test review!

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Environkidz Gorilla Munch by Nature’s Path Food’s, Inc.
(www.naturespath.com)

This delicious cereal contains round, crunchy ‘Kix’ like puffs. A lightly sweetened cereal with a light corn taste. Click here for a complete product test review.

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Environkidz Koala Crisps by Nature’s Path Food’s, Inc.
(www.naturespath.com)

Surprisingly delicious! These cocoa crisps have a wonderful cocoa flavor, a perfect crunchy texture. Click here for a complete product test review.