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Delightful Pear Crisp
My pear tree o’erfloweth. Well, technically, it is my parents’ pear tree, but I’m the one who takes care of it. I decided to pick some pears yesterday for a friend of mine who is about to give birth to her 7th child. I told her 12 year old daughter that a pear crisp would…
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Cupcakes Deserve Costumes, Too
This special blog post has been written by my friend, Sara Boswell, a cereal chemist down at Texas A&M University. When not creating gluten-free breads for her masters thesis, Sara fins a little time to let out her more creative side. Fall, that wonderful time of year when the season turns cooler, the leaves change…
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Wheat Allergy Alerts
Please check out these two recent wheat alerts. The first product is labeled gluten free and is not, and the second product was mispackaged. WHEAT ALLERGY ALERT October 29, 2009 Pinnacle Foods Group LLC is recalling “ARMOUR Chili with Beans, Original†due to undeclared wheat. The product was distributed to retail stores in Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois,…
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Going Gluten-Free with WIC
Sometimes you just need a little help, especially with the way things are lately. But if you’ve ever looked at the cereals available with WIC, you may have been a little perturbed to see that there are no gluten-free options. Ah, but there are (at least in Texas) – they just don’t generally tell you…
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Custom Choice Cereal
I recently had the pleasure to design and try my own cereal through Custom Choice Cereal, a fairly new company. The cereal customization process begins by choosing one of 3 cereal bases: cinnamon granola (which I’m pretty sure is Enjoy Life’s), corn flakes, or “Good Morning Flakes” (which I’m pretty sure is Mesa Sunrise). After…
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