Gluten Free Product

We are going on our fourth year of being gluten free:  checking ingredients, making snacks for every classroom holiday party, always having snack reserves in my purse/car, and having a couple safe restaurants on speed dial is a way of life.

We are lucky that South Dakota is very gluten free friendly state: most restaurants claim to be gluten free and many are actually gluten free in application, there is a support group for both adults and children with Celiac Disease, the local HyVee grocery store has plenty of gluten free products and a nutritionist on hand to ask questions plus we have our specialty stores too.

As we have begun to master our gluten free lifestyle old friends from facebook have begun to pop up with questions about products we use. As a result I have start to post products regularly to facebook in hopes to help them from a distance.  Many gluten free products and brands that are second nature to me might be new to them.

Our favorite item this winter is Swiss Miss HotChocolate.  Swiss Miss Hot Chocolate is an warm, easy & fast to make treat.  The kids and I have been using this since we hit freezing temperatures as an after school traditional.  The girls and I have done homework, read and discussed their days over hot chocolate and it is a staple for family movie night and family game night.  Thus, even though it is simply a drink, it plays a rather integral part of our day to day winter life.  Really, to make a limited diet fun it is always important to know, first and foremost, which treats are edible. 

Swiss Miss has also started making a pudding we eat!
 

 

Happy Thursday!

*As per usualy, always check labels to be sure the item is gluten free, often ingredients change or one item made by the same company might be gluten free, while another is not!