Gluten-Free Cereals
Posted by Deb at 4/13/2008 6:55 AM 
Categories: Celiac Disease, recipes, intestinal disorders, Baking, gluten free cereal, gluten intolerance
Categories: Celiac Disease, recipes, intestinal disorders, Baking, gluten free cereal, gluten intolerance
Having Celiac disease has really changed our lives. We have been gluten-free since 2001 and are constantly looking for things to eat, especially, cereal for breakfast. For the first few years after we found out that we could no longer eat gluten containing foods, I would make a full breakfast every morning. We would have gluten free pancakes, which I would make from scratch using my mother-in-law's wonderful recipe and bacon and eggs. Or I would make waffles, I really like Lifestream Buckwheat Wildberry frozen waffles, of course they are gluten free and you just pop them in the toaster. I would also make Bob's Red Mill Mighty Tasty gluten free hot cereal, it's really good. When I started to get busier with work, I had to stop making this big breakfast every morning because it took so much time and we looked for alternatives for breakfast. I chose to eat a Yoplait original yogurt every morning, I would also eat a banana sometimes but my husband needed more. We started testing breakfast cereals recently and there aren't very many that taste good. I loved Cocoa Krispies growing up and that's the one I always ate. Every main stream cereal has barley malt or at least some sort of gluten in it so we started trying the gluten free ones. We tried the Gorilla Crunch, it was okay but we didn't buy it again. We tried Frosted Perky O's, they were awful. They tasted like stale cardboard, I actually took the box back to the store and got my money back, they were that bad. I don't know if they were old or what, but we didn't even finish three bites. I'm afraid to try them again, they were expensive and I hate wasting money like that. I just bought a box of Nature's Path Corn Flakes, it is really small and was expensive. The flakes are very thick, not like regular corn flakes. They stayed crisp in the milk for a long time, unlike regular corn flakes that sog up in about 2 minutes, and they tasted very good. I really like them and so does my husband. We could eat these alot if the box were bigger. I think that the box only lasted for two and a half breakfasts. The box needs to be bigger for the price they charge. I understand that they are organic and gluten free and all that, but when you buy a box of cereal you would like it to be there for at least a week, especially if only one person is eating it. I just found out the General Mills Rice Chex is now gluten free. Finally, we like Rice Chex, now we can buy a big box of cereal and it won't cost an arm and a leg. I am praying, that in the very near future, more mainstream cereals go gluten free. There are so many cereals that could be gluten free, if they would just get rid of the barley malt and replace it with something like molasses, which is what Rice Chex did, there would a much bigger variety for those of us who are gluten free.
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