Delicious Gluten Free Brownies

I have been craving brownies since I went gluten free, I had bought some gluten free all purpose flour at a health food store, but realized you need xanthan gum added to the flour, I looked this product up on the internet and realized its SO expensive, also some with celiac also have an allergy to the gums that alot of products use. So I did some research and most people just leave the xanthan gum out of their recipies. So I decided to give it a shot.
Microwave Gluten Free Brownies

1/2 C. margarine
1 C. Sugar
2 Eggs
1 t. Gluten Free Vanilla (check the ingredients on your vanilla, some contain wheat)
1/4 t. baking powder
3/4 c. Gluten Free all purpose flour or Gluten free baking mix
1/2 c Gluten Free Cocoa (Check the ingredients on the cocoa you already have, mine was already
gluten free.

The Ingredients

Microwave 1/2 c margarine for 45 seconds to melt,

Add 2 eggs, 1 c sugar, and 1 tsp vanilla.

Mix until well blended.

Add 3/4 c  Gluten Free flour

Add 1/2 c Cocoa and 1/4 tsp baking powder

Mix until well combined

Pour evenly into a 8x8 inch glass baking dish sprayed with PAM

Microwave on Medium for 8-10 minutes. I did mine for

8 and they came out perfect.

The finished product.

 

 

 

Enjoy!!

Banana Pancakes

I have always wanted to try banana pancakes, from the Jack Johnson song "Banana Pancakes."  The other morning I was craving some breakfast other than yogurt or gluten free cereal. I decided to make banana pancakes. I looked up a recipe through Pinterest, I was surprised at how easy it was.
Banana and Egg, that's all you need. I started whipping up the pancakes right away.

First cut up the banana and add one egg. (This is best to do when your bananas are really ripe and about to go bad, they mash easier) This made 4 small pancakes.

Then mash the banana and egg together, it should look like this.

I added chocolate chips to mine, you could add berries, nuts, whatever you usually add to pancakes.

Spray pan with PAM and pour in the batter

Flip

Enjoy! Top with berries, syrup. I top mine with peanut butter. :)

Gluten Free Rice Chex

Today I made Gluten Free Rice Chex and I wanted to share the recipe with you.

Ingredients
6 cups Gluten Free Rice Chex
1/4 C. Butter
1 package of mini marshmallows (make sure they are gluten free, I used Kroger brand)


First, melt butter in a large pot, when butter in melted add a bag of mini marshmallows

 

Stir marshmallows and butter until marshmallows are melted

When marshmallows and smooth and melted add the Rice Chex

I added dark chocolate chips to mine, you could add, dried fruit, butterscotch, nuts, whatever you want.

Mix well, then spread onto a baking pan lined with wax paper and let cool.

Tip: I used a piece of wax paper to spread mine onto the pan since they are sticky.

Let cool and enjoy!

 

 

Health Food Store

The health food store was great and the staff was very helpful. Now this was my first time in a health food store, everyone said how these stores are SO expensive.
I found that not to be the case, (or I thought it would be much more) I spent some time wandering the store and looking at all the products, first I picked up some all purpose flour, as well as rice cakes and some granola. I love putting peanut butter on rice cakes, and I haven't ever bought any gluten free flour, so we will see if it is any good.

Here are my items from the gluten free store.

All three of these items only cost me $20 dollars. I will definitely be going back.

 

 

Health Food Store

Today is my day off, which means its grocery store day. I found a coupon for a health food store that sells gluten free products. I am headed up there first to check it out and see what they have to offer.
I will keep you posted.

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Taking the First Step

About 4 weeks ago I found out I needed to be on a gluten free diet. For months prior I was feeling sick all of the time, low energy, nauseated, throwing up. An 8 hour day at work wore me out, cleaning our little 2 bedroom apartment wore me out, I would fall asleep at 9 o'clock every night. Pregnancy symptoms you may say... every test I took was normal. "I just have the flu" I would tell myself, and my concerned husband. Well, I had "just the flu" every few days. I started keeping a food journal, and tried to determine if it was possibly my diet that was making me sick.
I started eating crackers to help my nausea, but that seemed to make it worse. I decided to look up common food allergies and try to pin point things that I ate daily. Dairy and bread were two things I ate almost daily. I was miserable and decided to try cutting out gluten first to see if that was making me sick.

I downloaded an app on my phone called  find me gluten free I used that when my husband and I would go out to dinner. I told myself I would eat gluten free for at least one week, every meal. I did, this was very hard for me, as before my husband and I were big fast food junkies.
After one week was over I was feeling so much better, better than I had felt in months and I decided to test myself, that night I ate 2 Oreo cookies (my husbands favorite) they had been tempting me all week. About 20-30 minutes after I ate those 2 Oreo's, my stomach starting hurting so bad, I was getting nauseous again. The next morning when my alarm went off to get ready for work, I could barely get out of bed. This is how I knew that I needed to be on a gluten free diet.