My friend recently shared this tasty gluten-free snack with me and I fell in love!
These “That’s-It” bars are low in calorie, gluten-free, and are literally just fruit! No added preservative or sugar.
Even better, my young son loved these bars which is a much better snack than sugar-filled treats.
You can find these “that’s it” bars at Costco and Amazon.
Let me know if you try these bars, I hope you enjoy them!
xoxo,
Christy Lee
One of the harder parts of the gluten-free lifestyle is coming up with an entire meal that is gluten-free.
I want to help you to make your gluten-free lifestyle easier.
Below is a gluten-free dinner idea for you to enjoy with family and friends.
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Main Entree: Gluten-Free Hawaiian Haystacks
Side dish 1: Gluten-Free Banana Pineapple Salad
Side dish 2: Veggie tray of carrots, cucumbers, olives and broccoli
Dessert: Gluten-Free Lemon Lush Dessert
And a Tasty Gluten-Free & Alcohol Free Drink: Cherry Limeade Drink
Hopefully you enjoy this meal plan!
Let me know what other meals you would love to see on here.
Enjoy cooking!
Until next time,
xoxo,
Christy Lee
I have mentioned this before, but be careful of gluten found in seasonings.
For those that are quite sensitive to gluten, you’d be surprised how many seasoning are not gluten-free.
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My suggestion to you, is to to on Amazon and get a bulk order of gluten-free seasoning.
In our home, we use this McCormicks Gluten-free Taco Seasoning quite often. So it just makes sense to have it on hand.
This 12-pack is only $16.99, which is a great deal for a great brand.
Also, add this seasoning to your food storage too, it’s one that lasts for a while too.
What are some of your favorite gluten-free seasonings?
Would love to hear!
xoxo,
Christy Lee
As always, I’m here to make living your gluten free lifestyle easier and tastier!
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I am always getting asked my favorite gluten free protein powder, so here it is: Pro 6+ from Elevated Fit Life.
What I love about this protein is that it tastes so good! I love all the flavors!
The flavors vary from mixed berry, tangy citrus and tropical punch.
I notice such a difference when working out as it keeps me hydrated better, and I rarely get sore after a big workout because of the amino acid qualities in this drink.
I love this protein drink and encourage you to try it
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Enjoy!
xoxo,
Christy Lee
Have you ever tried homemade Oreos? They are the best!
Because I have celiacs disease I have a tasty gluten free recipe for Homemade Oreos that you’ll enjoy!
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I love making these Oreos for holidays because you can be festive with the frosting in the middle.
Today would be perfect to do green frosting or instead of frosting to do mint chocolate chip ice cream.
Hopefully you get into the fun spirit of St. Patty’s day today.. and don’t forget to wear your green!
xoxo,
Christy Lee
When new gluten-free items come out, it’s exciting!
Even more, when these items are tasty and delicious, it’s even more exciting.
Today I wanted to share with you 3 gluten-free foods that have come out in the last year and I enjoy them all.
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First up are: Peanut Butter Chex. The price is only $10.59 for a 2-pack on Amazon. You will love the flavoring of this particular chex cereal, and just think how easy muddy buddies will be to make with peanut butter chex cereal!
Next, I have to share gluten-free double stuff oreos. I mean, the regular oreos are great too, but the double-stuff are right on point! Everyone agrees, they perfected the gluten-free oreos to taste just like the regular oreos.
You can find these oreos on Amazon for $26.48 for a 3-pack. Or most grocery stores now carry these delicious cookies too. They are always in white packaging so they stand out amongst the regular oreos.
And last but not least, these Almond Mission Tortillas. I found these through Kroger stores at the price of $5.49. These tortillas can help make it possible to make tasty gluten free burritos and such.
Have you discovered any more tasty gluten-free items? I am always on the lookout and hope to continue posting about new gluten-free products.
Enjoy!
xoxo,
Christy Lee
I know sometimes finding a great tasting gluten-free meal can be hard.
My goal has been to perfect recipes to create wonderful tasting gluten free meals.
I hope you enjoy these meals, and enjoy eating with your family!
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*Note- my favorite gluten free flour to use when cooking and baking is Cup4Cup flour. You can find it on Amazon for $14.95
Meal Plan 1: The Best Gluten Free White Chicken Chili. This soup makes great leftovers as well. I add more jalapeños to add more spice.
Meal Plan 2: Gluten-free Sweet & Sour Meatballs. To be honest, I feel like I could eat this meal everyday without getting sick of it. I love these meatballs!
Meal Plan 3: Progresso Brand Chicken & Rice Soup with Banana Pineapple Fruit Salad as a side.
Meal Plan 4: Delicious Gluten-Free Taco Dish, crockpot meal. This dish is easy and tasty. We love adding gluten free tortilla chips on top!
Meal Plan 5: Gluten-Free Korean Beef is another family favorite that we love! You can add green onions, and sriracha on top if you’d like. And we love serving it over gluten free rice noodles, or rice.
Don’t Forget Dessert! For Dessert this week, here is our tasty gluten-free Peanut Butter Bars.
Hopefully you will enjoy these delicious recipes!
Gluten-free should still be tasty and delicious!
xoxo,
Christy Lee
It can be hard to step into a gluten free lifestyle, however, it shouldn’t be overwhelming.
Our works is understanding the gluten free lifestyle more so thankfully there’s more awareness.
After my own experience with being new to the gluten free world (back in 2008), I came up with 4 steps to help you:
Why share the news?
I have learned it’s important to be up front and honest about your gluten free lifestyle.
Be tactful and nice when you explain your gluten free guidelines. But let others know the importance of following gluten free food guidelines.
Gluten free living is more common now so there’s no need to feel like an “inconvenience” in any way.
It’s best just to let others know that you eat gluten free to stay safe and healthy.
2. Find Support Resources.
I am on multiple Gluten free Facebook groups.
I also follow a lot of gluten free accounts on Instagram and tik tok.
When you’re surrounded by helpful resources you don’t feel alone in the gluten free journey.
3. Download helpful gluten free apps
I currently have 2 apps on my phone that I use to help with my gluten-free lifestyle:
-Gluten free scanner: you scan food items snd it tells you if it’s gluten free or not.
-Find Me Gluten Free: it’s a resource mapping out gluten free restaurants and bakeries in your area. This is so helpful and nice.
4. Keep track of Gluten-free Recipes You Enjoy
One of the reasons I started this blog was to keep track of gluten free recipes that we love.
Pinterest is a great resource to organize recipes too.
Whatever way you choose to do it, make sure you can easily find your gluten free recipes..it helps make life simpler and easier when it comes to cooking gluten free.
If there’s any way I can help your gluten free journey easier, please reach out I’m here to help!
xoxo,
Christy Lee
Here’s a topic that I feel must be discussed when it comes to living a gluten-free lifestyle.
Without a doubt a life change can be hard on emotions.
Throw in a FOREVER life-change of avoiding gluten, and that can be tough.
Some may argue that it shouldn’t be so hard to avoid gluten. A gluten-free lifestyle shouldn’t cause emotions and such to surface.
However, at the end of the day…any lifestyle change, for better for worse, is hard.
Cutting out a HUGE source of what you used to eat, can be hard.
And it’s ok to feel the emotions that come with it all.
When I was first diagnosed with celiacs I cried most every day for the first two months. I didn’t know what to eat, it was a lot of stress to do something so simple…to eat!
However, as time went on my tears faded and things got easier.
Even now…after years of living a gluten-free lifestyle, I still would say I have a few days in the year where I get annoyed or emotional about the food limitations.
And that’s ok.
The world has improved access to gluten free foods which is wonderful. But I guess there’s still a bit of a “mourning” that surfaces just realizing that all flour and wheat are cut out of your life forever.
So my advice is, feel the emotions, don’t dwell on them, look at all the resources there are in the world now for living gluten-free, and move on.
Do you have days where the emotions catch up to you when it comes to living a gluten-free lifestyle?
I would love to hear.
xoxo,
Christy Lee
I truly feel that once I found this gluten-free cream of chicken soup it was a game changer with cooking!
This gluten-free Pacific brand cream of chicken soup tastes the closest to the regular cream of chicken soup.
Many of the other gluten-free cream of chickens had a tangy flavor to it, but this Pacific brand cream of chicken tastes amazing!
You can find this soup at Kroger brand stores, or here on Amazon for $3.95 per can.
Hopefully this can help you with all your gluten-free cooking.
Enjoy!
xoxo,
Christy Lee
