GF: True or False?

There is an ice cream place in my town, and out front they have a sign telling people about their GF items!

That is great, and wonderful that GF is becoming more mainstream, but THESE PRODUCTS ARE NOT GF!!! I bet some of the ice cream itself is probably GF, but the scooper's they use to scoop it? Nope. The gloves handling the icecream that just make a grilled cheese for someone? Nope. The sprinkles that all the cookie dough ice cream has been rolled in? Nope.

And that really bothers me. I feel like, unless you are certified GF, (and this place is not), you should not GF in the advertising. It just feels wrong, and what about the people you go in there to get Ice Cream thats GF, eat it, and get really really really sick?

What you do guys think?

C.C.

Rice Krispies, Take 2

Hello, all!

Rice Krispies will be launching a GF line in June,which I AM INCREDIBLY EXCITED ABOUT. I do not know if I have ever told you guys, but Rice Krispies were on of the products that bugged me most. Puffed rice cereal should be GF. So, when I saw that announcement, I was soooo happy!

I do wish that Kellogg's had just made the Original RK's GF, (like General Mill's did with corn chex), but I will take what I can get :).

Also, these GF ones will be made with brown rice. Why is that? Does anybody know? White rice is GF. It is not that I have a problem with brown rice, it just seems as if they might be able to get the most similar taste to the originals if they used white rice. Maybe it is because brown seems more "GF"? If so, that is super dumb.

At this point, it is unclear whether or not they will be certified GF, which would be my biggest issue, if they are not. I do not think I am comfortable eating a "GF" product that might not really be GF! It just seems unsafe to me.
What do you guys think?

C.C.

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Potato Chips & Happy May!!

Happy May, everybody!!

Summer is right around the corner, and that means cookouts, cookouts, cookouts!! I love cookouts. The potato chips, (which I can eat almost exclusively due to limited parental supervision), the soda, (which I drink GALLONS of due to limited parental supervision), the flashlight-tag, (during which I can get more bug bites than I care to count due to limited parental supervision), the limited parental supervision. :)

But back to the potato chips. I love them. I love them. I love them (Potato chips, that is). Recently, I have gotten very good at eating them, too. The one problem is that not all of them are GF!!! So, here is what I have discovered regarding the GF-osity of some potato chips.

Utz rocks. They say GF if they are, and don't if there is any question, just as it should be.

I have had some trouble with Frito-Lay products. Sometimes they list wheat as an allergen and say things like "manufactured on equipment, blah blah blah, so obviously I don't eat those ones, but even ones without wheat listed, and none of those manufacturing disclaimers, I have still gotten contaminated, even though all ingredients are GF, and everything!! (This is why the FDA needs to get it's act together! May 4th GF labeling summit!! Anyone going?)

There are others as well, but..er...I forget what their deal is, so I will leave them out :)

Have any of you ever had and trouble with Frito-Lay? What are your potato-chip favorites?

C.C.