Cooking with Janie: My All-Purpose Gluten Free Flour Mix!

As you probably guessed by now, I am 100% gluten free. In fact, my house is a gluten free zone (none of our dishes have ever touched gluten, I don't own a toaster, I live off of Udi's, etc.) Hahaha. It's just a way of life around this House of Janie. But I don't have time to mess with these crazy GF recipes that float around Pinterest and Facebook. If I can't use a regular recipe and sub. my GF flour for wheat flour, or GF pasta for wheat pasta, I'm on to the next thing!

If you're GF too, you'll know that one of the hardest things to do when preparing a meal is substituting an ingredient in a recipe. Why? Most gluten free flours aren't "cup for cup"., That means you can't use one cup of GF flour when a recipe calls for one cup of wheat flour. Sounds crazy, but the reason is quite simple. Many GF flours are quite heavy. Since cooking and baking is essentially chemistry, not only does the portion need to be correct, but so does the weight. When this balance is off, GF recipes simply fail, are dry or extremely heavy.

But who has time to compare weight for weight on a food scale? And what about the portion?

Gf Jules: Gluten Free Flour, Free Sample!

Update: Wow - this arrived in my mailbox, super fast! Did you get it too? Here's a photo of the actual "sample", but it's quite generous! It arrives with a great muffin recipe that is customizable for various food allergies and preferences. I am very impressed :) Gluten free samples are hard to come by. Request your free sample of Gf Jules flour, here.

Grab a free sample of gluten free all purpose flour from Gf Jules! Just head over here and fill out the form with your information including a valid mailing address. Each sample includes ¾ cup of certified gluten free flour and a muffin recipe to use with it (or use your own - it's an all-purpose mix!). Samples usually take 6 - 8 weeks to arrive. take about a week to arrive, but YMMV! This offer is reportedly available in the continental U.S. only.

Sprouts: Gluten Free Sale - Huge Discounts!

Did you get the Sprouts ad this week? Now through January 28, you can stock up and save on everyone’s gluten-free favorites like Glutino and Udi's! And of course you can stack this sale with some awesome coupons:

$1/1 Mama Mary's Gluten Free Pizza Crust, exp. 3/31/15 (SS 01/04/15 #2 R) [DND]

$0.75/1 Blue Diamond Nut Thins, exp. 2/1/15 (SS 11/23/14)

$1/1 Udi's Soft, Gluten Free Buns printable

$1/1 and Glutino Product

$1/1 Glutino Genius Bread printable

$1/1 Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free 1-to-1 Baking Flour printable

$1/1 Rudi's Gluten Free Bakery Product printable

$0.75/1 Amy's Gluten Free Product printable

$1/1 Krusteaz Gluten Free Mix printable

$0.50/1 Pamela's Natural & Gluten Free Foods printable [$1/1 When You Share]

... and more in the coupon database!