What do you miss the most since going GF ?

Anyone who has to follow a gluten-free diet knows that sometimes it's the little extras they miss the most. It's the confort foods, the small indulgences.
Adopting a gf life style can be difficult and challenging and overwhelming since gluten can be found in such unlikely products as: soy sauce, myonnaise, chicken broth, salad dressing, lipstick, medicine just to mention a few.

Here is a list of foods that a celiacs miss the most:

• birthday cake
• pizza
• cookies
• beer
• breads
• pasta
• flour tortilla (burritos, tacos, quesadillas, etc)
• cheesburguers (all sandwiches with a bun)
• cinnamon rolls
• cakes
• pies
• appetizers

Feel free to comment what you think you would miss if you could no longer have wheat, oats, rye or barley or if you are already following a gluten-free diet.

Soon I am going to start posting delicious recipes and announcing exciting new products.

"Our mission is to bring to every one’s table gluten-free baked products that are absolutely delicious for the whole family. If we meet our goal, this is our success."

LIST OF STORES THAT CARRY OUR GF PRODUCTS

We are very excited to continuously keep adding more reail stores to sale Yummy Bites gluten-free products.


This is a complete list of the stores that are carrying our products:


WHOLE FOODS - Pasadena
3751 East Foothil Blvd.
Pasadena - CA 91107
Phone: 626-351 5994


WHOLE FOODS - Pasadena

465 South Arroyo Parkway

Pasadena - CA 91105

Phone: 626-204 2266

WHOLE FOODS - Porter Ranch
19340 Rinaldi St.
Northridge - CA 91326
Phone: (818) 363-3933

WHOLE FOODS - Venice
225 Lincoln Blvd.
Venice - CA 90291
Phone: 310-566 9480

WHOLE FOODS - Santa Clarita
24130 Valencia Blvd.
Santa Clarita - CA 91355
Phone: 661-260 2322

WHOLE FOODS - El Segundo
760 S. Sepulveda Blvd.
El Segundo - CA 90245
Fone: 310-333-1900

SIMPLY GLUTEN FREE
2955 E. Hillcrest Drive, Suite #124
Thousand Oaks, CA 91362
Phone: (805)208-1600 - (805)558-9918

VITAMIN CITY
642 W. Arrow Hwy
San Dimas - CA 91773
Phone: 909 592 5131

RAIMBOW ACRES
13208 W. Washington Blvd.
Los Angeles - CA 90066
Phone: 310-306 8330

STELLA LUCY
108 S. El Camino Real
San Clemente, CA 92672
Phone: 949-542 4631

STELLA LUCY
101 N. Indian Hill Blvd. # C1 - 102
Claremont - CA 91711
Phone: 909-626 9816


If Yummy Bites is not at the store you normally shop yet, please, tell the manager about us or let me know and I will contact the store manager.

Last but not least you can always order directly from us through this Web site -www.yummybitesglutenfree.com or by calling 818-309 7798.

More stores will be added soon!

WHAT IS GLUTEN?

As I sad before, I owned and run a Brazilian restaurant in Woodland Hills, CA where I cooked delicious recipes inspired from the vibrant culture of Brazil.

Of course we had to serve the pao-de-queijo in our restaurant. The relatioship Brazilians have with it borders on obsessive. I didn't know how to make them thou. For some reason I always thought that was too much time consuming and hard to make them. My mom used to make them all the time and serve with coffee. She was native of the beautiful state of Minas Gerais place where the pao-de-queijo was originated. There was nobody in the world better than my mom to give me the recipe and teach me how to make it.

Very soon, our cheese bread rolls (pao-de-queijo) was a complete success in our restaurant! It was great and a rewarding feeling to see our American customers popping them in their mouth one after another. There is something special about this little breads. They are very different from the majority of cheese breads. You have to try them to understand what I'm talking about.

One of our customers asked me: Is this cheese bread gluten-free? Well, I had no clue what gluten was. I never heard that word before. The lady didn't tell me much about gluten. She just told me that she was celiac and she couldn't eat anything with wheat, barley or rye.
Since "pao-de-queijo" is made entirely with tapioca starch, they are naturally and completely gluten-free.

At the end of the day, as soon as I got home from the restaurant I run to the computer to research and learn more about gluten. Here is what I found:

Gluten, in its most simplest definition, is a kind of protein that tends to exist in wheat, oat, rye and barley. Eating foods containing gluten causes damage to the small intestine in people primarily suffering from celiac or gluten intolerance. However, the diet can also help those with:

Autism
ADHD
Fibromyalgia
Dermatitis Herpetiformis

This is how I started my jorney on producing delicious GF products.

I hope my blog helpes answer the question - "What is Gluten" - and explain why some people need to avoid it.