Orange County gluten-free food fair

The 3rd Orange County annual gluten-free food fair happened last Friday, October 2nd in the beauty city of New Port Beach - CA.

The event was a fantastic! A wide variety of vendors with fabulous gluten-free products were there displaying their products and giving away samples.

I may say that Yummy Bites was a big hit at the fair. We received so many glowing comments about the traditional cheese bread rolls (pao-de-queijo), the garlic and herb cheese bread rolls and the mini mozzarella pizzas.

It was delightfull to see people all ages mingling around our table tasting and recommending our products to other attendants.

It's a great feeling to bring such a tasty gluten-free rolls and pizza for people that for medical reasons need to follow a special diet.

Yummy Bites put a big smile in so many faces that day!

Congratulations for the organizers that put toghether such a great event. I'm looking forward to participate again next year.

Here is the website for the Orange County Celiacs:

http://www.occeliacs.com/index.html

Yummy Bites website is: http://www.yummtbitesglutenfree.com/

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."