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I was looking up a delicious spice cake mix online and realized Amazon is now selling a variety of GF foods in bulk!! You can get baking mixes, Chex cereals, Udi's products, snack bars, etc. all at better than grocery store prices and with free shipping. You can also save an extra 15% with Subscribe & Save: Signing up to have the items delivered at a regular intervals of your choice (with no obligation to buy them again later). Some brands have their own promotional discounts as well. Here's a link to the Namaste Foods cake mix, but if you scroll down, you can see many other GF items available, or simply search for GF. Of course, the Amazon user reviews are extremely helpful too.
Here are all the GF brands carried by Amazon, and the number of products they carry. Tinkyada pastas are totally worth the bulk buy. They have tons of GF/DF/SF snack bars too - Bora Bora, Pure, Lara, Kind, Raw Revolution, etc in tons of new flavors.
Akmak (1)
Ancient Harvest (16)
Annie's Homegrown (15)
Arrowhead Mills (64)
Back To Nature (4)
Bakery on Main (12)
Betty Crocker (33)
Betty Lou's (35)
bionaturae (6)
Bisquick (1)
Bob's Red Mill (161)
Candy Tree (18)
Chebe Bread (6)
Cherrybrook Kitchen (41)
Chex (8)
Crunchmaster (13)
Ener-G Foods (79)
Enjoy Life (30)
EnviroKidz (10)
Erewhon (12)
Gluten Free Cafe (12)
Gluten Free Mama (18)
Glutenfreeda's (8)
Glutino (53)
GoPicnic (23)
Heartland (4)
Jovial (9)
Jungle Grub Snack Bars (3)
Kay's Naturals (17)
Kikkoman (2)
KIND (7)
King Arthur
Kinnikinnick (23)
Lucy's (21)
Maple Grove Farms (3)
Namaste Foods (30)
Nature Valley (3)
Nature's Path (28)
Oskri (56)
Pamela's Products (132)
Rice Krispies (1)
Schar (43)
Snyder's of Hanover (3)
Southern Homestyle (2)
The Gluten-Free Pantry (16)
thinkThin (19)
Tinkyada (36)
Udi's (10)
Udi's Gluten Free (19)
Vogue Cuisine - Healthy & Gourmet Bases (17)
WOW Baking Company (20)
WONDERFUL! The prices of GF free products is way to high.
I am alone, so buying bulk is not practical. So far I have not seen that anyone on this forum lives in southern CA or I would offer to share. If anyone is in the LA area, I would be glad to participate.
If you have a freezer, you can store most flours and mixes, and probably a lot of other similar products, for a long, long time. I buy Pamela's Pancake Mix from Amazon, for example, and just store it in the freezer.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Since I have changed my diet completely, not just gluten and casein free, but being very careful - after watching Food Inc., seeing the recalls for all the illnesses, finding out that even Whole Foods produce is at least a month old, and being this sick myself - to shop for produce only from a farmer's market, fresh eggs, meat from the butcher there (free range chickens, and grass fed beef, IF I eat any red meat at all, and for wild fish (not even wild caught, truly wild) from Costco - they had it all season at VERY reasonable prices, so it's filling up my freezer.
I can tell you that I am also rediscovering the flavor of food. It's amazing. I am tasting food flavors from my childhood (at which time I was probably poisoned by DDT!) I had forgotten. I am battling my BP and trying to get off meds for it. The flavor of the food is so incredible that if I need salt at all it's very little. Just enhance the flavor because it's all there naturally.
This started because you told me to keep mixes in my freezer. I really don't have space for it.
My juicer has a pasta maker on it, and I am MORE than prepared to make it myself. I need to get a recipe after I try it to see if I like it.
I have found crackers I like, but they are SO expensive it's prohibitive on my budget. They are also finicky to make. So far I haven't found a bread that I like.
another brand for sale via amazon for USA delivery is the 'Orgran' brand which has been a trusted GF brand for over 10 years and is the brand of most products I buy (flour, cake mixes etc)
In aus they were one of the first brands to have products soy free.
they are a trusted production facility, that only do GF products, to date they have never had a recall.
Joe has just bought some of the orgran chocolate cake mix via amazon.
Gabes Ryan
"Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned"
Dalai Lama