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Gluten free dessert mixes from Betty Crocker- Coupon, win a gift pack

By Jenn
31
Jul
2009
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 Betty Crocker is offering a free $4.00 value coupon for their Gluten-Free Dessert Mix. All you have to do is call Call General Mills Consumer Services number at 1-800-446-1898 and select option #4 on the main menu. Then tell the customer service rep you’re interested in the free gluten-free dessert coupon. The CSR will then ask you a few questions about your gluten-free diet and you’ll give them your address to get the coupon. While in my local Dillon’s (kroger), I saw they have the mixes for $4.97 which makes them about the same price as their regular mixes are at the current sale price!

Thanks to MyBlogSpark, was sent a Gluten Free mix pack to test and review and the people at Betty Crocker would like me to give a way another pack to one of my readers!
In the pack you get:
Betty Crocker Gluten Free Yellow Cake Mix
Betty Crocker Gluten Free Devil´s Food Cake Mix
Betty Crocker Gluten Free Brownie Mix
Betty Crocker Gluten Free Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix
A grocery bag, Pen, and Note Pad

Review: So far, we’ve had the brownies and I’m really picky about brownies, so I was curious how this would turn out. They came out awesome! Really fudge and not cakey and the best part……… they didn’t have a weird texture or aftertaste at all! Unlike some of the other kinds of gluten free mixes we’ve tried.
 
Last night, I made the yellow cake mix. Now, I have to make this disclaimer before going any further. I made the cake in our Tupperware bowl in the microwave, so I can’t comment on the oven cooking times or anything related to that. The thing is, it had a really different texture while mixing it and I made it exactly as directed. It was much more watery and the powder was a very fine texture.

When it was cooled and iced, my first slice was the test. The yellow cake was a bit different than a traditional taste and texture, but not bad at all. No after taste, and still a good flavor. The texture is a little more sponge like, and a little heavier with a fine grain compared to regular flower cake mixes.

We still have cookies and a devil’s food cake mix to go, but I want you to get a chance to try these too!

To win a Betty Crocker Gluten Free Sweet Treat set, submit a comment about why you’ve gone gluten free or considered doing it. Also, tell me what is the hardest part of being gluten free for your family. Leave a comment and make sure to leave your email so I can contact you if you are the winner!

Open to US residents only!  Contest closes august 15th, 2009.

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A dark and hostile place where oafs and churls triumph

By Jenn
30
Jul
2009
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A few months back, I read a book that illustrated many of my feelings, both good and bad, about NoveMber’s condition (autism). The author, a father of a child with a very rare condition, takes the reader on a journey through the joy of becoming a parent, to the utter shock and almost immediate fears of finding out there is something very, very, very wrong with your child.

Anyway, Bob, writes a blog about his daughter and his life. His daughter’s name is nothing short of Rock Star quality and I’ll bet any of you who know me, know I love unique names. So, when I checked in today, I found Bob to have taken a person day or two off, but an anonymous person replied with the comments below and I thought at first they were poetic, then thought they were more like Poe and a little on the dark and dangerous side.
Either way, I feel this magnitude of depth on a regular basis about my life, about my children’s lives, about life in general.

Sunny, huh?

The world is a dark and hostile place where oafs and churls triumph and talented, deserving people such as yourself are trampled by the hooting, bestial horde, left to languish in obscurity before succumbing to a painful, lonely death.

 
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