GlutenFree Me Product Review: Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free Quick Cooking Oats

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There are some microwavable gluten free oatmeals out there. They are good, but they are flavored. If you're looking for a plain oatmeal, Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free Quick Cooking Oats is awesome. WHY?

1. You can MICROWAVE it! 1/2 cup oats, 1 cup water, 1 minute 30 seconds in the microwave. Maybe this isn't news to you, but I've never microwaved oatmeal that wasn't in an individual serving package. I've bought the large quaker oats before, and prepared it on the stove and made oatmeal cookies, but I never thought to microwave it.

2. It's kid approved. Charlie loves it. He eats the whole serving EVERY TIME. This morning, he even ate some of mine.

3. Because it comes in a big bag, you can use these gluten free oats to fill up those canisters on your counter that used to hold flour. So pretty.

4. These oats are kind of sweet, so I don't have to add much sweetener to them, maybe a small drizzle of agave nectar. I used to load oatmeal up with butter and brown sugar.

5. I've got two easy, kid approved GLUTEN FREE ways to fix up this oatmeal for you: Add canned pumpkin and pumpkin pie spice! Or for homemade apple cinnamon oatmeal, chop an apple, put it at the bottom of the bowl. Add oats, water/milk and apple pie spice and then microwave. Yum!

Now if I can just find the perfect gluten free pancake mix...

Charlie Halloween!

GlutenFree Me Lunch Box: Peanut Butter dip

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My mother in law introduced me to this dip. It's just peanut butter and yogurt. That's it. I'm not even a big peanut butter fan and I like this dip. 

I use one plain Oikos single serve 5.3 oz container and about 2 tablespoons of peanut butter (I use JIF natural). Because I use plain yogurt, I sometimes sweeten it with agave nectar, but if you use vanilla or honey flavored yogurt, you wouldn't need anything else. You get super protein from the greek yogurt and super protein from the peanut butter and BAM, you're full.

Before I went off gluten, I would eat all of this dip with a big apple and be really full. So that would be a big apple, 5.3 oz yogurt and 2 tbsp. peanut butter. NOW, being off gluten, I eat half the dip and one or two small apples and... FULL. So this dip makes TWO servings.

Charlie (almost 18 months) LOVES this dip made with full fat greek yogurt and with cut up bananas. He really just tries to eat the dip with his spoon. It's great for spoon feeding because the dip sticks to the spoon so well.

Charlie at the Farmer's Market Spring Fling

Yes, this was two weekends ago. But I didn't know how to get photos to my computer from my phone at a high resolution easily – until now!

AAAHHHHHH! I'M RUNNINGGGGG!

This is Charlie's creepy pose.

Charlie pet this sheep and ever since, he has been pointing out all of the sheep in his books.
Surprisingly, there are a lot of sheep in the background illustrations of kids books.

We go on "bunny hunts" where we look for bunnies at Preston's parents' house / aka the wild. 

Did you say something?

And we will end this post with several swinging pictures that probably look the same to you but look different and equally awesome to me.

GlutenFree Me Lunch Box: TOAST

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Two slices gluten free bread, whipped cream cheese and apple butter with a banana.