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A Southern girl living with celiac disease and without gluten named Marlow writes the blog Gluten Hates Me. We like her blog because it does not write exclusively about gluten-free food and recipes but also includes more or less random events from her daily life. That’s why we included her blog in our blogroll.
What we like even more though is the great review that Marlow gave the gluten-free cereal from Custom Choice Cereal that she created! Apparently that’s how she started her Thanksgiving day, and we can’t really top what she writes about us: “The cereal was great!” Click on the picture below to read the entire review.
Hope all of you had a great gluten-free Thanksgiving! My old high school friend Dustin invited me to spend the weekend with him, his wife, and his son in the mountains of Western North Carolina. Dustin has started to reduce his gluten intake and feels significantly better, so I also brought him some gluten-free Custom Choice Cereal. He recently took up blogging as well, and I wanted to share his “Visions, thoughts & ideas from a Jesus freak” about Thanksgiving. As a true Southerner, Dustin fried the turkey – I learned some time ago that anything goes fried in the South. Just to be on the safe side we decided to do the frying outside as you can see from the picture. I must say it was very crisp and truly delicious!
While we were still digesting the turkey on Friday, Dustin and his family were struck by a tragedy – their beautiful and truly awesome dog Stella was hit by a car and died. We had to bury her and then spent the rest of the day in her remembrance. I took the picture below a day earlier when she was sleeping on the couch. 
Despite the short Thanksgiving week, Custom Choice Cereal saw that some of you gave your gluten-free cereal mixes quite creative names. Here are our favorites and the (pretty obvious) winner:
- Nancy’s dazzler (part of a family order)
- Mike’s revenge (part of a family order)
- Graham’s Special G (part of a family order)
- Crazy Cherry Cereal
Fortunately, this time it was not as difficult to determine a winner as in previous weeks. As die-hard fans of “The Office” we had to choose the following for this week’s winning name: “Your Nuts. That’s What She Said”.
Custom Choice Cereal wishes everyone a Happy gluten-free Thanksgiving and a wonderful long holiday weekend! Hopefully your result will look (and taste) as delicious as our turkey did last year.
We are always thankful when bloggers have a blogroll with links to other related (and unrelated) blogs on their websites. Custom Choice Cereal therefore decided to add its own blogroll as well because these lists benefit everyone.
Our goal is to provide you with resources to navigate the gluten-free space and find all the information about living gluten-free that you are looking for. And hopefully you discover some useful news that you were not looking for along the way. Most of the blogs we list right now feature great gluten-free recipes and share a personal story, but find out for yourself. We also appreciate your suggestions of blogs or websites to add, so please feel free to comment here or send us your feedback. We appreciate your input!
Our Gluten Free Family is a blog that is authored by Kirstin, a mom who used to cook in restaurants, then went to art school, and is now to cooking for her kids. She has many severe symptoms of gluten intolerance and therefore excluded gluten from her cooking. Kristin encourages other parents to realize that they can make better choices about the nutrition and well-being of their children and writes on her blog about how this can be accomplished.
This is what she had to say about Custom Choice Cereal: “It was super fun to make a custom blend mix and I can’t wait to order a bag for each of my kids. Actually, my favorite part was being able to name my cereal and the great labeling of my custom mix. I imagine it would make bringing along your own gluten free cereal super fun…” We are happy to see that yet another blogger in the gluten-free community posted about our custom gluten-free cereal. You can also click on the picture below to read her entire review.
USA Today had a very helpful 12-page Guide to Living Gluten-free in its Friday edition. Elaine Monarch, founder of the Celiac Disease Foundation, mentions in her introduction to celiac disease that many doctors are still unaware of celiac disease and that as a result it takes a scary average of 9 (!) years of visits to different doctors and specialists for a patient to be diagnosed correctly.
This was a pretty serious shocker to Custom Choice Cereal. But fortunately the guide gets more encouraging with articles about going gluten-free, de-mystifying celiac disease myths, gluten-free beer, the response from the food industry that brings new gluten-free products to market, and some advice how to eat out safely.
We thought that it was a little bit annoying that there are advertisements on almost every page including two full-page ads on twelve pages total but it still is a great resource. The full report can be downloaded as a PDF by clicking on the picture below.
 Cranberries are a delicious, nutritious, versatile fruit native to the United States. Native Americans consumed cranberries by the bushel, using the fruit in a popular dish called pemmican, consisting of crushed cranberries, dried deer meat, and melted fat. They also used it is a medicine to treat arrow wounds (ouch!) and as a dye for rugs and blankets.
Captain Henry Hall began commercially cultivating cranberries in 1816, after he noticed that his cranberries grew faster when sand blew over the bog. The ingenious Captain Hall began fencing his cranberries bogs and spreading sand over the crop regularly. Modern cranberry bogs are beds layered with sand, peat, gravel, and clay. Cranberries require plentiful fresh water to grow, and are harvested in the early Spring season.
Undamaged cranberry vines can survive indefinitely, and it is rumored that some cranberries vines in Massachusetts are 150 years old! Although it is highly unlikely that humans can survive 150 years through a diet rich in cranberries, the fruit can aid in the prevention of kidney stones, lower LDL cholesterol (“bad” cholesterol), raise HDL cholesterol (“good” cholesterol), and promote gastrointestinal health.
Most importantly, cranberries are also the inspiration for the name of the classic Irish rock band, The Cranberries, whose timeless hits “Linger” and “Zombie” have been playing repeatedly in the Custom Choice Cereal office lately.
Don’t forget – Custom Choice Cereal is offering cranberries as a free ingredient if you order before November 28, 2009!!!
 The team at Custom Choice Cereal can’t believe that another week has already passed! That means it’s time again to recognize the gluten-free cereal mix name of the week. Some naming trends such as including your own name in the mix prevail but we also saw some more creativity that we wanted to share with you (as an encouragement to get creative):
- flaked out
- Lucy and Myra Made This Cereal
- Tropical Island
- Daddy’s gotta go
- Berrylicious Granola
Making a decision is tough every week, but this one was especially challenging. Because it is what all of us seek at this time of the year and because our custom gluten-free cereal provides a little bit of it, this week’s winner is “Autumn Comfort”.
 The Quest for The Hoff goes into another round. As you can see from the picture above, we are sending the first gluten-free cereal mix to David Hasselhoff’s publicist today.
Who knows if this first sample will already lead to a result? Regardless, the goal remains to personally deliver a bag of Custom Choice Cereal’s gluten-free cereal to The Hoff by March 2010. We like to think of this as just another step towards our goal 
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