Of course Custom Choice Cereal is also on twitter.com where we can be found under the name @CustomCereal. Some of the people we follow are very active tweeters, and we actually learn quite a lot of interesting news on celiac disease, gluten-intolerances, living gluten-free, and most of all new gluten-free recipes from them.

Our twitter friend @eadibleASH writes the blog the edible perspective with tons of delicious recipes and product pictures that make you want to bite your computer screen! She does not follow a gluten-free diet, so we were very excited when Ashley reviewed our custom gluten-free cereal. She had her gluten-free cereal mix on Friday when she unfortunately woke up with a “crazy pain in her neck” – we can only hope our breakfast treat provided some relief and that she feels better soon!

The mix that Ashley cerealized contained Good Morning Flakes as a base and to which she added apricots, goji berries, almonds, coconut and walnuts. She was “really happy with the amount of fruit + nuts that was in the mix”.

Thanks Ashley, we’re glad you enjoyed your custom gluten-free cereal!

Friday = gluten-free cereal name recognition day at Custom Choice Cereal!

We’ve seen your creativity come to play in past names for you gluten-free cereal mixes. Hopefully this post can serve as an inspiration and encouragement to think outside the box when it comes to naming your gluten-free cerealizations (more than listing the ingredients or giving it your own name). This week’s winners are:

5. Triple Berry Blend (berries are a top seller these days)
4. Fall Celebration Cereal (isn’t spring around the corner?)
3. Berries Plus (some “plus” to mix up the berries in that one…)
2. Leena’s Loca Lot (observe the alliteration!)
1. At the top of the list is Gin Tonic (Seriously? For breakfast?)

It’s finally getting warmer in North Carolina so it will be a good weekend. We hope all of you have a great and relaxing weekend as well!

Custom Choice Cereal is very excited to be featured in a review on Foodcents’ Blog. But there is also excitement in it for you because if you create a gluten-free cereal mix on our website leave a comment on the blog entry about our custom gluten-free cereal by March 6, then you’ll have a chance to win a custom gluten-free cereal mix of your choice! There are a couple of further actions listed to increase your chance of winning, so go ahead and check it out!

Foodcents writes that “Custom Choice Cereal is the only 100% gluten-free cereal site on the internet which also operates a 100% gluten free facility.” She also states about the two gluten-free cereal creations she had: “I loved the abundance of nuts, seeds and fruit which are included. These are nice and fresh tasting ingredients, which are plentiful throughout the mix.”

Having had some bad experiences with customer service in the past ourselves, we at Custom Choice Cereal strive to provide outstanding service to our customers and answer any questions within an hour. It was therefore very pleasing to read the following recognition of our efforts: “I cannot finish this up without mentioning the FANTASTIC customer service that Custom Choice Cereal provides. These guys are on top of the products and there to help consumers with any questions they might have along the way. I can think of more than a few companies that could you a little customer service training for these guys!!!”

Thank you, receiving such positive feedback always feels great, and it encourages us to continue what we are doing!

Yes it’s true. Custom Choice Cereal skipped the usual blog entry honoring your creativity in naming your custom gluten-free cereal mixes last Friday. However, we felt that our update on the fake gluten-free bakery being shut down was more important. Thanks once again to the representatives of the NCDA&CS for the helpful and interesting information they provided.

This also means that we had more candidates to choose from this week, and selecting the most creative or “best” names for your gluten-free cereal was again a challenging task.

5. Yum Yum Yum Yum Yum (sounds like a fast food chain’s melody…)
4. cranpricalm flakes (because we can’t even pronounce it)
3. Good Morning Nuts (interesting, to say the least:-))
2. Active Mountain (from VA, sounded like hiking fuel)
1. And our favorite Fruity Pecan Madness

Thanks again for being so creative in naming your gluten-free cereal. If you feel that your creativity deserves to be mentioned but is not included in the list above, please feel free to add your name as a comment to this blog entry. Have a great weekend!

Custom Choice Cereal is very very excited to introduce a Gift Certificate option on its website! Now you don’t have to worry about the selection of dried fruits, nuts and seeds that you want to add to a customized gluten-free cereal mix for someone else. Instead let them choose for themselves. It’s the perfect gift for anyone suffering from celiac disease!

Just click on the “Give a Gift” button in the left sidebar on our gluten-free cereal homepage as illustrated in the picture below. You will then be automatically directed to a page where you can enter all the information, including a message to the recipient of your gluten-free cereal gift certificate. It’s pretty intuitive, but please contact us in case you should experience any difficulties!

Erin Elberson writes the blog gluten free fitness, focusing on “eating well to be well” and “nutrition, fitness, and fun with a celiac spin”. When Custom Choice Cereal came across her blog we immediately said to ourselves that we have to try anything to be featured on it.

In addition to writing a stellar review of our custom gluten-free cereal, Erin mentioned that we are an “advocate for awareness of celiac disease and the gluten-free lifestyle”. She is also the first blogger EVER to mention our Quest for The Hoff, something that is very dear to my heart (Germans loooove David Hasselhoff in case you did not know this). Erin thought this to be “absolutely hysterical and made me almost fall of my chair and spit my coffee onto my keyboard. I love the humor. Points for that!”

Thank you Erin, we definitely like to look at the humorous side of life and appreciate your encouraging words! But honestly, how cool would it be if we could really personally hand a bag of our customized gluten-free cereal to The Hoff??

They say that there is a first time for everything, and it is so true! This “first timer” is related to a review of Custom Choice Cereal’s tasty gluten-free cereal. Our friend Kati started the page GF Milwaukee – Gluten Free in and around Milwaukee, WI on facebook and posted a great review of our customized gluten-free cereal on it. You can also become a fan of Custom Choice Cereal on facebook!

As many celiacs she had a craving for Raisin Bran because she has not been able to have it since she found out that she had celiac disease. Kati therefore creating a simple blend by combining our Good Morning Flakes with raisins. She writes that “the raisins are some of the biggest I’ve ever seen! I had to watch myself that I didn’t eat the entire bag in one sitting!”

If you are missing a specific kind of cereal from before your gluten-free days you can re-create it at Custom Choice Cereal. Please contact us if you are missing a certain ingredient that you would like us to offer!

Custom Choice Cereal had a day packed with meetings yesterday. While we usually rather spend time talking with our customers (about new gluten-free ingredients) and cerealizing your gluten-free creations, it is helpful to learn other’s people perspectives on our business. And trust us, it is too early to reveal, but we have some tricks up our sleeves…

Most of you have probably heard of professional road racing cyclist Lance Armstrong who won the Tour de France seven consecutive years from 1999 to 2005 after an amazing story of successfully battling cancer. Most of you probably also know that he subsequently founded the Lance Armstrong Foundation to fight cancer. He also started LIVESTRONG.COM as the “the definitive daily health, fitness and lifestyle destination”.

LIVESTRONG.COM actually has a very informative section on celiac disease that is worth browsing through. While we feel that some of the background information on celiac disease is better presented for example by the Celiac Sprue Association, we really like the many articles on celiac disease that are listed there. Check it out and let us know what you think!

It’s Friday. Not only does that mean that the weekend is about to start, it also means that Custom Choice Cereal recognizes some of the creative names for your custom gluten-free cereal mixes. This is our way to thank you for making our job even more fun!

All of you are doing a great job and take advantage of the opportunity to name your personal gluten-free cereal. We can unfortunately not recognize each name, and the selection below as well as our comments are heavily subjective. Please feel free to comment or send us an email if you think it is unjust that your name is not part of the list – we always appreciate any form of feedback!

5. Papa Flakes (Who’s the boss??)
4. Robyn’s Simple Pleasure (Life IS about simple pleasures!)
3. Valentine Red (What an outstanding idea!)
2. YUM-O, Tasty, Gluten Free Goodness (part of the same order)
1. And the winners are: Arthur’s Awesome Cereal, Carter’s Cool Cereal, Mommy’s Mega-Mix, Mmm…

The winning names were not only part of the same order and very creative but also created nice alliterations. We applaud you, this truly was awesome!

We hope all of you have a great, relaxing weekend, and please also consider becoming a fan of Custom Choice Cereal on facebook!

One of our favorite sites with very frequent updates on anything related to celiac disease and gluten-free news is Celiac-disease.com. If you browse through the site you will realize that our friend Tiffany Janes is one of the most active contributers and in fact wrote one of the first reviews of our customized gluten-free cereal in October 2009.

Custom Choice Cereal talked to Tiffany yesterday, and she reminded us that we never posted her other review of gluten-free cereal mixes on The Essential Gluten-Free Blog. She did an outstanding job and wrote that “the fact that my cereal was made with my choice of ingredients is directly related to the fact that I love it!”.

Even though our recognition of her work is overdue, the actuality and quality of Tiffany’s comments are certainly no less accurate!