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!

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!

THANK YOU!

As much as you like creating your gluten-free cereal, Custom Choice Cereal likes to stay in touch with you! Facebook is a great way to do this, and we are therefore very happy to see that we have reached 200 fans on our facebook page! If you are not a fan already, please consider becoming one!

Custom Choice Cereal has been wanting to write about this great social networking website for a while now. Adding this to our list of New Year’s resolutions apparently helped…

Gluten-Free Faces is a great website that allows anyone interested in or already on a gluten-free diet to connect with people from the gluten-free community. The functionality is obviously similar to facebook – by the way, if you have not done so already, feel free to become a fan of Custom Choice Cereal on facebook – but there is more. We especially like the very active discussion forum where members talk about food safety, gluten tests, celiac disease, symptoms, recommendations, etc. because it is a great resource for anyone new to the gluten-free lifestyle.

Other features include gluten-free recipes, resources with links to gluten-free information and products, events, and videos. We suggest you definitely check it out. Just click on the picture below, and you are directed straight to our presence on Gluten Free Faces!

Custom Choice Cereal previously used its facebook page to post the most creative names that you had given your gluten-free cereal mixes over the past week. We realized that your creativity deserves some more prominence though and therefore decided to start a new weekly category here.

There clearly are some “naming trends” that we can observe. Popular names use (some form of) your own name, send a message to someone (“Happy Birthday”) including us (“Start mixing Patrick”), or listing the main ingredients of your mix (“Nuttin’ but Nanas and Berries”), to name just a few.

This week’s winner is “Rob’s Mo-vember Mix”. It has a deeper cause behind it that we will blog about early next week. Have a great weekend!

Custom Choice Cereal improved its customer service! In addition to the recommended gluten-free cereal mixes you can now determine your “gluten-free cereal personality” through our quiz on facebook. The result includes a Mix ID that you can then enter in the box on the left hand side of the homepage to order.

Just click on the screenshot below to take the quiz!

When Custom Choice Cereal created its profile on facebook, we tried to establish a vanity URL. At that time, facebook told us that we have to deal with the nasty automatically generated URL for our facebook presence and could only choose our URL once we reached the threshold of 100 fans. Thanks to all of you this magic number has been reached and you can now easily find us at www.facebook.com/customchoicecereal

It’s the little successes in life that make the day…

Custom Choice Cereal has now gone through the first week of operations after the launch of our beta website, and we once more learned a tremendous amount about receiving and fulfilling your orders. Above all we found out that a fine distinction exists between the theoretical internal processes and actual operations…

We wanted to take the opportunity to thank all of you that reviewed our website, ordered some cereal, came by and had a look at the facility, or became a fan of our facebook page. A special thanks goes to those of you who completed several or even all of these “action items” for us!

The team at Custom Choice Cereal is now working to implement the changes and suggestions that you made, and then we will launch to the broader public. Stay tuned, we’ll keep you posted!

Nobody is perfect.  That’s why we at Custom Choice Cereal appreciate your emails with advice, feedback and suggestions of various kinds.  In order to provide you another communication channel to reach us and tell us where and what we can improve, we established a presence on facebook. Of course you would do us a great favor if you became a “fan” of Custom Choice Cereal.

Besides, an internet start-up in today’s time can scarcely afford not to be on facebook anymore. As we have learned in the recent past, facebook can even influence Presidential elections…