There are countless gluten-free brands and products now available at stores nationwide. While the quality, texture, and taste of GF products has come a long way in recent years, there are still some products that are better than others. Here's a list of a sampling of some of our favorites:
Gluten Free Baking Mixes
- Pamela's Baking and Pancake Mix (and other baking mixes)
- Glutino brand mixes
- King Arthur mixes
- Betty Crocker gluten free mixes (cake, brownies, cookies)
- Cup4Cup gluten free mixes (vanilla cake, brownie, pancake/waffle, and pizza mixes)
Gluten Free Flours
- Bob's Red Mill Gluten Free 1-to-1 Baking Flour
- King Arthur All Purpose Flour blend
- Pamela's Artisan Flour Blend
- Carol's All Purpose Flour
- Jules Gluten Free Flour blend
- Cup4Cup (Original and new Wholesome flour blends)
- Tom Sawyer gluten free flour
Gluten Free Breakfast Foods
- Nature's Path Waffles
- Bakery on Main granola and oatmeal
- KIND granola
- Against the Grain bagels
- Udi's bagels, muffins, cinnamon rolls, and granola
- Kinnikinnick donuts (cinnamon sugar ones are best served slightly warmed)
- Trader Joe's gluten free frozen pancakes
- Jones Dairy Farm sausages
- Jessica's granola
- EnviroKidz cereals and cereal bars (these are kids-type cereals)
- Applegate Farms breakfast sausages
Pizza, Bread, Rolls
- Against the Grain pizzas, rolls, and baguettes
- Gluten Free Bakehouse products (this is Whole Foods' line of products made in a dedicated gluten-free facility)
- Glutino "Genius" white sandwich bread
- Udi's sandwich bread (get their larger loaves at Costco) and pizzas (great when grilled)
- Canyon Bakehouse hamburger and hot dog rolls
- Sabatasso's gluten free thin and crispy pizza (available at Costco)
Quick Meals
- Amy's (great GF mac-n-cheese, but be careful because they have a line of "regular" products, too)
- Annie's Mac-N-Cheese (in a box like Kraft)
- Bell and Evans gluten-free line of breaded chicken nuggets, chicken tenders, and chicken fillets
- Starfish gluten free breaded fish filets (Halibut, Haddock, Cod)
- Applegate gluten free chicken nuggets and gluten free chicken tenders
- Udi's frozen meals and burritos
- Glutenfreeda burritos
- Caesar's gluten free lasagna
- Boar's Head deli meats
- Dietz and Watson deli meats
- Go Picnic snacks/meals (like Lunchables; shelf-stable; only some varieties are GF; great for travel)
- Handy brand crab cakes
- Amy's gluten free soups
- Gluten Free Bistro frozen meals
Pasta
- RP's Pasta
- Le Veneziane pasta
- Jovial pasta (GF variety)
- Schar
- Barilla (GF variety)
- Ronzoni (GF variety)
- Tinkyada lasagna noodles (indistinguishable from regular lasagna noodles when baked in lasagna.
Snack Bars
- LUNA protein bars
- KIND snack bars
- NuGo snack bars
- Larabars
- NoGii snack bars
- Think Thin snack bars
- Pamela's Whenever Bars
Treats/Cookies
- Kozyshack chocolate pudding
- Glutino chocolate vanilla creme cookies (like Oreos)
- Amy's gluten free cookies (many varieties)
- Pamela's gluten free cookies (many varieties)
- Schar Sch'nacks
- Aleia's gluten free cookies (many varieties)
- Tate's chocolate chip cookies (GF line)
- Julie's Organics gluten free ice cream sandwiches
- Trader Joe's gluten free chocolate cupcakes with vanilla icing and mini GF cupcakes
- Goldbaums gluten free ice cream cones (love the cocoa sugar cones!)
- Glutino chocolate covered pretzels
Useful products to have on hand
- Gillian's gluten free breadcrumbs
- Ian's gluten free Panko breadcrumbs
- Better Batter Seasoned Flour (great for fried/sauteed chicken and onion rings!)
- San-J gluten free soy/tamari sauces (and many gluten free Asian stir-fry sauces, too)
- Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce (original flavor)
- Garden of Eatin' and Bearitos taco shells (both brands are also made with non-GMO corn)
- Pamela's Honey Grahams graham crackers
- Jo-Sef square cookies/graham crackers (multiple varieties: chocolate, cinnamon, vanilla)
- Glutino bagel chips