My husband bought ice cream sandwiches by Julie’s the other week and raved about how good they were for a few days before realizing they were, gasp, gluten free. Even though he denies it, the words ‘gluten free’ usually translates directly to “so disgusting I’d rather eat ripe dirt” so the fact he had been eating and enjoying GF food was quite a shock…to both of us. It looks like Julie’s partnered with Glutenfreeda to make these ice cream sandwiches which so captivated my gluten-lovin’ husband. The kids tried them and of course, also thought they were yummy. As for me, I had to try them once I found out their GF status, and they are good, but the ice cream is real ice cream which is not my favorite thing. Dairy and I have a love/hate relationship and I generally avoid it unless I take a lot of enzymes, which I prefer to do for cheese rather than ice cream. And these sandwiches have a lot of ice cream. If it were up to me I’d halve the ice cream bit, but I also would rather eat ice cream made out of coconut milk like Coconut Bliss so my opinion might not be the most important in this GF review. My husband decided it was the fact that the cookie parts of the sandwich stayed crisp that made it so good. Apparently he’d had bad experiences with mushy cookie ends before that left him thoroughly impressed with Julie’s. Perhaps this means there is hope yet that I’ll be making just one meal for the whole family one day. Maybe.

For some reason the all-time-best gluten free bars have the all-time-worse placement at the Whole Foods I go to. They are at the bottom of the bars section and the fact they are gluten free is not very noticeable. The only other place I can find them is PCC which does a much better job at merchandising them at slightly above my eye level which probably means eye level for most people, and surprise, surprise, they are quite often all out of them. The bars are made my NuGo and my personal favorite is the dark chocolate crunch. They also have bars that are not allergy free for those lucky enough to indulge, and I have heard they are delicious too. There are constantly one or two in my car for snack emergencies, which happen quite often considering I’m driving my boys around a large proportion of my waking hours, and they hit the spot. As all gluten free foods are, they too are a little on the expensive side, but they taste like real food (real dark chocolate no less!) and are a fairly low-cal/low-fat treat. I just thought I’d share in case other Whole Foods are also unaware of their little gem. Nice job, NuGo.