The things you thought you had to give up eating and enjoying...

Pasta:
Tinkyada brown rice pasta – delicious, and almost impossible to overcook – I like to buy it at vitamin cottage, but it’s available at whole food s and king soopers

See the awesome Mac and Cheese recipe from a few months ago...


Pizza:
I totally missed on that college staple -- pizza and beer. No more! See below for beers to go with these tasty pies.

Fresh – Beaujo’s: has gluten-free pizza and beer!

Frozen:

Amy’s rice crust pizza isn’t bad, but the Glutino brand pizza is best: can find Amy’s at King Sooper’s, whole foods, and vitamin cottage. Can only find Glutino at Whole Foods/wild oats in frozen section with other pizzas.


Beer:
Budweiser Redbridge is good, easier to find at most liquor stores (liquor Mart, Baseline liquors, etc...)

Green’s: they make three gluten-free beers that are totally amazing, but plan on spending about $7/ pint bottle. Green’s can be found at Liquor Mart or at Ace Liquors (cheaper there).

Bard's Tale: really good, just slightly more than Red Bridge and very clean, less bitter taste.


Hard Cider:
Really good stuff if you're not keen on beer and don't want to break out the Riedels. Disclaimer: my taste tends to run on the drier side.

Woodchuck: all varieties are gluten-free, 802 is my favorite (again, I like it dry).

Strongbow is good stuff, comes from England for you anglophiles.

There is also a fun french cider that comes in a bottle with a cork – this stuff is called Dupont, and I have only been able to find it at Liquor Mart.


Tequila:
Anything should be fine.


Vodka:
Chopin and Ciroc are good. (Sorry, celiac’s means you don’t have a choice but to be top-shelf)

Triple Sec
Dekuyper states that their Triple Sec is safe for us glutards.

Vinegar: avoid white distilled; use balsamic, red wine-, or apple cider vinegars. Champagne vinegar is fine too.

Bread:
This is the most exciting part of this post -- the holy grail of gluten-free bread. The shocker? It actually tastes like the bread you have been fantasizing about, not those icky-dense-cinder-block-ish loaves you have probably resigned yourself to.

Udi’s gluten-free line is really good stuff. The bread is great, can’t go wrong with white or brown. At least in Boulder, This is only available at King Sooper’s, and you can find it at the King Sooper’s on 30th in the same area as all of the cakes. You can find it at the King Sooper’s at Table Mesa and Broadway with all of the frozen juice/roughly in that area of the frozen section. At just a shade over $5/loaf, this is my favorite sandwich bread. Also makes amazingly light and fluffy french toast if you let it dry out for a day.

Whole Foods bakehouse bread isn't bad either, but I prefer to not pay $7 for a loaf of sandwich bread.