Deciding to take our family to the gluten free side of life was part easy and part very difficult ... at first. Once you make the decision to eliminate gluten from the diet, you do whatever it takes to make that happen and that involves a lot of research and close label reading. 

None of us suffers from celiac, so this is not mandatory. Because our daughter is severely autistic, we decided well over a year ago when she graduated from her residential placement of 14 years to come home to us, that we would try. We have read that gluten free diets can help a lot. 

Finding product proved to be easy enough, but very expensive and limited. She was not happy with the dry cookies and frozen bread and waffle options. And I missed cooking and baking from scratch. One day, by great luck, I found a box of Bloomfield Farms All-Purpose Baking Mix at Home Goods. And the rest is history! My first go at baking was an apple cake where I substituted one for one the baking mix for flour. And then I fed it to team family who had NO CLUE it was gluten free.  Success! I reached out to the company and became a regular contributor of recipes. Today, I am proud to partner with their efforts to create recipes using the tastiest blend of gluten free mixes available AND so very affordable. Kudos to Dan and Sue Sutherland from Bloomfield, Kentucky, who initially set out to create a mix for a granddaughter who had severe allergies. Their labor of love and commitment has resulted in a family owned business that is catching on like wildfire. 

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