If you’ve been around here long and/or paying attention you know that I eat gluten-free. I found that avoiding gluten greatly improved my pain levels and fatigue. I generally try to avoid a lot of processed foods but with the crazy school schedule I’ve found that convenience has to win sometimes. So, when I had the chance to check out Send Me Gluten Free I jumped on it to see what kind of new and interesting gluten-free products they would send me.
Send Me Gluten Free sent me their November box for free in exchange for my honest review and sharing with you what I thought of the 
process and product. If you aren’t familiar with SMGF, it’s a subscription service that sends you a new box of totally gluten-free products each month. It’s like a little Christmas surprise each time you get a box and that’s pretty much how I felt when my box arrived.
This is what I saw when I first opened the box and I couldn’t help but think “YUM”. These will make great snacks when I’m rushed between classes and don’t have time to eat much. But, then I pulled the chips out of the way and revealed even more yummy surprises.
Each box contains 8-12 full and sample size gluten-free products. I was quite happy to find that my box contained mostly full-size products with a couple of samples thrown in. In addition to the chips I found a sample of Schar gluten-free bread. I’ve seen this in the stores but it was a little expensive for me to risk buying and trying. There was a Kratos beef bar, a gluten-free beef stock (to which my husband replied “is that really a problem? and I said “yes!”. I’m looking forward to making this Jambalaya even though Jambalaya is not something that typically has a gluten issue. The Teeccino samples were really surprisingly good. It’s an herbal tea that tastes more like coffee. And, it’s decaf. The Nogi bar was a great snack and the Hope bar looks like something I’ll love. You caught that “was” right? Because that was the first thing I tried in the box.
Of course, I’m not going to like everything in the box (I hated the beef bar), but some of the items are definite winners. Overall it’s a pretty decent deal for $25 (including shipping) and it gets cheaper if you do longer subscriptions. This would make an excellent gift for someone who is gluten-free. I know it’s a gift that I’d certainly love to try. If you’d like to give Send Me Gluten Free a try they have offered to give all of my readers a discount of 20% off of any subscription length. To get the discount, simply enter code: BLOG20 when you sign up. (and if you need my address to Send Me Gluten Free as a gift, just let me know 😉 hehe).
Reta says
I have been on the glueten free diet for 2 months now & I can’t tell anything
I am about to give up
Julie says
I’m sorry to hear you aren’t finding it helpful. I will say this that if you are just doing gluten-free and replacing all the normal gluten products in your life with gluten-free ones (rather than getting rid of them completely) you may be adding to problems with increased carbs and sugars. There’s also a ton of hidden gluten in foods and it is difficult to go 100% gluten-free without eating 100% clean / 0% processed. If you are curious as to whether diet may be affecting your symptoms I highly suggest trying the Whole 30 diet as it takes out pretty much everything that could be causing problems and it’s when you reintroduce them one at a time later that you can really see which ones are the culprits.
Jo-D says
Hi Julie – two things your post brought to mind. 1) If any other spoonies are like me, by dinnertime they are too tired to cook, so suggestion #1 is to use the CROCKPOT and make dinner early in the day. #2 is a great gluten-free, crockpot recipe blog site run by Stephanie O’Dea called ayearofslowcooking.com She also has several slow cooker, gluten-free cookbooks. Stephanie’s blog is very funny as well, and b/c she’s been doing this a long time, the archives go back years, so you can start with a main ingredient to search and have several choices. As far as I know, she isn’t related to anything fibro; however, the gluten-free part is 100%, and the recipes all give suggestions for a brand to keep all ingredients gluten-free. Maybe some other spoonies will find this as helpful as I do! Jo-D