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Offline jaysmommy

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EnerG brand??
« on: June 17, 2008, 06:31:43 PM »
What is everyone's opinion on the EnerG brand foods?   I had only bought my son the bread after some failed attempts to make Bob's Red Mill GF Bread. I think it smells kind of sour and tastes rather gross.....but I don't know any other options....

My husband bought GF pound cake that I thought was gross and I noticed today that it is the same brand.   :-(  Is it me or do other people feel the same?

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Offline the sensible celiac

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Re: EnerG brand??
« Reply #1 on: June 17, 2008, 07:42:31 PM »
What is everyone's opinion on the EnerG brand foods?   I had only bought my son the bread after some failed attempts to make Bob's Red Mill GF Bread. I think it smells kind of sour and tastes rather gross.....but I don't know any other options....

My husband bought GF pound cake that I thought was gross and I noticed today that it is the same brand.   :-(  Is it me or do other people feel the same?




Ener-G is one of the very few GF bakeries that produce a vegan GF bread. Since I'm vegan as well as having celiac disease I have tried many of their products.  I'm not very impressed with their bread, but a few products like their hamburger buns are tolerable. In general it is their white rice products I like least, and the brown rice products I like more.

I find that breads like most of the Ener-G line that are based primarily on rice flour tend to be very abrasive, stiff, and prone to falling apart.  I have at times thought of using Ener-G white rice bread as a replacement for sandpaper.

The prepared GF breads that seem most like regular bread usually contain eggs or milk products.  Eggs in particular improve GF bread by providing sticky, stretchy proteins that replace the gluten in ordinary bread.

The best GF bread I've had in the USA is made in the Sacramento area, Food For Life brand  Black Rice Bread is absolutely delicious and wonderful IMHO.  It makes peanut butter sandwiches that take me back to my childhood, and that is a very long trip :)

About the Bob's Red Mill product line, I sometimes buy their GF All Purpose Flour and mix it with sorghum flour to make my own GF bread.  Since I don't eat eggs I use silken tofu to provide proteins to bind it all together.  The best recipe I have come up with so far can be seen here.  The all purpose flour from Bob's Red Mill is not as beany tasting as their wonderful bread mix.

It does seem to me that GF bread never quite rises to the level of quality and taste we may remember from wheat-based breads.

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Re: EnerG brand??
« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2008, 06:07:48 AM »
LOL about the sandpaper...... And I just hate making my son eat things that I would not eat myself....

Thanks, Steve..for explaining that about the bread. It was very helpful. I am going to run over to Hiller's to see if Celiac Specialties has anything there....
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