Like other PatsyPie products, their gluten-free peanut butter cookies are good. Like their other products, they are tasty, have a nice texture, and are not too sweat.

This flavor produces a lot of crumbs when you eat it, so it is not a cookie for all occasions.

It is more salty than their other flavors, almost (but not quite) too salty.

They are not too sweet - which is a big plus. They seem to use quality ingredients over all.

PatsyPie makes some excellent gluten-free cookies. I've not had a chance to review them all yet; this is the first, and several other reviews will be coming soon.

I like their biscotti recipe. When combined with the chocolate chips that they use, it is not as good as it could be. Good but not great.

They are not too sweet - which is a big plus. They seem to use quality ingredients over all.

For one thing, I think the quality of the chocolate they use could be improved. That would make a big difference.

Do you feel "icky" all the time?

"Feeling icky" could mean a number of things. Let's summarize it like this - feeling tired most or all of the time, experiencing brain fog (hard to think and concentrate), feeling indecisive, depressed, lethargic, unmotivated, half-asleep, insomnia, upset stomach, poor appetite, etc.

To be clear, I'm not talking about just one of those feelings. I'm talking about several, most or all of those feelings, and maybe more besides.

There could be a number of causes for this general feeling of being "off colour":

For a reasonably-priced gluten-free product, I was pretty impressed with the quality. You can pay a lot more for a lot less in both quality and quantity.

These cookies are quite small, so you can have a really tiny snack if you want to, or eat several if you want more. Of course their size makes them slightly addictive.

Although called a ginger-snap, they are neither snappy nor very gingery.

Enjoy Life snack bars are neatly packaged, allergen-free, and convenient.

That's the good news.

The trouble with them though, is that they seem to have been designed by food scientists, not cooks or bakers.

While the photo on the package looks appetizing, the bars themselves do not look like much of anything. And that is a good indication of the taste and texture as well.

Basically, this is highly processed food, its just a matter of using a different feed-stock from the usual allergens like wheat and milk.

By Karen Blue

Chocolate and peanut butter go together, not however for the nut allergic. Over the past several years some manufactures have sold "made in nut free facilities" chocolates, mostly on-line at first. These products can be found in online stores.

Some On-line nut free chocolate:

The term gluten allergy tends to get used pretty loosely, and there is confusion and misuse of the term.

I'll admit to the fact that the term event gets misused on this site.
This article will explain what a gluten allergy is, what its close cousin, the gluten intolerance is, and celiac disease. I'll also touch on the term "wheat allergy".

The fact is though, that the term "gluten allergy" is pretty convenient. When you tell someone you have a gluten allergy, you are telling them not to feed you gluten or it will make you sick.

For those of you who are celiac or aallergic to barley, avoiding barley may not seem so bad. After all, it is much less common that wheat.

There are a few things to watch out for, and some of them are literally trick questions. Some ingredients look safe, but are in fact made from barley.

Here is a list of foods and food ingredients that contain (or may contain) barley or are derived from barley.

NOTE: This is not a complete list, but it will be updated as we discover additional information.