‘A Market’ & Liz Lovely Cookies: Gluten Freedom’s Visit to New England
Last week I had the opportunity to leave the Atlanta rains and humidity behind and go to New England for two family trips. The weather was beautiful, cool and sunny and I did not get any gluten contamination during the entire 8 days of my trip. As you know, travel (and especially weddings) can be very scary for those of us with dietary restrictions.
During the first part of my trip, I got to spend a few days in Newport, Rhode Island visiting my brother, sister-in-law, and new nephew, Chip. We had a great time, shared many delicious meals and wandered around Newport. It was the perfect vacation. (I’ll write more about our meals and kitchen creations later.)
For any of you that spend time in Newport or are going to Newport, you must go to ‘A Market.’ This cute store has one of the largest variety of gluten-free products I’ve ever seen. I wandered in because I was looking for the makings for our dinner, but got distracted by the abundance of gluten-free items. After two years of eating gluten free, I feel like I know about most GF goodies, but their cereal, cracker, and cookie aisle gave me many new ideas and options. A Market also serves coffee in the mornings and it looked like they had yummy pre-made foods as well that you could order.
While I try not to make impulse buys and just stick to the grocery list, I could not resist buying Liz Lovely cookies. I had never heard of these giant cookies but the employee at the store told me they were delicious! Liz Lovely makes GF and non-GF cookies. I purchased her GF Snickerdoodle cookies and chocolate chip. I also bought the non-GF chocolate chip cookies for my brother, Rob who loves cookies. These cookies are big so they’re perfect for sharing. Alden, Rob and I all preferred the GF Snickerdoodle but I thought the GF chocolate chip were delicious too. We made Rob do a blind taste test of the two chocolate chip varieties and while he could pick out which was gluten free, he continued to eat more of the GF cookies which is a good sign to me!
Not only does Liz Lovely make gluten-free cookies in many varieties, including German chocolate cake, chocolate fudge and ginger molasses, but you can also go online and read about how they test them for gluten and make their gluten-free products on different days from non-GF cookies. I have not tried Liz Lovely’s small GF cookies but I’ll sample them as soon as I get my hands on some. Liz Lovely’s cookies are certified vegan, making them egg free and dairy free as well so when entertaining others with food allergies, these treats will be my go-to dessert. (Side note: I usually don’t like sweets that are also egg free and dairy free, but these cookies are delicious!!)
Liz Lovely is a Vermont company but the good news is that you can order these cookies online at their website. They also have a store locator on the website where I found they sell these cookies at four Atlanta area locations: Cosmo’s Vegan Shoppe, Return to Eden, Life Grocery (Marietta) and Six Beans (Marietta).
