The Gluten-Free Homemaker

If you’re not familiar with Kinnikinnick Foods, their mission statement is:

To provide Celiacs, people with Autism and other people with special dietary requirements with an uncontaminated, risk free source of food products.  To provide our customers with food that actually looks and tastes Great.

Their products are produced in dedicated gluten, wheat, and nut free facilities that use soy, eggs and sesame seeds. I found their video on the importance of dedicated gluten-free facilities and equipment interesting.  In it they simply show us a high speed waffle line that they purchased used and had to clean.  It took them four weeks to remove all traces of gluten.  You can see in the video how much gluten can be found on various parts of the equipment.  They took the equipment apart to clean it—something that is not done when a company uses shared equipment.  Many of the areas cannot easily be cleaned, yet are close to if not actually in contact with the food.  You can also find the video on the Kinnikinnick Foods website.

For the Valentine’s season,Kinnikinnick is offering the above pictured cinnamon apple doughnuts which are gluten, dairy, soy, and nut free.  They are available until February 28th and only through their website or by calling toll free 1-877-503-4466.

Kinnikinnick sent me a sampling of their doughnut varieties.  These apple cinnamon doughnuts may be more dense than their gluten-containing counterparts, but they have that doughnut flavor along with the cinnamon and a hint of apple.  Gluten-free son and I both liked them, and my sweet-toothed son did everything he could to talk me into giving him one, which I did.  He thought they were pretty good, and he’s a gluten eater.  The doughnuts are small, about 3 inches in diameter and come 6 to a package.

Don’t expect a gluten-free doughnut to be exactly like a big soft gluten-filled doughnut.  But if doughnuts are something you really miss, these are good.  You can look for Kinnikinnick in the frozen section of health food stores and the frozen health food section of some regular grocery stores.  I have seen them at Giant.  There is a store locator on their web site or you can order directly from them. 

Kinnikinnick also offers other gluten-free (and dairy free) products such as breads, cookies, mixes, cooking/baking products and more.


The Giveaway
One winner will receive an assortment of Kinnikinnick doughnuts similar to the one pictured above.  To enter you must have a ship to addresses in Canada, the Continental US, Alaska or Hawaii, and you must leave a comment on this post.  If you receive this post by email, you need to click over to my blog and leave a comment.  Leave a separate comment for each entry.  Please include an email address in your first comment.  Up to four entries per person:

• Tell me what kind of doughnut you miss the most.
• Subscribe to my feed via RSS or email (or tell me you already do)
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The giveaway will end on Friday, February 11th at 11:00 p.m. eastern time.  After the winner is contacted, I will announce the winner on my Facebook page.

Disclaimer:  Kinnikinnick provided me with the above pictured doughnuts free of charge.  The opinions in this post are my own.

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