So what do you do when Lay’s decides to add corn oil to your only safe corn-free vending machine junk food snack? Well, you start to think outside the box a little. We know there are other chips on the market that offer the consumer a corn-free experience, such as Cape Cod or Miss Vickie’s Vintage chips. But let’s face it, these are high end chips, and worse yet they don’t come in convenient individual sized bags for on the go allergy sufferers. We needed an alternative for our rainy day munchies and a fun and fattening episode of Paula Dean’s Home Cooking put some ideas into my little chef’s head. He decided we should deep fry something too. I wanted to chalk it full of veggies if I could, so I settled on three lovely and large sweet potatoes. (more…)

Perhaps the hardest part of a gluten-free, corn-free diet is the inability to find ketchups and barbecue sauces on the grocer’s shelves that are safe to use. Here are two recipes that will take less than 1/2 hour to prepare and will keep in the refrigerator for several months. These recipes are idiot-proof, I promise, and they taste good too. In no time at all you will once again be able to enjoy ketchup with your home fries and barbecued ribs on the grill. (more…)