Our gift baskets and other goodies make it easy for your to order your Hanukkah, Christmas and Holiday goodies for the special people in your life, and for yourself too!

Please check out all of our goodies and gift baskets by going to our website at:  http://www.gilbertsgourmetgoodies.com/gift-baskets.html

Thank you and happy holidays!

Liz

For others, they were delighted by the taste of the cookies, tea breads and fruit pies – that’s what they told us as they returned multiple times to buy more.  We too are delighted by everyone’s feedback and comments and thank you for your support!

I am referring to the many customers we met recently at Clearwater Festival, Wooster Street Farmer’s Markets, Danbury Fair Mall Farmer’s Markets and Monroe’s Farmer’s Markets.  We love meeting you and we thank you for your support and your purchases!  Pictures to follow!

During the week I purchased a bag of Terra Sweet Potato & Beets Chips.  The ingredients in them are: A blend of sweet potatoes and beets, canola oil and/or safflower oil and/or sunflower oil.

So let’s see, that’s 40 ingredients including artificial colors and ingredients in the Doritos, and 3-5 ingredients and no artificial ingredients or colors in the sweet potato and beet chips, which by the way, were delicious.  My kids and I especially liked the beet chips!

What have been your experiences?

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This week she will be giving out pouches of Gilbert’s Gourmet Goodies cookies! This is in response to audience members who have asked for gluten-free and allergy-friendly snacks. One of her producer’s children has food allergies and so she has helped to make this happen.

It is so important to raise awareness of the many conditions that require us to remove foods from our diets including wheat, gluten, peanuts, tree nuts, soy, dairy, corn, corn syrup, eggs, hydrogenated oils, transfats, preservatives and more.

We are grateful that Rachael Ray and her producers are supporting and promoting this awareness with Gilbert’s Goodies cookies this week!

Imagine you are about to take a bite out of this brownie.  First, you smell the deep rich chocolate smell.  It smells really, really good.

You take your first bite.  The crust has the slightest crunch to it.  The inside is soft and moist, and has a really nice texture.

As you begin to chew you can taste them . . . the dark chocolate chips that are a surprise and a delight.  Combined with the rich dark cocoa these chocolate chips make this a double chocolate experience.

Wow, that’s really good, you think.  You grab a glass of milk (any type – cow, soy, rice, etc.) and you have a drink of nice cold milk with your brownie.

Open your eyes.  You have just experienced your first Gilbert’s Goodies Gluten-Free, Allergy-Friendly Brownie.

Because any pie filling in a can has to be preserved it always contains high fructose corn syrup and other preservatives.  Companies, bakeries, restaurants, supermarkets and other places that sell pies buy huge cans of pie filling at special box stores that cater to  restaurants and food service organizations.  Take a commercially made pie crust, fill it with ready-made pie filling from a can, bake it and voila – there’s a typical fruit pie in a typical store.

At Gilbert’s the holidays are our busiest time for pies.  Our artisan pies are heavy, completely handmade, laden with fruit and taste delicious!  We make our pie crusts using our own gluten-free flour mix.   We use real sliced apples that we blend by hand into our own mixture of rice flour, sugar and cinnamon for the pie filling.  Our crumb topping is made by hand using rice flour, brown sugar and non-hydrogenated palm oil.  The pumpkin we use in our pumpkin pies does come out of a can in which the only ingredient is pumpkin.  We do not use gluten, peanuts, nuts, corn or high fructose corn syrup in our pies.

We are thankful for our new and repeat customers and their testimonials such as “Your pies are part of our family tradition”.  Our pies do cost more, since everything is made by hand and we use real fruit and natural ingredients.  We think that they are worth the price and we believe that you will agree.   We hope you have a wonderful thanksgiving and that you enjoy your food and your company!

I’d welcome anyone/everyone contacting them to promote this important subject.  I also love it if they would say something about me and Gilbert’s Goodies!