Giveaway & Review: Annie's Gluten Free Foods

I have a delicious gluten free Annie's Foods giveaway for you! Be sure to enter for your chance to win (1) box of NEW GF Bunny Cookies, (1) box of NEW Deluxe Rice Pasta & Cheddar, (1) box of original Rice Pasta & Cheddar, (1) box Organic Berry Patch Fruit Snacks, (1) bottle Organic Ketchup, (1) bottle Organic Dijon Mustard and a re-usable Annie's tote bag!

Now for the review...

I was so happy to tell my kids that Annie's line of Gluten Free Foods line now includes tasty, adorable cocoa and vanilla Bunny Cookies! My kids have really missed snacking in Teddy Grahams since going gluten free... it was especially hard for my elementary aged daughter to watch her classmates nibbling on them. Now, my kids can take Annie's gluten free Bunny Cookies to school (which I think are even cuter than Teddy shaped cookies), and not have to feel like they are missing out on the fun! These cute little bunny cookies are BIG on flavor... we all loved them!

Many of you are already familiar with Annie's boxed Rice Pasta and Cheddar which is a gluten free (and healthier) version of the popular boxed macaroni and cheese dinner mix in the blue and white box; Annie's is now offering a NEW gluten free Creamy Deluxe Rice Pasta and Cheddar! My daughter is now dairy free, so I didn't want to test this product because I knew she would be sad if she couldn't eat it, so unfortunately I haven't had the pleasure of tasting it. However, prior to my daughter going dairy free, we regularly enjoyed Annie's original gluten free Rice Pasta and Cheddar as a quick lunch or side dish. I can only imagine how yummy the Creamy Deluxe version with the extra cheesy cheddar cheese sauce packet would taste!

Annie's has a wide range of all natural gluten free products available, including Organic Ketchup, Organic Mustards and unique salad dressings (we sampled the Fat Free Raspberry Balsamic and the Fat Free Mango Vinegarette dressings.. so very yummy!). My kids and I all agree that the Annie's Organic Ketchup we sampled tasted wonderful, and we were all happy to know we were eating organic.

My kids were all thrilled to taste test Annie's Organic Berry Patch Bunny Fruit Snacks. I usually say "No" to fruit snacks, as they are filled with tons of artificial colors and flavors. Because Annie's Organic Bunny Fruit Snacks are all natural and organic, I could finally give my kids the thumbs up for them to eat fruit snacks, which made them very happy! These have great flavor... comparable to the taste of real berry juice.

MEET ANNIE:

“The greatest culinary inspirations come not from cooking, but from living.”--Annie Christopher

"Peek inside Annie’s test kitchen—the place from which her Goddess Dressing and Shiitake & Sesame Vinaigrette took flight—and you might expect to see a space devoted entirely to cooking. But there’s more here than meets the eye. Amid the Garland Range, food mixers, and racks upon racks of ingredients in this light, open working studio are large canvases, cakes of watercolor, a potting wheel and a sprawling

culinary and travel library. In this creative space, the palette influences the palate.
Annie lives an artistically driven life that fuels her culinary creations. She has a degree in the culinary arts, but is also a painter, sculptor, and a potter, and is very active in these and other creative communities.

Annie is widely regarded by the natural foods industry as an innovator and trendsetter—a natural foods pioneer who helped bring to consumers’ consciousness an appreciation for natural and organic foods.

Wandering around Annie’s farmhouse and test kitchen, with their sprawling gardens of perennials, culinary herbs, and other botanicals, it’s easy to see how this verdant place nestled in the Green Mountains of Vermont inspires Annie’s work. “Creating in this landscape nourishes the mind and soul,” says Annie. “And I can’t imagine a better place to create wholesome, pure foods that nourish our bodies, too.”

STAY CONNECTED to Annie's latest gluten free offerings by visiting Annie's Facebook page!

BUY IT:

In addition to ordering Annie's gluten free foods directly from their website for home delivery, you can purchase them in natural foods markets and grocery stores near you.

WIN IT:

I am GIVING (1) Gluten Free Taste of Home follower a (7) piece prize pack of Annie's gluten free foods (Prize pack includes: (1) box of NEW GF Bunny Cookies, (1) box of NEW Deluxe Rice Pasta & Cheddar, (1) box of original Rice Pasta & Cheddar, (1) box Organic Berry Patch Fruit Snacks, (1) bottle Organic Ketchup, (1) bottle Organic Dijon Mustard and a re-usable Annie's tote bag!

TO ENTER GIVEAWAY (mandatory):

1) Become a Gluten Free Taste of Home follower (must follow PUBLICLY via Google Friend Connect in the side bar of this website) AND visit the Annie's website to tour their gluten free product selections; LEAVE ME A COMMENT telling me that you are now following Gluten Free Taste of Home PUBLICLY via Google Friend Connect, AND also tell me which Annie's gluten free product you are most excited to try. (1 entry)

BONUS ENTRIES: (each entry comment must be entered separately to be a valid entry):

2) Blog about this giveaway linking it back to this post AND the gluten free product page of the Annie's website. Please LEAVE ME A COMMENT with THE LINK TO YOUR POST or it will not count. (3 entries)

3) Follow Annie's on Twitter. (1 entry)

4) Grab my Freebie Fairy button and display it on your website/blog (copy the html code for my button from the sidebar of The Freebie Fairy website and paste the code into your website), and LEAVE ME A COMMENT telling me you did it. (1 entry)

5) Follow me on Twitter AND tweet the giveaway; LEAVE ME A COMMENT with the link. MAXIMUM 1 tweet/RT per hour please! (1 entry PER tweet/RT)

6) Follow my Freebie Fairy giveaway & product review website PUBLICLY via Google Friend Connect (in the right hand sidebar of The Freebie Fairy website) and LEAVE ME A COMMENT telling me you did it. (1 entry)

7) Grab my Gluten Free Taste of Home button and display it on your website/blog (copy the html code in the side bar of my Gluten Free Taste of Home website and paste the code into your website), and LEAVE ME A COMMENT telling me you did it. (1 entry)

*GIVEAWAY OPEN TO US ONLY*

Giveaway ends on Monday August 2, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. PST (late entries will not be posted). Winners will be selected by random.org. Winners will be notified by e-mail and will have 48 hours to respond before new winners are selected.

*REMEMBER... please leave your e-mail address with EACH entry so I can contact you if you win.

Disclosure of Material Connection: I was not compensated for this review; I received complimentary gluten free foods for review purposes courtesy of Annie's Foods. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own. I am disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255: “Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising.”

Best of luck!