Rudi's Gluten Free Review & Giveaway

I was recently surprised with a very kind package from Rudi's Gluten Free Bakery. It contained a loaf of their original gluten free bread, a bag of their multigrain hot dog rolls & a bag of their multigrain hamburger buns. Right on time for Labor Day Weekend cook outs! Read on for my review of the products and for your chance to win a FREE loaf coupon accompanied by a really handy sandwich box !

A note about the company: 

Rudi's started as an organic bakery 35 years ago in Boulder, Colorado. Their company tenet is that "at the heart of it all, we’re driven by our belief that living a healthy life leads to happiness". None of Rudi's products have artificial ingredients, chemicals or preservatives. This is a big deal these days when you can find processed corn and genetically engineered soy in nearly everything we eat . I really like that I know what all of the ingredients are on their product labels and that none of them are chemicals. 

Rudi's products can be found in the following Boston Area stores:

Wholefoods Market

Shaws Super Markets

Harvest Coop in JP

Original Gluten Free Bread:





If you've read my post comparing the major gluten free bread brands, you know that Rudi's Multigrain is my favorite weekend treat bread. It's soft, sumptuous and great as the integral part of my Sunday breakfast sandwich. I had never tried the original before, but was pleasantly surprised. All three items were shipped to me unfrozen, which was a change from how I usually get my gluten free bread. Normally, I buy it from the freezer section and wind up having to thaw it. You don't have to microwave or toast this bread, but I found that I like it best that way. Even the tastiest and most popular gluten free breads I know are still a little crumbly if you don't "prep" them first. It's their nature, however, there's a way to solve this. I keep mine in the freezer and when I'm ready to eat it I either:

1. Wrap it in a paper towel and microwave it for 15- 30 seconds at a time. Keep checking if it's thawed before adding more time. Too much will leave your bread hard and chewy. Let it cool off before cutting into it or it will stick together.

OR

2. Place your frozen bread in the toaster oven just long enough to thaw it/ warm it up a bit. You can keep toasting it for toast or just let it cool off for that "fresh" texture. You probably already know this, but make sure you're using a dedicated gluten free toaster before doing this. You don't want gluteny bread crumbs sticking to your bread.

I'm not a scientist or even a baker, but there's something about gently heating up the frozen bread that wipes out any dryness or crumbliness. I pack a sandwich almost everyday and have never felt like I was missing out on "good" bread.  

 

Multigrain Hot Dog Rolls:

I've tried a few other brands of hot dog rolls and these are my favorite. I really love the taste of the Rudi's Multigrain products. They're hearty and slightly sweet with a good texture and just enough bread to hold a hot dog. Other products I've tried consisted of so much bread that you could barely taste what was in it. That's not the case with Rudi's. To use them, just heat them up using the instructions I gave you above or any other way you've found that works for you.

Multigrain Hamburger Buns:

The same comments I made about the hot dog buns are good for the hamburger rolls. The rolls are multigrain, tasty and perfectly sized. I'm bringing these with me to New Hampshire this weekend for some tasty Labor Day cook out burgers with my family!

Straight out of the package

Post Microwaving - Awaiting their fillings!

Finished Products! (This looks like a face doesn't it?)

Egg Sandwich!

Giveaway:

And now what you've been waiting for!! The giveaway. Two lucky readers will receive a handy sandwich box and a coupon for a free loaf of bread from Rudi's! 

How fun is this sandwich box?!

What you need to do to enter:

1. Subscribe to my blog.

2. Post a comment about your favorite gluten free sandwich, hamburger or hot dog concoction, (at the bottom of this thread). 

3. Copy and paste what you wrote into an e-mail: Becky@GlutenfreeBoston.com , (so I have a way of contacting you if you win).

Winners will be chosen on their originality and the perceived tastiness level of their sandwich/ hot dog/ hamburger creations. 

The winners will be posted on Tuesday September 13th! 

Please submit all entries by 12 Noon Saturday September 10th.

I do not work for Rudi's nor have they paid me for this review. They were kind enough to supply me the products to try and write about. I was a fan of their products prior to them contacting me and am in no way biased by their free gifts or giveaway offer. 

All images contained in this post either came from my camera or Rudi's Gluten Free Website.