I don't know if these technically are a food storage item, because they take up alot of space and are kind of expensive, but here goes, anyway.
Harmon's has Lundberg Rice Chips on sale this week: 6 ounce bags 2/$4. Which is still pretty pricey for chips, but not gluten free, organic chips. According to the bag they are wheat free and gluten free. They are available in 5 flavors: Sea Salt, Pico de Gallo, Sesame & Seaweed, Fiesta Lime and Honey Dijon.
The Harmon's David went to only sells Santa Fe Barbecue and Sesame & Seaweed, so he bought 1 bag of each. I bought the Lundberg Honey Dijon Chips from Whole Foods a while back when they were on sale, so I'll review those, too.
Here's what we thought:
Sesame & Seaweed:
When I first saw the bag, I thought, "Eew, gross, why would David buy that flavor?" Actually, I couldn't even really taste the seaweed. They were just kind of salty and mild. You could taste the sesame a little bit, but not much. They taste a lot like regular tortilla chips, only better! Jarom was scared of them and would not try any. David, Amber and Cameron all liked them. Cameron said he could eat a whole bag of them by himself!
Santa Fe Barbecue: David and Amber liked these even better than the Seaweed kind. They were much more flavorful, a little spicy, but not spicy hot. David had to give them to Cameron so he wouldn't eat the whole bag by himself. After Amber tasted them, she said she was going to finish off the bag. She would have if I'd let her.
Honey Dijon: I love honey mustard anything and these were no exception. I think I actually did eat the whole bag of them all by myself. Talk about addictive!
So far, they haven't made me ill, even though they do have some masa corn flour in them. The corn is organic, so that's good. I won't eat GMO corn anymore! It makes me sick - literally. Unfortunately almost all of the corn grown in the US is GMO now.
As far as chips go, they're somewhat healthy. A 1 ounce serving has:
140 calories, 7 grams of fat, 90-110 mg sodium (depending on the flavor), less than 1 gram of fiber and 2 grams of protein. Plus they're organic. Hmmm...I just noticed the Seaweed kind has whey in it...
So here's my conclusion: I'm going to ask David not to buy these any more because I like them too much! OK, well maybe he can buy them on occasion when they're on sale.
P.S. I haven't made anything out of amaranth yet, so I decided to post this instead. I'm going to work on the amaranth this next week. Or maybe I'll have ma soeur Sheri review gluten free baking mixes.
UPDATE 05-19-09: OK, so the chips did make me sick after all. This makes me sad because they are gluten free and very tasty. Oh, well. Maybe people who don't have issues with corn and garlic will be ok with them. No one else in my family got sick from eating them. I think I'm gonna stick with Sesmark Brown Rice Crackers. Maybe I'll even learn to make my own, if I ever get that much energy.
Did you try the riceworks I had about a month ago or so? Costco sells them for a reasonable price, lately they've have sea salt flavor in, but they're all good. They do have corn in them... I can't remember if you tried them. They do list that everything in them is organic (and I think non-gmo'd... not sure I need to read the package again.)
ReplyDeleteThe first time I tried Lundberg's rice chips was a couple of years ago. I got the barbeque ones... much to my surprise when opening them they didn't have any seasoning on them. When I contacted Lundberg to tell them they were very nice and offered to send me coupons, but like you I thought, for how many you get it's not worth it. Riceworks is better flavored, expensive if you buy them outside of Costco, but better.
I know you don't eat potato chips but Kettle puts out excellent chips, no soy and organic. They're a little dark, and have a few wacky flavors. But they have a honey dijon, sour cream and onion and barbeque that are excellent.
Maybe I'll have to try a bag of the Riceworks chips. It seems like you gave me a couple to try and I was ok with them. Maybe that's just it - that I only ate a couple of them! I like that Costco has a lot of organic products that are relatively inexpensive. Their price for RiceDream is about 1/2 the price of what I can find it anywhere else. I live on that stuff!
ReplyDeleteWhat wacky flavors does Kettle have? Seaweed?
Oddly enough, no. Kettle does not have seaweed flavored chips. LOL!
ReplyDeleteIn their regular chips (which I get, but they do have an organic chip, I'll get to that); Jalapeño, Sweet Onion (awesome!), Death Valley Chipotle, Backyard Barbeque, Sour Cream, Onion & Chive (ditto), Buffalo Bleu (haven't had but thinking about it), Cheddar Beer, Classic Barbeque(also awesome!), Dill & Sour Cream, Honey Dijon (this are excellent, I ate the whole bag in one sitting), Island Jerk, Lightly Salted, New York Cheddar with herbs (I haven't tried them because it sounds wrong with herbs), Salt & Fresh Ground Pepper, Sea Salt & Vinegar (for the British), Spicy Thai, Tuscan Three Cheese (they had these at Costco, but I never got around to trying them), Unsalted (huh...strange), Yogurt & Green Onion (these are the only ones I never cared for.
In organic they have; Lightly Salted, Sea Salt & Black Pepper, and Chipotle Chili Barbeque.
In riceworks they have; sweet chili (after about five my mouth was hot), sea salt (and they taste just like that, but I like them more than a regular rice cracker, they have some depth to the flavor), parmesan, wasabi (hmm...I don't know. Close to seaweed :)), salsa fresca (these were the ones that I liked, but they need a few more flavor choices), and baked cinnamon (haven't tried, I'm not sure about it, if you're looking for something to eat with a meal I don't think I'd want 7 layer dip and baked cinnamon rice chips... but that's me).