The BEST (Taste-Tested) Gluten-Free Noodles Are.......

By Tinkayada!!! The Brown Rice Pasta Spinach Spaghetti. They are GREEN (and you can tell your toddlers that it's "monster" green, that seems to get mine to eat more green food) because spinach powder is added. You can't really taste the spinach powder, but it adds some nutrients/vitamins and is way healthier than regular egg noodles/flour noodles out there.

I have tried SEVERAL different kinds of gluten-free from DeBoles (which is probably the second best brand out there, but definitely not as good as Tinkyada). I've tried Trader Joe's (not that great), and the other brands out there (which are just too much on the mushy/sticky side). Tinkyada is outdoes any noodle out there, even if you DON'T eat gluten-free!

I will add that I have one husband, one teenage girl and a toddler boy (going on 4) and this is their FAVORITE of all favorite pasta noodles. Back when we were getting "healthier" we had made the switch from regular noodles to whole wheat, that is until I developed a wheat intolerance. I refuse to make my family two different meals, so I cook wheat and gluten-free for myself and my family and my family ends up loving it! Gluten-free isn't gritty and tasteless anymore!

TO SAVE you money....you can go to http://www.vitacost.com/ and get the 3-packs and it's basically buy 2 get one free with the prices (at the store, a package can be as high as $4 or $5), so $8 for 3 is an excellent value! This is where I get mine. Sometimes nutrition stores (like Co-ops, Whole Foods Markets-type stores) will carry it. If you cannot find the spinach kind, then Tinkyada's regular Brown Rice Spaghetti Noodles is second best.

A TIP: is to take the Tinkyada and cook it about 2 minutes less than the package says. I will try even 3 or 4 minutes and then taste a noodle to see if it's done. Cooking with gluten-free noodles is tough, because if you go 20 seconds over, they become mushy and overdone (and there is no saving them). So I undercook, test, cook, test until I get that perfect consistency. It always ends up about 2 minutes before the package says to boil it for. It may take you 2 or 3 tries to get your noodles "perfect" and you figure it out, but this is a good rule of thumb. Trust me when I say you do not want mushy noodles!

What we use our Tinkyada noodles for; homemade chicken-noodle soup, turkey meat spaghetti, alfredo, casseroles and so on.