PRODUCT UPDATE: Lucy’s, One Of The Best Gluten Free Cookies

Three new flavors of yummy gluten-free Lucy’s Cookies. Photo by Elvira Kalviste | THE NIBBLE.   When we write about a product that is gluten-free, sugar-free or otherwise targeted to restricted diets, we apply the same standards as we do to everything else we sample: It has to taste really good to a general audience.…
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TOP PICK OF THE WEEK: Popchips Healthy Potato Chips

  In 2007, we were one of the first to discover Popchips and make it a Top Pick Of The Week. Over the years, we’ve had many a potato chip, but none as guilt-free and delicious as Popchips. They have half the fat but all of the flavor. Super-crunchy, they’re fun as well as fabulous.…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Crunchy & Sophisticated, Japanese Rice Crackers As Cocktail Snacks

People are coming over for drinks—just drinks. What should you serve as a nibble? Our favorite from-the-bag cocktail snack has got to be Japanese rice crackers, specifically the chic little rolls wrapped in seaweed. They’re called nori maki arare in Japanese: seaweed roll cracker. While we’ve never met a rice cracker we didn’t like—they are…
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PRODUCT: Beachy Cream Gluten-Free, Lactose-Free Ice Cream Sandwich

Most people can enjoy an ice cream sandwich without a second thought. But people with gluten sensitivity can’t have that cookie sandwich. And people with lactose intolerance can’t have the ice cream or frozen yogurt. Unless they reach for Beachy Cream. Gluten is a protein composite found in foods that include wheat or a number…
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PRODUCT: Hot-Hot-Hot Ghost Pepper Salsa

Here’s a salsa to enjoy while listening to Donna Summer belt “Hot Stuff.” It’s the first salsa we’ve tried from an artisan producer that uses the world’s hottest chile pepper—the ghost chile, or bhut jolokia. Salsa is a billion dollar industry in America, with consumer preferences trending to hot. Lots of people think that, for…
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