{"id":6547,"date":"2013-06-12T08:05:54","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T12:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/?p=6547"},"modified":"2013-06-12T08:05:54","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T12:05:54","slug":"waffle-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/?p=6547","title":{"rendered":"Waffle Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite ways to eat waffles is smeared with nut butter and fruit preserves or pumpkin butter and then topped with seasonal fruit.&#160; Sure, warm butter and maple syrup is tasty, but my heart belongs to creamy almond butter, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.traderjoes.com\/\">Trader Joe\u2019s<\/a> Roasted Creamy with Sea Salt, to be exact.&#160; When I first began the gluten-free diet over seven years ago there was one gluten-free waffle on the market, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vansfoods.com\/Home\">Van\u2019s<\/a> Natural Foods, in three different varieties (Plain, Apple Cinnamon and Blueberry).&#160; Over the past few years we have seen several other gluten-free waffles make their way into the grocery store freezers, including <a href=\"http:\/\/us.naturespath.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nature\u2019s Path<\/a>&#160;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/?p=1028\" target=\"_blank\">Gluten-Free Waffles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There are three different varieties of gluten-free waffles from Nature\u2019s Path:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Buckwheat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/?p=1028\" target=\"_blank\">Wildberry<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/us.naturespath.com\/product\/homestyle-frozen-waffle\" target=\"_blank\">Homestyle<\/a> <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/us.naturespath.com\/product\/chia-plustm-frozen-waffle\" target=\"_blank\">Chia Plus<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I picked up the Chia Plus frozen waffles at the store the other day and couldn\u2019t wait to try them.&#160; I fell in love with the Buckwheat Wildberry waffles several years ago, so I hoped the Chia Plus would measure up.&#160; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_6777.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_6777\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_6777\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_6777_thumb.jpg\" width=\"518\" height=\"397\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These waffles smelled so good while they were toasting that Jon wandered into the kitchen to ask what I was making.&#160; In addition to being gluten-free, these waffles are also vegan.&#160; Check out the list of ingredients:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_6780.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_6780\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_6780\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_6780_thumb.jpg\" width=\"372\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was so excited to dig in once the waffles were done toasting I forgot to snap a photo!&#160; Bad food blogger!&#160; The waffles were every bit as good, if not better, than I expected them to be.&#160; They were the perfect base for my simple peanut butter and strawberry preserves toppings.&#160; Now that I picked up some more berries at the store, I hope to add them to the waffles tomorrow!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Which gluten-free frozen waffle is your favorite or do you prefer to make them from scratch?<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"https:\/\/www.glutenfreeislife.com\/?p=6547\"><\/div>\n<script><!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_div_class=\"linkwithin_hook\";\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 135270;\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts with Thumbnails\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite ways to eat waffles is smeared with nut butter and fruit preserves or pumpkin butter and then topped with seasonal fruit.&#160; 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