Udi’s Easy Breakfast Bagels & Muffins

We had brunch today and it was super easy and delicious!  We had Udi’s Lemon Streusel Muffins & breakfast bagels made with Udi’s Everything Inside Bagels.  For the muffins, open the container, and breakfast is served!

  

However, my girls requested breakfast bagels, so we made those too.  Here is a simple and easy breakfast bagel recipe… slice & lightly toast a bagel. My husband dislocated his shoulder, so it is immobilized.  Note… do not let the one-armed guy try to cut the bagels or they will come out horribly uneven.  LOL  Crack an egg in a microwave safe coffee cup (we use a custard cup), add a tsp of milk, scramble it up and microwave it for one minute (one minute per egg). The egg will come out fluffy, but hot. Scoop it out of the cup and it will be the perfect size for the bagel. Put the egg on the bagel,  then top with cheese right away. The heat from the egg will melt the cheese nicely. Microwave a couple of peices of turkey bacon (about 2 minutes for 3 slices of bacon). Top egg and cheese with bacon, cover with top of bagel and serve. My husband likes honey Dijon mustard on his. The kids like a little butter. I like it plain. The whole thing takes less than 10 minutes.  We served with some peeled oranges slices, for a delicious easy breakfast.

  

Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I was provided with the Udi’s products shown above.  I was not financially compensated for this post.

Where can gluten hide?

Recently, I posted about the strangest places that we have found gluten since living gluten free, and realized that there are a lot of places that people may not think about to check.  Here is a quick list of where to find it and how to avoid cross contamination at home.

First, is to obviously remove all your basic food products that contain gluten.  This will typically be your cereals, oatmeals, pastas, bread and bread based products.  But, also make sure that any opened spread you have, peanut butter, jelly,  jams, sauces or butter, that have been touched by a knife that has been put to bread get tossed.  There is no telling whether or not these spreads are safe since bread particles could have been transferred over.  This goes for cream cheese as well.  When in doubt, throw it out!  Your health is much more important that trying to salvage something.

Check your appliances!  Toasters and toaster ovens will never be clean enough to use safely again.  REplace them for peace of mind.  Also, check your pots and pans.  If there are scratches on your pots or pans that have previously contained gluten items, get rid of those too.  There is no way to be sure that you have cleaned every tiny crevice well enough that gluten is not hiding in there.

Cleaning supplies! This can be tricky, because many times, companies do not list their ingredients completely on the labels.  You will need to check your cleaning chemicals, detergents, dish soap, dishwasher soap and anything else you use.  If the product does not specify, call the company and find out.  Or, you can go with more specialized gluten free or all natural companies instead of conventional ones.  Just remember, routinely check your products because companies can change their formulas at any time.

Now it is time to check those bathroom products!  Make up, sunscreens, lotions, perfumes, deodorants, body sprays, soaps, shampoos, conditioners, self tanners, tanning lotions, hair dyes, even bug sprays.  Check all of these things, and be diligent in keeping up with any manufacturing changes.  They happen a lot in this area.

And probably one of the worst places gluten can hide, in is your medications and supplements.  Check all your OTC medications, everything from pain medicine, to allergy medicine, to cough syrup.  Usually medications that are safe will say gluten free on the label.  Check supplements too, especially kid vitamins.  If you are on prescription medications, be sure to ask your doctor about the gluten content of your medications.  Often, if  there is, your doctor can set you up on a different course of treatment to avoid it.  Just be careful about asking pharmacists, in my experience they often are not as well versed in medication contents and gluten.  Obviously, this does not mean that there aren’t some that do know, but in my experiences, I have often found that I am more well versed in the topic than they tend to be.

One more area…pet foods!  Depending on your level of sensitivity, it may be best for you to feed your pet gluten free as well.  I have heard of people having reactions from pets who eat gluten.  Often times it winds up being s skin reaction once the pet has licked the affected person.  This is not something that effects us directly.  But this is something that you will want to think about depending on the severity of your symptoms.

Hope this helps, please let me know if there are any places that I may have missed!