The Passing Of My Favorite Rice Bread - or - Why Do They Always Do That?!!

Well,  it's happened.   For the last month every store in town has been out of my Kinnickinik rice bread.  I loved that bread.  It tasted wonderful when toasted lightly and was a good substitute for ppl like me who can't eat wheat. 

First I was told it was due to the weather and trucks not getting shipping though on the roads.  Then store by store i found empty spots on the shelf until no place in town had even one loaf left.  

Then the other day one store stocker told me that the company was "rebranding".   Meanwhile they got other gluten free breads in.  They weren't sure they would be getting any more of that bread in.   I was sad...but assumed I could still buy it elsewhere once they started sending it out again.

So tonight I looked on the companies website,  figuring maybe i could just order it direct!  I had scoped the other breads that were offered at the stores but didn't like the list of ingredients and not sure I could tolerate them either.   (I hate experimenting again with sensitivities and allergies.  No guinea pig here!)

In previous years I had bought and ate "enerGy"  brand rice bread.  It was never frozen,  and I could tell why.   It just lacked the flavor etc of my dear Kinnikinik brand! After trying the rice-tapioca Kinnikinick brand I never went back to enerGy...and I hesitate to do so now either.   It's been years...

So there I was,  on the Kinnikink site scoping their list of various gluten free products.  Yes,  it seems that that is now their focus,  "gluten free" stuff.   Seems to be

the last fad stuff, huh?   I've noticed this in all the stores including local grocery stores.   But where, oh where was MY rice-tapico bread???

sidenote:   Kinniki also made an "Italian white rice tapico bread" .  I don't recall now what the ingredient difference was,  most likely had to do with amount of eggs?  but was something else too.   I'd bought a loaf by mistake one day and didn't notice until I had opened it up.   So I ate a piece....  Mistake!   Whatever was in it did not agree with me.  Oh ya,  it also was wheat free,  had rice flour and tapico flour but whatever the differences were it didn't like me and I didn't like it.  

Well... they don't even have that kind now either.

Nope... my bread was missing :(   It's gone.   Bye bye.   Alas,  its the end of my beloved rice bread,  now to be replaced by something called gluten free white bread (or else multigrain bread or whatever else they have) but that bread has potato flour in it, which might be okay for me,  but it also has "modified egg whites" ---  

Sidenote:

many years ago my friend informed me that half an egg is actually poisonous but if you ate both parts they neutralized each other.   So ,  ok.   Well... regardless I'm allergic

to eggs.   Actually most likely it is sulfur I'm allergic to,  thus all sulphur foods like onions, garlic and eggs.  I can't even be in the room when eggs are cooking!   ...but somehow

I can tolerate a bit of mayo (one brand)  and a little bit of something with egg baked into it AS LONG AS IT IS ONLY A LITTLE BIT,  like one whole egg.   Two eggs tho,  that does

me in.

So I'm not keen on this new bread with some modified type of egg whites,  and potato flour,  and physillum hulls (tho that might be ok- wasn't in the old loaf) and some unknown

form of "cellulous"  and whatever else.   Did not sound anywhere near like the old loaves and I am positive will not taste the same either. :(

I quick look at the other gluten free loaves at the grocers I saw almost the identical ingredients as this new kinniki bread.   So great.  They're just going to bake and sell what everone else already is?   Why do they bother?   :/

hmmmph!

So I'm in mourning.   I have one small slice of the last loaf left which I stared at tonight longingly...but I didn't eat it..... yet.   I want to savor the moment and enjoy every tiny morsel of it...for there will be no more

I can't believe it

I have no clue what I will eat for lunch now...it was my mainstay for years.

Booo hooo

I am really grieving and feeling mighty sorry for myself here.  That bread was like my cookies and cakes and toast and candy...all the things I can't eat anymore (and really don't miss) but I will surely miss my bread....

Did I tell you dh tried to make me rice bread once?   Wanted to by one of those bread making machines.   But ... ok well in the old days pre illnessd I used to make home made bread too,  the long way.   It was good too.   But well... it never was like sandwhich bread and neither was his.  Wrong texture.  

But now...   well heck...  guess there's not much I can do but to ask you----

anyone have a good rice flour-tapioca flour recipe they want to post here ...soon?

thanks

Zona

Unbelievable!

Dh and i were driving down the road yesterday headed towards the cemetery where his grandma is buried. Yesterday marked one year since his father died and to this day we still have no clue where (or if) his mother buried him. Rumor had it that she was,for some odd reason, going to put his ashes on HER mother's grave?? So we were going to go take a look...

The cemetery is out by the airport which is way on the north side of town from us on the opposite end from here. So there we were driving down the highway when i heard a "clunk" and saw what looked like a round, dark object glazing off the open window by me and hitting next to my shoulder on the seat. I twisted to look and see if the thing lay here or had fallen to the floor by the door. For some reason I thot of a beetle or some such because well, what else would be flying in the air and make a "clunk" sound when it hit the car? Years ago my brother had been hit in the chest by a hard shelled bug, presumably a beetle, while riding his motorcycle down a highway. I supposed that is what made me think of that.

I didn't spot anything so I turned back towards the front. Suddenly my back started burning like it was on fire! Then it dawned on me.... STING! Sure enough as I leaned forward to whisk that nasty burning coal off my back I saw a winged object with a stinger flying out the window. I've been stung!!! Now I confess I got a bit panicked, after all, I'm allergic to bees! I wasn't sure just what that was that fly back out the window but my hunch was it was a wasp as it seemed more that shape and I thot I saw a stinger. Bees loose their stinger when they sting you...

Seems I wasn't the only one panicked. Dear Husband whipped that car around faster than the Roadrunner and headed home. Ok, I admit it is the one time I have been sort of happy that we moved so close to the hospital even though the street is so very noisy!

I'm happy to report that though no sting would be better than any sting it turned out that I didn't have a horrible reaction, just a lousy one. I don't recall being stung by a wasp before, else it must have been eons ago. I do know how I've reacted to bee stings, however - NOT well!! So tonight now, a day later I'm only dealing with the usual assortment of symptoms plus a lot of discomfort, very achy muscles where the sting was, a big red spot some burning yet and a bit of itching. Makes it a bit difficult to sit or lay down due to that rubbing and putting pressure on the area but I'm still breathing :)

--After thoughts --- I was a bit surprised that those who are around me that I told, mostly family members and a couple of friends, were so concerned and took the ordeal seriously. I suppose it is rather well known how bad bee stings can be for those who are allergic (and unpleasant even for those who aren't). But, you know, for those of us who are chemically sensitive with MCS many things are just as dangerous, can cause just as serious a problem as bee stings or peanut butter for that matter does for those who are allergic. It just might not be as visible...