Easy Blueberry Muffins

Lately I have been craving sweets. It started one night when we had supper with Be and Ash and as Honey and I were leaving Be was making a coffee cake for Ash, so sweet. It looked so good but since I couldn't have any and Honey did not need any we left for home. Once at home I could not get that cake off my mind. I saw it over and over again and each time I craved something sweet. The next day around lunch I wanted something sweet sooooo bad, i didn't have time for something from scratch but thought about a mix I had bought at Wal-mart in Indianola and had not used it. I took some fresh blueberries out of the freezer and whipped up these wonderful muffins. I followed the directions on the box except for adding 1/2 cup of sour cream. I have found that sour cream does wonders for mixes, it adds a great taste and makes them moister.

I have been sitting with Punkin some while Ash runs errands and gets ready for a trip. Bless her heart she has had a hard time with her cold, and we have too! She doesn't sleep well and gets sooo irritable at times. In these photos you see we both had a break as she enjoyed her exersuacer for a while. I pray she gets over this cold soon. She's really a good baby.

Gluten Free Pantry at Wal-mart in the Delta!!!!

I took my usual trip to Wal-mart after getting settled in my castle (or camper) in the Delta to buy the ingredients for a gourmet meal. (Usually something VERY simple!) Farmer Steve had suggested that I make something with pasta for supper and my reply was kind of cocky. I told him that he must have forgotten that I have to eat gluten-free and there was no where to buy my pasta close to us, that he should have suggested that before we left home.

I had a small list of things I needed and had planed on buying some type of chicken to cook but then when I walked into the store it consumed me. I started at the back and walked up and down each and every isle dreaming of everything in the store being gluten-free. While checking to see if they had the Betty Croker Gluten-Free cake mixes I had a vision. Right in front of my eyes was "The Gluten-Free Pantry" baking mixes for brownies and muffins. I reached up and took one of each and then realized that this was not a vision it was a dream come true. Up until this point I was walking slowly as if dead lice was falling off of me but not NOW. My adrenalin started pumping and I started speed walking up and down the isles. I thought that if they have these in the store what else may be hidden on these shelves. As I approached the isle with pasta I walked right by it but then had a second thought, maybe they have gluten-free pasta now? THEY DID on the bottom shelve there it was "DeBoles Gluten-Free" pasta in spaghetti style and one other type that I can't recall right now. Also, in their brand (Great Value) they had spaghetti sauce with "Gluten-Free" in big bold letters.

This is all I ran across on this trip to Wal-mart but you had better believe I will be looking closer every time I go there for more gluten-free treats. I will also be checking out the Wal-mart stores near Macon to see what they have.

Thank you Wal-Mart you are helping to make life easier for us Celiacs!


The Finished Product



I recently found a gluten-free Milky Way spread so I thought this would be a great addition to my brownies. YUM