Gluten Free Beer in Helena & Bake Sale Review

Hubby’s GF Aunt lives in Helena and has shared some gluten free beer information with me. Van’s Thriftway (306 Euclid Ave. 406-442-8645) carries Redbridge and Topper’s Cellar (1221 Helena Ave. 406-442-9357) carries Bards and Redbridge. Sounds like a great excuse to make some beer bread to me.

We made it to the GF Bake Sale on Saturday and it wasn’t what I expected. Maybe my expectations were too high but I was really disappointed and not just by the selection. There were 3 types of cookies and some bread crumbs so the selection wasn’t fantastic but that’s not what put me off. I walked in with my kids and had promised my boy that he could get a treat. We’d just left the doctor’s office with a diagnosis of an ear infection so he wasn’t feeling too good. We went over to the bake sale area and no one there really seemed interested in paying us any attention. I did get two cookies for my boy and one cookie for my girl but after I paid that was all the attention we got. No mention about the drawing nor the Montana Celiac Society. I guess I expected them to be more open and offering of information rather than leave it all to me to open up the communication. I didn’t open up the communication at all and I also didn’t give them the cookies I had made and packaged for them to sell. It was a big disappointment. Did anyone else make it to the bake sale and if so what did you think?

GF Bake Sale in Bozeman, MT

I stopped at Oak Street Natural Market to pick up a few necessities and I picked up a flyer about a GF bake sale in Bozeman held by the Montana Celiac Society (MCS). Here's the information to pick up some GF goodies & mingle with other GFers.

Annual GF Bake Sale
Saturday, December 12, 2009
11:30am-2:00pm

At Oak Street Natural Market
1725 West Oak St

Donate your favorite GF dishes and/or purchase lovely baked goods for your holiday. After you shop, enjoy a delicious GF lunch and goodies at the coffee bar with your friends. Kids love this event!

Enjoy Oak St Market's GF soups & salads for lunch.

Door Prize: A Montana Monster Munchies Gift Box will be donated to the MCS Bake Sale & it will be given away as a door prize. The drawing is at 2:00 pm and you do not have to be present to win.

So if you're free that day and have some GF treats to donate to the MCS or just want to do some shopping then stop on by.

I also saw that Oak St Natural Market has a holiday order form with a GF Rustic Holiday Tart available for purchase. It's $15.99 and serves 6. It contains crisp apples, dried cranberries, fruit-sweetened and baked into a rustic crust. A 50% nonrefundable deposit is required at the time of the order.