RICE MICE Allergen Friendly Bite Sized Biscuits And Dairy Free Chocolate [product review]

I spied the cute packaging of Rice Mice at the Allergy & Free From Show, in London this past weekend.  I'd been grazing (gorging) for hours and I was getting close to a self imposed food 'time out'.  So, these tiny, size of a 10p, biscuits were a perfect vegan morsel to test.


Listed as being 100% organic and free from all 14 EU recognised allergens (notably free from soy, milk, egg, peanut, gluten) and marketed towards children. Based on rice instead of cows milk. With no preservatives or ingredients with a number or you can't pronounce. Rice Mice cookies come in 3 flavours.  Apple & Cinnamon.  Vanilla - Lemon, and good ole chocolate.


I took some packets home to taste test.  On Sunday morning, whilst staying at my mother's house, it is a ritual that I wake up before my mum, take her up tea in bed, then trot back downstairs again for a spot of yoga.  This morning, my step-sister was also staying over and had jumped in my mum's bed. They were busy gossiping and giggling like school girls.  I very carefully took up a tray pilled with my mum's 45 year old tea set. And lay out a selection of the bite sized biscuits for them to try (I felt like I was a school girl again, feeding my dolls and playing with my tea set!).  So, seeing as we were all acting like kids, I thought it ok to review them... for kids.  Also, I have had first hand knowledge of being a child so I qualify there too.
All of the biscuits had wonderfully bright, non-artificial flavour, and were snappy and crunchy from the texture of the rice flour and the cane sugar.  They both loved them and said they were just as good, if not better, than conventional biscuits made from white, gluten containing, flour.  Avoiding sugar as I do, I tried these and thought them a little too sweet.  

They retail at £2.99.  You can buy them online at Free From For Kids   Amazon and AuraVita among others. Also sold in health food stores.

I also tried their Zero Zebra Rice Choc Bar and their Safari Animal Party Chocolate shapes.  The chocolate bars come in Original, Strawberry & Crispy Rice.  I acted like a total child and bit the heads off the animals!  £1.49 from Ocado

With all of their products I wish they'd also make them sugar free, and use coconut sugar which has a lower GI and doesn't effect your endocrine system, xylitol,  or stevia which is zero calories and doesn't disrupt the body like white sugar. Making them suitable for diabetics too. We all know sugar isn't great for us. But, for those just transitioning to allergy friendly, gluten free foods these would be ideal.  


Ricemice.com