Gluten-Free Gift Baskets

Those of us with food allergies in the family know the scary importance of reading food labels. So does Jackie, a New England graphic artist turned mom of a son with celiac disease. She turned her years of obsessive label reading into a company called Vanilla Spoons that creates yummy, treat-filled gluten-free gift baskets.

Her gourmet gift baskets have cheeky movie-themed names ("Mix and the City" anyone?) and are packed full of the types of treats that most of us without food restrictions take for granted: Popcorn, chocolate, baking mixes, crackers. For Valentine's Day, I love the Close Encounters of the Sweet Kind basket which comes inside a reusable steel tub.

Place an order at Vanilla Spoons by February 5, 2009 and receive 15% discount with code COOLMOM at checkout. (From Christina at CoolMomPicks.com)