Mediterranean Snack Food Co. Lentil Chips

Last week I put myself on a special diet to combat my seasonal allergies.  It involves being vegan (no animal products at all) and also not eating wheat.  It’s not a fun diet, and it makes me cranky because I feel hungry almost all the time.  The diet really helps with the allergies though, so for a week or two out of the year it’s the way to go.  My biggest problem when on this diet is the lack of wheat.  I love bread and snack on its many forms constantly.  I especially miss bread when I’m about to dive into a delicious tub of hummus; a corn tortilla chip just doesn’t cut it.  I came across a “lentil chip” from Mediterranean Snack Food Co. at a local grocery store and decided to give it a try.  The chip is made from lentil, adzuki and garbanzo bean flour and is completely gluten free, vegetarian and celiac friendly, and has 70% less fat than a regular potato chip (who really cares about that part though?).  They come in three flavors:  sea salt, sea salt and cracked pepper, and cucumber dill.  I went for the sea salt and cracked pepper.  The texture of the chip is somewhere between pita chip and puffed rice, having a crisp yet airy quality with a slight sponginess.  The chips are seasoned well and taste of both sea salt and cracked pepper; however, they have a pervasive bean flour flavor about them.  The bean flour flavor makes them a little too strong to go great with hummus, though they are still better than a corn tortilla chip.  I think they would go quite well with certain sorts of cheese.  If you can’t have real pita I wouldn’t call the “lentil chip” the next best thing, but it would definitely be on the list of substitutes.  http://www.mediterraneansnackfoods.com/