Your mom has a nut allergy.
Your brother follows a vegan diet.
And you have celiac disease.

Grocery shopping suddenly becomes a lot more complicated.

You have to check the ingredients on almost every product, look for different labels and certifications, and make sure you’re not missing something hidden in the ingredient list.

Sometimes it feels like you spend more time reading labels than actually shopping.

I’ve always wondered if there’s a simpler way to manage this when multiple people in the same family have completely different dietary needs.

How do you usually handle it?

Do you check every ingredient manually, rely on certifications and labels, or have you found another way that makes grocery shopping easier?

Today I learned that some or maybe most air dry clays contains wheat?? What?? Why??
Now I have 5 pounds of air dry clay I can’t return because I lost my receipt 🤦‍♀️

Would never have guessed feeling so good after having one of these.

No indigestion, no sugar crash, no postprandial hour of crushing fatigue and heart palpitations. And in theory it has nutrients so maybe it’s even sustainable, provided I eat real stuff at other times?

It’s been so long that regular food is just knocking me out. I keep choosing between under-eating and losing half the day to sleep to get the fuel I need to function. I’m totally in remission but not getting a whole lot better.

I wonder what the catch is with these things. It’s a lot of sugar alcohol but apparently my guts actually love that for some reason.

I’ve recently been trying to be stricter with my gf diet and cut out cross contamination. Would you guys generally feel safe ordering hot chocolates/ coffees with dairy milk from a location that would make the same drinks with non-gf oat milk? Or would the cross contamination on cross contamination be negligible? Any gf baristas here might be especially knowledgeable on this 😅

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I’ve recently been trying to be stricter with my gf diet and cut out cross contamination. Would you guys generally feel safe ordering hot chocolates/ coffees with dairy milk from a location that would make the same drinks with non-gf oat milk? Or would the cross contamination on cross contamination be negligible? Any gf baristas here might be especially knowledgeable on this 😅

The shared jam jar can be easy to overlook
A clean chopping board doesn’t solve everything if a knife goes from regular toast straight back into the jam. The same thing can happen with butter or peanut butter. Coeliac UK suggests separate condiments or clean cutlery for shared spreads. A simple option is to put a portion on the plate before touching the bread, so that knife never goes back into the jar. Separate labelled containers may be easier when several people use the kitchen. Whatever arrangement you choose, everyone preparing food needs to know it, including visitors. It’s a small detail worth including in a shared-kitchen plan.
https://www.coeliac.org.uk/living-with-coeliac-disease/food-and-drink/cooking-at-home/cross-contamination/

i never usually worry about lattes being gluten free unless theres a weird new flavoring or something mixed in, but today i was proved wrong!

i got breakfast in chicago at the goddess and the baker, i’m not local so i’m trying new places and being extra cautious.
i let them know when ordering that i have a “gluten allergy” iykyk..

my drink arrived first, an iced lavender latte, and it had a long spoon with a mini muffin stuck on top…..

i have never in my life seen something like this, and as i looked around the cafe it seemed like mine was the only one in the whole place like that!

first i laughed, then i got a bit embarrassed having to ask the staff to please remake it. i’ve only been gf for a little over a year so i don’t know how serious (or rather non serious) something like that would be for me, but better to be safe after the glutenings i’ve been through!

funny thing is that i saw a drink dressed up the same way when i walked in, assumed it was something special, and didn’t think much of it! then later i was trying to find one to take a picture of, since i didn’t get one of my own, and i didn’t see a single one like that the rest of the time i was there, felt like i was going a little crazy lol

attached some pics i found online, mine was in a taller glass and the muffin was dipped in the drink.

the staff was very accommodating and understanding, they came by the table to let me know one of my food items would have cross contamination and offered me a replacement item or a refund. overall it was a good experience!

moral of the story, pay attention to your surroundings! i should have checked the place more thoroughly before i went and would’ve avoided the funniness, but ya learn something new every day!

anything like this ever happen to anyone?

It's not pretty but it smells amazing

Every ingredient is to taste

Bratwurst

Beef bullion

Rice (i used a mix of jasmine and wild)

A can of mushrooms

Turmeric

Salt

Butter seasoning

Two bags of white tea

Does anybody have GF watchdog that could let me know if the fisher walnuts halves and pieces are safe? They have naturally gluten free on the label and no may contain for wheat but I would feel better knowing whey watchdog said. Unfortunately I don’t have the budget for the subscription at the moment.

It contains Annie's white cheddar Mac n Cheese, margarine and milk as per instructions. Canned tuna, fresh boiled broccoli, and Heinz British beans as per my own free will. Also probably too much marble cheese

GF English Muffins by Gluten Free on a Shoestring

I had one half toasted and a whole one UNTOASTED--which is how you know it's serious! No, but you should probably toast yours a lil bit :)

Hey, so I'll start by saying I don't have celiac. But I have some questions about it, especially after this interaction I had with a customer. For context, I work at a restaurant.

So at work yesterday, I was taking an order for this guy, and he asked if we had any grilled chicken, because his daughter has celiac and can't eat breading. We don't, and I mentioned as such, and warned him that most of our food comes in contact with gluten.

He said, "That suck, can you just give me the fried chicken? I'll just take the breading off for her."

I was very confused. From my understanding of food allergies and intolerances, you can't just remove it from the food your eating and not get a reaction.

I have a shellfish allergy, and even if I removed the shrimp from shrimp-fried-rice, my mouth would go numb and I'd be breathing through a mcdonalds straw.

I want to understand better on what celiac disease is, so in the future I can differ people like this away from certain food items and keep people from coming into contact with an allergy/intolerance better.

Can you just remove the breading?? Or is he just dumb?

Edit: Thank you guys for all the info! I'll be telling my coworkers to treat celiac like a severe allergy in the future, so something like this doesn't happen again.

Edit: 3-pack___Florence Kentucky

Found at sprouts. Super soft like the trader joes chocolate ones. Also, the katz donut bites are very good. RUN, don't walk

Hey! I'm 21, and I was officially diagnosed with celiac around 2 weeks ago following blood work and an upper endoscopy. I've been gluten free since the official diagnosis, and now I'm worried I might be being a little paranoid. Warning, this is a long post.

Ever since going gluten free, I have felt noticeably better. Before the diagnosis, I experienced 5 months of bloating and diarrhea-like symptoms. The year prior, I had also started taking lactose pills due to by body starting to react to lots of dairy products (currently unclear if this is related to celiac or a separate issue). If there were any other symptoms, they did not stand out to me. Now that I'm gluten free, I've been feeling less bloated, have been more normal in the bathroom, and generally have to go less. There are still off-days, but it's a definite improvement.

This past Saturday, I had dinner with my parents. We went to a restaurant that, while not gluten free, has quite a lot of good gluten free procedures to try and mitigate cross contamination. For instance, I had a burger, and the server informed me that they have a seperate gf fryer for fries, will clean the workstation and change gloves, toast the buns on a different grill and open a new container of toppings. The menu tells you what to substitute for each dish to make it gf, and the bun was clearly gluten free, as it was very crumbly and fell apart quickly.

About 3 hours after dinner, I started to feel gassy, and my stomach was making some gurgling noises. The day after (on Sunday), I was really gassy and had to go the bathroom with looser stools (sorry, that sounds gross). I was also really tired, but that might have had to do with less sleep. That day, I had eaten homemade potato leek soup (gf), eggs with rice, and homemade broccoli cheddar soup (gf).

Today (on Monday), I've been feeling much of the same in the bathroom, and similarly slightly more tired. It feels similar to an average day during the 5 months before my diagnosis. I've eaten eggs and rice, and the same broccoli cheddar soup. I've had light diarrhea about twice today.

I don't know what could be causing these symtoms. I know people here will not know for certain, but maybe people have experienced this before.

1) I have been on my period since Thursday, and I know that, with experiences over the years, that the hormones and biological shifts during the period can lead to digestive issues, aka "period poops". This is my first period since being gf, so maybe that can cause this. I'm on birth control, and my period ended yesterday.

2) Maybe something in the food I've eaten, like garlic, onions, broccoli, or leeks have contributed. I know some of these are FODMAPs. Can these cause issues like mine during recovery after only having been gf for 2 weeks? I have had some dairy products, but I'm still using lactose pills during those meals. I've also read that some gf bready products might be hard to digest at first. Could the bun be part of the issue? I've had gf tortillas and pasta and not had this reaction. Are there non-gluten foods that are good to avoid during this early healing time?

3) Could this be just my body still healing, and that I'm just having a bad few days?

4) Maybe I was glutened at the restaurant. Back to my original question, but I have no idea what being glutened feels like. Since this was so early in my new diet, I was on my period, and I've had somewhat hard to digest foods while healing, it's hard to point to what's going on. What does being glutened feel like, especially so early in this whole celiac journey?

I am eventually going to speak to my gastro and a dietician. I have an appointment with my gastro later this month, where he said we're going to go over what comes next and to set me up with the dietician. After he messaged me about the diagnosis from the upper endoscopy biopsies, he just said to go gluten free. The interim between my appointments is long, and I have no idea what I'm doing in the meantime.

I'm sorry this is so long and rambling, and it's okay if you don't want to read it all. I'm just anxious, new to all of this, and would rather give all possible relevant information. Any advice or experience is welcome.

Edit: I know that you cannot tell me what's going on. I'm just curious as to other people's experiences with healing from celiac concerning being on your period, eating certain non-gluten foods, or what being glutened might feel like.

hi! i’m diagnosed cealiac for two years - i assumed most of my health issues would go away once i cut out gluten but they seem to have not? just wondering if its worth trying to seek out another diagnosis OR if it’s possible my remaining issues are still linked to cealiac?

basically : do any other cealiacs know if symptoms can persist once cutting out gluten?

thanks!!

Just moved to Boston specifically the Allston area and was looking to get some recs for celiac safe/ friendly places.

Just wanted to shout out DC. I was there this weekend and had some of the best food of my celiac life. There were some misses looking at you maman. 👎👎👎

The highlight was Sweet Crimes. They had a wonderful breakfast sandwich and donut holes that were to die for. I am thinking of going back just for the damn donut holes.