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Food for Celiacs

 

Finding safe food to avoid exposure is the most critical piece in your recovery.  For at least a short while, until your immune system starts getting back to normal and you have a handle on what and how to cook, strict avoidance of consuming things that are processed in a gluten-containing facility is advisable.  This means that you must turn to companies that label their products accurately.  Many times, this means shopping at a health food store or online, and sometimes it does mean that you have to accept compromise foods such as white rice flour or organic sugar, while you find things you can eat and re-learn how to cook.  Below are some good resources for finding GF foods and food information.

 

  • Amazon.com has Grocery and Gourmet Foods areas sell a lot of gluten-free items.  Their availability rotates.  Gluten-Free brands include
  • Ener-G
  • Mrs. May's
  • Glutino
  • Kinnikinnick
  • Orgran
  • Glutano
  • Larabar
  • Bare Fruit
  • Tinkyada Pasta
  • Namaste
  • Enjoy Life
  • Mary's Gone Crackers
  • Pamela's Products
  • Native Forest
  • Some companies have both products that are safe and some that are unsafe.    With these companies, you have to look at the labels to know.
  • Road's End Organics
  • Let's Do Organic
  • EnviroKidz
  • Bakery on Main
  • Bob's Red Mill
  • Arrowhead Mills
  • Perkey's
  • Mrs. Leeper's
  • Oskri Organics
  • Lundberg
  • UNFI is the company that provides health food stores with their foods and supplements.  If you can find a local group and know which brands and products to buy, you can get a significant savings over the health food store.  E-mail them to find a local group to join.  In addition to the above listed brands, UNFI also carries Enjoy Life products and has many more food options than Amazon, from the same brands listed above.  Sometimes their prices are cheaper than Amazon, and if you’re in with a group many groups will allow you to split cases so you don’t have to buy a whole case at one time.  
  • Celiac.com can help you with finding brand names and information on products.  Their message board is also very good.
  • If you are not able to afford organic foods, Wal-mart’s house brand is accurately labeled when it’s gluten-free.  Look under the ingredient list on the label.
  • Silly Yak is a mainstream yahoo group is a good source of information and support when you’re starting out.  
  • GFCFNN is a traditional foods yahoo group that can help with information and support.
  • Chebe is a wonderful gluten-free bread.  It does have one style that has dairy, and it’s all run on the same equipment, so dairy cross-contamination is present.  However, if trace dairy isn’t an issue for you, this makes great pizza crusts, rolls, and other bread products.  It’s all tapioca flour, so it is easy to pull into a rotation diet.