A while back we mentioned one gluten-free camp with specially written gluten-free music. It turns out that there are many, many gluten-free camps to which you can send your child. About.com has a great list of those camps. I’d like to add to their description of eating and safety environments with some details about [...]
From the monthly archives:
April 2009
Triumph Dining is now on Facebook, and we’re so excited about it that we’re using an exclamation mark! Come check out our new profile.
We’ll be answering your questions on gluten-free restaurant dining in the discussion session. Yesterday we touched on Madison, WI and Plano, TX. Come help shape the discussion, get your questions answered, and [...]
Attending Catholic mass is not necessarily complicated by Celiac disease, but in many cases problems arise. Normally a layperson who cannot eat gluten can simply drink the wine instead of eating the wafers. (If a person is also alchohol intolerant or an alcoholic, there is a type of low-alcohol grape juice, mustun, that the [...]
It’s wonderful that celiacs can soon go into Starbucks and get some cake with their coffee (or in my case, chai latte). But have you ever eyed those handsome almond biscotti? Biscotti are an elegant, crunchy Italian treat that go perfectly with any hot beverage, so why should you be denied? You shouldn’t! Here’s [...]
If you or someone you love has celiac disease—and you also want to get a lot of exercise—consider getting involved in Team Gluten-Free. A project of the Celiac Disease Foundation, Team Gluten-Free trains volunteers to walk, run, or cycle in races all over the United States. The participants raise awareness about the disease wherever [...]
Gluten Free in Portland has tipped us off to a unique cooking class opportunity for celiacs. Hipcooks Portland at 3808 N Williams in N Portland (and also available at 2838 S. Robertson Blvd in LA and at Main St and Moulton Ave near downtown LA) offers an impressive list of gluten-free cooking classes. Each class [...]
Espresso brownies and chocolate chip cookies will take a backseat to a gluten-friendly treat next month when Starbucks Corp adds a gluten-free pastry item to its U.S. menu at the request of its customers, The Associated Press reported Friday.
The coffee-chain will debut the Valencia Orange Cake–a non-white flour snack baked with as few as seven [...]
Thanks to Gluten Free Raleigh for the information! The company writes,
“Every effort is made to avoid cross-contact with our ingredients and products that have gluten ingredients. This includes sanitation controls, storage controls, manufacturing controls and product rework controls.”
Gluten-free products now include several of Swanson broths and stocks, Prego Italian sauces and Prego Heart Italian sauces, [...]
My family loves Lundberg’s brown rice, so this is really great news for celiacs who eat a lot of rice products (show of hands, anyone?). According to the Sacramento Bee, people with celiac disease asked Lundberg Family Farms “to consider developing more rice-based convenience products, allowing them to eat more ‘normal’ foods.” The California company [...]
The other day I stumbled upon a fantastic resource for celiacs, Easy To Be Gluten Free. It’s basically a free online cookbook for celiacs that’s continuously updated. All the recipes are designed to be affordable, easy, and made with basic ingredients that are easy to find at your local grocery store. The anonymous author [...]
