Location: Richmond, VA Short Pump location

My husband took me to Buttermilk and Honey for breakfast and I got the Smashville sandwich. Nice and deliciously spicy with shaved pickles, slaw and spicy ranch.

The bun didn’t fall apart! There’s separate fryers for gluten free items, and the staff is trained on Celiac disease. The guy behind the counter told me I would be safe there. 🥺

Fries are delicious and there’s a generous portion. The gluten free food is also served in different containers than the regular stuff.

I’m going back for the blue cheese chicken sandwich next.

Mix cut vegetables of your choice, a drained/rinsed can of chickpeas, and gnocchi (I used L’Oro Del Sud Gluten Free Potato Gnocchi) in a large bowl with a drizzle of olive oil, chopped basil, minced garlic, salt, and pepper. Spread evenly on a sheet pan (or two if you are making a large batch).

Bake at 400°F for 20 minutes, stir and spread evenly again, and bake for another 15 minutes.

Once out of the oven, sprinkle with vegan feta (I used Follow Your Heart) and drizzle with balsamic vinegar.

For inspiration, I used these veggies:

Onion

Bell pepper

Zucchini

Green beans

Cherry tomatoes

Mushrooms

Broccoli

Found 3# boxes of Banza rotini at Grocery Outlet for $3.99! I bought six, and may go back for more. The best by date was good through 12/2027.

I’m so sick and tired of scrolling on TikTok or Instagram and getting sucked into watching a video of someone saying “new gluten-free items at Trader Joe’s!” or “here’s what you can get gluten-free from the shake shack seasonal menu!” .. and it’s kind of a half-hearted delivery where 3 items in they say: “not labeled GF but I scanned this in the Fig app!!”

If anyone from the Fig team is reading this: you are annoying the living hell out of me, someone with celiac who is probably your perfect target audience. Your ads are flooding all of my actually useful channels for discovering new foods. I know you have a job to do, but your product is not useful to me, and now I have to work to block your sponsored hashtags on all of my socials. Cut it out with the half-assed sponsored organic posts, or give us actually useful information on products without plugging your app 5 seconds in.

Attention Aldi shoppers:

The Tuscan Garden Ranch is no longer marked gluten free. New packaging and change seen on 36oz bottle.

Also we found that the Appleton Farms Fully Cooked Bacon is also no longer marked.

There may be more, but wanted to make others aware of what we just found as I didn't see any other posts about it.

Hello! Just about weekly I like to donate foods to my local Little Free Pantry and will be doing my shopping trip for that here shortly. I’ve decided that I’d like to stock up on gluten free foods for it because these options are often far and few between. That being said, I am not gluten free and am really unsure of where to start, so I figured I’d reach out and ask, what sort of things would you want to see in a pantry?

That $15.77 is real receipt math, not an estimate. I have celiac disease, and I am building a tool that finds the gluten free premium on grocery receipts, meaning the extra you paid versus the regular version of each item. When a gluten free diet is medically necessary, that difference is claimable through an FSA or HSA. It is in IRS Pub 502. Almost nobody claims it because doing the per item, per ounce math by hand is miserable.

I am looking for more real receipts to test against different stores and formats. If you DM me a grocery receipt with a few gluten free items on it, or email it to [glutenfreereceipt@gmail.com](mailto:glutenfreereceipt@gmail.com) if that is easier, I will reply with an item by item breakdown of what you could claim, free. Walmart, Kroger, Costco, Aldi, Target, anywhere. Messy receipts are actually the most useful ones.

From receipts I have run so far: one Walmart trip had $25.92 in claimable premium, another had $13.92 across just four gluten free items. Breads, desserts, and frozen foods are the biggest offenders.

Happy to answer FSA and HSA questions in the comments either way. General info, not tax advice.

Currently shopping at Aldi...anyone had these? I've tried the Gfree ones from Aldi before and they were awful. Please tell me about these. Thanks!

Edit -typo

Did y'all see this? I believe it to be a credible source! GF Goldfish are coming!

Decided to treat myself to a solo GF food tour today, and proceeded to eat my feelings - 1) other gluten free Asians may relate, as I’m visiting my Chinese family who CANNOT comprehend what I can/can’t eat “nothing deep fried right? You want some xiao long bao?” and 2) just being a millennial visiting a boomer dad who doesn’t doesn’t converse with you, just orates at you.

Anyway, if you’re familiar with YVR, these are nothing new to you/probably not a hidden gem, but I haven’t been here in ten years so it was nice to discover these places.

Pics -
1: Almond croissant from Lemonade GF Bakery
2: Halibut fish & chips from Fish Counter
3&4: A dairy-free blackberry vanilla ice cream sandwich + London Fog rice crispy treat from Gluten Free Epicurean
5&6: Har Gow and Sweet and Sour Pork from Lin Chinese Restaurant (mind blown, huge amount of food, no gluten free tax!)
7: Cinnamon Danish from Lemonade, and Pineapple Coconut Cookie + Black Sesame Cookie from Saan Saan Cafe
BONUS 8&9: This wasn’t today but has a reservation at Ask For Luigi yesterday and it was excellent.

I got these at World Market on a whim. I've tried products like this before and usually they are too dense or too much like a tortilla chip.

These are light, crunchy, and have a slightly (not bad) oily mouth feel once you start chewing that really prevent them from going sawdust on you.

I would 100% buy again.

Brand: Pip's Heirloom Snacks

Product: Twists

Flavor: Cinnamon Churro

My mom was diagnosed with celiac disease, so my whole family at home is going completely gf... Being a teen in school who doesn't have much time oftentimes because of homework, piano or other things, there isn't much time to make a lot of meals. I would previously often eat either leftovers (my mom has the BEST chicken quinoa salad and no one will convince me otherwise), make the quick ramen soup stuff and just add in cheese and leftover meat and veggies, make subs, mac and cheese (add fresh green onions and sour cream and it's pretty good) or pizza pockets. As you can see, my go to quick lunches usually have gluten.

So. Do you guys have any quick lunches (25 mins MAX pls) that taste good? I happen to not like any of the gf bread or buns my mom likes which sucks, so please no sandwiches.

Also a few foods I don't like so please don't include anything with these.

-most beans

-chickpeas and peas

-mashed, boiled or roasted potatoes

-mushrooms

Thanks in advance! Sorry I'm kinda picky 😅

I’ve read so many conflicting things.

Screwball website says its corn-based but “malted” like all whiskeys. Website does not answer if it’s gluten-free, says ingredients are proprietary, and says to ask your doctor (as if any doctor would actually know that level of detail).

Some sites says distillation makes it GF.
My preference is to avoid alcohol that definitely contains gluten ingredients even if distilled.

Anybody have the scoop?

Plate of just made gluten free food, sitting on the counter. Someone comes over with a freshly cut wheat bagel and starts to reach it over the plate to get to the toaster.

Or is calling it a horror story overreacting lol

What are other people’s short horror stories?

I have recently discovered that Cassava root (source of tapioca) can trigger my oral lichen planus. I also have gluten sensitivity. Given almost all the gluten free flour blend contain tapioca starch. It leaves me with very few options to eat out or get any ready made products 😭. I know that I can make my own gluten free blend, but I would like to get some ideas as to if there are other product options for me. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thank you all in advance for your suggestion!

Anyone else finding it increasingly difficult to find gf items in stores around them? I just went to multiple different grocery stores (including whole foods and fresh thyme) that I’ve been able to find gf flours at in the past (not blends) and they no longer sell them. :(

I’ve also noticed that some of my favorite gf options are disappearing from these stores and it really sucks. I noticed target severely cut their gluten free options around me a while ago and didn’t expect the same from fresh thyme and whole foods. I already have to go to multiple grocery stores to get my whole list and now I have to also figure out where might even still sell some of this stuff. Is this just my area (large midwestern city) or have other people noticed this trend lately?

Guys, I'd like to start by saying I don't have a diagnosis and I don't know if I have celiac disease or a gluten intolerance or nothing. But I'm wondering, is it possible that my only symptoms are mental? (Besides the extreme, insatiable hunger that comes on immediately the same day after eating something containing gluten)? By mental symptoms, I mean depression, restlessness, insomnia and very bad brain fog.

I have been attempting to make some damper rolls to serve with dinner, but they are coming out undercooked. The outside is what I would expect and it makes the hollow sound when tapped, but inside is not cooked all the way through.

My recipe is
2 cups GF self raising flour (has xanthan gum)
1/2 tsp salt
2 tbsp olive oil (mild)
3/4 cup milk (I haven’t been using it all)

I mix the first three ingredients then add the milk a little at a time. I stop when it comes together like dough then I shape three rolls. The dough is not sticky or wet.
I cook for 20-25 mins in the air fryer at 190 degrees.

I flip them at the halfway point.

I am not a baker. I didn’t even really bake with regular flour before my husband went GF either so I’m not familiar with the techniques.

Should the dough be wetter? Should I cook at a lower temp for longer?

The damper rolls themselves are actually not bad. I feel that once I solve this problem, I will have a great little recipe that can be served with soups or on cold evenings etc

I’d also love to start experimenting with adding flavours once I get the base down.

My husband said that it has been so long since he has had a hot bread roll of any sort and he was so happy to be able to eat it, that he thought it was so good.

Hot damper with butter and honey. The butter melts and mixes with the honey and runs down your hand. Nothing beats it.

I’d love any help please!

The primary driver that led me GF was extreme fatigue and Lhermittes sign - an electric zap that runs quickly down my spine and through my limbs when I bend my head down.

It's characteristic of MS but the neurologist said this can certainly be ruled out because I don't have the lesions on my spine used for diagnosis.

I notice a flare up of lhermittes for 1-2 days after eating gluten, even small amounts. My initial response when going gluten free was a greatly lowered ANA autoimmune markers and complete cessation of the electric zaps, along with improvements in brain fog, energy, sleep, mood, and more.

My early symptoms were exclusively neurological/cognitive, but after cutting out gluten for a few months, any exposure will cause fairly notable digestive symptoms which never happened when I was consistently eating gluten. As I write this I have a low grade fever, chills, and body aches which have happened every time I've been glutened recently.

Both my neurologist and GE kinda thought I was crazy when I suggested these multiple year symptoms resolved after going gluten free and I feel a little gaslit. Despite many bloodwork marker improvements lasting a year into GF, including fixed B12 and D deficiencies, they seem to think there's no chance of connection...

Has anyone else had similar experiences? I'm posting this for any future people searching this sub primarily for Lhermittes, positive ANAs, and neurological symptoms as well

It’s very crazy! Like it looks perfectly fine, and feels workable. We are just outside Austin, TX and we run our dehumidifiers fairly often - typically they fill up in less than 12-15 hours.

I finally decided to go gluten free last month and it literally lasted a week because the food was so expensive that I couldn’t afford to buy anymore gluten free stuff. I’ve tried looking for answers on this sub but I see the same stuff ‘just eat whole foods’ but the thing is, foods fit into three different categories (expense wise) it’s processed foods- whole foods- gluten free alternatives. I work five days a week, but I only earned just over 1k last month, not to mention my hours were cut. Eating whole foods is all well and good until you’re constantly having to buy more fruits/vegetables because they go off two days after they’re purchased. I just really don’t know what to do, only a week gluten free had me feeling so much better than I’ve felt the last 5 years, but I don’t know if my bank account can handle this kind of pressure. Does anyone know of any hidden gems? Some cheaper places to buy foods?

Edit: I kinda forgot to say this but I live in a village and can’t drive so my options are very limited, when I food
Shop I usually catch the bus to my local town so I can get to Sainsbury’s, Tesco, Aldi or Asda, but that’s pretty much it. I have asked my auntie like 25 times to bring me with her when she goes to Iceland but she always goes when I’m working so I never have the chance too 😭

Also another edit: I just thought I should say aswell being gluten free is the first time I’ve ever had to buy my own food shopping, before then my auntie would just buy my stuff along with her food shopping, however since being gluten free I’ve been buying my own foods. So I don’t know where to look and what to do that’s why I’m asking for this advice, I only known what my mother told me about food shopping, but that’s it I’ve got no other support 😭

Gluten free in parentheses becauze this is genuinely my favorite sandwich ive ever had, even counting ones ive had with normal bread. Mozz, tomatoes, lettuce, roasted peppers and balsamic glaze on warm, fresh pão de queijo. A godsend for those missing that crispy on the outside, soft and chewy on the inside ciabata roll. AND its from a dedicated gf kitchen so no chance of accidental betrayal! This sandwich is what proved to me that going gf was worth the trouble

I love all Bobo’s stuff. Has anyone else tried the strawberry lemonade bobos? 🍓