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WholeVine GF Cookies & Girl Scout Snack Bites

About a week ago, I read an article that the Girls Scouts Heart of Michigan council (Kalamazoo) was offering gluten-free Girl Scout cookie bites. Always the skeptic, which anyone who eats gluten free really needs to be, I decided to look into it. I don’t live in Michigan, or anywhere close, but if one troop [...]

The New Bristol Health Food Store

If you live in southwest Virginia or northeast Tennessee, be sure you make plans to visit The New Bristol Health Food Store located at 1600 Edgemont Ave., Bristol, TN 37620.

They’re open Mon – Fri: 10:00 am-5:30 pm, and their phone number is 423-968-1241.

Even if you’ve gone in the past, you’ll definitely want to [...]

Tri-Cities Food City Food Show June 15th & 16th – Includes Gluten Free Guru!

Schedule:

Friday, June 15th

11:00-11:45AM: Mark McKinney, Senior Executive Chef of the UT Healthy Living Kitchen 12:00-12:15: Healthy Chat with Food City’s Nurse Lori Hamilton & Nurse Jane Kelly from UT Healthy Living Kitchen 12:30-1:15PM: Jan Charles, Thrillbilly Gourmet Chef & Co-Host ofFoodCityKitchen (WVLT-TV) 2:00-2:45PM: Doc Chef Demo -Melania Bochis, MD & Larry Barbeau,FoodCity’s [...]

Domino’s presents “Gluten Free” Pizza, but not really…

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I received an email from my Dad this morning, which read, “Good news and bad news. Dominos announced (USA Today) that it will begin delivering gluten free pizza. The bad news is that it will be baked in ovens that were used to bake the regular pizzas. So it won’t help you right now but [...]

Food City Update!

From Food City on FaceBook:

“Around the end of May we are targeting having gluten free identifiers on tags for around 350 items in the stores. These will be on items that the packaging specifically states the product is gluten free. We think this will help shoppers identify the items they are looking for more [...]

Food City Helps the Gluten Free Community!

Starting in January of this year, I started discussing Gluten Free with the person/people who manage Food City’s FaceBook page. Originally they were looking into seeing if a list of GF items could be released. That did not come to fruition, but what they are going to do is going to be infinitely more helpful.

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Responses from Manufacturers: January 2009

General Mills: Website copyright is for 2009

http://www.liveglutenfreely.com/products/default.aspx

Nature Made Vitamins: January 6, 2009We recently received your e-mail regarding Nature Made Chewable Vitamin C 500MG.

We appreciate your question concerning the gluten content of this product.

We are unhappy to inform you that this product is not gluten free, barley is the gluten [...]

Responses from Manufacturers: August, October, December 2008

Nestle: August 1, 2008 The Gerber® Single Grain Rice Cereal does not contain gluten. However, due to occasional ingredient changes, the labels of all containers should be checked for ingredients and accepted as the actual content.  Gerber has extensive quality control practices to clean up production facilities to prevent cross contamination of food [...]

Responses from Manufacturers: July 2008

Kraft Foods: July 30, 2008 Thank you for visiting http://www.kraftfoods.com/. We understand how important it is for people who have been medically diagnosed with gluten sensitivity to have accurate information about foods to help plan their meals and diets. Therefore, it has been a long standing policy for all Kraft and Nabisco products to list [...]

Responses from Manufacturers: Intro

I apologize for the far too long delay in updating this blog. The last couple of  months have been hard. I have problems with my hands due to taking Prevacid for just a few months back in 2006. The rare side effects, regrettably, never went away. I have, however, been collecting a number of responses [...]