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#1 ohsroac

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Posted 30 May 2009 - 05:15 PM

I live in a small town in Missouri.. it takes at least 45 mins to go the movie theater better yet almost 2 hours to go to a speciality store.. anyone else feel like everything takes forever to get too? Its so hard!

#2 Amyleigh0007

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Posted 30 May 2009 - 05:20 PM

I am also from a small town in MO. No one knows what gluten is or celiac disease (until I educate them!). Luckily we do have a small store that sells gluten free staples like pasta and flour. I have to drive almost an hour to get to a Whole Foods.

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#3 GFGrandmaBNC

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Posted 30 May 2009 - 08:13 PM

I live in Kansas but am in Missouri a lot (originally from St. Louis). There are some great resources in Missouri, depending on where you live. There is Nature's Pantry in Independence, MO. Whole Foods and Trader Joe's in St. Louis. Not sure what else. Have not really looked other places.

#4 jennyj

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Posted 31 May 2009 - 05:40 PM

I am from Missouri, a very small town. That is why I started selling gluten free foods in our store because I was tired of havint to drive an hour to get my foods.

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#5 bbuster

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Posted 01 June 2009 - 07:26 AM

I live in Springfield, so we have some good resources, but am originally from a very small town in Southeast Missouri. I am finding that things are slowly getting better over time.

What town are you from?

Bev

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Posted 08 September 2009 - 11:53 AM

I grew up in St. Louis, went college at MU, and am now in KC. I've been all over the state looking for gluten-free goodies!

Mike H.
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#7 sunnybabi1986

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Posted 22 November 2009 - 09:31 AM

I'm in Springfield, MO also. We have some good resources, but I'd be so much happier if we had a Trader Joe's, Wegmen's, or Whole Foods within an hours of here. We have a couple natural foods stores here that carry gluten free foods, but the prices are unbelievable. Their prices are 3 times higher than the same gluten free items Wal-Mart carries.

Anyone else from Springfield??

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Posted 22 November 2009 - 09:33 PM

I am in a small town in NW Arkansas. We have a very limited selection of gluten free items here. I go to whole foods in Tulsa (2 1/2 hours away) and stock up. I order a lot of my flours and mixes from the internet.
I primarily buy my frozen foods and bread from whole foods.

I would love to have a whole foods or trader joes here. I feel really isolated being in a small town with very limited choices. Even Fayetteville does not have much that I am aware of, except an italian restaurant that serves gluten free pasta, and that is an hour away.

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Posted 25 November 2009 - 09:17 AM

My husband is from KC, MO and we go there to visit every Christmas. I know there is a whole foods in Overland Park, which is the optimal choice amongst sever small places in KC that don't have ANYthing.

Even here in town I have to drive clear across to get to a store and it's the ONLY store besides Harris Teeter (which is expensive too) that has gluten free stuff.

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Posted 25 November 2009 - 04:02 PM

I live in a teeny town near Mountain Home, Arkansas. Trips to Springfield, MO, (2 hours away) are trips to the big city for us... we always make sure to visit Chik-fil-A for french fries when we're there.

I order my Pamela's bread mix and Tinyada pasta from (Company Name Removed - They Spammed This Forum and are Banned). If I can coordinate those purchases, shipping is FREE.

My local health food store offered to get Pamela's bread mix for me, but buying it in bags of 6 and Tinyada pasta in bags of 12 bags saves me lots of $$.

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#11 LoraW76

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Posted 26 November 2009 - 04:55 PM

Troy, MO here. We drive into Chesterfield for Trader Joe's and we have a small market with gluten-free products. Kroger's has a pretty good selection as well. I was diagnosed just 2 weeks ago and we are facing sticker-shock as to the prices. What can you do? LOL... I get my biopsy next Friday- can't wait! (yeah right!!)

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Posted 16 February 2010 - 05:05 PM

ohsroac, on 30 May 2009 - 05:15 PM, said:

I totally understand you! It's almost an hour to any specialty store from where I live. Very hard! The local, small town, grocery stores don't carry much that is gluten free.

It's very frustrating! You would that the "low-price" dept store would sell more than they do but they really don't sell much. I'm really not looking forward to having to make a special trip to town just to buy groceries. I'm newly diagnosed and that's the part that I'm least looking forward to.

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Posted 16 February 2010 - 05:07 PM

sunnybabi1986, on 22 November 2009 - 09:31 AM, said:

I'm from the Springfield area - it takes me almost an hour to get there. The Wal-Mart near me doesn't sell much gluten-free at all. It stinks! I'm newly diagnosed and making first special trip to Springfield this weekend to stock up...where should I go?

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Posted 17 February 2010 - 08:29 AM

TabLooney, on 16 February 2010 - 05:07 PM, said:

The Wal-Mart on East Kearney (just east of Glenstone) has a gluten-free section in one of the aisles. It's not marked as such, but it is maybe 25% of a grocery aisle. They have breads, pasta, pretzels, cereals, several types of flour and mixes. I would go there first.

There is an Asian Market on West Sunshine (a little east of Kansas) and also one on South Campbell (South of Battlefield next to Sonic). Both of these sell very cheap rice flour, potato starch and tapioca starch. Most of these you can buy for less than $1 per pound.

I shop at Akins (Battlefield and Fremont) for things I don't find elsewhere.

And I don't know which direction you are coming from, but there is a restaurant called Bud & Walt's Pizza & Pasta in Nixa which recently began offering gluten-free pizza. We ate there last weekend and my son really enjoyed it.

Bev

Mom of Garrett - age 17; diagnosed Jan 2005