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[T.H.]

Just realized, with a bunch of us together, maybe we can help each other find safe food or share brands that we use regularly. :-)


So, again, starting off.

What works for us:
Field Day Mediterranean sea salt
Bariani Olive oil
Ancient Harvest Quinoa - in the 25 pound bags - grain for the 1 pound boxes are shipped to the USA and packaged here. The 25 pound bags are shipped straight from Bolivia.

What we're checking out:
Some beans ordered online from Rancho Gordo
Nuts in the shell, ordered online from anuts.com
Madhava agave nectar (makes me feel a little off, but might be okay for my daughter)


And that's it, really. Everything else is fresh food from our garden, local farmers, or local ranches.

It's taken us a little over a year to get here, and I'm still screwing it up a bit, because I am not sure all the time what's safe for us. My daughter may have some fructose issues (which will kill all agave nectar hopes, obviously). I might have a couple intolerances on top of allergies. We still get reactions, even on the above diet, where we only eat food from our own kitchen.

But it's slowly improving, so at least it seems to be going in the right direction.

[GFreeMO]

Mission Corn Chips and Corn Tortillas are great! They have never made me sick and I am super sensitive.

[jerseyangel]

Cerulean Seas Sea Salt
Filippo Berio Olive Oils
Land O Lakes Butter
Fage Yogurt
Cabot Cheeses
Lara Bars
Rice Works Chips
Tazo Awake Tea
Enrico Pasta Sauce
Tinkayda Pasta
Lundberg Rices
Springtree Maple Syrup
Gluten Free Pantry mixes without tapioca
Some Glutino--without soy or legume protein
Enjoy Life Chocolate chips
Argo Cornstarch
Ener-g Potato Starch
Meats/poultry/some fruit/veggies (except legumes)/potatoes
Organicville Ice Creams

[ecf]

In addition to being gluten free, I also cannot tolerate tapioca and millet, and have anaphylactic allergies to dairy, eggs, nuts, red meat and mustard:

Maldon sea salt
Unio olive oil
Silk soy milks and yogurts
Rice Chex
Glutino pretzels
EnerG pretzels
Schar rolls and baguettes
Enjoy life cookies, bars, chocolate chips
EnerG flours
'Cause You're Special flours
Cape Cod Robust Russet potato chips
Della rice
Wolff's buckwheat products
Tinkyada pasta
Pomi chopped and strained tomatoes
San J sauces
Bonne Maman jam
Jif peanut butter
Santa Cruz Organics applesauces and juices
Sugar in the Raw
Sunmaid dried fruit
The Republic of Tea teas
Redbridge beer
Woodchuck cider
Sunnybrook Farms ground turkey meat (plain only, not Italian Seasoned)
Pork products and poultry from Whole Foods meat counter
Fresh fruits and vegetables galore

[Tigercat17]

What a Great topic! I still consider myself a newbie (18 months gluten free), but I've learned the hard way that I can't eat a lot of processed foods and I'm wondering if I do have a corn sensitivity also. I'm still working on that one...


Giant Eagle (fresh) Chicken, Beef and Pork.
Fresh veggies and fruit
Filippo Berio Olive Oils
Walmart (Great Value) Butter
Walmart (Great Value)Cheeses
Walmart (Great Value)Potatoe Flakes
Lara Bars
Lays Stax chips
Lipton Tea bags Tea
Bertolli Pasta Sauce
Tinkayda Pasta
Minute Rices
2 Glutino cerals - Apple and Cinnamin & Honey and Nut (can only eat once a week)
Ponco Cream of Buckwheat hot cereal
Argo Cornstarch
Ener-g Potato Starch
Edy's Ice Creams
Silk soy yogurt
Silk Almond milk
Glutino pretzels
Glutino choclate covered pretzels -Are the Best!
San J sauces (once in a while)
Jif peanut butter
Smuckers Jelly - use grape and strawberry
Udi's Bread -Brown & White
Splenda
Popweaver microwave popcorn
Jello
Betty Crocker Devil's food cake mix
Kraft Miracle whip
Kraft Ranch dressing
Delallo Sweet italian dressing -so good!
Heinz ketchup
Lactaide milk
Imagaine Tomatoe Soup (when I make stuffed cabbages only)
Glutino crackers (not every day)
Bumble Bee Tuna -light
Ancient Harvest Quinoa Pastas & Tradional

*McCormick seasonings, but don't use the mixed variations too often and I'm wondering if I could find other seasonings that might be safer.

[lilwren]

sorry ... i realize this is a really old thread, but i am trying to find out if anuts.com has cross contamination issues.  the OP said they were checking it out ... and so am i.

 

i emailed anuts.com asking about gluten contamination and was told this in my first email:

 

 -------- Great question. I did a simple internet search on peanuts and they are gluten free. The roasted in shell peanuts are dry roasted so nothing is added to them.

 

i responded and asked the gentlemen - specifically - if the peanuts were processed on equipment that also processes wheat.  this is his reply:

 

---------- You will be buying them in bulk. That is how we sell them. So we use a scoop (that is washed) and we scoop the nuts into a zip lock bag. We do have dairy in our plant (and of course other nuts) but no wheat.

 

so i am no closer to getting an answer and they seem to be pretty clueless.  they also sell trail mix and flavored popcorns.  in my experience there is a high risk of cross contamination.

 

i have gotten glutened from ordering supposedly gluten free nuts from nuts.com so am very leery of placing an order with anuts.com.    

 

has anyone gotten a straight answer from anuts.com or spoken to anyone from there that really understands the issue?

[bartfull]

Planter's. If there is any gluten they will be labeled. If they are processed in a facility that also processes gluten containing grains, it will be labeled. I eat their cashews and cocktail peanuts all the time.

[dilettantesteph]

I had communications with anuts in which they said that their facility if gluten free.  I looked at the ingredients in their trail mixes and flavored popcorn and I didn't see any gluten.  Your post does not specifically state that your contamination issues are with gluten only.  For extra assurance, you can buy in shell nuts.