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I'm from Canada and I'll be traveling to near Des Moines, Iowa next month for a family reunion. We will be staying at a resort (Honey Creek) and I'm not sure of how good the food will be. What is a good place to stock up on snacks and easy gluten-free food in Des Moines before heading there?

Also, what would be the best place to get Larabars? I want to try some of the flavors we don't have in Canada. 


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kareng Grand Master
1 hour ago, seerwatch77 said:

I'm from Canada and I'll be traveling to near Des Moines, Iowa next month for a family reunion. We will be staying at a resort (Honey Creek) and I'm not sure of how good the food will be. What is a good place to stock up on snacks and easy gluten-free food in Des Moines before heading there?

Also, what would be the best place to get Larabars? I want to try some of the flavors we don't have in Canada. 

HyVee grocery stores for gluten-free snacks and Lara bars  . Louie’s wine dive in Kansas City does great with gluten-free - it’s a chain from Des Moines .  Whole Foods are good too.  Let me check for more .... I think there might be a gluten-free bakery.  

kareng Grand Master

I don’t see the gluten-free bakery I thought was there 

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Bookgirl32 Explorer
On 5/24/2018 at 5:38 PM, seerwatch77 said:

I'm from Canada and I'll be traveling to near Des Moines, Iowa next month for a family reunion. We will be staying at a resort (Honey Creek) and I'm not sure of how good the food will be. What is a good place to stock up on snacks and easy gluten-free food in Des Moines before heading there?

Also, what would be the best place to get Larabars? I want to try some of the flavors we don't have in Canada. 

Just came from the area after driving through from Indiana. The bakery is Sweet Rewards Gluten Free Bakery. It was good! Not far off of I80 in a suburb called Waukee. We didn't need to stop anywhere else at that point but Find Me app had some options. 

Hisseefit Newbie

I live in a town with hy-vee grocery stores. If you go to their website Open Original Shared Link and click on the gluten free foods link you will find every hy-vee product that is gluten free. I have had many and have never had a problem.  This list is for Hy-Vee products so it will not include other companies. I seem to survive off a lot of PB and J sandwiches when traveling. 

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