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Hello neighbours. I just accepted a four month summer field job based in Calgary and I need to know where I can get gluten-free and cf foods. I have no idea where I'll be living yet, or how on earth I'll be able to afford it. We own our place in Edmonton, so it'll be a shock for me to rent again and be without my hubby. Any help on store locations or anything else gluten-free related would be great. I am very familiar with Calgary, but I've been up here for almost ten years so I know it has changed. Feel free to post here or to pm me.

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Hello neighbours. I just accepted a four month summer field job based in Calgary and I need to know where I can get gluten-free and cf foods. I have no idea where I'll be living yet, or how on earth I'll be able to afford it. We own our place in Edmonton, so it'll be a shock for me to rent again and be without my hubby. Any help on store locations or anything else gluten-free related would be great. I am very familiar with Calgary, but I've been up here for almost ten years so I know it has changed. Feel free to post here or to pm me.

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The best place by far is the Amaranth Food Market which is in the NW by Arbour Lake, Crowfoot. You can get pretty much everything there, Safeway used to carry alot but they got rid of a bunch of stuff. Also in the SW there are a couple bakeries so they carry fresh stuff, I believe one is in Marda Loop and the other is at the end of Crowchild don't know what that area is called. HTH Thats all I can think of right now we usually only go to Amaranth now.

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Agree with the above. I live in the NW and Amaranth is the main place I pick up my gluten-free stuff. Safeway recently took out their organic section and mixed the organics in with the regular stuff. Personally, I find it a pain in the butt I now have to go through the whole store to get the stuff I want. My sister says the store at Dalhousie Station still has an organic/whole foods section, but I don't normally go there myself. The bakery at the end of Crowchild Tr is called Lakeview Bakery. You can pick up some pastas and stuff at Co-Op but the selection is limited and the only flours and mixes they carry are Celimix, which I don't find that great myself.

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Rusla
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Here be a list.

Earths Oven on 33 Ave SW in Marda Loop is good bread and pizza crusts.

Terra Cotto not to far from there in the old Currie Barracks farmers market has wonderful lasagne etc all gluten-free because they are Celiacs.

Amaranth is good in the NW and there is a Planet Organic going to be finished this month in the NW not far from Market Mall on Shaganappi Trail. They have a store in the SW on Elbow drive also.

Community Natural foods 10 ave and 14 st SW and across from the Chinook LRT station is the oldest but very pricey and not a lot of stuff with not the friendliest staff.

Safeway in Market Mall still has Tinkyada pasta, Kinnickinnick cookies and few other things.

Bowness Health Foods in the NW in Bowness on Bowness Road ( not far from Market Mall) is cheap and carries the different flours and freshly ground peanut butter. Bea, Dee and Tabitha are helpful and knowlegable and will suggest other places that are good if they don't have it.

The Lakeview Bakery in Lakeview SW for me is in unimpressive and not so good.

Safeway in Montgomery not far from Bowness Health Foods, Market Mall and Amaranth carries a not bad selection of Kinnickinnick Breads in the freezer but that is about it.

That is pretty well it, rather slim pickins here.

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Thanks everyone. Hey it's not much different than what is up here except that you guys don't have Save-On Foods. My Safeway just removed all of the natural products too and so far they are not in any other aisles.

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I told the manager in the Montgomery Safeway that if Safeway had originally advertised they had gluten-free foods etc., they would have had a bigger repsone. I also told him that Safeway has just made our lives that much more difficult.

It is so sad that when I go into Safeway all I buy is fruits, veggies, tofu and rice vermicelli noodles.

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