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What Have You Found You Can Eat? ( Pree Teen )

zachsmom

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zachsmom Enthusiast
zachsmom
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I have to say I have recieved some great information from the teen board. I need to ask you guys .. what have you found that you can eat...

( My 12 year old is also going to be on a gluten free diet.... )

Like any thing from ........

Frosties from Wendys ... Fruity pebbels... to all national beef franks... ( thanks Kibbie)

things that come from the regular grocery store... things that come from regular places...

I am getting the whole foods expirence down... But was just wondering .. what have you found that you can eat... please help.

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tarnalberry Community Regular
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eggs, chicken, beef, pork, lamb, fish, shrimp, apples, pears, avocado, berries, tomatoes, potatoes, beans, lenils, white/brown/wild rice, broccoli, carrots, celery, sweet peppers, almonds, peanuts, olive oil, vinegar, spices, millet, quinoa, coconut, etc.

yeah, I know... it sounds a bit silly. but there is SOOOO much you CAN eat, and only four things that you can't eat. those four things (two of them, really) happen to be really common in pre-packaged, prepared foods. heck, I didn't even put things with dairy on that list (cheese, yogurt, milk) since I can't have it and don't usually think about it. it requires a bit more "cooking" (not always cooking - sometimes just some preparation - peanut butter on an apple is a filling snack, no cooking required), but is healthier and significantly less likely to get you cross contamination.

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Nantzie
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Cool Ranch Doritos - nacho isn't gluten-free, but some of the others are I believe

Lays Stax

Mission Tortilla Chips and Salsa

Easy Cheese (the spray stuff in the can - bacon isn't gluten-free, but the rest are)

Peanut Butter

Candy can be an odd one - Full size of the following candy bars are gluten-free, but the mini and holiday shape ones tend to cause a lot of us problems. If I remember right someone had found out that wheat starch is used in the manufacturing process to keep it from sticking to the equipment.

Reese's PB Cups

Snickers

M&M's - All but Crispy I believe

Butterfinger

My favorite gluten-free bread is Pamela's Amazing Wheat Free Bread Mix. My kids (2 and 4) and I are all gluten free and we go through at least two loaves of this a week. Even my husband eats it. It's just really good bread. Works great for anything. Even PB&J. I even use it to make hamburger buns for hamburgers, philly cheesesteaks or sloppy joes.

Oh yea, Manwich sloppy joe sauce in the can is gluten-free.

These are just the junk foods that I've found. I'm sure there are others. They got me a long way in the beginning. And even now, it's nice to know I can just grab a bag of Doritos when I'm out running errands.

Nancy

2kids4me Contributor
2kids4me
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brand names that are gluten free - Fryebe and Grimm make gluten free meats

tarnalberry mentioned a ton of stuff

nuts / raisons

beans

fun munchies - trail mix :mix peanuts, sunflower seed, pumkin seeds, raisons and M& M s. I dont put many M& Ms in and then he can munch on that and not get overloaded on carbs (he's diabetic too)

Thai noodles - great for snack after school - add cooked chicken or precooked meat of any kind , peas /corn carrot - whatever veg he likes

Campbells chicken and rice soup

Campbells healthy request new england clam chowder

corn chips - melt cheese on them and add salsa - fun snack he can have with friends - all ingredients readily available

12 yr old boys eat constantly - I think... Matt is getting that way. He likes raw carrots, and bananas, trail mix, corn chips and salsa. He likes beans in tomato sauce and adds a smokie sometimes. These are all snacks he picks himself. He camps with scouts and his favorite meal (all items from regular grocer) is a "tin foil dinner" , he cuts up potatoes in chunks, adds grimms polish sausage (or farmer sausage or a smokie), onion and carrots .

zachsmom Enthusiast
zachsmom
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Cool Ranch Doritos - nacho isn't gluten-free, but some of the others are I believe

Lays Stax

Mission Tortilla Chips and Salsa

Easy Cheese (the spray stuff in the can - bacon isn't gluten-free, but the rest are)

Peanut Butter

Candy can be an odd one - Full size of the following candy bars are gluten-free, but the mini and holiday shape ones tend to cause a lot of us problems. If I remember right someone had found out that wheat starch is used in the manufacturing process to keep it from sticking to the equipment.

Reese's PB Cups

Snickers

M&M's - All but Crispy I believe

Butterfinger

My favorite gluten-free bread is Pamela's Amazing Wheat Free Bread Mix. My kids (2 and 4) and I are all gluten free and we go through at least two loaves of this a week. Even my husband eats it. It's just really good bread. Works great for anything. Even PB&J. I even use it to make hamburger buns for hamburgers, philly cheesesteaks or sloppy joes.

Oh yea, Manwich sloppy joe sauce in the can is gluten-free.

These are just the junk foods that I've found. I'm sure there are others. They got me a long way in the beginning. And even now, it's nice to know I can just grab a bag of Doritos when I'm out running errands.

Nancy

okay so a lot of foods are gluten free.... that I did not even think of...

chrissy Collaborator
chrissy
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cheetos!

StrongerToday Enthusiast
StrongerToday
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cheetos!

Cheetos puffy or crunchy. MnM's. Ice cream sundaes. Frito Lay Bean Dip and corn chips.

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Sweetfudge Community Regular
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Cool Ranch Doritos, Thai Kitchen peanut noodles, peanut butter, Mission Tortillas and Tortilla Chips

Don't know if you have a walmart near by, but they are great about labeling their brand (Great Value) Gluten free or not. There's lots of great things they have - canned foods, meats, etc.

zachsmom Enthusiast
zachsmom
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Cool Ranch Doritos, Thai Kitchen peanut noodles, peanut butter, Mission Tortillas and Tortilla Chips

Don't know if you have a walmart near by, but they are great about labeling their brand (Great Value) Gluten free or not. There's lots of great things they have - canned foods, meats, etc.

I dont know whether to cry or laugh... because I am so happy that so much junk food is okay .. or cry out of joy that cool ranch doritis and m&ms and butterfingers are okay as well as corn chips and cheetos. there is a god. Oh and CHicken rice soup.

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Liz92 Rookie
Liz92
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Most candy but not kitkats, twizzlers, twix's and cruch bars. or things like crunch MnMs, crunch resees.

McDonalds has nothing, I repeat NOTHING other than fruit, drinks and Icecream But at Wendy's the chili is fine, and the potato and you can get 'carb counters' which don't have buns but if ur celiac you have to ask them to change gloves. egg drop soup, at harmons they have gluten-free cinamon rolls and brownies, icecream is usually ok, corn bread, completely pure buckwheat bread(strange, eh?) Costco fries, enchildas, taquitos, tamalys. Lots of oriental food is good. 'Salsa Verde' doritos.

Modified food starch usually is not OK unless it says corn, and I don't think any campbells is OK...

rice crackers are good.

cchhrriiss Newbie
cchhrriiss
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Dora the Explorer cereal and Tinkyada rice pasta with Ragu sauce for a carb fix. MCdonalds's yogurt parfait skip the granola.

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Youngceliac16 Apprentice
Youngceliac16
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Glutino products are really good and you can do a lot of stuff with them.

Easy gluten-free pizza:

Halve a Glutino gluten-free plain bagel and put tomato sauce and cheese (soy is fine) on top and cook it in the broiler until it starts to brown on top. It takes at most 10min!

Oh, by the way, I am 12 too, going on 13 so I completely understand.

mindiloo Rookie
mindiloo
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I'm new to this as well but luckily I found people who were very helpful. I still haven't found a bread that I like, but I'm beginning to accept that haha. Shaw's Supermarket has a good gluten free section.

Natures Way Wildberry Buckwheat waffles- SO GOOD!!!! I've found them at Stop & Shop Supermarket and Food For Thought, and most likely other stores have them as well but I haven't seen them at Shaw's Supermarket.

McCann's Irish Oats are gluten free if he/she likes oatmeal

Almost all frito-lay products (Open Original Shared Link)

here's a list of gluten free candy...it's usually safe to read the labels and just make sure you stay away from things with rice, cookies, or wafers (Open Original Shared Link)

Rice Chex is now gluten free, Envirokids and Puffins are good as well...most regular rice cereals (rice crispies, frosted flakes, etc) have barley malt flavoring which is gluten.

(Rice Chex also makes a delicious snack called Muddy Buddies, if you've never tried them your child will love them..you melt chocolate and peanut butter and mix them and cover the rice chex with that then cover all of that with confectioners sugar...it's addicting and a great wintery snack for the holidays)

Bob's Red Mill has a lot of gluten free mixes, and if you have an Ocean State Job Lot near you they sell it for pretty cheap (Open Original Shared Link)

Heinz products are mostly gluten free- like mayo, ketchup, and bbq sauce (Open Original Shared Link)

For restaurants, if you call ahead many will tell you whether they have a gluten free menu or not...don't think that just because it's mexican it will be gluten free though, Tortillas Sams, Margaritagrill, and Moes all have wheat in all of their corn chips and taco shells unfortunately. If you type in your city in here it will tell you some restaurants in your area that have gluten free menus, if he/she is going out with friends I'd say the safest thing to order is a cheeseburger without the bun because chicken can have a glaze or seasonings on it and the salad dressings could have gluten in them, also be careful with things like french fries because they could have been put in the same fry-alater as mozzarella sticks or chicken fingers.

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Tica Apprentice
Tica
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Betty Crocker is coming out with a gluten free line of baking mixes as part of their national distributioon this June!!!!!!!!! Contact your grocery store manager and request that they carry these items once they are in distribution. :rolleyes:

hannahp57 Contributor
hannahp57
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dinty moore has a couple of things like the beef stew and chicken and rice. check the labels to be sure which ones. also swanson chicken broth has a couple of nroths that don't bother me. the chicken broth in particular i use quite a bit of. but check because the different sizes sometimes have different ingredients. there are rice crackers at taarget, i think they are back to nature or something like that. m&ms are fine, hershey's products are fine, like mr. goodbar, kisses and such. check any that you aren't sure of. snickers are okay but milky ways are not, i repeat are not. i thought they would be because they are so closely related to snickersw. dont repeat my mistake.

i have foung carl budding meat says gluten free on the label and their is a deli meat that does too, some kind of boar....i'll have to check with the nme and get back here to be sure. jello is fine and i checked with jello products and they say that if it says something like modified food starch but doesn't list what kind t is, it is safe because they list out all their allergens now. but i encourage you to check yourself just to remain in the habit. i would even look on their website. cape cod chips are safe and they are soooo good. if i think of any more i will be back on here.

p.s. lea and perrains original is completely safe and is a must-have for any kitchen!

hannahp57 Contributor
hannahp57
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i remembered a couple others. i have seen pasta at wal-mart so if you havent looked there...its called debole. and i have eatena couple flavors of blue bunny ice cream do if dairy is okay read some of the labels, carefully of course because the ingredient list is long. kraft brand ranch is okay. they have a couple other dressings and things too so you can probably check with them. i have the gluten free grocery guide and i highly recommend it. if you have any specific things you want to know about, email me at bam_its_hannah@yahoo.com and i would be happy to check the book. it makes the grocery store much more manageable so i recommend investing in it though.

Chef16 Apprentice
Chef16
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Peeps (only original, not low cal)

M&Ms

Smarties

-You should get the gluten-free grocery guide. It has lists of common grocery store foods. It's a life saver, especially when your just starting out. They also have a resturant guide.

Here's the link:

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