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Grocery Store List ?


mn farm gal

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mn farm gal Apprentice

I am fairly new to the Celiac thing and just wondering how everyone keeps track of what is gluten free and where you got it. I am in a fairly rural area and so when I go to a town farther away I am always looking and I am there forever reading labels. Does anyone make your own list to go by and keep track because what is at one store may not be at the next. I have taken notes but they don't seem to make it in one spot and then I am reading and looking all over the place again. Any ideas I would appreciate it, thanks.


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I printed out a no no list & a okay list from Clan Thompson's site . It was many pages but I carried it around for a few months until it became old hat.... It actually wore out... I do alot of ordering by mailorder & when I do get to a gluten-free store I stock up.......

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Depening on what grocery stores you have, most all grocery store chains I have called have a gluten free list of their store brands. I've received lists from Safeway, Kroger, and Albertsons. If you have any those around. Seeing as all 3 places I contacted had one, I figure most other chains do too.

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I printed out the list from this site that has the safe and forbidden ingredients on it.

On the back I wrote the names of the companies that don't hide gluten so I know that if any of the obvious gluten words aren't in their labels then I can trust that the product is ok.

Then, when I see something that I want to buy but I don't know if it is ok, I write it on my current shopping list. When I get home I look it up online and write the results on that same sheet so the next time I'm in the grocery store I will know that I checked it and it is/isn't ok. I have a bunch of products on the sheet that I checked out.

In the beginning I referenced this all the time. Now, I have my staples - I know if I want spaghetti sauce or other things which brand to choose. It really does get easier but I remember being in the store and wishing I had the internet right there so I could check things out on the spot.

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