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Cheddar Or Yellow Cheese

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debmidge Rising Star
debmidge
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Need help in finding a gluten-free cheese to use for mac & cheese receipe.

Brand I used no longer has a Gluten Free label on it.

That was Applegate Farm brand

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Mtndog Collaborator
Mtndog
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I like cabot products and have never had a problem with them.

missy'smom Collaborator
missy'smom
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I buy Kraft. They will clearly put "wheat" on the label if their products contain it. I'm sure there are other brands that are Ok but this it is just easier for me to stick to one company that I'm comfortable with.

Kassie Apprentice
Kassie
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most cheeses are gluten free. :P dont know if i have heard of one that is not

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VegasCeliacBuckeye
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I use Tinkyada noodles and the powder mix from Kraft Mac N Cheese (throw out the noodles)

tarnalberry Community Regular
tarnalberry
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yep, I've yet to hear of a whole cheese (with the exception of blue cheese where the molds are grown on bread) that was not gluten free.

zansu Rookie
zansu
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The question when I started this diet was the annato. So white cheeses were safe. Yellow were suspect. I don't know the current status of "annato" on our hit list.

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missy'smom Collaborator
missy'smom
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At our most recent support group meeting we were told that annato was no longer an issue but I haven't checked on it personally so I'm still being cautious.

debmidge Rising Star
debmidge
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Funny you mention annato...I noticed it was in Lactaid brand cheese and looked it up in CSA's gluten-free product list/guide and they say that it's OK - Consistent with a gluten free diet at this time.

They state: "vegetable dye. Maybe labeled as an extract. Often used to color margarine, sausage casing and is used as an ink for marking food products. Coloring agent, bixin, and the alcohol used with annato, however, may be irritants."

happygirl Collaborator
happygirl
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Annato is safe for Celiacs.

lovegrov Collaborator
lovegrov
Posted

CSA seems to have been the one to start this annatto thing. It is not and never was as problem as far as gluten.

richard

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stef-the-kicking-cuty
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I don't know, if WalMart (great value) makes cheeses for Mac'N Cheese, but most of their other cheeses say "gluten-free" on the back. I'd give that a try.

Hugs, Stef

debmidge Rising Star
debmidge
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:( Our Wal Mart doesn't carry their full line of foods. The people who live around Wal Mart protested the size of their proposed building and Wal Mart agreed to keep the building smaller and not stocking everything that they sell.
stef-the-kicking-cuty Enthusiast
stef-the-kicking-cuty
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:blink: That is not nice. But isn't food important to them? Apparently not...
debmidge Rising Star
debmidge
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:blink: That is not nice. But isn't food important to them? Apparently not...

Wal Mart is on a highway here in NJ; the area behind the stores on the highway are upper middle income residential area and they have a lot of say-so about what gets built new on the highway. It is also a social issue as it's their way of keeping poor people out of driving thru their neighborhoods to get to the highway stores. Some of the enclaves have installed gates blocking you from getting to the highway stores. That's going to work against them if they ever have a fire and need help from the engine companies from the neighboring towns. Some have made the streets "dead-ends" for the same reason.

There's also a really big A&P close to the Wal Mart and the residents obviously do not have to eat gluten free so what do they care if a Wal Mart carries all their products or not.....

By the way, the highway & the highway stores were here first, so those people buying and building those homes knew that there'd be traffic in and around their streets. The highway is the infamous Route 22 in Union and anyone who's ever lived in NJ will know what I am talking about.

A lot of people do not like driving on Rt. 22 as it's full of crazy drivers - always has been since it was first traveled on. The residents of the area are unrealistic if they think that limiting the size of a mega store will hold traffic down: so far it has not worked because next to the Wal Mart is a new Home Depot.

Rt. 22 is actually miles and miles of stores running east to west with a center island in the Union Township portion which has stores on the center island as well.

The stores on Rt. 22 have been around since before I was born. There used to be a store on the center island in the shape of a steamship; for years it was a dinner/club then a men's clothing store, then an electronics store; it was a place to go just to look at it like an attraction. It was torn down 10 years ago & rebuilt as a ship again.

So those people who live off of Rt. 22 get all that traffic despite trying to limit it. I can understand not wanting the extra traffic but it's unrealistic as this area of the state/country is very over congested and overpopulated anyway. Their efforts are like trying to take water out of the ocean drop by drop.

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