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LoveBeingATwin Enthusiast
LoveBeingATwin
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I am craving a candy bar REALLY bad. I have not had candy/chocolate in a long time. I am wondering if this will make me sick. I want to try it...but and wondering if it's worth it? :lol: What should I do? Need advise.

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celiacgirls Apprentice
celiacgirls
Posted

Are you just gluten free? If so, there are lots of candy bars you can have. Do you have another reason to avoid chocolate?

Susanna Newbie
Susanna
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If you can tolerate chocolate and dairy--you have lots of options:

Reeses peanut butter cup

Hershey bar (with or without almonds)

Baby Ruth Bar

Snickers

M&M's (plain, peanut,

Butterfinger

Milky Way

Heath

Dove Promises (my fave)

fudge

If you can't do chocolate and dairy:

Divinity candy

Starburst

Skittles

Most hard candies--read labels

Most taffy--read labels

If you can't do chocolate, check with Ener-G foods--they have some allergen free candy. Good luck.

Susanna

Mango04 Enthusiast
Mango04
Posted

Unless you have actual problems with chocolate, I would recommend trying a Nana's Temptations chocolate mint confection bar. They are gluten and dairy-free and will definitely satisfy your chocolatey candy bar cravings :)

blueeyedmanda Community Regular
blueeyedmanda
Posted

If you have Gertrude Hawk stores near you, they have very good candy.

Canadian Karen Community Regular
Canadian Karen
Posted

Caramilk is also okay.

If you are in Canada, Smarties are not gluten free, but in the US, they are gluten free. M&M's in Canada are gluten free.

Karen

Jo.R Contributor
Jo.R
Posted

If you can tolerate chocolate and dairy--you have lots of options:

Reeses peanut butter cup

Hershey bar (with or without almonds)

Baby Ruth Bar

Snickers

M&M's (plain, peanut,

Butterfinger

Milky Way

Heath

Dove Promises (my fave)

fudge

Snickers is gluten-free? I think you may have just made my day.

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loco-ladi Contributor
loco-ladi
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Hmmmmm..... which to add to my ice cream first (when I once more attempt dairy that is, lol)

ravenwoodglass Mentor
ravenwoodglass
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"Snickers is gluten-free? I think you may have just made my day."

Yep unless they changed recently. My DD wrote her entrance essay for college on the joys of eating a Snickers bar, she really makes a production of it and the very involved removal of layers she would do in the process. It was a great essay on finding a little bit of joy early in the post diagnosis period. It got her into her first choice college. As a proud as punch Mom I have to add she graduates with honors a year early this week and starts her Masters program in Nursing in another month.

Enjoy that Snickers !!!!!!

par18 Explorer
par18
Posted

I see Milky Way posted as gluten free. I was of the opinion that it is not gluten free. Someone correct me if I am wrong.

Tom

larry mac Enthusiast
larry mac
Posted
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I am craving a candy bar REALLY bad. I have not had candy/chocolate in a long time. I am wondering if this will make me sick. I want to try it...but am wondering if it's worth it? :lol: What should I do? Need advise.

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Dear Kim,

As you can see from the responses, forum members love to help out with advise. But we don't have much to go on here. What a mystery!

Starting with the fact that this is after all Celiac.com , I think we can safely assume you have celiac disease or wheat allergies. But that's no reason to restrict your candy/chocolate or candy bar consumption.

And of course you know this because the first thing one does after finding out what's been making them sick (wheat), is to check all the lists of things to avoid. As we all know, chocolate is not on it. Neither is sugar.

And the second thing we do is learn to read ingredient labels. The main candy bars that I can think of at the moment that have the word "wheat" printed in their ingredients on the candy bar package, are ones that have cookie type stuff in them. For instance, Butterfinger Crisp, with the crispy layers that I used to love so much. Was the perfect accompanyment to hot buttered popcorn.

So, we've established that you already know that celiacs can eat chocolate and candy (excepting those items that have the word "wheat" printed on the label). Now we must assume you have some other allergy or intolerance to an ingredient that might be in candy/chocolate. As soon as we find out what that might be, we can give you some advise. Well, not we, as I am only celiac and don't know nothin bout those other issues. But many here can and will.

best regards, lm

p.s., For anyone that likes some chocolate & peanut butter with their hot buttered popcorn, and wants it crispy/crunchy, check out the new Reese's Crispy Crunchy Bar. It's available in a pack-a-snack pack (8 small bars for a buck at WM).

loraleena Contributor
loraleena
Posted

I would recommend Dagoba organic dark chocolate. Yum. Gluten free and no nasty added ingredients. You can find them at natural food stores.

zansu Rookie
zansu
Posted
I see Milky Way posted as gluten free. I was of the opinion that it is not gluten free. Someone correct me if I am wrong.

Tom

removed erroneous data lest I mess someone up!

BTW, I kinda freaked the other day when I bought a snickers from the andy machine and the inside was GREEN (they're doing a Shrek promotion) I read the whole label before I ate anymore! no reaction, though so must have just been food coloring....

beelzebubble Contributor
beelzebubble
Posted
Milky Way DARK is not gluten-free. Regular is supposed to be.

actually, it's the other way around. regular milky way has wheat flour in it. midnight is supposed to be safe.

here are the ingredients...

MILKY WAY

happygirl Collaborator
happygirl
Posted

Thanks for clarifying about the milky way. That was one of my first "oops" and I can still remember it.

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JudyeLeavitt Newbie
JudyeLeavitt
Posted
"Snickers is gluten-free? I think you may have just made my day."

Yep unless they changed recently. My DD wrote her entrance essay for college on the joys of eating a Snickers bar, she really makes a production of it and the very involved removal of layers she would do in the process. It was a great essay on finding a little bit of joy early in the post diagnosis period. It got her into her first choice college. As a proud as punch Mom I have to add she graduates with honors a year early this week and starts her Masters program in Nursing in another month.

Enjoy that Snickers !!!!!!

JudyeLeavitt Newbie
JudyeLeavitt
Posted

Hi! Could you email me a copy of the college essay that your daughter wrote? We are starting the college process for my son and would love to read your daughters essay. Thank you so much! We are struggling at how to find the perfect way to exemplyfy Celiac Disease. Thank you!

Leavitts@aol.com

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Poochyrn Newbie
Poochyrn
Posted
Are you just gluten free? If so, there are lots of candy bars you can have. Do you have another reason to avoid chocolate?

My favorite seems to be gluten free as well from Hershey's: 5th Avenue. :D

mushroom Proficient
mushroom
Posted

I have a big time candy problem always. People here have said, I believe, that glucose syrup (from wheat) is okay?? Somehow I just can't buy something that has wheat on the label :P and all our candy has it in it (we not being a big corn country). Is it really okay? because if not, I am so restricted because I can't do the soy lecithin in chocolate and my one source of chocolate has just discontinued the only two chocolate bars without soy. Am heading stateside in a couple of weeks; can anyone point me in the direction of soyless and wheatless candy?? (I know about EnjoyLife and Dagoba). Presumably I will do better with hard candies in the U.S.??

daphniela Explorer
daphniela
Posted

M&M's, Almond Joy, and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are gluten free. There is more just can't think of any offhand.

mushroom Proficient
mushroom
Posted

Yeah, I get the gluten free part, but are they soy free?? I believe the chocolate contains soy.

Salax Contributor
Salax
Posted

I also read some where that the large reese's cups were NOT gluten-free, only the mini's were. Can anyone confirm or deny that? Those are my favorites. B)

Thanks!

ravenwoodglass Mentor
ravenwoodglass
Posted
I also read some where that the large reese's cups were NOT gluten-free, only the mini's were. Can anyone confirm or deny that? Those are my favorites. B)

Thanks!

I think it is actually reversed. The mini's are the ones I remember that people spoke of having an issue with. Very very rarely I will get the full size cups and haven't had an issue but it has been a long time since I had one so don't take that as a certainty that they are gluten free now. You might want to do a board search or post the questions in the Foods section and see what other folks have to say.

larry mac Enthusiast
larry mac
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mattathayde Apprentice
mattathayde
Posted

resses are gluten-free, every where ive seen says they are and all the packages ive read say nothing in them.

snickers and butter fingers are gluten-free. hershey chocolate is gluten-free and skittles and starburst i know are all gluten-free

-matt

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