Still Confused

[Nan2N]

I'm still confused about what I should look for on the labels. I know the obvious like wheat, barley, rye, but what are the other names that gluten is hidden behind. I've read the celiac.com list but it's so long I'd rather give up and just eat meat and potatos. If there's a simplier version I'd love to hear it because I'm having enough trouble getting up the energy to go to the grocery store, much less be able to determine what everything means on the labels. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[Lisa]

Here is a list of wonderful companies who will clearly list all forms of gluten (ie. wheat, rye, barley and malt). This will be a remendous help shopping.

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Good luck

[Nan2N]

Thanks for the link. But what would it say on the label? What exactly do you check for and then determine it's okay to eat? It just seems like an impossible task to figure out.

[happygirl]

The list that you referred to on celiac.com is what you need to look for. Chances are, you will never see 90% of the ingredients in your basic everyday food shopping. You need to look for wheat, rye, barley, barley malt, or oats on the ingredient labels of the companies that won't hide it. It will be clearly listed.

[flourgirl]

If you want a really handy reference guide (no, it doesn't list "everything") but does list lots of things, give this book a try "Gluten Free Grocery Shopping Guide" by Matison & Matison. When I'm making out my grocery list, sometimes I check out the item. Of course, you have to re-check the ingrediants before you eat it, in case anything has changed since it was put on the list.

Of course, it helps to be familiar with "bad" ingrediants as well as "good" ingrediants. Like Happy Girl stated....you won't even see most of those on the list. After a while you become familiar with the ones you do see all of the time.