Jump to content

  • Welcome to Celiac.com!

    You have found your celiac tribe! Join us and ask questions in our forum, share your story, and connect with others.



  • Celiac.com Sponsor (A1):

    Celiac.com Sponsor (A1-M):

  • Get Celiac.com Updates:
    Support Our Content
    eNewsletter
    Donate

So Sorry To "trouble" You.. Ugh!

mysecretcurse

By mysecretcurse
in Coping with Celiac Disease

Recommended Posts

mysecretcurse Contributor
mysecretcurse
Posted

So I went to my local health restaurant/health food store the other day. The store is really good, it's a little grocery store and it's got tons of gluten free stuff from cake mix to pasta to pizza, etc. I get a lot of my stuff there. I was trying to see if they had any hummus, because the only hummus I've ever found at the grocery store, I had a reaction to.

So I ask the grocery store clerk and she says no, but they make fresh hummus in the deli/restaurant.

So I go over there and ask the restaurant hostess girl if they have hummus and if it's gluten free. And she looks at me and says:

"Well.. I don't know.. cuz you know, I'd have to like, go in the back and look at ALL the ingrediants and check them over to find that out..."

And I sort of stare at her, waiting for her to tell me she will be right back so she can go check and instead she just stares and says:

"Cuz you know.. that would take forever."

Needless to say I went home hummus free. So SORRY to trouble you, jerk! :angry: :angry: :angry:

Celiac.com Sponsor (A8):
Celiac.com Sponsor (A8):

Celiac.com Sponsor (A8-M):


ShayFL Enthusiast
ShayFL
Posted

That is pretty crappy service. I might have to complain to the owner. Afterall, they are there to serve you and health food stores would be out of biz without peeps like us.

On another note....hummus is one of the easiest things in the world to make and it is naturally gluten-free (when prepared from a recipe). You cant trust stores/restaurants though. Here is a simple recipe:

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Ingredients:

* 1 16 oz can of chickpeas or garbanzo beans

* 1/4 cup liquid from can of chickpeas

* 3-5 tablespoons lemon juice (depending on taste)

* 1 1/2 tablespoons tahini

* 2 cloves garlic, crushed

* 1/2 teaspoon salt

* 2 tablespoons olive oil

Preparation:

Drain chickpeas and set aside liquid from can. Combine remaining ingredients in blender or food processor. Add 1/4 cup of liquid from chickpeas. Blend for 3-5 minutes on low until thoroughly mixed and smooth.

Place in serving bowl and eat!!

Jestgar Rising Star
Jestgar
Posted
Place in serving bowl and eat!!

Or just lick it out of the blender :ph34r:

I sometimes skip the olive oil and put in some sun dried tomatoes packed in olive oil

mysecretcurse Contributor
mysecretcurse
Posted
  • Author
That is pretty crappy service. I might have to complain to the owner. Afterall, they are there to serve you and health food stores would be out of biz without peeps like us.

On another note....hummus is one of the easiest things in the world to make and it is naturally gluten-free (when prepared from a recipe). You cant trust stores/restaurants though. Here is a simple recipe:

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Ingredients:

* 1 16 oz can of chickpeas or garbanzo beans

* 1/4 cup liquid from can of chickpeas

* 3-5 tablespoons lemon juice (depending on taste)

* 1 1/2 tablespoons tahini

* 2 cloves garlic, crushed

* 1/2 teaspoon salt

* 2 tablespoons olive oil

Preparation:

Drain chickpeas and set aside liquid from can. Combine remaining ingredients in blender or food processor. Add 1/4 cup of liquid from chickpeas. Blend for 3-5 minutes on low until thoroughly mixed and smooth.

Place in serving bowl and eat!!

I've been wanting to make hummus for years and have been to like 10 different grocery stores around here and not ONE of them has had Tahini! Where or whereeeee do you guys get it at? :(

Mother of Jibril Enthusiast
Mother of Jibril
Posted

Tahini is made from sesame seeds. I found this recipe:

Open Original Shared Link

Do you have any "ethnic" stores in your area? Lebanese would be perfect. Also, try looking in the nut butter section of your health food store... I think that's where mine keeps the tahini.

mysecretcurse Contributor
mysecretcurse
Posted
  • Author

No theres no specialty stores like that around here. Just big ones like Wal Mart, Winco, etc.

JNBunnie1 Community Regular
JNBunnie1
Posted
No theres no specialty stores like that around here. Just big ones like Wal Mart, Winco, etc.

You may have to break down and order it online in that case.

Celiac.com Sponsor (A8):
Celiac.com Sponsor (A8):

Celiac.com Sponsor (A8-M):


gfpaperdoll Rookie
gfpaperdoll
Posted

The reason that stores have managers is to correct any little unpleasantries that their employees do or say to the customers. Just ask for the manager. I bet he will have time to help you look for anything that you would like to purchase.

jsb727 Newbie
jsb727
Posted

I had an ok experience at my local grocery store today. They had samples out all over the store, which I normally try to avoid eye contact so they don't ask me. But these two guys asked me anyway (it was some bowtie pasta, and then some roasted chicken)... to which I said "only if it's gluten free." They sort of had blank looks on their faces, so I rephrased to just say I had a wheat allergy, and therefore the pasta sample was out of the question. The manager happened to walk by just then, and so she went to go check on the ingredients for the roasted chicken. While she was gone I gave the guys a brief lesson on celiac disease. :) Hey, they've gotta learn somewhere!

Anyway, the roasted chicken had modified corn starch, which was fine. And natural flavorings (which the manager told me she thought just meant the chicken's "natural juices"). Not too sure about that, but oh well. So, even if they don't know 100% of the time, at least they were willing to make an effort.

I really appreciate the people who make an effort, because I feel like I'm a big inconvenience already... It makes me feel even worse when they basically tell you you're wasting their time, like you're not worth the effort. Ugg.

mommyof3 Newbie
mommyof3
Posted

I have made hummus many times using peanut butter instead of tahini. It tastes a little different, but good all the same. You could probably use any nut butter. You may need to thin it slightly with a little water since the peanut butter is thicker than tahini.

lizard00 Enthusiast
lizard00
Posted

I've never made hummus with tahini. Mostly cuz I never have it and forget to get it when I'm out. But, it always is fabulous.

I've started recently making it with white kidney beans, cumin, garlic powder, lemon juice, salt and olive oil. Added some fresh cilantro last time and it was soooo good. MMmmm... I LOVE hummus!

psawyer Proficient
psawyer
Posted

My wife and I own a retail business. Any employee who treated a customer like that once would be very strongly cautioned. If they did it a second time, they would be instantly unemployed. The customers are not an interruption to our business, they are our business.

mysecretcurse Contributor
mysecretcurse
Posted
  • Author
I've never made hummus with tahini. Mostly cuz I never have it and forget to get it when I'm out. But, it always is fabulous.

I've started recently making it with white kidney beans, cumin, garlic powder, lemon juice, salt and olive oil. Added some fresh cilantro last time and it was soooo good. MMmmm... I LOVE hummus!

So you just throw it all in a blender? I don't have a food processor.

And psawer, I absolutely agree. This place is a small family business that is having to compete with big stores and restaurant chains in the area. It's nuts to me that they would treat their customers like they could take them or leave them like this. In hindsight I feel very annoyed that I didn't go to the manager at the time. Honestly I don't even remember what the girl looked like now other than that she was a twentysomething brunette. I hate complaining because I don't want to get anyone in trouble and have to feel weird when I go back in there. But I do think it was warranted in this case.

I was silly even thinking I could trust them anyway. There was another time I ate there, and told them I was celiac. I had a burrito without the tortilla. There must have been something in the rice (even though the guy said it was "just rice") because I was sick for two days after. Even if this girl had gone and checked for me I shouldn't trust her.

Gah. Why must it be so hard. <_<

Ashley Enthusiast
Ashley
Posted

I would have said, "Well, 'cause it takes forever to find my wallet, I guess I won't have to pay for my groceries today, huh?" Actually, I probably would have told her to do her job or I'll ask for management. I can't stand stupid people like that. Sorry you had to deal with that :[

-Ash.

knitaddict Apprentice
knitaddict
Posted

I know how you feel...this is TOTALLY not Celiac related....but I went to TJ Maxx to put some stuff on layaway for Christmas. I was in a SUPER kick BUTT mood because I was getting a headstart on all my shopping.... So I had filled my cart to the point of BURSTING and I went back to layaway to get it all checked out....I stood there for 20 MINUTES. I'm NOT JOKING...20 min....then when someone FINALLY came up to help me...they jumped MY butt because I didn't pick up their little "courtesy phone" to let anyone know that I was there. It took everything that I HAD to not cuss that dude and call him such imaginative names that would cause a SAILOR to blush with SHAME. I looked at him and said, "Well, perhaps if there were a SIGN posted above the courtesy phone, I would've KNOWN to pick it up and call someone."

THEN--he checked out all my stuff and, because I was in a HUGE RUSH to pick up my kid from school...I didn't realize until I got home...he DOUBLE CHARGED me for my Mom's Christmas present. :angry::angry::angry:

I got her an Aigner bag....it's SO PURTY! :)

ShayFL Enthusiast
ShayFL
Posted

Bad service stinks! And it is even harder for me because I am in sales and run my own business. I expect everyone to be as attentive and professional as I am. I am often so very disappointed......

msmini14 Enthusiast
msmini14
Posted

Winco has a lot of gluten free items, you just have to take at least an hour to look around the store. If you have a Stater bros by you, they do have a gluten free hummus, so goood! I only buy every now and then because I eat it all lol. There are a few different types of hummus at staters but the one I buy is safe, check the labels though because the one I am talking about is gluten-free. They keep it in the bacon/sandwich meat section.

mysecretcurse Contributor
mysecretcurse
Posted
  • Author

Thanks! Yes Winco is definitely awesome, especially the big bins of quinoa and brown rice and other things you can just scoop out of. They also carry Pacific foods organic soups most of which are gluten free. And lots of other good yummy stuff. I don't eat meat either so it's even harder for me. I want to try making hummus now really bad! I think I will try and order some tahini online.

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

Go to topic listing

  • Get Celiac.com Updates:
    Support Celiac.com:
    Join eNewsletter
    Donate
  • Celiac.com Sponsor (A17):
    Celiac.com Sponsor (A17):



    Celiac.com Sponsors (A17-M):



  • Recent Activity

    1. JoJo0611
      - JoJo0611 replied to JoJo0611's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms
      4

      CT with contrast.

      I didn’t know there were different types of CT. I’m not sure which I had. It just said CT scan with contrast.
    2. Scott Adams
      - Scott Adams replied to Russ H's topic in Publications & Publicity
      1

      Coeliac UK Research Conference 2025

      Thanks for sharing this!
    3. Scott Adams
      - Scott Adams replied to Ginger38's topic in Related Issues & Disorders
      2

      Shingles - Could It Be Related to Gluten/ Celiac

      I had the same thing happen to me at around your age, and to this day it's the most painful experience I've ever had. For me it was the right side of my head, above my ear, running from my nerves in my neck. For years before my outbreak I felt a tingling sensation shooting along the exact nerves that ended up exactly where the shingles blisters appeared....
    4. trents
      - trents replied to Mmoc's topic in Celiac Disease Pre-Diagnosis, Testing & Symptoms
      3

      Blood tests low iGA 4 years later digestive issues

      Keep us posted.
    5. Scott Adams
      0

      Celiac.com Video News: November 2025

  • Celiac.com Sponsor (A19):


  • Member Statistics

    • Total Members
      132,398
    • Most Online (within 30 mins)
      7,748
    Megannnnn
    Newest Member
    Megannnnn
    Joined
  • Celiac.com Sponsor (A20):

  • Forum Statistics

    • Total Topics
      121.5k
    • Total Posts
      1m
  • Celiac.com Sponsor (A22):



  • Celiac.com Sponsor (A21):


  • Who's Online (See full list)

  • Upcoming Events

  • Posts

    • JoJo0611
      CT with contrast.

      By JoJo0611 · Posted

      I didn’t know there were different types of CT. I’m not sure which I had. It just said CT scan with contrast. 
    • Scott Adams
      Coeliac UK Research Conference 2025

      By Scott Adams · Posted

      Thanks for sharing this!
    • Scott Adams
      Shingles - Could It Be Related to Gluten/ Celiac

      By Scott Adams · Posted

      I had the same thing happen to me at around your age, and to this day it's the most painful experience I've ever had. For me it was the right side of my head, above my ear, running from my nerves in my neck. For years before my outbreak I felt a tingling sensation shooting along the exact nerves that ended up exactly where the shingles blisters appeared. I highly recommend the two shot shingles vaccine as soon as your turn 50--I did this because I started to get the same tingling sensations in the same area, and after the vaccines I've never felt that again.  As you likely know, shingles is caused by chicken pox, which was once though of as one of those harmless childhood viruses that everyone should catch in the wild--little did they know that it can stay in your nervous system for your entire life, and cause major issues as you age.
    • trents
      Blood tests low iGA 4 years later digestive issues

      By trents · Posted

      Keep us posted.
    • Clear2me
      Gluten free nuts

      By Clear2me · Posted

      Thanks for the info. I recently moved to CA from Wyoming and in that western region the Costco and Sam's /Walmart Brands have many nuts and more products that are labeled gluten free. I was told it's because those products are packaged and processed  in different  plants. Some plants can be labeled  gluten free because the plant does not also package gluten products and they know that for example the trucks, containers equipment are not used to handle wheat, barely or Rye. The Walmart butter in the western region says gluten free but not here. Most of The Kirkland and Members Mark brands in CA say they are from Vietnam. That's not the case in Wyoming and Colorado. I've spoken to customer service at the stores here in California. They were not helpful. I check labels every time I go to the store. The stores where I am are a Sh*tshow. The Magalopoly grocery chain Vons/Safeway/Albertsons, etc. are the same. Fishers and Planters brands no longer say gluten free. It could be regional. There are nuts with sugar coatings and fruit and nut mixes at the big chains that are labeled gluten free but I don't want the fruit or sugar.  It's so difficult I am considering moving again. I thought it would be easier to find safe food in a more populated area. It's actually worse.  I was undiagnosed for most of my life but not because I didn't try to figure it out. So I have had all the complications possible. I don't have any spare organs left.  No a little gluten will hurt you. The autoimmune process continues to destroy your organs though you may not feel it. If you are getting a little all the time and as much as we try we probably all are and so the damage is happening. Now the FDA has pretty much abandoned celiacs. There are no requirements for labeling for common allergens on medications. All the generic drugs made outside the US are not regulated for common allergens and the FDA is taking the last gluten free porcine Thyroid med, NP Thyroid, off the market in 2026. I was being glutened by a generic levothyroxin. The insurance wouldn't pay for the gluten free brand any longer because the FDA took them all off their approved formulary. So now I am paying $147 out of pocket for NP Thyroid but shortly I will have no safe choice. Other people with allergies should be aware that these foreign generic pharmaceutical producers are using ground shellfish shell as pill coatings and anti-desicants. The FDA knows this but  now just waits for consumers to complain or die. The take over of Wholefoods by Amazon destroyed a very reliable source of good high quality food for people with allergies and for people who wanted good reliably organic food. Bezos thought  he could make a fortune off people who were paying alot for organic and allergen free food by substituting cheap brands from Thailand. He didn't understand who the customers were who were willing to pay more for that food and why. I went from spending hundreds to nothing because Bezo removed every single trusted brand that I was buying. Now they are closing Whole foods stores across the country. In CA, Mill Valley store (closed July 2025) and the National Blvd. store in West Los Angeles (closed October 2025). The Cupertino store will close.  In recent years I have learned to be careful and trust no one. I have been deleberately glutened in a restaurant that was my favorite (a new employee). The Chef owner was not in the kitchen that night. I've had  a metal scouring pad cut up over my food.The chain offered gluten free dishes but it only takes one crazy who thinks you're a problem as a food fadist. Good thing I always look. Good thing they didn't do that to food going to a child with a busy mom.  I give big tips and apologize for having to ask in restaurants but mental illness seem to be rampant. I've learn the hard way.          I don't buy any processed food that doesn't say gluten free.  I am a life long Catholic. I worked for the Church while at college. I don't go to Church anymore because the men at the top decided Jesus is gluten. The special hosts are gluten less not gluten free. No I can't drink wine after people with gluten in their mouth and a variety of deadly germs. I have been abandoned and excluded by my Church/Family.  Having nearly died several times, safe food is paramount. If your immune system collapses as mine did, you get sepsis. It can kill you very quickly. I spent 5 days unconscious and had to have my appendix and gall bladder removed because they were necrotic. I was 25. They didn't figure out I had celiac till I was 53. No one will take the time to tell you what can happen when your immune system gets overwhelmed from its constant fighting the gluten and just stops. It is miserable that our food is processed so carelessly. Our food in many aspects is not safe. And the merging of all the grocery chains has made it far worse. Its a disaster. Krogers also recently purchased Vitacost where I was getting the products I could no longer get at Whole Foods. Kroger is eliminating those products from Vitacost just a Bezos did from WF. I am looking for reliable and certified sources for nuts. I have lived the worst consequences of the disease and being exposed unknowingly and maliciously. Once I was diagnosed I learned way more than anyone should have to about the food industry.  I don't do gray areas. And now I dont eat out except very rarely.  I have not eaten fast food for 30 years before the celiac diagnosis. Gluten aside..... It's not food and it's not safe.  No one has got our backs. Sharing safe food sources is one thing we can do to try to be safe.        
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

NOTICE: This site places This site places cookies on your device (Cookie settings). on your device. Continued use is acceptance of our Terms of Use, and Privacy Policy.