Nuts

[SGWhiskers]

What do I look for when purchasing nuts?

Here's the scoop. I can't do my own grocery shopping anymore because the bakery and several of the grocery aisles cause a gluten flare. So hubby has been doing the shopping. I'm out of nuts of my confirmed brand, and hubby says they don't carry them anymore. Nuts are expensive, and I don't want to have him buy package after package with cross contamination.

We know to look for nuts without wheat or cc for wheat on the label.

What else do we look for?

Is there a brand that is safe?

Will he have better luck in the snack aisle or the baking aisle? I don't need salt and sugar on my nuts.

On a side note: Darn split peas that were supposed to be for soup tonight had wheat cc on the label. Fortunately it was on the label and you have all made me sufficiently paranoid to check EVERYTHING. Thanks friends.

SGW

[Gfresh404]

What do I look for when purchasing nuts?

Here's the scoop. I can't do my own grocery shopping anymore because the bakery and several of the grocery aisles cause a gluten flare. So hubby has been doing the shopping. I'm out of nuts of my confirmed brand, and hubby says they don't carry them anymore. Nuts are expensive, and I don't want to have him buy package after package with cross contamination.

We know to look for nuts without wheat or cc for wheat on the label.

What else do we look for?

Is there a brand that is safe?

Will he have better luck in the snack aisle or the baking aisle? I don't need salt and sugar on my nuts.

On a side note: Darn split peas that were supposed to be for soup tonight had wheat cc on the label. Fortunately it was on the label and you have all made me sufficiently paranoid to check EVERYTHING. Thanks friends.

SGW

There's really not much else you need to look for. Personally I just stick with Blue Diamond brand nuts. They have some really good desert flavored almonds like vanilla bean and cinnamon. They also segregate ingredients so there's no risk for cc. At least that was what I was told a couple of months ago, but I figured they'd already be pretty good at that stuff since they support the Celiac Disease Foundation and make WF, gluten-free rice crackers, which are really good by the way. I like the Smokehouse ones. Just a cautionary note, some of their flavors do contain wheat as an ingredient such as the Wasabi ones, but it is clearly listed to just make sure you always read the label.

If you want plain nuts with no salt added, I'd stick with the baking aisle, otherwise I'd look next to the chips, since that's where the other ones usually are.