The Trader Joe’s Gluten-Free list update I posted earlier this year is a popular resource on CeliacSnack, which means a lot of people are becoming better gluten-free shoppers.
Anyone with gluten sensitivity, be it celiac disease or an allergy, knows it’s important to keep tabs on the latest GF list. If we’re lucky, that list gets a little longer each time. But more importantly, the new gluten-free grocery list shows you what ISN’T gluten-free anymore. I’ll take a shorter list with little risk of a gluten reaction over a long list with the risk of reaction any day. Anything to avoid a glutening.
Enjoy! I’m printing mine out now.
Anyone practicing a gluten-free diet knows that often you need to BYOGF. Sometimes it’s a continental breakfast at the Holiday Inn Express. Other times it’s scanning the vending machine, often succumbing to the avalanche of gluten and resorting to a pack of stale Juicy Fruit. Maybe it’s a road trip, or just your daily hour-long commute.
Enter Amazon’s Subscribe and Save service. The model is simple; “subscribe” to a gluten-free staple you know you’ll use over and over again, and Amazon automatically ships out your order in the quantity and schedule of your choosing. As a reward for the steady business, Amazon gives you a discount somewhere in the neighborhood of 10-15%.
I use it for my Think Thin bars that I strategically place around my daily life. I know during my late night study sessions, the vending machines at the library are useless. My bag always has a couple bars in it. Those of you with cooking chops can keep a steady stock of GF ingredients delivered to your door.
Take a look around. Cheaper AND delivered to my door? Sign me up.
Amazon.com Subscribe and Save
I have to admit, Trader Joe’s was a complete mystery to me before I went gluten-free. Having never stepped foot in one, the best I could surmise from the outside was that Joe evidently traded something, but I had no idea it was groceries.
Then came Celiac, and my new brethren informed me Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods would be my new best friends. Each has their pros and cons, but I will say two grocery bags cost a lot less when they have a TJ’s logo on the side.
So, during my recent shopping spree, I was happy to hear from a helpful Joe (?) that Trader Joe’s recently updated their gluten-free list. I haven’t done a line-by-line comparison between this new list and the one on my fridge door, and to be honest this may or may not imply new products. It’s possible they just fine-tuned their previous list, but it does clearly state that the list was updated in December, 2008. Either way, it’s worth printing out a new copy for your next trade trip.
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We stopped in to a new “gourmet foods & fine drink store” tonight and were happy to find Chopin potato vodka on sale. Vrai Amour, on Webster and Sheffield, just under the el tracks in Depaul’s campus area, specializes in upscale sausages and truly fine liquors and wines.
We inquired about the beer selection, which was solid (Unibroue, Sam Adams and Goose Island). Currently no gluten-free beer options, but the owner, Matt Somsky was happy to take suggestions on expanding the beer options. He knew three gluten-free options off the top of his head (encouraging), mentioning New Grist, Redbridge and Green’s. He plans on inquiring with his distributor next week to see what he can get for the shop. If he succeeds in getting any gluten-free beers, you’ll find out here first. If you stop in, tell him Celiac Snack sent you.
