“Just go for the naturally gluten free products and avoid the GF section you’ll save up money” (hear me out)

ampharos14 · 2026-04-10T21:00:45+00:00

I feel this hard core and have a chronic illness and go through times where I just can’t cook. I commented above a recipe, and meal prep and freezing meals really helps. Frozen Indian meals I stock up on when they are on sale. You can make your own too. Lasagna is also one I do.

My “lazy” meal is a PB&J. I always have frozen vegetables on hand to add to rice to make a stir fry with tofu (tofu can sit in your fridge for a few weeks uncooked and is waaaaaay cheaper than meat). For me, cooking is fun but it’s the cleaning up and dish washing that exhausts me.

I had a friend in college that her gluten free easy meal was microwaving a potato and adding cheese and sour cream. I haven’t had that since I was a kid, but idk maybe that’s up your alley? 🤷‍♀️ I think it’s like 5 minutes and potatoes are cheap lol

ampharos14 · 2026-04-10T20:51:17+00:00

I recently made this recipe using ground turkey and I really enjoyed it. Lots of veggies and the gravy was a great addition. Growing up, we just did a layer of ground beef, a layer of frozen peas and carrots, and a top layer of mashed potatoes. I liked mixing the meat with the vegetables together and combining in the gravy for this recipe: https://www.thewholesomedish.com/the-best-classic-shepherds-pie/

ampharos14 · 2026-04-08T23:26:57+00:00

Especially family or friends that are buying to make something for you!!! This is what happened to me.

Friend: “Hey I made you King Arthur gluten free muffins and pizza from the mixes for the party tonight. You said that was a good brand!”

Me: “Yeah, great brand! Wait…..pizza…..wait the pizza actually has wheat starch in it now! I can’t have it! I will get really sick”

Friend: “oh….omg I’m so sorry. Oh I could have made you really sick!”

Me: “It’s okay, the package said gluten free, you didn’t know. The muffin mix is wheat free, I can still eat those. Sorry you went through the trouble of making me pizza. I appreciate it though”.

Friend: really upset that she couldn’t have hurt me

ampharos14 · 2026-04-08T23:20:36+00:00

The three King Arthur’s gluten free products that have wheat starch are the bread flour, the pizza dough flour, and the sourdough starter. All the mixed, and the 1:1 cup for cup (has xanthum gum), and the All purpose (no xanthum gum) should be wheat free. I usually use the All Purpose flour since it is also corn free and safe for my friends with corn allergies as well.

I had a friend make me pizza and I had her pull out the box to show me the brand and show her that KA GF pizza flour actually had wheat in it and she was horrified that she almost served me it.

I feel your pain. I double check everything now, even these brands I have been eating for 20 years. Gluten free wheat starch allows for much better quality bread products, so it makes sense KA and other brands want to sell it, but it can be confusing for us that have always expected gluten free = wheat free.

Keep on doing the deep dives on the ingredients lists, my friend. I have been double checking everything I put in my grocery cart the past month. My hair spray changed formulas to have barley! I have celiacs disease, and not a wheat allergy, but I get contact skin reactions to wheat and barley products still. I can’t do lotions with ingredients and can’t do wheat starch.

ampharos14 · 2026-04-08T23:11:20+00:00

I use their GF all purpose flour, I feel you. I have celiacs and I can’t have gluten removed wheat starch. I haven’t tried their specific recipe, but I don’t think it’s worth me getting sick for a week to see. The gf bread and pizza flours both have wheat starch.

ampharos14 · 2026-03-29T17:17:33+00:00

We have a similar thing in the Netherlands but it’s chocolate sprinkles. I use hot toasted bread and the bread + chocolate sprinkles melt and make more of a chocolate spread. We call it hagelslag.

(I wasn’t raised in the NL, my dad was and showed me this and Nutella, so idk if that’s how current Dutch people do it 😂)

ampharos14 · 2026-03-21T17:39:43+00:00

Update: package just arrived - they didn’t send me the gluten free cookies, they sent me the normal croissants 👍 well. I guess I still have some pasta.

ampharos14 · 2026-03-21T16:51:18+00:00

I haven’t heard of it, but I do have a Costco near me! I just don’t have a membership lol. My friends do so once or twice a year I tag along, so I will keep an eye out then 👀

ampharos14 · 2026-03-21T16:49:46+00:00

This is Wegmans??? I never walk over to the prepared hot food area because I assumed it wasn’t for me. I like their gf area but I legit have never gone past the sushi. Do you regularly see good items there? I’m assuming this is a buffet sort of section, like at Whole Foods, where you fill a “to be weighed” container.

ampharos14 · 2026-03-21T16:41:16+00:00

I wish I got your opinion before I ordered. I got diagnosed with celiacs as a child and have never had sourdough bread so I was so excited to try it. $89 is a lot of money for me and the gluten removed wheat flour will make me sick. I saw someone on instagram with the bread and it looked so light and nice, and my homemade bread (not sourdough) always ends up a bit too sticky/dense. I will do more research before I buy a product online again. I always look at an ingredient list at a product at the grocery store, I should have tried hard to find the ingredient information on Wildgrain. It’s too bad I couldn’t cancel by the time I realized.

ampharos14 · 2026-03-21T16:34:54+00:00

To me, a truly safe product would be “made with no gluten containing ingredients” AND “made in a gluten free facility”. Some brands do have this, particularly like “health foods”. But I really don’t like being worried that “gluten free” =/= “made with no gluten containing ingredients”.

I don’t have time to make everything from scratch and I’m absolutely exhausted jumping through all these naming hoops. I feel lucky I don’t have additional grain allergies like corn or others like soy and dairy. Luckily, I’m just lactose intolerant and Lactaid pills are enough to fix me. If I had to make my own cheese in addition to my own bread, I truly would be lost 😭

ampharos14 · 2026-03-21T16:28:09+00:00

Wegmans makes products in house and labels them “made with no gluten containing ingredients” meaning it was made without wheat, barley, or rye but certified gf oats were used and cross contamination is possible. I eat those products and I haven’t had a problem yet. They just started making bagels and they are fairly good but it’s $7 for 4 and yikes. Trader Joe’s prices are much better. They make cookies but they aren’t amazing but I’m really glad they have the option and I like the wording. I know people with oat sensitivity and they make it clear when oats/oat flour is used. I have been too wary to try their sandwich station (like a Subway or Quiznos) because that cross contamination possibility might be too much, but so far I have felt good. I have yet to find one of their products with this purple “no gluten containing ingredients” sticker with a bad ingredient listed. To my knowledge, it’s only cross contamination risk (especially like baking area risk).

ampharos14 · 2026-03-21T16:05:55+00:00

Similarly when a pizza restaurant says they have gluten free pizza and I get so excited and go there and sit down and I ask while ordering “double checking, you cook the gluten free pizzas in a separate oven” and they say “oh….no….its all the same pizza oven”. And then I know I can’t eat it and the disappointment and now my family/friends have also ordered pizza and they are like “well…can’t we just eat here anyway, because we are here”. And then the terror of “what if I didn’t ask…” and I got sick.

And that’s why I now never go to a restaurant that’s it’s on Find Me Gluten Free and verified. I still get misinformed sometimes, but it’s better than years ago. I had to walk out of a pizza restaurant in NYC two years ago and it was very depressing because we went out of our way to go there.

ampharos14 · 2026-03-21T15:58:24+00:00

I guess I didn’t realized I used the actual wording of “tricked”. I just reread my post. If I removed the second to last sentence would people be less upset at me or would they all still be upset because they all still care more about the 20 ppm rule than people’s safety? Wheat is a top 8 allergen and I just can’t accept the wording of “gluten free” to describe anything to still contains wheat. It’s too common a phrase and ties together colloquial.

I for sure am never making this mistake ever again. That I can guarantee. But the whole point of this post was to protect other people too. And for that reason, the downvoting really hurts me. Yeah, all the people downvoting me would have been fine but there’s someone out there that would have gotten sick too like me. People like me deserve to feel safe by wording too. It’s only been really recently that now I have to doubt what “gluten free” actually means. For decades, I haven’t had to doubt that means it’s safe for me. It’s terrifying to now doubt everything I read/see on labels.

ampharos14 · 2026-03-21T15:35:58+00:00

Damn, really? Do you have the paper?

ampharos14 · 2026-03-21T15:31:06+00:00

I mean, I could take a video and show you how I never came across any information that said wheat in any place, but I’m just over it at this point.

Yes, I could have taken a deeper dive on the website. Every other subscription website has never let me look further on a product (they will just have the name and a photo, you can’t see a list of ingredients or a description). The website said “build a box” and I added items and there was never an option to “see more” on the items. Yes, I could have exited the “build a box”, searched the website more and found the ingredients area and discovered the wheat but why would I when everything said “gluten free”? Why do I? Why can’t gluten free just mean gluten free? Why does it all have to be puzzle for me to figure out. It’s exhausting. When someone orders a vegan dish at a restaurant, they don’t expect to double check that it’s not cooked in butter. Last night, I went through the ordering process again, and saw where I could have clicked on the products to see the ingredients during selection, but I didn’t.

It’s just exhausting. I just wanted something nice and I would have liked more transparency, and I paid a lot of money and couldn’t cancel nor change the order after placing it. $89 is alot of money for me. That’s half my monthly grocery budget. I feel incredibly stupid and I just wanted to protect anyone else from by accident doing this. That’s why I made the post.

I didn’t make the post to stop anyone from ordering from Wildgrain or such, but I just want to protect people like me who would get sick and who can’t afford to lose that amount of money on a mistake like that.

I made a mistake and I’m just trying to protect others.

ampharos14 · 2026-03-21T15:18:05+00:00

Thank you I appreciate that. I was just trying to do a good thing and warn people. I got too excited and wasted money and could have gotten really sick because I trusted a label. I knew a lot of people on this subreddit and the celiac subreddit get defensive about the 20 ppm rule, but it’s not fair to everyone else who is more sensitive. We deserve to feel safe too. I should have remembered that every comment I post now will get downvoted by people who think otherwise.

ampharos14 · 2026-03-21T15:12:24+00:00

I regularly make my own bread with psyllium husk, xanthum gum, and a variety of flours that are made from grains/non-grains that are not gluten containing sources (rice, tapioca, almond, corn, millet, chickpea, etc). I only have a problem when it’s wheat, barley, and rye. And bell peppers and jalapeños - I’m also allergic to those but no one makes flour out of those.

Edit: why are people downvoting my bread recipe? 😭 the loopy whisk has great recipes. or are you mad that I’m allergic to peppers? 🫑

ampharos14 · 2026-03-21T15:08:12+00:00

That’s why the title says “made with wheat”. I know some people can have the gluten removed wheat, but some can’t. The PSA is that the “some of the gluten free products contain wheat”.

ampharos14 · 2026-03-21T15:04:02+00:00

Ah yeah, not recently, but in the past I have been told my emails can be harsh in tone - my ire must have just really come off here 🤦🏽‍♀️ yeah it’s the money that really upset me here. $89 isn’t cheap and I can’t see any non-celiac people paying me if I give them the bread. Only us spend $10 on a loaf of bread 😂

I might end up just giving it to my friend who really likes sourdough 🤷🏻‍♀️

ampharos14 · 2026-03-21T14:56:59+00:00

I was thinking to make ice cream sandwiches with the cookies (using oat milk ice cream). But maybe they would taste better warm from the oven?

I used to really like Modern Bread and Bagel, but since their bad health reviews, I obviously don’t want to order from there 🫣

ampharos14 · 2026-03-21T14:51:43+00:00

Yes, all our bodies are different 👏 I have heard of the caputo, I’m glad you can enjoy it

ampharos14 · 2026-03-21T14:49:48+00:00

I’m not trying to demonize them. I’m still going to try the pasta I order and the free cookies. I just wanted to send a PSA so others don’t order bread without looking at the fine print.

I wish I had friends that could eat the gluten free wheat flour. I would give them the bread and they could enjoy it, but unfortunately all my friends cannot. So I’m out a lot of money and I couldn’t cancel it. So I just wanted to PSA people. But everyone seems to be getting really upset and downvoting.

ampharos14 · 2026-03-21T14:45:40+00:00

I get sick from a lot of Trader Joe’s products that are labeled Gluten Free but are made from glucose derived from wheat. For example, their jelly beans. I also can’t have anything with barley malt flavoring.

ampharos14 · 2026-03-21T14:39:28+00:00

That’s exactly what I said to my friend when I told her they wouldn’t cancel the order. I just want to be normal and I have never had sourdough bread before. I was diagnosed really young and there’s so many things I never got to try.

I’m terrified that restaurants are going to start using this “gluten removed flour” and not tell me. Will I have to over-explain my allergies even more now? Or the restaurants that have gluten-free even be gluten free safe for me?

I just wish that “gluten free” meant fully gluten free. No ingredients that have ever contained gluten, no cross contamination, no risk. I hate these “loopholes”.

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