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How Good is Legal Sea Foods at Handling Food Allergies? Part 2
[The following AllergyEats Blog post was written by Adrienne Walkowiak] Legal Sea Foods, a popular restaurant chain, gets high praise when it comes to serving food-allergic guests. For years, their restaurants have been doing all the right things – training their staff, implementing specific allergy protocols and offering a gluten-free menu. According to Corporate Chef […]
The GlutenTox Home Test Kit: Check This Out!
Recently while traveling on my European Book Tour, I came across a gluten test kit I had never used before, and I just had to share it with you! First of all, I believe that every celiac shouldn’t be without a gluten home test. Do you ever wonder about whether something is truly gluten-free? This […]
Listen to My NABBW (National Association of Baby Boomer Women) Teleseminar on Celiac Disease
I had the honor and pleasure of being featured in a NABBW (National Association of Baby Boomer Women) teleseminar on celiac disease with Anne Holmes, the “Boomer-in-Chief” of the NABBW, National Association of Baby Boomer Women. Follow the link below to have a listen or download the teleseminar as an MP3: http://attendthisevent.com/?eventid=14823489 Enjoy! Tina Turbin […]
Cereal Vit- Gluten Free Cereal
Today we were testing and comparing notes of four flavors of cereal simultaneously at my Florida and L.A. studios. We had Cereal Vit’s Organic Corn Flakes, Organic Benevit Multi Grain Flakes, Organic Coffee Flakes (yes, coffee), and their just-released Choco Stars (yes, chocolate). The combined notes are really the only way to do a summary […]
LABELING REGULATIONS IN JEOPARDY NOW- URGENT ALERT
URGENT ALERT… PROPOSED FOOD ALLERGEN/GLUTEN LABELING REGULATIONS IN JEOPARDY Celiac and allergy groups have joined together in response to the strong opposition of the beer industry over the proposed regulatory changes by Health Canada. Below are some of the press releases in the news: http://www.prweb.com/releases/Celiac-Disease-Allergens/Food-Beverage-Labelling/prweb4999184.htm Please pass this along to your colleagues and friends in […]
A Celiac Nurse: Shelly Stuart’s Contribution to the Gluten-Free Community
The gluten-free diet poses many challenges and requires major lifestyle changes. Fortunately, we have many celiac veterans . . . striving to raise celiac awareness and diagnosis. One of these experienced, informed individuals is Shelly Stuart, a registered nurse . . .
The Gluten Free Bistro- Fresh Gluten-Free Pizza Crust For You
Terrific gluten-free recipe using the GF Bistro crust is at your fingertips now! I think we just died and went to “Pizza Heaven.” Take a look at these pictures, and you’ll see the kitchen at work testing The Gluten Free Bistro’s GF pizza crust. The taste of this crust is light in texture yet hearty […]
Tina’s Use of the GF Bistro Pizza Crust
I have been known to not be one to follow directions so this is my version of the GF Bistro Pizza Crust which suited the testers quite well. We did try out the instructions included yet we feel the recipe turned out a slight bit better in the “crust department” when we made s light […]
Author Connie Sarros Acknowledges Tina Turbin
Congratulations to Tina Turbin! Some people accomplish extraordinary things. When they do, it’s nice to recognize them and applaud them for their accomplishments. Tina Turbin is one of those people. She’s well known by many of you because of her involvement in the celiac community. Who is Tina Turbin? Tina is an activist in two main fields: […]
O’Doughs
O’Doughs may be a newer name to those in the States, but they’ve established themselves quite well in Canada among the gluten-free community. Owner, Ari Weinberg, and his current product development team have an array of loaves, rolls, cakes, and pizza kits that are not only delicious but have the texture we’ve all been yearning […]
How Good is Legal Sea Foods at Handling Food Allergies?
By Paul Antico of AllergyEats.com: When discussing which restaurants are the best at handling food allergies, two answers routinely come up in conversation. Up here in New England, Ming Tsai’s Blue Ginger in Wellesley, MA is one. Ming has been a pioneer in addressing patrons with food allergies ever since his first son was diagnosed […]
Cook-in-the-Kitchen
Cook-in-the-Kitchen has 4 gluten-free soups which we tested and really enjoyed. We did add a few touches, more in the area of protein and an occasional chopped fresh vegetable, but it was not a necessity to add anything to their full flavor soups. We used their Welsh Potato soup as a base for our Clam […]
Gluten-Free Manufacturing
Jamie Stern founder of Allergies and Me has generously offered to share her research and knowledge on the very sensitive topic of gluten-free manufacturing. I hope you enjoy the wealth of information she has compiled for my friends and many visitors on my gluten-free resource site. ***************** As promised, I am going to cover the […]
Andean Dream- ONLY Gluten Free
Andean Dream’s Organic Quinoa-Rice Pasta cooks and tastes more like the “real” pasta I was used to eating before being diagnosed with celiac disease. I had seven people test the pasta with me. We all agreed. We introduced the pasta to those not on a GF diet, and they couldn’t tell it was GF pasta—that’s […]
Deerfields Gluten-Free Bakery- WOW!
Deerfields Gluten-Free Bakery, located in Schaumburg, Illinois, is open to everyone at their location and via the internet. Lucky for us as well as their gluten-free line is in a dedicated GF facility! Open since 1886, it is now a five-generation bakery. I’m telling you, folks, if you want some tasty treats and delicious baked […]
Karmic Krunch – a Gluten Free TREAT!
Karmic Krunch is a little granola meets trail mix, meets healthy, meets moist, meets lightly crunchy. It has a slight caramel flavor from just the right about of agave. If anyone is looking for a gluten-free snack that’s truly healthy and satisfying, here’s your purchase. Sandi Star is a certified Clinical Nutritionist and founder of […]
Peanut Shells on the Floor No More
I was reading about Outback Steakhouse and their gluten-free menu the other day when my mind wandered back to my days as a stock analyst. In particular, I was thinking about the early 1990’s when I was a restaurant analyst. There was a “steakhouse boom” where chains such as Outback, Longhorn Steakhouse, and Lone […]
Liz Lovely
I need to start out by letting you know that what I share with you in this review may just change your life! The subject at hand is cookies. Yes, cookies. Those delectable little (or large) morsels of “yum.” When it comes to gluten-free cookies, we celiacs tend to compromise and like our newfound cookies. […]
Company & Product Review: Sweet Christine’s
www.sweetchristinesglutenfree.com Safe to eat, healthy, gluten-free, and top-of-the-line yummy—that is how we are summing up Sweet Christine’s. Oh my, folks, brownies that are the best ever, better than the best wheat brownies I’ve had in the past—no kidding!—donuts that taste like donuts should, and a truly decadent chocolate lava cake that oozed with chocolate as […]
This Incredible Service Can Train Your Restaurant or Kitchen to Meet Gluten-Free Demands!
GREAT Foodservice, a program of the NFCA, is a program designed to efficiently train restaurants or institutional kitchens to meet the needs of gluten-free eaters. First, General Managers and Owners get online training and learn the ABCs of gluten-free food preparation: AWARENESS of gluten and its toxicity to celiac, BRINGING in supplies and menu items, […]
