Tag: gluten free ordering

How to Eat Gluten Free at Restaurants – Sysco Foods

Figuring out how to eat gluten free at restaurants can be challenging when you have celiac disease. You’re never quite sure what you’ll be able to have! Always ask the server about their food service supplier if they’re unsure what’s safe for you to order. If you find out that it’s Sysco Foods, you’re in …

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Learning how to eat gluten-free is still necessary :(

Well, my last post from 2018 aged like a carton of milk left on the counter! It’s now 6 years later, and we STILL don’t have a cure or therapy for Celiac Disease. ImmusantT was a bust. And we still need to master how to eat gluten-free, especially when we eat out. I was completely …

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Toronto:  Off The Hook Fish & Chips

What’s this?! A title picture of a plate of clearly deep-fried, battered fish and chips? Have I finally lost my patience and sanity with having to be constantly gluten-free and gluten-vigilant, and decided to trash my intestines in a huge gastronomic temper tantrum? Why, no…not at all 🙂 I have discovered deep fried pescatarian heaven. …

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Eats Shoots and Leaves: A Post for Salad Haters

This isn’t a post to lecture you on why you should use  correct punctuation (although I’d prefer if you did). It’s about, well…eating shoots and leaves. We all know that eating salad is good for us, and that as mature adults we should eat salad frequently for fiber, nutrients, and all that kind of good …

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Celiac Disease: A Quick Primer (and Why “Psychosomatic” and “Autoimmume” Don’t Mean The Same Thing)

“What exactly is Celiac Disease?” We’ve all been asked this question plenty of times, from people with either well-intentioned, or suspicious tones in their voices. While many people have heard the words “Celiac Disease”, the average non-sufferer generally has one of more of the following misconceptions about it: It’s a gluten allergy It’s something to …

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Questions Matter: My Restaurant Script

Many Celiacs enter restaurants with great trepidation. The fear and dread of being glutened makes what to most people would be a pleasant meal outing into a “lamb to slaughter” sort of feeling for us. And it sucks large. It’s a vicious circle: if Celiacs don’t frequent restaurants, then restaurants won’t know how to serve …

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