Join us as we share the ups and downs of our newly diagnosed 10-year-old daughter's celiac journey, from groceries, recipes, restaurants, travel tips and more. Learn with us as we start our gluten free journey and document it along the way. We hope we can be a guide and help other families as they navigate this journey, too!
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From the gluten free goodies we like, to what we eat on vacations, check out our best recommendations!
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GF Goodies
Our gluten free girl rates all of the gluten free foods that we’re trying. See her favs!
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GF Recipes
We’re a very picky bunch of eaters but we’ll share the gluten free recipes that we try!
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GF Restaurants
Finding yummy gluten free restaurants might be one of the hardest parts of this journey. We’ll share where we try and what restaurants we’ll continue to visit!
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GF Travel
We love to go on family vacations and will share our experiences with gluten free on vacations!
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Fresh Thyme December Haul
We made another trip to Fresh Thyme right before Christmas to pick up some favorites and food for our girlie’s Christmas dinner.
I’ll be posting about everything our girlie ate for Christmas dinner soon, but these are a few things we got for her…
Pizza at Carfagna’s Restaurant
Our tradition on New Year’s Eve has been to have dinner at Carfagna’s Restaurant in Columbus. We went again this year and found some great gluten free options for our girlie. We tried the famous Italian grilled wings appetizer and they were great! They were grilled and tossed with garlic butter and parmesan cheese. For her main course, she ordered a gluten free cheese pizza and she loved it. She said it was high on the list of favorite gluten free pizzas because the sauce was great!
Oreo Ice Cream Pie
My mom asked me to bring a gluten free dessert to Christmas this year so our girlie would have a great dessert just like everyone else. I showed her a handful of recipes and she picked an Oreo Ice Cream pie. The one we found was from a gluten free food blog called Fresh Ness (recipe linked). It is a gluten free Oreo crust with vanilla ice cream mixed with gluten free Oreos. The recipe was fairly simple and didn’t take long to make, however, my food processor decided it did’t want to work anymore, so I had to use a blender. That worked great and our girlie loved it! It’s now one of her favorite desserts and we’ll definitely be making it again!
Gluten Free Cheez-Its!!!
We finally found them - the new gluten free Cheez-Its!! We saw some Columbus-area posts about finding them and we went on a search. We ended up getting them at a local Kroger store (but not our usual one - they were sold out). Our girlie had to try them as soon as we got them home and she loved them! She said they are “squares of cheesy, buttery goodness”! I tried one and thought they tasted just like the original. Hopefully, they’ll start being stocked and we won’t have a hard time finding them because it sounds like we’ll need more!
Gluten Free Gingerbread Houses
Merry Christmas Eve! It was time for our yearly Christmas tradition of building gingerbread houses! Last year, we found a great gluten free option and our girlie built them with Pamela’s gluten free graham crackers. We did the same thing this year and it was a hit again! Our girlie had fun with all of the toppings that we got at Target and said her house this year is “the elves partying after Christmas is over”.
Bake Me Happy Christmas Cookie Box
Imagine our girlie’s excitement when I told her that her favorite gluten free bakery, Bake Me Happy, had Christmas cookie boxes this year! I showed her the Instagram picture and we were placing an order! We picked up our box today and it is perfect! Everything she has eaten so far has been delicious and she can’t wait to try it all. We’re so lucky to have such an amazing gluten free bakery nearby!
Gluten Free Cheryl’s Cookies
Last Christmas was our girlie’s first gluten free Christmas so we were trying lots of Christmas treats to see what she liked We found the assortment of gluten free cookies from Cheryl’s Cookies and she loved them! We ordered them again this year and are so excited that she can have cookies from Cheryl’s, too. I’ve tried them and they taste almost exactly the same as the original! We highly recommend them!
Starbucks & Target Chocolate Bliss Drink
Last weekend our girlie tried the new Starbucks Chocolate Bliss frozen peppermint hot chocolate at Target. It was AMAZING! She was so happy to get into the Christmas spirit with this new Target-exclusive drink and she said she would definitely order it again. We just hope that it sticks around all holiday season!
GF Reese’s Oreo
I’ve seen so many posts recently about the Reese’s Oreos and we finally found one this weekend at Walgreen’s. Our girlie was so excited to hear they were gluten free! She was hesitant about them, though, because she’s not a huge white chocolate fan. I convinced her just to try them since it’s only a small layer on the top and she loved them! Reese’s - this is a huge win for everyone who is gluten free! Thank you!
Chocolate Silk Pie
Our girlie loves desserts, especially if it’s chocolate! We found this Chocolate Silk Pie by Raised Gluten Free at Fresh Thyme Market. She loved it! The crust and filling were both great and she topped it with lots of whipped cream, which made it perfect. We’ll definitely buy this again!
Fresh Thyme November Haul
t’s getting close to Thanksgiving and we wanted to see if we could get some gluten free goodies for it. We found some great options that our girlie can’t wait to try!
Here’s what we got for Thanksgiving:
Schar Ciabatta Rolls - you need some good buttered rolls to go with your turkey
Kevin’s Turkey Gravy - our girlie is excited to try this gluten free gravy
Katz Pumpkin Pie - we got these last year and our girlie loved it (and so did the family!)
More to come!
Trunk or Treat Halloween Haul
It’s one of the hardest times of the year for a child with celiac disease - Halloween. We just got back from our school’s Trunk or Treat event and we went through our girlie’s candy. We Googled everything we were unsure of which is a typical thing we do with food. She was so happy to find that she had a decent amount of gluten free candy that she can keep for herself and not “donate” to her brother (he gets her candy with gluten).
Katz Glazed Donuts
One of the biggest thing that our girlie misses since her celiac diagnosis is a good donut. We found these frozen Katz Glazed Donuts at Fresh Thyme. Our girlie loved them and went through this package of 6 donuts so fast! Definitely purchasing them again!
Fresh Thyme October Haul
We love Fresh Thyme for a lot of our gluten free goodies! This is what we grabbed last time we were there:
Ava Coconut Crispy Rollers
Feel Good Foods Three Cheese Pizza Snacks
Feel Good Foods Mozzarella Sticks
Annie’s Gluten Free Chicken & Pasta Soup
Drumroll Chocolate Glazed Donuts
Sweet Loren’s Fudge Brownie Cooke Dough
Katz Glazed Donuts
Annie’s Gluten Free Rice Pasta & Cheddar
Unreal Halloween Candy
It’s officially Halloween season when you step into most stores, including Target. And how could we pass up a bag of candy? We grabbed the Unreal Halloween candy bag that includes dark chocolate peanut butter cups, dark chocolate caramel peanut nougat bars, and dark chocolate coconut bars.
Whit’s Frozen Custard
We were in New Albany this Summer and happened to see a Whit’s Frozen Custard. Our girlie really wanted to try it and we thought she may only be able to get a small cup of vanilla. We were happily surprised when we saw how. many gluten free toppings and specialty custard creations they had!! Our girlie got a gluten free Cookie Monster with vanilla custard, chocolate syrup, GF cookie dough and GF Oreo. She loved it!
Amazing Gluten Free Cookies
Goodie Girl Cookies are a great find for our girlie! She LOVES the Mint Cookies by Goodie Girl because they are similar to a Girl Scout thin mint, so we had to try these other flavors. The Fudge Striped cookies are just like the fudge stripes cookies that we used to eat when she was younger, and the S’mores are a delicious sandwich cookie with flavors of chocolate, graham cracker and marshmallow.
Other Ko Olina Gluten Free Meals
There were a handful of other gluten meals that we had while in Ko Olina, Hawaii that our girlie really liked. We went across the street from Aulani to the Mekiko Cantina. Our girlie ordered the Tacos Dorado with shredded chicken and LOVED them. They were made in hard corn shells with shredded chicken and cheese. She liked them so much that we came here for dinner 2 nights during our trip!
Day 3 Gluten Free Vacation: Oahu, Hawaii
We started the day by trying a restaurant at the hotel next door, the Four Seasons Resort. Disney’s Aulani didn’t have gluten free pancakes, but La Hiki Kitchen at the Four Seasons did. Our girlie ordered the breakfast buffet and they made her separate chocolate chip gluten free pancakes and brought them out to her! She loved them! She was also able to eat a lot of fruit, cheese, cereal (they had Cheerios), yogurt with fruit, bacon and eggs. We highly recommend breakfast here!
Day 2 Gluten Free Vaca: Disney’s Aulani
On our 2nd day in Hawaii at Disney’s Aulani Resort was another amazing day of gluten free food! As soon as you tell the hostess and server about your allergy, they really know how to handle it well. We were impressed!