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What If Santa Claus Were Gluten Free?

Christmas is just days away. Kids around the world hope they are on Santa’s nice list, trust he received their letters and dream of the toys he may be bringing them. On Christmas eve kids will be leaving treats out for Santa, his helpers and his beloved reindeers. They need plenty of calories and warm
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My Third Gluten Free Christmas

Christmas 2011 was my third one as a celiac ( how time has flown!). It was also my third completely gluten free Christmas. I’m extremely lucky that my family and friends are so understanding. They know what it means to live with celiac disease and how careful they must be when cooking for me. I
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Avoid Gluten Free Christmas Pitfalls

We all have foods we can’t imagine going without on Christmas day but luckily for celiacs most of the traditional Christmas meal is naturally gluten free. This however does not mean that we can stop being careful. Making a gluten free christmas meal is simple but we still must be aware of hidden sources of
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Gluten Free Christmas dinner (US style)

This year I spent the festive season (and my second gluten free Christmas) with my boyfriend and his family in Iowa. Christmas Ham was on the menu for Christmas lunch and I was pretty excited about this. Cooked Ham isn’t really something we eat a lot of in the UK (and never at Christmas time)
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Gluten Free Christmas Day

Christmas 2009 was my first gluten free Christmas. Dinner was at my mum’s house with her husband, my brother and his wife and my boyfriend John. As my mum was in charge of preparing dinner she decided that everything would be gluten free. There was no point, she felt, in risking contamination and almost everything
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Mars Celebrations Gluten Free?

UPDATE: Jan, 2015 The MARS website isn’t the easiest to navigate. If you click on the Nutritional Information section, you can click on your favourite products. Once you choose a product, and size, you can then search under the “Allergens” tab and it will list the allergens found in your chosen product. I’m still waiting
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Gluten Free Advent Calendars

It’s fast approching that time of year again when a little chunk of chocolate with breakfast for the 24 days leading up to Christmas starts sounding like a good idea. Looking around the stores recently I’m faced with all of these little doors, numbered 1-24, and I find myself wondering whether or not there is a
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