Celiac Support Network

Forest Hills Foods will be holding another Gluten-Free tasting day on Monday, March 10 from 12:00-7:00 pm. Enjoy!

http://www.cedarpoint.com/

Cedar Point is working on incorporating gluten free items in the park for the 2008 season.
They have already written a section in the employee handbook about gluten and cross-
contamination. They are planning GF hamburgers & hotdogs (both with buns!), corn dogs
and chicken strips with dedicated fryers for these and the french fries.

Gary Jones is the man who is heading this up and he was very passionate about CD on the
phone. He doesn’t have any friends or family members with the disease, but has come to
realize the need for gluten free items after attending local support groups and reading
information online. He was very knowledgeable and almost had me in tears of joy to hear
his enthusiasm! He asked me to pass this news on to all my support groups.

If anyone is planning a trip to Cedar Point you can email him at gjones@cedarpoint.com to
get the most up-to-date gluten free info.

 *Thanks Nicole!

Camp Manitou-Lin in Middleville Michigan has arranged a week for g/f kids to come.

Date: Aug 17 - 22
Cost: $419/week (includes meals)
10 to a cabinAges for overnight camp are 7 - 15

 *Thanks, Nicole!

We’re thinking about taking a road trip over to Trader Joes…if you’re interested, drop me a line & we’ll figure out the details.

Join us on Saturday, February 16 from 10 am - 3 pm for our 1st Gluten-Free Fair at the Hudsonville Harvest Health Location.  We will sample a wide variety of Gluten-Free products, vendors will be on hand to talk about their products and we will feature Special One Day Pricing on certain Gluten-Free Products!  Customer drawings for baskets of G/F products. Bring your favorite - tried and true - Gluten-Free recipe to share or email it to Info@HarvestHealthFoods.com.

We had a great time out Monday evening; we were able to sample some new (brand new!) products from fatgiraffebakery that were fabulous!, and the mixes for cakes and brownies and pancakes from CherryBrook Kitchen were a real treat, GF or not!, the Full Flavor Foods table had Beef Burgundy, Turkey with gravy, and an Alfredo that will blow you away!…Can you tell I am excited with the new GF options that are out there now all of a sudden?

FHF will also be carrying very soon a couple of additional new products from an old favorite GF supplier, Bob’s Red Mill…Rolled and Steel Cut Oats! Cindy (from FHF) said that they are just waiting on the suppliers now the orders have been placed. I don’t have any pricing info on the new products but having the availability at a relatively local grocery will be fantasic.

Let me back up to the fatgiraffe for a moment…these folks were so COOL! Peiter has been living wheat free (not celiac, but he’s been eating gluten free for a while now) and wanted there to be something a little more “fun” available and has developed cookie mixes that are so yummy I may be in diet trouble very soon All in all, the “tasting event” went off beautifully.

Paul Swanson, of FFF mentioned that the traffic through the store was quite steady throughout the day which is always good to hear when something is held open for a number of hours. It was quite busy while we were there and I thought we were hitting the tail end but people just kept coming. I really think the GF food industry is about to bloom into full force…there are so many of us out there now and more on the way, no doubt as people become more aware.

Monday November 5 Forest Hills Foods is dedicating another day to gluten free products.  Thanks to helpful input from visitors in September they now carry the Cherrybrook Kitchen cakes and cookie mixes.  Coco Charlotte Bakery is now making Anna’s Bread in her bakery and offering them for sale at her facility and at Forest Hills Foods.  They also have the Lundeberg’s gluten free snacks and corn pastas.

This event is open house style from 12:00 PM to 7:00 PM.