Celiac Disease is a common topic around my house, and in honor of National Celiac Awareness Day (coming September 13), I wanted to share a brief story with you.
I just learned that my young nephew is on a gluten free diet to see if it will improve his symptoms of Autism. After only a short time, both his mom and kidnergarten teacher are reporting vast improvements in his behavior - his teacher says he's like a new child: he's had fewer melt-downs, he's interacting with the other children more, and is now doing his work with the rest of the class.
However, his mom is frequently faced with difficult choices of what to feed a young boy who is not only on a restricted diet, but as picky about what he eats as any other child.
As anyone with Celiac disease knows, this is a challenging food plan to follow - there are so many foods that he cannot eat because they contain wheat, rye, or barley products. Eating out is a special challenge, since most restaurants are not prepared to meet the needs of celiacs.
Happily Minimus offers a number of
Gluten Free foods, and even a special
sensitive skin body wash that contains no nut oils, gluten, soy, oat, or dairy.
We have a great travel size kids' cereal
EnviroKidz Organic Amazon Frosted Flakes Cereal that I know my nephew will love, several salad dressings, pancake syrup, chocolate syrup, packets of peanut butter (great for snacks on the go!), our VERY popular
Kari- Out Soy Sauce Packets and some great new chips from
Mary's Gone Crackers that are not only Gluten Free, they're Dairy Free and suitable for Vegans.
My nephew loves chips and peanut butter, and like most kids he'll eat anything drenched in ranch dressing, so I'm sure these will soon be staples in the pantry at his house.
Want to see the full selection of Gluten Free products Minimus carries? Follw this link:
Gluten Free at Minimus.
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