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Ok, Brits, I Need Your Help!

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Soooo...I was in a mediterranean market here in Texas, and aside from that wierd statement they had an odd mishmash of greek, middle eastern, spanish, and british foods.

I was so psyched that they had so much british stuff! My BIL is from England so I got spoiled with good english stuff. Does anyone know if the following products are gluten-free:

Bird's Custard powder

Ribena

Crunchie bars

Any Heinz sauces (the british ones, not the american ones)

Quality Street

Thanks!!!

PS: If you know of any widely available (and more likely to be found here) British treats that are gluten-free, feel free to share!!!

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klemmen
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hey

we have a little gluten-free food directory so i looked them up it that for you...

the birds custard powder is gluten-free, the crunchie is, in the quality street it only lists the big green triangle and the big toffee finger which i think are sold separately not in the assorted tubs...

and the heinz sauces listed are Carb check: bolognese pasta sauce, creamy tomato sauce, tomato and basil pasta sauce, Planet cook: spanish chicken cooking sauce 300g, squashed tomato pasta sauce 300g, tikka meal simplifier 300g, tomato and chilli pasta sauce 300g, tomato and pesto sauce 300g, tomato and sweet pepper pasta sauce 300g.

I couldn't find the ribena listed but i couldn't fins any drinks listed, so i'm afraid i don't no that one. Are the products shipped in from the UK? just cos they use different ingrediants for the same products in different countries sometimes. If you want to know anymore gluten-free english food i can look it up in the book thing for you, cos i'm not sure which products are widely available to you.

oh i just googled it and it says that ribena is suitable for coeliacs

enjoy the food : )

Katie O'Rourke Rookie
Katie O'Rourke
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[i was also going to say that all of that seemed gluten-free to me - I even eat the crunchie McFlurry's from mc donalds as theyre gluten-free over here. Ribena is definitely gluten-free - I actually called them up about it before just to check as I love the strawberry one and had some this afternoon actually :)

Have fun digging into all that gorge gluten-free stuff and take care x

Oh, also forgot Heinz tomato ketchup is fine too - and everything Heinz which is gluten-free will say so on it :)

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