Visiting Toronto SCD Places? (&OT - Wonderland)

[Guest guest]

Our family will be visiting Toronto June 11-17. I'm the only one SCD, the three

kids are

just gluten-free. We're planning on visiting Canada's Wonderland for two days

and the CN

Tower, Casa Loma...

Are there any SCD stores I should visit while there to stock up on supplies like

almond

butter, yogurt starter... Thanks.

BTW, when I e-mailed Canada's Wonderland to ask which items in their eating

establishments were gluten-free, the reply was that unfortunately, none of them

were! I

wrote back asking them to dig a little deeper :-)

Theresa (in Vancouver, Canada)

IBS whole life, SCD 2 years

[Guest guest]

I emailed Canada's Wonderland Last summer and they didn't even

respond to my email. My hubby(gluten-free) and son(SCD) ended up

just bringing a back pack full of food.

>

> Our family will be visiting Toronto June 11-17. I'm the only one

SCD, the three kids are

> just gluten-free. We're planning on visiting Canada's Wonderland

for two days and the CN

> Tower, Casa Loma...

>

> Are there any SCD stores I should visit while there to stock up on

supplies like almond

> butter, yogurt starter... Thanks.

>

> BTW, when I e-mailed Canada's Wonderland to ask which items in

their eating

> establishments were gluten-free, the reply was that unfortunately,

none of them were! I

> wrote back asking them to dig a little deeper :-)

>

> Theresa (in Vancouver, Canada)

> IBS whole life, SCD 2 years

>

[Guest guest]

Thanks, we will probably end up bringing mostly our own food. But I'm going to

follow up,

because saying " nothing here is gluten-free " just sounds like a CYA kind of

thing, and not

helpful, and I think the more of us who make a fuss and speak up that our needs

are not

being met, the more people in service industries will sit up and take notice.

Theresa

> >

> > Our family will be visiting Toronto June 11-17. I'm the only one

> SCD, the three kids are

> > just gluten-free. We're planning on visiting Canada's Wonderland

> for two days and the CN

> > Tower, Casa Loma...

> >

> > Are there any SCD stores I should visit while there to stock up on

> supplies like almond

> > butter, yogurt starter... Thanks.

> >

> > BTW, when I e-mailed Canada's Wonderland to ask which items in

> their eating

> > establishments were gluten-free, the reply was that unfortunately,

> none of them were! I

> > wrote back asking them to dig a little deeper :-)

> >

> > Theresa (in Vancouver, Canada)

> > IBS whole life, SCD 2 years

> >

>

[Guest guest]

Thanks, we will probably end up bringing mostly our own food. But I'm going to

follow up,

because saying " nothing here is gluten-free " just sounds like a CYA kind of

thing, and not

helpful, and I think the more of us who make a fuss and speak up that our needs

are not

being met, the more people in service industries will sit up and take notice.

Theresa

> >

> > Our family will be visiting Toronto June 11-17. I'm the only one

> SCD, the three kids are

> > just gluten-free. We're planning on visiting Canada's Wonderland

> for two days and the CN

> > Tower, Casa Loma...

> >

> > Are there any SCD stores I should visit while there to stock up on

> supplies like almond

> > butter, yogurt starter... Thanks.

> >

> > BTW, when I e-mailed Canada's Wonderland to ask which items in

> their eating

> > establishments were gluten-free, the reply was that unfortunately,

> none of them were! I

> > wrote back asking them to dig a little deeper :-)

> >

> > Theresa (in Vancouver, Canada)

> > IBS whole life, SCD 2 years

> >

>

[Guest guest]

Theresa,

We go to Canada's Wonderland every year and bring a cooler full of food and eat

in the parking lot when its lunch time. The food is exhorbitantly expensive

there and oh so bad for you.

Toronto has lots of places to buy food and some of our own sell their stuff in

stores. Go to www.jgourmet.ca They have baked goods for sale in grocery stores

around the city.

A good Health Food Store is where you can buy almond butter etc or even the

organic/Healthfood section of Zehrs or Fortinos.

Hope this helps. Charlene

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Charlene Flikkema

Choir Director

Harvest Bible Chapel Oakville

Spirit Led! Galations 5:16

Visiting Toronto SCD Places? (&OT - Wonderland)

Our family will be visiting Toronto June 11-17. I'm the only one SCD, the

three kids are

just gluten-free. We're planning on visiting Canada's Wonderland for two days

and the CN

Tower, Casa Loma...

Are there any SCD stores I should visit while there to stock up on supplies

like almond

butter, yogurt starter... Thanks.

BTW, when I e-mailed Canada's Wonderland to ask which items in their eating

establishments were gluten-free, the reply was that unfortunately, none of

them were! I

wrote back asking them to dig a little deeper :-)

Theresa (in Vancouver, Canada)

IBS whole life, SCD 2 years

[Guest guest]

Theresa,

The Big Carrot Natural Food Market in Toronto will have lots of gluten

free foods and supplies for SCD, I buy goat milk, DCCC etc. there. Here

is the link to their website, http://www.thebigcarrot.ca . Also there

is a WholeFoods market downtown, which likely has lots to choose from.

Loblaws stores carry many items like almond butters and organics

etc.... I can't advise on Wonderland, not having been there since my

teenage years but wouldn't count on getting anything healthy there. Il

Fornello is an Italien restaurant which offers gluten free pizzas and

good food in general. We have gone out there to dinner. Our SCDer had

chicken breast stuffed with Asiago cheese and spinach and substituted

the mashed potatoes with other vegetables of our choice. There are

several Il Fornello restaurants in the city, I am not sure if they all

have the same menu, our location is in the Pape/Danforth area, which by

the way has many Greek and other other restaurants (Greektown), at

Greek restaurant you can easily order a grilled pork or chicken

souvlaki with plain salad. I wish I could give you more recommendations

for restaurants but we don't go out that often, and when we do it is in

our neighbourhood.

Enjoy your stay and good luck!

- daughter 8, scd 4yrs

[Guest guest]

>

> Theresa,

> The Big Carrot Natural Food Market in Toronto will have lots of gluten

> free foods and supplies for SCD, I buy goat milk, DCCC etc. there. Here

> is the link to their website, http://www.thebigcarrot.ca . Also there

> is a WholeFoods market downtown, which likely has lots to choose from.

> Loblaws stores carry many items like almond butters and organics

> etc.... I can't advise on Wonderland, not having been there since my

> teen

Whole Foods at 87 Avenue Road is expensive but also good for SCD. They have

fresh

nuts, good nut butters and sliced roast beef with nothing added. They have nice

small

containers of fresh fruit. They have cooked shrimp, and sugar freenaturally

smoked

salmon (Nanuk) with no liquid smoke added. They have an incredible array of

legal

cheeses. While you shop have a cup of their organic lighter blend of coffee

diluted with

some water. There is honey at the coffee bar too. They have all the

Frontierseasonings and

vanilla and wonderful dried fruits with no added sugar.

Loblaws has goat's milk, plain Astro yogurt, DCCC, properly aged cheeses by the

slice,

legal President's Choice prosciutto, organic fruits and vegetables, legal juices

such as " Just

Juice " and Kedem Organic Grape, portable small bottles of Tropicana O.J., sugar

free bacon

which you can microwave and carry. Loblaw's has the Nanuk fozen smoked salmon

too in

small packages. Roll it up in cheese slices and take it to Wonderland.

(I am allergic to something in the air at the Big Carrot )

Carol F.

Toronto

SCD 7 years, celiac

[Guest guest]

>

> Our family will be visiting Toronto June 11-17. I'm the only one SCD, the

three kids are

> just gluten-free. We're planning on visiting Canada's Wonderland for two days

and the

CN

> Tower, Casa Loma...

>

> Are there any SCD stores I should visit while there to stock up on supplies

like almond

> butter, yogurt starter... Thanks.

>

> BTW, when I e-mailed Canada's Wonderland to ask which items in their eating

> establishments were gluten-free, the reply was that unfortunately, none of

them were! I

> wrote back asking them to dig a little deeper :-)

>

>Theresa,

I forgot to tell you that you can get J.Gourmet SCD legal baked goods like

Biscotti at

Pusateri's, Avenue Rd. just above Lawrence Ave. West on the east side..(it's on

the way to

the highway that takes you to Wonderland) and also at Daiter's on Bathurst

Street north of

Lawrence Ave. W and South of Avenue.

For other Toronto resources:

http://uclbs.org/

Carol F.

Toronto, SCD 7years, celiac

[Guest guest]

>

> I emailed Canada's Wonderland Last summer and they didn't even

> respond to my email. >> > Theresa (in Vancouver, Canada)

> > IBS whole life, SCD 2 years

[Guest guest]

OMG and Carol. Makes me feel like I want to move to Toronto (dh would be

happy,

he spent part of his childhood there). I'm hoping to compile as comprehensive a

list of

SCD supplies and outlets for here in Vancouver, as I'm running a local support

group. I

think we'll pick up our groceries, bring a cooler and enjoy our own, healthy

food, rather

than rely on over-priced Wonderland food.

BTW, it wasn't me who didn't hear back. I did hear back, with a curt " nothing at

Wonderland is gluten-free " which I quickly shot back with something along the

lines of

" you've got to be joking " .

If anyone has any other suggestions for " secret " places to visit in Toronto for

a family with

a 12yo girl, 10yo boy and 5yo girl, feel free to e-mail me privately so as not

to plug up the

list. We're there June 11-16, staying at the Delta Chelsea downtown. Other than

Wonderland, we're planning the CN Tower and the Science Centre, and dh's old

stomping

grounds in Scarborough. Thanks.

Theresa

> >

> > Theresa,

> > The Big Carrot Natural Food Market in Toronto will have lots of gluten

> > free foods and supplies for SCD, I buy goat milk, DCCC etc. there. Here

> > is the link to their website, http://www.thebigcarrot.ca . Also there

> > is a WholeFoods market downtown, which likely has lots to choose from.

> > Loblaws stores carry many items like almond butters and organics

> > etc.... I can't advise on Wonderland, not having been there since my

> > teen

>

> Whole Foods at 87 Avenue Road is expensive but also good for SCD. They have

fresh

> nuts, good nut butters and sliced roast beef with nothing added. They have

nice small

> containers of fresh fruit. They have cooked shrimp, and sugar freenaturally

smoked

> salmon (Nanuk) with no liquid smoke added. They have an incredible array of

legal

> cheeses. While you shop have a cup of their organic lighter blend of coffee

diluted with

> some water. There is honey at the coffee bar too. They have all the

Frontierseasonings

and

> vanilla and wonderful dried fruits with no added sugar.

>

> Loblaws has goat's milk, plain Astro yogurt, DCCC, properly aged cheeses by

the slice,

> legal President's Choice prosciutto, organic fruits and vegetables, legal

juices such as

" Just

> Juice " and Kedem Organic Grape, portable small bottles of Tropicana O.J.,

sugar free

bacon

> which you can microwave and carry. Loblaw's has the Nanuk fozen smoked salmon

too

in

> small packages. Roll it up in cheese slices and take it to Wonderland.

>

> (I am allergic to something in the air at the Big Carrot )

>

> Carol F.

> Toronto

> SCD 7 years, celiac

>