RE: Re: Natural Food store on Castro & Rainbow

[Guest guest]

I’ve been told NEVER to purchase

flour in bulk due to CC, so I don’t.

But writing to them is a great idea.

I just don’t do enough baking to

care to make the effort myself.

From: [mailto: ] On Behalf Of caitlinganter

Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008

8:47 AM

Subject: [ ] Re:

Natural Food store on Castro & Rainbow

I went to Rainbow on Monday for the first time since

being back in SF

and GF. I was looking for flours, and of course, they are all in bulk

which is fine, excpet that the barley flour is next to the brown rice

flour, etc, and frankly the " rather safe than sorry " voice chimed in

my head. Does anyone purchase bulk flours at Rainbow? The threat of

cross contamination was just too much for me. I was thinking of

writing a letter suggesting should move their bins around since they

even have a section on their website about Celiac and this is a big

issue. Anyway, if any of you do purchase their bulk flours and do not

have problems I'd be interested to know that it is actually more safe

than it looks. The rest of their stuff was great though!

Cheers!

Caitlin

> >

> > Oh yeah. I go to Rainbow & WF all the time. I had just heard

about

> the new

> > Natural Foods store & got all excited. From what I had heard I

was

> > expecting a HUGE GF section for like, half the cost of Rainbow.

> >

> >

> >

>

[Guest guest]

I don’t even like walking down the

bulk aisle...it’s an allergy/intolerance nightmare…peanut crumbs

mixed with trail mix (some trail mix with wheat coatings) wheat and barely

flours, licorice, other mixed nuts…it’s just dust/particle chaos…and

I’ve seen people swap scoops – too risky!

From:

[mailto: ] On Behalf Of Lillyth Denaghy Keogh-Quillan

Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008

3:35 PM

Subject: RE: [ ] Re:

Natural Food store on Castro & Rainbow

I’ve been told NEVER to purchase flour in bulk due to CC, so

I don’t.

But writing to them is a great idea.

I just don’t do enough baking to care to make the effort

myself.

From:

[mailto: ] On Behalf Of caitlinganter

Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008

8:47 AM

Subject: [ ] Re:

Natural Food store on Castro & Rainbow

I went to

Rainbow on Monday for the first time since being back in SF

and GF. I was looking for flours, and of course, they are all in bulk

which is fine, excpet that the barley flour is next to the brown rice

flour, etc, and frankly the " rather safe than sorry " voice chimed in

my head. Does anyone purchase bulk flours at Rainbow? The threat of

cross contamination was just too much for me. I was thinking of

writing a letter suggesting should move their bins around since they

even have a section on their website about Celiac and this is a big

issue. Anyway, if any of you do purchase their bulk flours and do not

have problems I'd be interested to know that it is actually more safe

than it looks. The rest of their stuff was great though!

Cheers!

Caitlin

> >

> > Oh yeah. I go to Rainbow & WF all the time. I had just heard

about

> the new

> > Natural Foods store & got all excited. From what I had heard I

was

> > expecting a HUGE GF section for like, half the cost of Rainbow.

> >

> >

> >

>

[Guest guest]

My mother who is extremely sensitive to CC lives near Eugene, Oregon, and at least one of the health food stores there let's folks with allergies go to the back storage area of the store and get bulk foods from boxes before they go into the public bulk bins, so who knows, maybe that is a possibility here somewhere too.

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Wallace <AWallace@...> wrote:

I don't even like walking down the bulk aisle...it's an allergy/intolerance nightmare…peanut crumbs mixed with trail mix (some trail mix with wheat coatings) wheat and barely flours, licorice, other mixed nuts…it's just dust/particle chaos…and I've seen people swap scoops – too risky!

From: [mailto: ] On Behalf Of Lillyth Denaghy Keogh-Quillan

Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 3:35 PM

Subject: RE: [ ] Re: Natural Food store on Castro & Rainbow

I've been told NEVER to purchase flour in bulk due to CC, so I don't.

But writing to them is a great idea.

I just don't do enough baking to care to make the effort myself.

From: [mailto: ] On Behalf Of caitlinganter

Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 8:47 AM

Subject: [ ] Re: Natural Food store on Castro & Rainbow

I went to Rainbow on Monday for the first time since being back in SFand GF. I was looking for flours, and of course, they are all in bulkwhich is fine, excpet that the barley flour is next to the brown rice

flour, etc, and frankly the " rather safe than sorry " voice chimed inmy head. Does anyone purchase bulk flours at Rainbow? The threat ofcross contamination was just too much for me. I was thinking ofwriting a letter suggesting should move their bins around since they

even have a section on their website about Celiac and this is a bigissue. Anyway, if any of you do purchase their bulk flours and do nothave problems I'd be interested to know that it is actually more safe

than it looks. The rest of their stuff was great though!Cheers!Caitlin > >> > Oh yeah. I go to Rainbow & WF all the time. I had just heard about> the new> > Natural Foods store & got all excited. From what I had heard I was

> > expecting a HUGE GF section for like, half the cost of Rainbow.> > > > > >>

[Guest guest]

At least on a different aisle.

When I toured a grist mill, the dust from

the flour went 30 feet away in the same room & made me sick.

I think they would need to have a GF Bulk

flour aisle, just to be safe…

From: [mailto: ] On Behalf Of Aidan Dunn

Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008

9:48 AM

Subject: [ ] Re:

Natural Food store on Castro & Rainbow

Does anyone have any suggestions for

how far it would need to be from the other flours,

etc, to avoid contamination?

Aidan