Gluten Free “Christmas” Foods We Can’t Normally Get
It’s almost an acceptable time to start sharing my Christmas guides, but until then I thought I’d share this. It contains a list of foods that we can’t easily get hold of during the rest of the year but a gluten free version is released at Christmas so we should stock up now 🙂
For example, KitKats, Terry’s choc orange and lots of party bits come out at this time of the year and it can be hard to find gluten free options at other times.
So, ignore the Christmas packaging and fill your boots guys!!
CHOCOLATE
My 3 Faves
- Milkybar Festive Friends – lots of all year round Milkybar products are a “may contain gluten”
- Kit Kat – Don’t expect a KitKat wafer inside, but still, I’ll take it! **PLEASE be careful with these… they look very similar to the Malteser Reindeer packets which are NOT gluten free and it catches people every year **
- Terrys – Terrys choc oranges are a “may contain gluten”
Dairy Milk
Another difficult one during the rest of the year! I’ve got a whole Cadbury guide here but finding coeliac safe, plain dairy milk is hard. At Christmas we can also have these..
- Chunk Pouch
- Snowman
- Snowballs
**Careful: their tree decs, the new bags of coins, money tin, Winter Orange Crisp bar, Snowballs bar, Winter Wonderland bar, Christmas puds and their selection boxes all contain/may contain wheat and are not gluten free.**
*Last year they had an advent bar which was gluten free. I think it has been discontinued but if anyone spots it in the shops, let me know!!!*
Christmas Tubs
Cadbury Roses – all safe!
Cadbury Hero’s – all safe EXCEPT the dinky decker. For 2022, they have confirmed the dinky deckers are made on a different production line so there’s no CC risk. This has always been the case so I assume it will be for 2023 but I’ll let you know if I hear different!
Quality street – all safe (just be careful of any John Lewis special edition chocs – a few years ago they had the “Crispy Truffle Bite” which wasn’t gf)
PARTY FOOD
M&S
- Sticky Asian Lollipops
- BBQ Pork Squares
- Mini Kyivs (available all year in the freezer but they have fresh ones at Christmas)
- Cheesy Beef Potato Rosti Cakes
They also stock a gluten free Bread Sauce over the Christmas and its very good!!
Sainsburys
Recommending these because they’re a bit different from other supermarkets offerings
- Truffle Pigs in Blankets
- Pork & Bacon Proper Pigs In Blankets
Asda
I think these might be avaliable all year round now – does anyone know?
Morrisons
Free From Gluten Asian Style Party Selection
Haven’t seen this one on the shelves yet but it gets amazing reviews every year but its only available at Christmas so keep your eyes peeled…
Crackers
The supermarkets tend to bring out some different flavours of crackers so keep you eye out in whichever supermarket you shop in to see what they’ve got!
