Gluten Free Fast Food Is Not Impossible

Finally, someone listened to the thousands of people with Celiac Disease and made gluten free fast food. Too frequently, people with celiac disease feel they can’t eat at a fast food restaurant because everything seems to be on a bun or wheat based wrap.

The All-American Potato

Some fast food chains make their fries from potatoes with no sprinkling of special magic dust that cause distress to those with Celiac disease.

For instance, In-N-Out washes, peels and cooks the potatoes right before they serve them and know exactly what is on the potato, nothing but pure potato juice. There’s no second guessing from the staff.

Tator tots and fries from Sonic’s are also gluten free fast food. Arby’s potato cakes are gluten free but their curly fries are not.

Carl’s Jr. offers gluten free fries in both chili and regular styles. You won’t find any gluten free McDonald potatoes and you have to get a baked potato at Wendy’s to keep your potato selection gluten free.

Sandwiches

The very nature of the sandwich means there’s a bun or bread somewhere. Anywhere you find a slice of bread; you’ll normally find gluten.

The answer is simple; make your next burger naked. In-N-Out gives you the choice of “protein style” burgers on its list of gluten free fast food. While it’s not on their menu, most of the staff knows what that means.

Protein style means they wrap the burger in lettuce instead of putting it on a bun. Carl’s Jr. also has The Six Dollar Lo Carb Burger that comes ready to eat for those who have gluten intolerance.

You can request burgers without buns and the grilled chicken sandwich, sans the bun, at Wendy’s to have a gluten free meal.

Salads

Not all salads are gluten free because of the addition of some dressing, breaded chicken or those delightful little croutons they put in the salad.

Wendy’s packages the croutons separately. If they do include them with your meal, you have a treat for the birds.

The Caesar side salad, Baja salad and garden salad are gluten free. For gluten free dressings at Wendy’s, look for the Avocado Ranch, regular and light Classic Ranch, Lemon Garlic Caesar Ranch, Newman’s Own Ranch, Creamy Red Jalapeno Dressing, Fat Free French and Italian Vinaigrette.

Taco Bell offers the Fiesta Taco Salad but nix the shell and red strips, Chicken Express Taco Salad that substitutes chicken for beef. Skip the sauce on the Southwest Steak bowl and you’ve a gluten free salad or order a Zesty Chicken Border Bowl without the sauce or red strips for a gluten free delight.

Chipotle’s is the easiest place to order salad since everything seems to be gluten free except the flour tortilla. You’re also lucky when you eat a Subway salad, as most are gluten free. The chicken breasts, however, contain gluten but the chicken strips do not. Check with the store to make sure, just in case they use a separate supplier.

According to the people at Carl’s, all side salads and Ken’s dressings are gluten free. Since Burger King also uses Ken’s dressing, their dressings, side salads and garden salads are also gluten free.

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