With the discovery and sometimes brutal reality of a celiac diagnosis, some may be left feeling overwhelmed and devastated. You can be their ray of sunshine and give the some perfect gluten-free gifts that will help them get accustomed to their new gluten-free lifestyle with this gift guide for the newly diagnosed!
Are you one of those people already buying your Christmas or holiday gifts? I mean, if you see a rad deal, I guess it makes sense! Maybe you wait until Black Friday and Cyber Monday? Small Business Saturday anyone? For me, you guys know by now I DIY all my gifts (as I’m going making things for close family), but I’m pretty sure if I had a bunch of people to buy for, I would just do it all online when the best sale happens.
However, if you don’t actually plan on buying anything, I think going out on Black Friday is just fun anyway 😉 You can watch and laugh and hopefully not get trampled! Now, if you are in need of some gift ideas and you happen to have a newbie celiac or gluten-free eater on you list, buy to I have the gluten-free gift guide for you! All these picks of mine are perfect for the newly diagnosed and I guarantee you will light up their holiday 😉
Gluten-Free Gift Guide For The Newly Diagnosed Celiac
1. Banza: Gluten-Free Chickpea Pasta – The absolute BEST gluten-free pasta on the market! If your little celiac is scared they’ll never have good pasta again, give them this and they’ll think again!
2. Bob’s Red Mill Gluten-Free All Purpose Flour – Finding out you have to be gluten-free, you may think baking will have to cease. Quiet the contrary, it will increase! The best all-purpose, perfect for anything flour to have on hand is my favorite from Bob’s!
3. One Degree Organic Foods: Veganic Sprouted Brown Rice Cacao Crisps Cereal – Having a delish, comforting, chocolate cereal on hand that’s safe to eat, will not go unappreciated. Trust me!
4. Espresso Vanilla Barney Butter – Really any specialty gluten-free nut butter is always a great gift to give. Not only is Barney Butter produced in a gluten-free facility, but also peanut-free!
5. Hamilton Beach Keep Warm 2-Slice Toaster – Time to toss that old dungeon of doom! Often overlooked, but a new clean gluten-free toaster is more than a must!
6. Hamilton Beach Stack & Snap Food Processor – My favorite kitchen appliance! With so many uses and such ease, gluten-free cooking will never be easier!
7. Lunch Box – Embrace it. Your celiac friend is going to be bringing a lot of their own food just about everywhere they go now. A lunch box or bag is going to be essential!
8. Cutting Boards, Measuring Cups, Measuring Spoons, Mixing Bowls – All new uncontaminated baking and cooking essentials? Yes, please!
9. Zojirushi Breadmaker – One of the best on the market, plus it has a gluten-free setting. If you want to give a big box gift, this is it! They can have their bread and eat it too!
10. Panderno Spiralizer – Well this is a great gift for any foodie, but a super fun gift for someone gluten-free! Get out all the veggies and fruits and spiralize away!
11. Hamilton Beach Belgium Style Waffle Maker – Want to give the gift of perfect, mess-free, gluten-free waffles? This is the waffle iron to get. Trust me!
12. Set of Food Storage Containers – Along with a lunch box, tons of new clean storage containers are going to be more than necessary. A quality set will make the perfect gift.
13. Gluten-Free Labels Starter Kit – This would be a great Small Business Saturday company to support! I love GFL and their labels are perfect for a celiac who lives in a mixed kitchen or needs to bring dishes to school, work, or parties!
14. Jason Gluten-Free Beauty & Bath Products – A new celiac may not realize, but beauty and bath products need to be gluten-free and safe as well. Jason provides a wonderful life of gluten-free products to try!
15. Gluten-Free T-Shirt – I think some article of clothing is always required as a holiday gift. Plus a little humor can lighten the gluten-free gloom they may be feeling 😉
16. Delight Gluten-Free Magazine Subscription – This is my favorite gluten-free magazine! It’s also very allergy-friendly and always chock-full of great info, recipes, and reviews!
17. The Gluten-Free Vegan Cookbook by: Susan O’Brian – This is an older cookbook, but has always been my favorite. It’s one of the first gluten-free cookbooks I ever got and the recipes so so simple, beautiful, and delicious!
18. The UnDiet Cookbook by: Meghan Telpner- I think this is the best gluten-free cookbook of 2015, hands down! The recipes are wonderful and so easy! Plus, Meghan is such a wealth of info for helping to heal autoimmune disease!
19. Celiac Disease For Dummies – Don’t worry, it’s only a “For Dummies” series book because it such a easy read for all the basics or celiac and gluten-free living. The perfect beginners guide!
20. Celiac Disease: A Hidden Epidemic by: Peter Green, M.D. – Dr. Green is the director of the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University and is such a respected medical professional in the celiac community. This book is a wonderful addition to any new celiac’s bookshelf!
Bonus! – Be a doll and make them some safe DIY homemade granola, cookies, nut butter, bites, muffins, quick bread, or even crunchy chickpeas! They will appreciate this more than you know (as long as you keep it safe from cross-contamination!)
So tell me:
+ Have you started any holiday shopping this year?
+ Do you have any new celiacs on your list this year? Are you yourself a new celiac? What’s on your list!?
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Cayanne Marcus
Thank you so much for making a special gluten free gift guide. As someone newly diagnosed Celiac it is so helpful and really kind. Thank you!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
I’m so glad you found it helpful! Cheers!
Elaine
What great resources!!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Thanks!
Jamie
What great ideas!! We have a lot of friends that could benefit from these!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Wonderful!
Sherry
It must be challenging to go gluten free. Thanks for sharing your gift idea list with us!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Not with the right resources!
Andrea B.
I’m not Celiac but have gone mostly gluten-free in recent months because I feel so much better off of it. So I’m looking for pasta alternatives, and love this idea of the chickpea pasta. I’ll have to check it out.
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
That is the best pasta, hands down, for anyone, every where!
Jess @hellotofit
This is a unique gift compilation! Love it 🙂 Great ideas, too.
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Thanks Jess!
Nikki Frank-Hamilton
This is a great list. I’m not celiac but I am gluten free. I have an auto immune disease and gluten makes things so much worse. I just found a baking mix and I have been going crazy. I was a year without bread, this is a miracle for me. I’m making waffles, crepes, fish and chips, tonight was sausage grave over biscuits. Life without gluten doesn’t have to be horrid.
I’ve never tried the chickpea flour pasta, thanks for the suggestion, I’ll be on the lookout for some!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
How could you go a year without bread!? That’s silly!
Banza is the best pasta you will ever eat, gluten or not!
Emily @ Recipes to Nourish
Wow, so many great ideas! Love that bread maker, how cool!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
You’re gluten-free and you don’t have one!?
Karen Grosz
I haven’t started gift buying yet. I don’t have any celiac’s on my list but know several who are going gluten free. Thanks.
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Thanks for stopping by Karen.
The Future Mrs. Vines
This is a really great list! I’m not a Celiac, nor do I know anyone, but I have a need to temporarily reduce my gluten intake due to joint inflammation. I actually own an identical spiralizer, but it’s marketed another brand name. It’s GREAT for hiding veggies in things so I can kick my carb eating fiance’s food to the curb.
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Everyone should own a real spiralizer! Not one of those cheap hand-held junkie things!
The Future Mrs. Vines
The only hang-up I’ve got is that the one I own is not dishwasher safe and it’s not easy to clean, but the output is totally worth it.
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
You should really only ever have to wipe it off and simple take the blade panel off to clean that!
Cyndee
Thanks for these gift ideas. My daughter just started eating gluten free and this will help me know what to get her for Christmas!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Awesome! I hope you get her something good 😉 Tons of options!
Marla
Hi Rebecca,
Thanks for sharing all these wonderful gift ideas and useful sources for gluten free information.
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Thanks Marla!
Vicki Montague - The Free From Fairy
What a fabulous post! Last night we found out that one of my daughter’s friends has coeliac disease. His mum came over to talk to me as soon as she found out. Our daughter has been diagnosed for 5 1/2 years so we have become the support for others going through it. It is very tough for people who don’t experience it to understand. I have mixed emotions today…sad for the little boy, but happy that they finally know what has been causing him so much pain…and of course a little bit of gladness that my little girl isn’t the ‘only one’ anymore!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
I’m sure they are so thankful they have someone to help them with the learning curve! It’s been 7 years for me and I try to help as much as I can (i.e. this blog!)
But I know how you feel about the sad and the happy. But much more to be happy about as he can get healthy and actually feel good and LIVE again!
Farrah
I need a food processor in my life! *-* (It’s gonna be one of my graduation presents to myself! 😛 )
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
A good one is worth more than you can imagine! Best appliance!
Amberjane
A great list as a person with a gluten allergic member in the family this is fantastic
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Thank you!
Cristina @ I Say Nomato
Fantastic list! Many people don’t understand that coeliacs need to have their own set of dishes/towels, etc., and I love that you’ve included a bread maker! Awesome!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Totally! And my first Christmas as a celiac, I got my bread machine 😉
Jamie @ Medium Sized Family
Very helpful list! I come from a family of Celiacs, so I have a few people on my shopping list who could benefit from these things.
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
That’s great!! Then I bet you already know so great essentials to give!
sue
What a great idea, Rebecca as I’m sure if they are newly diagnosed they will be feeling a little lost. =
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Thanks!
Mel@avirtualvegan.com
What a helpful post! I can imagine how lost someone just diagnosed feels and this would be super helpful when you are having to change your whole lifestyle.
Oh and by the way, I am loving the look of that almond butter!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
That almond butter should be under everyone’s tree 😉
Jessica
So many of these are on my own wish list! Great gift guide!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Thank you Jessica!
Sola
This is a perfect list. My little cousin was recently diagnosed with celiac and his mother is learning how to cook all over again. Alot of things on this list will help her out a lot.
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Well I hope there can be some great gift receiving then 😉
Kat | curlsnchard.com
I’m not gluten-free, but I would still love pretty much all of those gifts 😀 That’s a wonderful gift-guide that you compiled, Rebecca!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Thanks dear!
Harriet Emily
Oooh there are so many great gifts on this list Rebecca! I really want to try the barney butter almond butter! It sounds soooo good! <3
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Haha, that’s a gift for anyone 😉
Ilona @ Ilona's Passion
Great products. I use many of them, even if I eat gluten every day.
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Ha, all right then 😛
Natalie | Feasting on Fruit
Umm can we pretend I am celiac just so I can get all these goodies please!?! The top row is especially calling my name, and those adorable little colorful measuring cups! You know how I could use a back up set of measuring vessels 😉
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Hehe, so many people pretend, you might as well 😛
I know! I think I have 4 sets of spoons and 3 sets of cups 😛 o measuring devices!
Emily
This is WONDERFUL, because I have so many friends who are gluten-free/celiac! Thank you!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Load up on those Banza boxes 😉
Emily @ My Healthyish Life
I’m not a new celiac by any means but I want some of this stuff! Fun list.
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
I just need the shirt! Haha!
GiGi Eats
Chick pea pasta! Yep! I will totally give a gluten free friend a spaghetti/pasta alternative basket, full of that pasta along with a bunch of gluten free alternatives, include spaghetti squash 😉
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Squash will never substitute pasta, haha!
Shashi at RunninSrilankan
This is one awesome list Rebecca! I don’t know any newly diagnosed celiacs, but my daughter is slightly sensitive to it and she loves pasta and so I cannot wait to get my hands on Banza: Gluten-Free Chickpea Pasta!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
You haven’t tried Banza yet!?
Shana
Great list! I need that Tshirts!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine
Isn’t it cute!?