Today I went to Panera bread to meet up with a couple of friends. I am always leary of places like this because there is such a large potential for cross-contamination with gluten due to all of the bread in the place (and in the name of the establishment \ud83d\ude09 ). However, I received an email the other day from a nice woman, named Pat, at Panera Bread who gave me a list of items on their menu that would be safe for me to eat, proper precautions taken to avoid CC, of course. It was nice to have a choice of what I wanted to eat and drink, not be “forced” to make a decision based on the one or two things that were GF. Here is a list of what gluten-free items they have:<\/p>\n
GLUTEN FREE LIST – Panera Bread <\/strong>**<\/p>\n **Although we do our very best to meet your special requirements, we cannot rule out the possibility of cross contact between these items and gluten-containing foods in our bakery-caf\u00e9.<\/em><\/p>\n Salads: (including the salad dressing) Soups: Salad Dressings: Beverages: I ended up enjoying the Low Fat Vegetarian Black Bean Soup and Half Asian Sesame Chicken Salad (sans wontons & sesame seeds) and a Chai Latte to drink. It was amazing. I know that may seem silly, it is just soup and salad. I think it was more the experience. I have been gluten-free almost 3 years and have never eaten at Panera during that time. I am glad I took this step and have another choice to add of my list of establishments that I can dine out at. BTW, I have never had a Chai Latte before, anywhere, and it was TDF! I will be chosing that to drink more often, for sure!<\/p>\n
\n(source of modified food starch is corn)
\nGreek Salad
\nFandango Salad
\nCaesar Salad (without croutons)
\nGrilled Chicken Caesar Salad (without croutons)
\nAsian Sesame Chicken Salad (without Won Ton noodles)
\nClassic Cafe Salad
\nStrawberry Poppyseed Salad
\nStrawberry Poppyseed Salad with Chicken
\nFuji Apple Chicken Salad
\nCalifornia Mission Chicken Salad
\nOrchard Harvest Chicken Salad<\/p>\n
\nLow Fat Vegetarian Black Bean
\nCuban Black Bean and Lentil
\nVegetarian Roasted Red Pepper & Lentil
\nVegetarian Butternut Squash
\nCreamy Tomato (without croutons)
\nLow-Fat Vegetarian Southwest Tomato & Roasted Corn
\nTurkey Chickpea Chili
\nSummer Corn Chowder<\/p>\n
\nBalsamic Vinaigrette
\nCaesar
\nGreek
\nPoppyseed
\nRaspberry Vinaigrette
\nAsian Sesame Vinaigrette
\nWhite Balsamic Vinaigrette
\nRoasted Garlic & Meyer’s Lemon Vinaigrette<\/p>\n
\nCoffee
\nJuice, both apple and orange
\nLemonade
\nMilk
\nSoda, fountain and bottled
\nTea, regular and Chai Tea
\nAll lattes & Frozen beverages
\nStrawberry Smoothie<\/p>\n