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Accidentally bought a gluten free sandwich today....

146 replies

MrsGrindah · 14/11/2018 20:02

...yuk! Of course it could have just been the brand , but I feel sorry for anyone who has to eat a gluten free diet if that was typical. Also it was bloody expensive! £3.15 vs my normal version which is a quid! I’m going to write to the Daily Mail to complain!

OP posts:
Crunchymum · 14/11/2018 20:05

Why didn't you notice when it was triple the price??? Confused

Original poster
MrsGrindah · 14/11/2018 20:09

I did ..but by then I’d queued and needed to catch my train.

OP posts:
Greyhound22 · 14/11/2018 20:17

I bought one a while back as it was on the reduced section and veggie. Bread looked malty and quite tasty.

Blummin heck you could have used it to re-sole your shoes 😂

My boss is GF and I told her I understood why she didn't really go for the bread.

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DollyWilde · 14/11/2018 20:18

I once accidentally ordered a dominos on a gluten free base (was hungover!) - I feel your pain!

Kezzie200 · 14/11/2018 20:19

M and S do great GF sandwiches. A friend bought a platter when I was staying. So kind and they were excellent.

To be honest, I avoid sandwiches usually. I have salads and sushi.

FekkoThePenguin · 14/11/2018 20:19

I bough a filled roll and it just fell apart (well d'uh). It tasted OK though.

SuburbanRhonda · 14/11/2018 20:20

Is it actually possible to buy a ready-made sandwich for £1?

CMOTDibbler · 14/11/2018 20:22

Yup, and after 20 years of being gluten free I am massively, totally, excited at seeing these, even though they fall apart and aren't great. The first time I could buy a sandwich I cried

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MrsGrindah · 14/11/2018 20:24

It was Boots .. their normal cheese sarnie is a quid

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FekkoThePenguin · 14/11/2018 20:24

Not one that you'd want to eat I suspect.

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MrsGrindah · 14/11/2018 20:27

And yes it did look malty and nice. It was a ploughman’s but there was hardly any pickle etc in it. I just thought they were blatantly jumping on a bandwagon and didn’t give a stuff about providing an equivalent to gluten free shoppers....poor quality at an unjustifiable price.

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Lunaballoon · 14/11/2018 20:31

Your normal sandwich is just a pound? Shock

Troels · 14/11/2018 20:35

Yes the bread sucks big time. I've given up on bread now I have Coeliacs, I even tried making breadcrumbs from it and they sucked too. I'm very sad about it. I loved bread and pastries. No such thing as a quick lunch on the fly, I have to plan ahead and take suff in my handbag in case I can't find anywhere to eat. Usually a banana and some oat cakes.

SuburbanRhonda · 14/11/2018 20:35

What’s a “normal” cheese sandwich?

itsthemenopausenotme · 14/11/2018 20:38

I've actually never seen a gf sandwich. However, i only eat gf bread toasted, that way it tastes ok, but otherwise it's pretty awful. However, I bake my own fruit cake with gf flour and it's lovely, can't taste the distance, so I don't understand why gf bread is awful.

Di11y · 14/11/2018 20:39

Yes! bought chicken salad from boots and spotted the gluten free sticker but thought how bad can it be? my tongue was like sandpaper after!

Haint · 14/11/2018 20:39

I bought a m&s wrap. Was eating it and gulf to figure out why it was so awful. I retrieved the wrapper from the bin to check the use by date and then I discovered was gluten free and dreadful. Poor Coeliacs

SuburbanRhonda · 14/11/2018 20:40

Here’s the list of ingredients in your £1 cheese sandwich, OP:

Oatmeal Bread (Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Water, Oatmeal, Wheat Bran, Yeast, Salt, Wheat Protein, Spirit Vinegar, Emulsifiers (E471, E472(e)), Vegetable Oils (Rapeseed, Palm), Malted Barley Flour, Flour Treatment Agent (Ascorbic Acid)), Cheddar Cheese (Milk) (28%), Reduced Fat Soft Cheese (Milk) (5%).

Yum!

CherryPavlova · 14/11/2018 20:43

I did likewise and grabbed a turkey sandwich from Marks at the station. Truly disgusting. Cardboard instead of bread. Ghastly.

CrispbuttyNo1 · 14/11/2018 20:46

Have you got your daily mail sad face while holding bits of the sandwich, snd standing outside Boots ready...

TatianaLarina · 14/11/2018 20:46

Yes the bread sucks big time. I've given up on bread now I have Coeliacs, I even tried making breadcrumbs from it and they sucked too.

Try Heart of Nature bread from Waitrose.

li1972 · 14/11/2018 20:47

Feel my pain... I'm not even bloody gluten free but most retailers lump dairy free (me) and gluten free (yuk) together in one fugly shitpile. So, to have dairy free cake I have to have gluten free and I HATE it. It's like forcing all vegetarians to buy vegan products because it's easier for the manufacturers! Just...NO! FUCKING STOP IT!!!!

JetPlanes · 14/11/2018 20:47

Suburban ummm that’s bread, cheese & soft cheese. What’s your point? Yes the bread has lots of ingredients but similar to any sliced bread.

Yes OP, gluten free bread is crap

CrispbuttyNo1 · 14/11/2018 20:47

For anyone looking for decent GF bread by the way, the Warburtons Range really is the best I’ve used .

wowfudge · 14/11/2018 20:49

Like Haint I bought a gluten free wrap from M&S without realising. The texture was off and I wouldn't want one again.