Gluten Free Markets in California

To my knowledge there are only 3 all gluten free markets in California, The Gluten Free Specialty in Sacramento, CA, Simply Gluten Free in Thousand Oaks, CA, and Stella Lucy in San Clemente, CA. On a road trip to San Diego, I made a pit stop at Stella Lucy and it was a cute little shop in a downtown area. The space was small, but the owner did her best to pack the store full. They carried all the "basic" brands, Namaste, Glutino, Ener-G, Kinnikinnick, Ians. Ener-G seems to be peoples' go to brand because it's what all the general grocery stores carry, but personally that brand just seems stale, and Stella Lucy had every type of Ener-G bread they make, including hot dog and hamburger buns, and not many other premade/fresh breads, so with that I was disappointed.

They did however have a nice selection of items in their freezer, including some frozen meals from Glutino and others. They also had a nice selection of single packet items for making dips, soups, sauces, and even single serving salad dressing packets. They had a large selection of pizza crust shells and mixes, and bread mixes, and they had the new Glutino Candy bars, which I had been dying to try. I bought a box of the peanut butter ones and they taste just like a Kit Kat-Awesome, but other than that I found their snack selection small. I'm used to seeing more cookies, chips, and sweets then they offered, but they did have a decent selection of quick snack bars, like boomi bars and oskari bars.

All and all a cute little store. And to even start seeing all gluten free markets start to pop up here and there is great! Let's just make sure there's a wide selection and variety of products. And if there's a product you love and want to see carried, request it, I know the Gluten Free Specialty in Sacramento is great about adding items to the shelf that I'm interested in.