The Milky Way That Fooled Me, and the Treats I Make Instead
The Milky Way That Fooled Me The Celiac Shack Real food, faith & gluten-free living ❦ The Milky Way That Fooled Me — and the Treats I Make Instead by Steffanie England Many years ago, around Halloween, I let myself have a dark chocolate Milky Way. I braced for trouble, and nothing happened. I felt fine — quietly pleased that I’d gotten away with a little rebellion. A different day, I reached for a Milky Way again — the regular one this time — and I got sick. Really sick. Same candy, same aisle, two completely different days in my body, and I could not figure out what had changed. At my celiac support group, someone finally explained it: the dark chocolate Milky Way is free of gluten ingredients, and the milk chocolate one is not. I hadn’t gotten away with anything that first time. The dark bar was simply clean. It was the everyday milk chocolate one that carried the gluten. The difference is one word: malt The milk chocolate Milky Way gets ...
