Gluten Free Menu: Panera Bread

While doing my nightly browsing of some of my favorite Celiac-related websites and blogs, I noticed a great post over at Gluten Free Celiac listing some gluten free Panera Bread items. Why is this so exciting? Well, as a laptop junkie, Panera Bread is a favorite place of mine to relax and hang out.

To be honest, I usually just get something to drink and sometimes some fresh fruit, so I never really thought about looking into gluten free menu items while I am at Panera Bread. It looks like that site has actually been in contact with Panera Bread and were given this gluten free menu information:

Gluten Free Panera Bread Menu

**Note: 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-cafe.**

Salads including the salad dressing (source of modified food starch is corn):

• Greek Salad
• Fandango Salad
• Caesar Salad (without croutons)
• Asian Sesame Chicken Salad (without Won Ton noodles)
• Classic Cafe’ Salad
• Strawberry Poppyseed Salad
• Strawberry Poppyseed Salad with Chicken
• Fuji Apple Chicken Salad
• California Mission Chicken Salad
• Orchard Harvest Chicken Salad

Soups:

• Moroccan Tomato Lentil
• Santa Fe Roasted Corn
• Vegetable and Sirloin Beef
• Vegetarian Black Bean
• Vegetarian Lentil
• Mesa Bean & Vegetable
• Cuban Black Bean Soup
• Vegetarian Roasted Red Pepper & Lentil
• Vegetarian Butternut Squash
• Creamy Tomato
• Spring Vegetable with Chicken & Rice
• Low-Fat Vegetarian Southwest Tomato & Roasted Corn

Salad Dressings:

• Balsamic Vinaigrette
• Caesar

As with all chain restaurants, you’ll want to notify them of your food allergy when you place your order to ensure it is made the same at your local Panera Bread.