Labels andIingredients Issues

Having a good list of ingredients is very helpful to finding out what is gluten free and what isn't. Labels that clearly say Gluten Free are an additional help. What I found this week though truly threw me.

1: On a trip to the Kroger store, I passed by the organic freezer section and indead they now have little tags underneath gluten free items that indicate they are gluten free. Every one of the items actually said on the packet that they were GF, but Kroger feels the need to double indicate that. I don't have a problem with this but it become redundant in the cake mix aisle when the little gluten free tag goes almost unnoticed among the plethera of price cuts on other brands. And Betty Crocker does indeed clearly indicate that the gluten free mix can be spotted by the large Gluten Free line on the packet. However most celiacs tend to stay away from processed food and that is where it is most helpful. For instance there are no tags under potato chips such as Lay's Wavy chips that are indeed gluten free and the package says so on the back! Maybe they move the chips around too quickly??? Lea and Perrins also states that it is gluten free on the package, but no mention of that in the store where it would be very helpful. The cream of the crop came when I found a package of chicken - fresh chicken - with a label Gluten Free!! Can we expect the whole fresh meat and veg aisles to be cluttered with gluten free tags too?

2 This was a Walmart problem and I have no idea how these things came into the freezer but they did and I am trying to get things out of the freezer so I cooked them yesterday evening. Now most meat  stock is not gluten free - they add flour for thickeners etc. Some are fine, others, particularly cheap ones, have yeast extract etc as well. So the problem came yesterday when we had two frozen steaks that had a 'marinated with seasoned beef broth' label. The ingredient list states:  Beef, *seasoned beef broth (beef broth [water, beef stock] seasoning, chemicals etc etc.  The problem here is that because it is less then 10% or whatever reason, the ingredients of the stock part of the broth is not mentioned.Stock is not a prime ingredient - it is a combination of other things, yet for some reason it is allowed to be unidentified on the pack. Major gripe point for me.