Dylan Dreyer didn’t let Thanksgiving slip away without remembering the gluten-free eaters.
The 3rd Hour of TODAY co-host shared her excitement online around not needing to cook a full Thanksgiving meal this year, but still prepared gluten-free side dishes for dinner.
Dylan, whose son has celiac disease and cannot consume gluten, posted a picture of herself in the kitchen and wrote in the caption that she planned to make gluten-free rolls.
“Yay!! Not cooking for Thanksgiving this year!!! Oh wait…” she captioned the Nov. 26 post, before noting that she’d bring her own kitchen utensils and gluten-free bread to avoid cross contamination.
In a follow-up post, Dylan said that her family celebrates Thanksgiving on the Friday after the holiday and shared a list of the gluten-free dishes she prepared.
The list included gluten-free stuffing, mashed potatoes, rolls, carrots, green bean salad and sweet potatoes.
“I know you’ve been missing my Thanksgiving list!!” she wrote in the caption. “I’m not cooking this year, except for the gluten-free stuff so here’s my mini list!”
“Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!” she added.
The comments section was filled with fellow parents sharing their experiences on cooking gluten-free during the holiday.
“Food allergy mom here (dairy and eggs) I host every year, and I’ve got it down now! Even my picky parents don’t know they’re missing anything. It’s a lot, but worth it!” one person wrote, with a red heart emoji.
Another commented, “Right there with you as we road trip this week with our crockpot, griddle, hand mixer, cheese grater, etc to make a safe meal for our celiac daughter!”
“Thanks for sharing the reality of cross contamination. Celiac is real and gets dismissed. Thank you!!!” one user added.
In May 2023, Dylan revealed that her son Calvin, also known as Cal, had been diagnosed with celiac disease after experiencing stomach pain for over a year.
At the time, Dylan said she had little knowledge of the reality of the condition, so the family made some big changes over the next year to make sure Cal was as safe as possible.
“Not only is it not feeding him any wheat products but it’s also the cross-contamination risk,” Dylan said at the time. “All of my stuff in the kitchen had to be thrown out, all of our wooden spoons, wooden cutting boards, anything that had a scratch in it … any rivets on the inside of the pot where the handle is. All of that had to be thrown out because gluten can hide everywhere.”
After being in “constant pain” with no answers for that year, Dylan said Cal finally felt better.
