Costa Gluten Free Wrap Review

I’ve always loved sitting in a coffee shop after a stroll around a book shop mulling over my new purchases with a coffee and something to eat. Since discovering I cannot eat gluten it put an end to this, there’s only so many brownies and lemon polenta cakes I can manage! Unless I had managed to make myself something at home and remembered to bring it with me I was stumped. Being gluten free and trying to eat something either on the go or not a huge restaurant is pretty much an impossible task. How nice would it be for once if one of the cafes which deck every high street actually offered something other than crisps as an alternative from the sugary offerings? Well Costa now does! They sent me a voucher to head off to my local café and try it out.

A little dubious at first I was expecting to have to hunt through two or three of the larger cafes (we have two in the big town) to find one I was pleasantly surprised to find that actually it was there, at every one I visited (4) ranging from the little in store to the larger high street versions there it was sitting on the shelf (nicely sealed against cross contamination) in every one. That’s actually a large relief since I struggle if we’re out somewhere and the boys are hungry to find a lunch somewhere I can eat!

Costa Gluten Free Chicken & Basil Salad Wrap uses Newburns Bakehouses seeded gluten free wrap (one of my favourites) and it nicely full of stuffing  - chicken breast pieces, basil mayonnaise, rocket lettuce & Tomatoes. It’s also dairy free (it does say that it might contain but obviously this is for cross contamination purposes again) and comes licensed by Coeliac UK.

Despite the fact that Starbucks & Café Nero have been offering the occasional gluten free treat Costa is the first to actually have the approval of the Coeliac society.  

As to the price, it’s on offer for £3.75 which is fairly consistent with the none gluten free lunch time offerings and bearing in mind the extra work to ensure it complies with the Coeliac society I think this classes as a pretty good price! The portion is decent sized, the filling squashy and moist and unlike many GF offerings it wasn’t salty!

Overall it was lovely to head into a coffee shop and have a proper lunch and not have to worry about it, something which I think people who aren’t gluten free take for granted! It would be lovely now to see a couple more different styles perhaps a vegetarian one on the menu but thank you Costa for at long last getting it and helping us out!