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June, I cannot believe just how thorough Melbourne was to completely change the weather on June first. It's been nothing but high winds and chilly temperatures for the last few days. 🥶

The perfect excuse to sit in and home and get my newsletter out on time? Not quite!

Truth be told, it's been a hectic week with my husband travelling for work and me navigating things solo. I've managed to fit in three gym visits, filmed and edited two reels and ... written nothing for my website. 😂

But I have been posting a lot on Facebook and to be honest it's felt like a lot of bad news. We've seen not one, but two gluten free noodle brands deleted from Woolworths supermarkets.

It's brutal. For coeliacs, gluten free folks, for the brands and for the product category as well.

How can a store with thousands products, including seemingly 130 tinned tuna options, decide that they can't sustain more than one gluten free noodle brand?

I'm writing this Thursday night, not long after posting my monthly new products reel to Instagram. A thought occurred to me, if I look back at one of the first new products reels I posted, would any of those products still be available?

Surprising results

I watched three reels from May 2025 and earlier and I could see that actually a lot have survived.

But there were still notable losses.

Pasta Roma shells, literally the only pasta shell in either of the main two supermarkets. Gone. (btw if you want shells, check my pasta guide)

YUM noodles, they were in my April 2025 reel. They lasted a year.

Betty Crocker cookie mix May 2025, less than a year.

Fancy Coles ready meals, less than a year (and damn, they were tasty!)

Coles family-sized tandoori ready meal. This one was so loved, by so many. I'm still hurt about this one.

It's interesting, my assumption was proven wrong but yet, perhaps its recency bias? It feels like a lot of products have gone in the last few months.

Or rather, I feel like I've been sharing bad news. Whether it's product changes, recalls, deletions or wheat appearing in absurd places.

One really, really good deletion

Any newsletter feature should end on a positive note, so here it is.

Dr Oetker gluten free pizza is on heavy clearance at Woolworths. I've seen it as low as $6.

So, why is this a positive note? Are you cursing me for celebrating the clearance of the most reliable gluten free emergency meal around the world?

Fair.

But here's why.

The original recipe is finally coming back!

Back in July 2025 Dr Oetker GF pizza (made in Germany) suddenly pivoted to using a blend of plant-based cheese alternative, alongside full dairy cheese.

It was baffling.

As it turned out, Germany's dairy industry had a disease outbreak affecting its products. As a result Australia heavily restricted dairy sourced, manufactured or exported from Germany.

Regular Dr Oetker pizzas (wheat ones) are made in Australia. The GF ones apparently are only made in Germany.

Thankfully, I contacted the Dr Oetker a few times over the last year. This email from February gave me hope.

The Gluten Free Mozzarella Pizza will be back on shelves in June to July this year. Due to Coles ranging timings they are clearing the Cherry Tomatoes & Pesto now; Woolworths will continue to have stock until the original recipe is available.

Four countries and counting

I've eaten the Dr Oetker GF pizza in the UK, in Finland, Australia and I'm pretty sure in Türkiye.

I am certainly going to celebrate by buying this pillar of the gluten free freezer section as soon as the original recipe is back in stock. 🍕

Kati x

Oh by the way, if you're new to my newsletter you can catch up on previous editions. Each one has a bit of a deep dive and often a behind the scenes look of what life is like as a blogger / influencer.

Latest posts on katikeksi.com​

Not up to date with the website? Here's what I've been talking about this month.

Freedom vanilla crunch cereal

Is an $8, high protein cereal worth it? Have a read of my review as I test with yoghurt, milk and on its own as a snack.

Most popular content on Facebook

What's been big on Facebook this month?

• It's worth another reminder, Warburtons crumpets are wheat based and not gluten free.
• Another thing to avoid, the Woolworths salmon ready meal is no longer tested gluten free. Actually their whole ready meal section has had a bit of a shake up.
• ​Allen's Cheekies are now GF by ingredient - they no longer use wheat starch!
• I reached 60,000 followers on Facebook! I took the opportunity to explain to folks how I make money through my website and socials.
• A little reminder that Coles has waffle fries and curly fries that are GF.
• Speaking of chips, Aldi has some that have different ingredients across states despite very similar packaging.
• Grill'd was all over the GF news with reports that they will no longer toast GF buns separately. This wasn't the case at my local, Grill'd responded to my queries with a helpful albeit generic response.
• We discussed gluten free rules - one of mine is to buy lamingtons at Woolies whenever I see them. What's yours?

Instagram @kati_keksi

Do you follow me on Instagram? I tend to post different content there compared to Facebook so it's worth checking out both.

Here's what I've been sharing this month.

• My family and I dined at Robo Mao to celebrate their recent Coeliac Australia accreditation. Dumplings, prawn toast, fried ice cream!
• A little throwback to our recent Gold Coast trip when we ate at Urban Fish Market.
• I was meant to go to a venue opening in May and it was postponed! I couldn't make the new date so.. no post. 😂
• And of course the latest new products that came out in May.

New product alerts

Here's just a few of the new gluten free products I've seen in the last month.

• Mini Curly Wurlys are now available individually wrapped share pack.
• ​OREOs! Dang. Oat free too. I didn't see them in person so they aren't in the new products reel, I think the official launch is actually June anyway.
• Aldi has chocolate coated raspberries and strawberries. They are super tasty.
• Woolies has overhauled their COOK range of ready meats to Slow Cooked and has included a few new options, there are over ten GF ones to try out!
• No longer tested gluten free but still GF by ingredient, is the Woolworths chicken prosciutto ready meal.
• Also from Woolies some new marinades including a Korean style one.

Be sure to follow me on Facebook where I post everything I find, and if you prefer, follow me on Instagram for a monthly reel summary.

Article from the archive

Did you know I started my website back in January 2022? There's so many articles, including in-depth guides. Here's one I picked for you.

Gluten Free Dumplings Guide

One of the guides I was most enthusiastic to research and create. All the gluten free dumplings you can get, there is so much more than what's at the big two.

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