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Breaking The Barriers To Breaking Bread
Celiac Disease and Gluten Allergies are serious health issues. 3 years ago when it was 1st discovered that my son might have a gluten allergy there was very little awareness about it. Last April I joined him in a gluten free lifestyle due to my own health issues. Lucky for us the tide is changing for those of us who pursue a gluten free lifestyle! The gluten free market is exploding. There are new products hitting the shelves everyday. There are gluten free restaurants popping up, and gluten frExchange Student Needs a Gluten-Free Home
This fall you heard about my family's adventures with hosting an exchange student with celiac disease. Ida is now half way through her stay here and I believe she’s having a great time. She’s had some adjustments to make with her diet here. For example: we still haven’t found a regular bun recipe that has met my expectations. Until she came here, she was used to good gluten-free hamburger buns in Norway. So for now she’s eating hamburgers without buns. As for Ida at school, sh
New Year
I don't see what's happy this new year, and I don't know who coined the phrase "Happy New Year", but the year ahead is looking pretty bleak, what with the economic downturn and Obama's inauguration. So I say, "What's happy about the new year?" But don't listen to me. I'm a cynic if there ever was one. Dad's said he needs to replace me with a human, I guess simply because humans don't have the same capacity for cynicism and sarcasm that my older brother and I have. Ah well. I'm not going to be cl
Bad Mood Swings
I have recently been diagnosed with celiac disease. The people closest to me in my life have been telling me lately that my mood swings and irratability have been off the charts. I am not very careful about cross contamination and making sure everything is gluten-free when I go out to eat. Could this be why I am so irratable and snap very easily at the ones closest to me? I feel like I am not myself and can not get back to the person I once was. At some points I can not even look at someone with
Beginning Another Beginning
I stopped caring about the way I look. I am 22 and 5'7 and about 155. I need to knock off about 20 pounds total. Over the last few years since diagnosed my weight has fluctuated within that 20 pounds. I have been yo-yo eating/dieting and exercising and I am ready to commit to it for I almost weigh the same as my boyfriend! Scary thought-anyways, I plan on blogging my progress throughout the next few months which I am sure will be a struggle because any time I loose a pound or so I usually rewa
Christmas 2008
Merry Christmas! This Christmas was great with family and friends. My soon to be mother in law had a friend of hers make me gluten free, dairy free chocolate covered pretzels!!! AMAZING!!! I am still eating them, and I am ready to make some more myself. My fiance and I traveled quite a bit getting to everyone's house and seeing all our families. We had a wonderful time despite the travels. Since we scaled down Christmas this year, my family finally was able to go to night service at Chur
An Irish Christmas
So far only one got sick (my older brother; but not anymore) enough to skip meals. Bits of colds are flying around but nothing TOO bad. Wow, I can finally read the time any time I want because I have a watch that actually WORKS. (How long has it been since that's happened?) And the backpack and story binder are perfect! Great Christmas! Anyway... Christmas is a very informal, relaxed time in our house. Everyone gets to sleep in (especially since the older ones have stayed up past twelve theChristmas!
Merry CHRISTmas (and none of that 'happy holidays' junk) and a JOYFUL New Year! Celebrate Jesus, celebrate! He is truly the reason for the season! This isn't long, but I just wanted to swing by and wish you the Joy of the Lord all year round!Christmas Eve
Until now. That's how long it took. To water the chickens I had to use some water from the greenhouse. Dishes were done by directing madly spurting water into containers and heating them. I have a few burns on my hands from the water and the pots. The water came on about ten minutes ago, and we finally got the ability to flush the toilets and get a drink of water from the sink, instead of boiling microorganisms out of the liquid or sucking on an ever-decreasing supply of ice cubes. Ah well.A Unique Experience
Proof of the varying, useful lessons of being homeschooled: Learn how to increase water pressure (that outcome is hopeful) First turn off the well pump. Partly open water filter containers and find out that turning off the water didn't work it's apparent purpose (i.e. turning off the water). Screw containers back into position and call Dad to find out what to do next. Go climb into the pump house and turn off the water that way. Attempt containers again. Find out that this time it workActivities Of My Day
The chickens decided to make me happy and turn in the full quota of eggs today. I needed that and the chocolate ice cream I described before to get through geometry. I hate that particular subject. People say that if you like logic and reason you'll like geometry. I love logic and reason. Something tells me that the people who took that survey weren't on top of everything. At least I have reading. Sure, the study guide delves too deep for the book to be fun anymore, but at least there are soIt's Turning Into A Long Day
We had a fire station field trip today with four and a half other families from church. It took 45 minutes, then they all went to our house (which was a minute of driving away) for a bag lunch. We had a 'fire drill' and most of the people ran outside. I hadn't heard and went into the house only to find it "burning". One of my little sisters, who was outside, did a classic then. "I need to go potty." Perfect. Most of the families are gone, with only the "half" family remaining. Since they'reAddicted To Reading
Wednesday I started a book I am borrowing from the library. It's called "Sundays at Tiffany's" By: James Patterson (He is an amazing writer) Anyways, I started the book Wednesday morning about 10:00. I took a break around 12:00, showered and went to work. As I was at work and in between giving treatments to the athletes, I read a total of 2 more hours. I was done in 4 hours.....what a great book! It's about a young girl that has a mom that is always working, she has an imaginary friend thaSome Easy Recipes
I know a bunch of the people here can't have a lot of things. Providing that you can have corn (and even if you can't), there's a flexible throw-together I've come up with, since my meals often gets forgotten by the rest of my family. Corn chips Canned chicken Vegetable/s I like using bell pepper, caramelized onion when available, and/or cabbage, but the vegetables are entirely up to you, as well as cooking them is. If you can't have corn, I also use millet or quinoa as a carb base, boWhat To Write Today?
I'm here again...and I'm bound to go off on random thoughts if I don't get an idea now. Ah yes, why not. The fine points of writing. Why not? Because I wouldn't have any tips. Then why not some of the things I've been writing? That sounds much better because you have something for it. Sorry...I was having a conversation with myself. Still, I think Nox came out with a rather good idea. What I've been working on in my story is a traitor. A traitor in the sense that he appearsGluten Free Wedding Cake In Austin
Is there a bakery in Austin that does Gluten Free Wedding Cakes?
Found 2 New Restaurants In Dallas Area
I recently found 2 gluten free restaurants in the Dallas area and would love to praise about them. First one is D&A Pizza in Richardson, TX. They specialize in healthy foods including gluten free pizza crust and pasta. The second is Delicious N Fit, Laura's Bistro in Plano, TX. They have many foods ranging from pizza to pasta, to burgers, to chicken fried steak - all gluten free! I even had a gluten free carrot cake and it was all very good. Please see these places if you live in the DVarious Wanderings
I have woken up with a headache -not a really bad one, but one that stays with you as a dull ache throughout the day. Add to that the fact that I stayed up late three nights in a row so I'm tired as well with a fatigue that sometimes defeats my will. We decorated our four-foot, fake tree last night. Dad is allergic to tree pollen -as am I. Allergies run in the family. The only one without allergies in the first four kids has diabetes. The rest of us share an allergy to cats and asthma progreGlutened :(
Yesterday I was glutened..and it was probably fault. I went to Steak and Shake with my fiance. We were going to go to a steak restaurant, but it was very busy (being a saturday night). We ended up choosing S & S. I, first asked the waitress about the chili....which I should have known not to eat it...I had a bad feeling. But, I thought I would try it, since I have eaten chili at other places before. I ordered a steak burger with no bun or cheese, and some french fries. I forgot to ask aHighly Recommended
This is not an advertisement, but some things I highly recommend: Books by Ted Dekker. Boy, is he a great author! He writes books that are great for the action and for the meaning -the first I have ever been able to find! I stayed up late last night reading one of his books. Oh, wow, it was gripping and I couldn't put it down even though several times I wanted to and knew that I should. I finished it. These are books that I recommend to anybody over age fourteen. Yes, I'm thirteen, but I'veSome Thoughts On Christmas
Christmas. I'm thinking about Christmas because I went Christmas shopping today. It was crazy. People were rushing about everywhere, the lines at the checkouts were insanely long, everyone were buying so much stuff. Why? I admit, I was buying a bunch of stuff as well. But I have an excuse. I have presents for everybody in my family every Christmas. (Eleven people.) As well as some of my friends. And I was buying the cheapest things I could find. Why does everybody think that they need soToday's Thoughts
Today I woke up as usual. I really wasn't all that productive today. In school, that is. Partly because I didn't have that much schoolwork to do. Partly because we had visitors. Partly because I was completely bored with my work and was busy with my story. (I got a chapter done in Sapphire Necklace.) Partly because I was tired. A lot of the time I was staring into nowhere -more precisely, my own world. One of them. AlneaOmeca. I'm a pretty weird person. Don't worry about using the term on m-
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John Scott pointed me to Wiki entry about the effect of diet on hookworm egg production: https://www.helminthictherapywiki.org/wiki/NA_incubation:_very_detailed_method_by_Alana#Promotion_of_egg_viability_by_dietary_manipulation
Nothing presently in my diet was mentioned in the article, but it does bring up the obvious point that my diet would naturally affect the health and wellness of the hookworms that live in my gut. Something to think about.
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Yes, there are several gluten-free certifications out there (one is the GFCO), and the usual standard they claim is 10ppm, however, recent findings indicate that even the GFCO's higher standards may not ensure that foods they certify are gluten-free:
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Reared a gluten-free kid who is now doing great in his 40s. Some stress in earlier childhood, but by mid-high school had it all figured out. I heard a comment back then that gave me hope. "By the time a celiac kid reaches college age, he or she has developed a hundred ways to say 'No, thank you' and make it stick." The celiac kids end up knowing that...- 1
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