Carriefaith

Breakfast

Typical:

Two eggs (scambled, boiled, fried or microwaved)

1 banana or blueberries

1 cup of calcium enriched orange juice

Sometimes I make a toasted egg sandwich with Kinnikinnick bread

When I feel adventurous:

Blueberry pancakes made with Kinnikinnick pancake mix (mmmmmm)

Fried eggs

Lunch

Leftovers from dinner the night before

apple

Salad with gluten-free Kraft dressing

Snack

Raw carrots, green pepper, or red pepper with gluten-free Kraft dressing for dipping

Soy Ice Cream or soy yogurt

Rice Crisps

Popcorn

Thai Kitchen spring onion soup

Kinnikinnick donuts

Skittles

Fruit to go bars, grape is my favorite

Dinner

I usually make one of these recipes from this thread:

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I also have the regular meat and potatoes/rice nights

Tonight I'm making corn chowder

Have a great day

Shephard's Pie

4-5 potatoes

1 onion

4 cloves of garlic, minced

1 1/2 cups frozen peas

extra lean hamburger

1 can of stewed tomatoes (1 carton of Imagine tomatoe soup would be good in place of this)

1 Mc Cormick Beef brouillion

ketchup

dried hot pepper to taste

salt and pepper to taste

Boil potatoes and 2 cloves of garlic. Cook hamburger, onion, and the other two cloves of garlic until beef in browned and then add stewed tomatoes, hot pepper, and beef broillion and cook on medium heat for about 5 minutes. Place meat and tomatoe mixture on the bottom of a casserole dish, add peas on next layer, then put potatoes on top. Sprinkle pepper, salt, and a small amount of oil on top of the casserole. Cook at about 350 for 45 minutes. Serve with ketchup.

Thanks again everyone We had a successful move and the new job is great! We just got internet yesterday!

Lisa,

Congratulations on the appoitment!

I just had an idea, you've mentioned before that you have a lot of food allergies... Have you ever tried benedryl when you get your stomach pain? Lately I have been getting these attacks where I have pain in my stomach, pain in my chest, explosive gas, and minor breathing problems. It feels like my body is attacking me and I feel helpless. These sysmptoms are almost 95% gone after I take 3-4 teaspoons of benedryl, which tells me that it must be an allergic reaction. I am allergic to a lot of foods and I haven't been avoiding them all 100%, so I'm going to have to try avoiding then all to see if these attacks get better.

Also, my husband gets severe stomach pain and other problems when get gets into dairy and he would suffer for up to 2-3 days at a time and have to miss work. The last time he got sick I suggested he try benedryl and the problems went away! He had to continue taking benedryl for about 2 days. This suggests that he has a milk allergy.

Just a thought...

I'm very sorry

However, chron's, for some people, can be controlled with diet and you may not need to be on meds for your whole life. Maybe ask your doctor about a diet low in starch (grains, potatoes, corn, rice) and sugar.

I also get really cold in the winters and this winter I will be up in Northern Alberta! This will probably be my coldest winter yet! I bought some thermal underwear to help with the situation. I got some non-itchy, non-static, wool thermal underwear bottoms and a Helly Hansen thermal shirt. I plan on getting more and wearing them all winter. I will also be wearing snow pants and my winter coat!

On PEI when it was around -25 C for 2 weeks, I wore winter boots, snow pants, a winter coat, a ski mask, and mittens and I was fine. It's all about the layers!

My 2 year old is allergic to peanuts, tree nuts, hazelnut, pistachio and sunflower, but I never would've known had he not been tested. He had been eating peanut butter on crackers, toast, sandwiches, etc. for at least 6 months without any noticeable symptoms and having it almost every day as it was one of the few things I could count on that he would eat and that would pack on some calories for him. He tested moderate high on almost every nut though in his blood work.

Does everyone have symptoms or are some just not noticeable than others?

Do you all carry epipens? Our allergy doctor said he doesn't have anaphalactic levels to any of his allergies and the epipen was not brought up at all. Should I revisit this with him? I've had him off nuts for 5 days now, but have not been reading labels close enough to see if he could still be getting traces somewhere.

Has anyone symptoms gotten worse over time?

Do you read labels for these and avoid things that might have traces of nuts in them?

Are there any peanut butter substitutes when he's allergic to all of this?

Thanks!

what is hydroxizine and is it as effective as an epi?

I am also interested in this. I am highly allergic to something, I think wheat or milk. I have epipens.

I really liked this recipe that I made up one night:

Rock Soup

Extra lean hambuger (1 smallish package)

about 7-8 cups of water

1/4 cup white vinegar

1/2 cup of rice

vegetables whatever you can find... This is what I found:

2 garlic cloves, minced

1 onion, diced

2-3 cups of baby carrots, bite size (or 2-3 large carrots)

3-4 celery sticks, diced

2 potatoes, bite size

5 green onions, diced

1 cup, frozen baby corn, bite size

spices hmmmm, I just sort of threw stuff in, so I will put down what I think will taste good:

1 teaspoon cayeene pepper

1-2 teaspoons tumeric

1/4-1/2 teaspoon cumin

1/4-1/2 teaspoon oregano

1 teaspoon crushed red peppers (or just add more cayeene pepper if you don't have this)

2 Mc Cormick Beef brouillion cubes (or substitute water with broth)

2 tablespoons brown sugar

salt and pepper to taste

1-2 teaspoons crushed red chilis (optional)

1/4 teaspoon garlic powder (optional)

Put hamburger, garlic, and onion in a large pot or wok and cook until hamburger is browned. Throw everything else in execpt rice and cook for a while. Add in rice, and cook until rice is done and vegetables are soft.

Check out this link:

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The ingredients are at the bottom of the link.

Thanks everyone! I'm going to Northern Alberta!

So where are you off to? Don't say BC or I will become very jealous. If you say Jamaica or Cuba I will become murderous.

I just wanted to share that I got a new job

I am moving next week and I may not have computer hook-up for a while (Just in case anyone trys to contact me and I don't respond right away).

When making stuffing from gluten-free bread is it best to cube the bread and then toast it or dry it out before trying to make stuffing with it? Especially if I want stuffing to have a Stovetop-like consistency?

Thanks CarrieFaith! (And I noticed in your siggy that you are sweet potato and strawberry free, me too! Those two came up on my Lame Advertisement test and I avoided them like they suggested, and now when I have them I get terrible headaches.....weird.)

I've noticed that just the sweet potatoes and not the regular potatoes bother me. Do you find that as well? I'm sad because I love sweet potatoes.

They look good!

Thanks for the replies, I will consider Splitt in the future - we live an hour south of calgary so was trying to find a resaturant in the south end.

I have recently eaten at Splitt again and I enjoyed a spring salad with french dressing and salt and pepper chicken wings. That was enough to fill me up and I was ok! I notice that they now have a sign in their front window that says gluten-free.

Do you have an address?

Some of their fries are gluten-free:

Q: Are any of your products gluten free?

A: Alexia Julienne Fries, Rissole Potatoes, Organic Oven Crinkles and Morning Fries, Mashed Potatoes, Oven Fries & Oven Reds are gluten free. top

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I have been eating some of the gluten-free fries with no problems. I believe they are the oven fries.

Wow Thanks everyone for your help. I am going to have to check out those stores. I have been going to the Planet Organic in Southland, Calgary and I love that store!

Planet Organic near Whyte has everything you could want or need.

I'm glad that there is a Planet Organic in Edmonton. I just got a job offer in Northern Alberta and I may have to drive to Edmonton every few weeks to buy gluten-free products.

Does anyone know the address to the Planet Organic in Edmonton?

Edmonton is the location for the Kinnickinnick prodcuts - the bakery is located there, They ship all over Canada and U.S.

Dunno if anyone else will like this, just something I've made up a few times. The amounts are whatever suits your tatse.

Chop chicken breast into bite size pieces or strips. Then chop up celerey, capsicum and poatato. Cook in a pan. At the pour some tomato paste or sauce over and stir through. If you use tomato paste I reccomend thining it down with a little a water it enhances the flavour.

You can also add garlic and onion if you want.

That looks very good! I'll have to try it.

Thank you so much Carrie! I am very fortunate, that my family will eat anything I put on the table. Most of the time, I don't even mention Gluten free. We have enjoyed your chili recipe several times.

I'm glad that the stuffing is liked. I actually got the recipe from the internet and modifed it.

Here is the recipe I have on my thread:

Stuffing

4 shallots, minced

1 onion, diced

5 celery ribs, diced

5 carrots, diced

2-3 tbl soy butter

2 tbl dry sage

2 tbl dry thyme

2 tbl dry summer savory

dash of pepper

1 cup white wine

1 loaf gluten-free bread, cubed (I use Kinnikinnick Italian white tapioca, thawed)

1 cup gluten-free chicken stock (I use 1 cup of Imagine chicken broth, or 2

cubes of McCormick chicken bouillon and 1 cup of water).

Optional: chestnuts, apples, raisons, cranberries, peacans.

Sauté the vegetables in the butter until they are soft, and the onions begin to carmelize. Add the seasonings and cook over medium heat for 2 minutes. Add the white wine, and continue cooking over medium heat until the liquid is reduced by half. In a casserole dish, mix all ingedients together. Bake for 20 minutes at 325̊ F.

This is what I do now:

Stuffing

1/2 onion, minced in food processor

2-3 cloves of garlic, minced

4-5 celery ribs, minced in food processor

4-5 carrots, minced in food processor

2 tbl dry sage

2 tbl dry thyme

2 tbl dry summer savory

dash of pepper

1 loaf gluten-free bread, cubed (I use Kinnikinnick Italian white tapioca, thawed)

1 cup gluten-free chicken stock (I use 1 cup of Imagine chicken broth, or 1-2

cubes of McCormick chicken bouillon and 1 cup of water).

2-3 tbl soy butter, optional

parsley, optional

I cook all vegetable in broth and spices for about 10 minutes. Then I add the gluten-free bread. I put some of the dressing in the chicken and the rest I leave on the stove with the stove-top heat off. I find that the heat from the oven is enough. I always add a bit more water to the dressing on the stove, so that it doesn't dry up. If I add soy butter, I add it to the stove top drsssing.

The dressing in the chicken is amazing! I usually make this once every week or two weeks.

I think that I have been glutened by that company. I don't trust them.

I didn't realize that the interviews would be this week! I hope I get to see it! I may stop at that store in Canmore! Has anyone had CC issues with Split. I haven't and I've eaten there a few times.

Carrie- Sorry your dealing with it too, Im not looking forward to the holidays and plan on cooking for my family all the things I wont be able to eat so my daughter will have the normal holiday treats everyone else has. As a matter of fact we are skipping two dinners in the next few months, a christmas party dinner and just arriving afterwards and a wedding reception and just going to the wedding. How do I get to the recipes section? I would love to look up some.

Cooking for holidays can be a stressful and busy procedure. Last week-end, I cooked for thanksgiving dinner here in Canada. Over the weekend I cooked two chickens, a pot roast, two apple crisps, and lots of vegetables! Here is a link to some of my recipes:

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I'm going to to try and remember what I did. I made this today and it was very yummy.

Rock Soup

Extra lean hambuger (1 smallish package)

about 7-8 cups of water

1/4 cup white vinegar

1/2 cup of rice

vegetables whatever you can find... This is what I found:

2 garlic cloves, minced

1 onion, diced

2-3 cups of baby carrots, bite size (or 2-3 large carrots)

3-4 celery sticks, diced

2 potatoes, bite size

5 green onions, diced

1 cup, frozen baby corn, bite size

spices hmmmm, I just sort of threw stuff in, so I will put down what I think will taste good:

1 teaspoon cayeene pepper

1-2 teaspoons tumeric

1/4-1/2 teaspoon cumin

1/4-1/2 teaspoon oregano

1 teaspoon crushed red peppers (or just add more cayeene pepper if you don't have this)

2 Mc Cormick Beef brouillion cubes (or substitute water with broth)

2 tablespoons brown sugar

salt and pepper to taste

1-2 teaspoons crushed red chilis (optional)

1/4 teaspoon garlic powder (optional)

Put hamburger, garlic, and onion in a large pot or wok and cook until hamburger is browned. Throw everything else in execpt rice and cook for a while. Add in rice, and cook until rice is done and vegetables are soft.

Have fun! I did