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Really??!! So that's how they prevent CC, is by making all the Guido's pizza on the WOW side? That is awesome!!

Thank you for the input, everybody. I had to chuckle, when reading through some of the posts.

So anyway, I went to Bed, Bath, and Beyond and got a salad spinner for $10 and a lettuce knife for $4. I got my farm share box and I spent probably 1/2 hour or more, washing all the stuff, cutting off any inedible parts, chopping stuff, and packing the lettuce in a bag with a paper towel.

The spinner makes washing that volume of produce so easy! Plus, the bowl of the salad spinner doubles as a salad bowl. 

With the amount of leafy greens that we eat, the salad spinner is hardly an extraneous kitchen tool, looks like it'll be getting a ton of use in our kitchen. It was so easy to put together a salad when I was able to pull the washed and cut greens and veggies out of the fridge! 

What I want to know is - if everyone keeps displacing their Brain Frogs - where are the poor homeless creatures going?  cause I don't want them coming to live in my head again!

 

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Also -coconut mojito?  Yum!

ROFL!! 

Shelf stable jars of hummus are a good option. Canned beans, canned vegan/gluten-free chili, dried fruits, nuts, etc. are all good choices as well. 

Maybe the best option would be to do a 2 week gluten challenge and then go to an endoscopy? I'm sorry that you're in this situation. I wish that doctors could understand the problems with prescribing a gluten free diet without proper testing. 

Nice!

I'm thinking about making some homemade ravioli today. It's really hard to get any kind of store bought ravioli since I'm dairy free as well as gluten-free, so it'll be nice to make some again. 

A new pasta machine, right? . I can't imagine getting the one we had for gluten pasta really clean.

Carry on.... Will be interested to see what people come up with.

Of course! It gives me shudders just to think of using a used one. 

I'll be interested to see of anyone has tried this.

I technically didn't survive my tests--I ended up in the ER of the hospital 10 days after I started eating gluten again and we all decided that it wasn't worth it for the sake of a DX. So I'm on a strict gluten-free diet for life with no diagnosis. At this point, I know that eating gluten for 3 months would likely kill me or disable me, so it's not something that I will ever do. So unless medical science figures out a way to get DX'ed without a gluten challenge, I won't be getting DX'ed. (and even if they do come up with a DX method, I'm not sure that I would bother anyway, since if I got DX'ed, they would just tell me to do what I'm doing already, which is being 100% gluten free)

I don't recommend that, though, so if you can get through at least a long enough gluten challenge for a biopsy, that is probably better. 

My #1 advice is do not overdo the gluten. One slice of bread a day is plenty! My #2 advice is to use common sense and get medical supervision, especially if symptoms are getting serious. Don't ignore them and do what I did. 

Has anyone tried making fresh pasta with a pasta machine? Is it worth it? 

LOL!!

Also, what is the difference between the cheaper and more expensive ones?

Where did you find the cheap salad spinner, cyclinglady? The only option at the store that I looked at yesterday was $30. (OXO brand) I'm sure that it's great but getting DH to fork out $30 for a salad spinner would be a hard sell.

Congrats on getting the diagnosis! So glad that she doesn't have to do a gluten challenge.

Best wishes for good and improving health on the diet!

Okay, now that I've found a bread recipe that's solid, I'm ready to move on to making buns! Anybody have any recipes to toss my way?

Just a heads up to the other hummus lovers, Aldi's now has a variety hummus tray. It is clearly labelled as gluten free and is so yummy! It has garlic hummus, original, cilantro jalepeno, and red pepper. 

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I get a ton of green leafy vegetables (I belong to a program called FarmBox, which is similar to a CSA) and I'm wondering, how do you dry off your greens after washing? Do you use a salad spinner? Or some other method? I try to dry them with a towel, but it doesn't really do as good a job as I would like. 

I got glutened at a Celiac Support group meeting in my area where everyone in our group was a celiac except for two people. I had figured if it was good enough for them, it's good enough for me.  It's more of a gamble than anything.  You are just playing Russian roulette with your health.

There are celiacs who aren't very careful. I knew a celiac (biopsy dx'ed, fwiw) who would go ahead and eat peanut butter and other condiments that had been dipped into by gluten eaters. He said, "I'm not THAT sensitive."

Some celiacs don't understand that even if they aren't having symptoms, it doesn't mean that damage isn't being done. 

Yes, the Guido's pizza offers gluten free pizza! And they take precautions not to CC it!

That's weird. What motel chain is that? I would think all have them by now. 

It wasn't a chain motel, just a local privately owned one.

I think that until DH and I put out the money for a power inverter for the car, I'll bring along a folding chair on my road trips to put any cooking implements on. Then we can still enjoy making hot meals on the road and can avoid any cleanliness issues. We love making spanish rice & beans on road trips!

Thanks for the feedback, sometimes it's easy to overlook important details. 

Our hotel must have been the odd duck, no microwave in our room or in the breakfast area. Probably most do have a microwave though.

Isn't it great?

When I go to the exclusively gluten-free places, I feel like I can finally let my guard down and relax and be able to eat out without worries. It's very nice! I'm glad that you found a place that you liked.

It was not in a highly trafficked area, but I can see your point, Irish. Maybe next time I'll bring along a blanket next time to put underneath it and then chuck the blanket in the wash when I get home.

No, I didn't plug it in in the restroom. The central common area between the bathrooms had a number of electrical outlets. 

I was very impressed with this place! Sadly I got there too late for a sub sandwich (the deli part closes at 4 PM), but we'll be coming back! It was awesome to look at a menu and know that anything was gluten-free and there was no cross contamination worries.

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