luvs2eat

I've always trusted Dr. Oz and my friend watched one of his shows where he said envelopes should not be licked by Celiac patients. Will read the article. Guess nobody can be right all of the time.

I don't lick envelopes because I read a medical journal article (with photos!) years ago where someone got a teeny paper cut when he licked an envelope... and there were some sort of microscopic eggs on the envelope where some insect had landed on it and the guy had gross larva or bugs in his tongue that grew and his tongue was all infected! BLECH!!

But back to the subject at hand. Do I cheat? Nope... never... not EVER!!

We had one health food store in Mountain Home... 25 miles away... now there are two!! Woo hoo!! At the one store, the owner offered to order anything I wanted/needed, but I had to tell him that while I certainly appreciated his effort to help me and how I'd like to patronize local businesses... gluten-free food is expensive and I can order from the online site w/ the name of the long river in So. America (I don't think we're allowed to say the name) and (when I plan to order my Pamela's bread mix and Tinkyada pasta and do it at the same time) shipping if FREE, not to mention the per-item cost is less. He understood completely.

I'll have to agree with another poster who said you can find just about any gluten-free recipe online anymore. I even googled things like gluten-free puff pastry and filo dough! Plus, there are always peeps there who've tried the recipes and I really appreciate their feedback.

The million different flour mixes would also turn me off. I had tons of small bags of (expensive) flours for a long time. Now I buy Better Batter flour for the small amount of baking I do and I use bread mixes. I used to love to bake, but not so much anymore.

These kind of stories really chap my hide! Why on earth wouldn't they simply agree to do what the MOTHER thinks is best?? Would it be easier for them to accept something like a peanut allergy if they could see what happens when the baby is fed peanuts??

I had a MIL (from hell) who was so upset that I didn't feed my babies the highly-processed baby foods on the market, perferring to make my own baby food. I told her that I could grind up the box of baby rice cereal and sprinkle vitamin liquid on it and it would be equivalent to the crap in the box! I came home from somewhere to find her shoving the rice cereal into my kid saying, "See?? She loves it!!" I never left her alone w/ MIL again. What was it about MY WISHES about what goes into my kid did you not understand??

YOUR WISHES are even more important in this case! I am seriously astounded that people want to shove gluten into a baby when you have a blood work AND biopsy diagnosis.

I'm sorry for my rant. I don't really have advice for you other than never leaving your baby alone with them and continuing to police what they're trying to hand her.

We don't eat out... booooooo.

Hubby CRACKS up when I'm biffing around the house w/ my ear buds in... dancing and singing. It's so funny cause I have all my fave songs on my ipod and one will come on and I'll say, "Ohhh... I LOVE this song." And then the next one will come on and I'll say, "Oooooh... I love THIS song!!"

In no particular order, I listen to

Sarah Boralles (sp?)

Outkast

Gorillaz

REM

G Love

Scott Joplin

Big Bands stuff

Eric Clapton

Buffalo Springfield

Jimmy Hendrix

Stevie Winwood

Jake and Elwood Blues

B-52s

Heavy D and the Boys

James Taylor

Katie Tunstill

Adele

Mambo Kings

Rhapsody in Blue

some classical and some Broadway show tunes

We're almost on the border of MO in AR... between Gainesville, MO and Mountain Home, AR.

Watching tornado warnings... ugh!!

Go Phillies!! (sorry... we moved here from PA and still love our Phillies!)

Believe it or not, we spent a night in Biloxi on our way to and on the way home from Miami, FL just a few weeks ago. We spent one night in the Grand Casino hotel and... I actually ate at the buffet!!

I NEVER eat at buffets. The chance for cross contamination is so great and the selection is so limited. I asked the cashier if I might look at the buffet and found it to be really clean and well displayed. At the salad bar, the only thing I saw that I couldn't eat were croutons and they were at the very end of the salad bar so people took them AFTER they had their salad.

There were crab legs w/ butter and baked potatoes in foil and steaks on the grill that cooked nothing but steaks. I was so pleased and got to eat my fill of things OTHER than baked chicken!!

How did you make free form rolls? If the bread mixes are like a thick batter dosen't it just run on the pan it you pour it to make rolls?

It's like REALLY thick batter. I scoop out a blob and plop it onto a silpat (or parchment paper would work) and "form" it w/ my spatula. I get 9-10 rolls (maybe a teeny big bigger than a hamburger roll) from a loaf's worth of dough/batter.

I'm a huge Pamela's bread mix fan. I make it in a loaf or in free form rolls... I've even done the bagel variation w/ success. I have a KA mixer, which is awesome. I buy it in bulk bags.

I've told my story many times, but I always loved to cook/bake. When I was diagnosed w/ celiac disease, after only a few months of symptoms, I started eating all the stuff I COULD have to make up for all the stuff I could no longer have... and put on 40 lbs!

I put myself on a pretty much grain free diet eating lean meats and veggies/fruits because I was having such horrible heartburn, I was ready to go to the doctor and ask for Nexium! I lost 20 pounds... the heartburn disappeared and, while I'd love to lose the other 20 lbs... am healthier than I've ever been.

I had mine at age 48, when I went to a GI doc for what turned out to be celiac disease. He ordered a bunch of bloodwork and said that 48 was close enough to 50, so a screening colonoscopy was in order. He then warned me that he wasn't a doc to use tons of anesthesia. I'd seen colonoscopies and endoscopies in nursing school many years before (where they gave you a valium and shoved a huge scope tube down your throat and kept saying, "Swallow!! Swallow!!" Yikes!!) so I wasn't worried.

I had a Go-Lightly prep... a gallon of soapy water to drink till "things" ran clear. I only had to drink about 2/3 of it. The procedure itself was fascinating. I got to watch the whole thing and ask lots of questions.

It was after the procedure that my doc said to me... "I have good news and bad news." I opted for the good news first. He said, "I know how to stop your unrelenting diarrhea." I asked for the bad news and he told me I could never eat wheat, rye, barley, or sometimes oats again."

The procedure itself was such a NOTHING that my PCP asked me to please tell all my friends so they wouldn't be so worried when it was their turn!

My blood work was so highly positive that my doc said a biopsy wasn't necessary. I ended up having an endoscopy a few years later for GERD symptoms and biopsy confirmed the blood work.

Nope... no cheating allowed... ever. It sounds like you don't have huge issues when you do cheat which might make it all seem more appealing/not so damaging. But it's ALL damaging... so don't DO it.

Ha ha... I especially like the tiny disclaimer "contains no poop."

I live in the boonies too. I order everything (Pamela's especially) from the site whose name is the same as the huge river in South America (can't remember if naming that site causes a problem here). I coordinate my orders for when I need Tinyada pasta and order them at the same time... then shipping is FREE! My local health food store asked me if I wanted them to order stuff for me, but I had to tell them that ordering online saves me $$. I order the bulk Pamela's bread mix. It comes in bags that make 3+ loaves of bread and I add my own yeast.

LOVE my Kitchen Aid mixer! I also found a paddle attachment that has like spatula "squeegies" on the outside that swipes the sides of the bowl and keeps everything moving!

I'm happier when I bring my own delicious sandwich to an event and don't care that there's nothing for me. Like another poster said... if I don't make it, I don't eat it!

A friend grew impatient w/ me when I said I didn't care to go to a restaurant cause there was nothing there for me. She said, "Can't you have a chicken caesar salad?" I said, "How would you like to have a chicken caesar salad EVERY SINGLE TIME you went out to eat??" I was so sick of salads!

I spoke up when friends visited and wanted to go to those awful buffet places (I call it The Trough... haha). Against my better judgement, I had baked chicken and white rice and salad. When they were going up for seconds of all sorts of different foods... my choices were baked chicken and white rice and salad. I finally said I will NOT go to Troughs anymore. Never even mind the huge possibility of CC... I was sick and tired of having ONE choice of food.

Using a skillet, lightly saute some minced garlic in butter (or butter/olive oil combo). Toss in the thawed shimp for a few minutes, add a bit of lemon juice and minced parsley. Season to taste. Tada! Scampi

Serve over rice.

This is exactly what we do... because we find the precooked shrimp to be just a little underdone for our tastes. We don't like shrimp cooked like all the TV chefs say it should be cooked. We like it cooked a little longer, so the extra saute w/ butter and garlic does it up just right. We love it on pasta too!

I've had really good luck w/ Better Batter flour. I made REAL potstickers and the dough was like working w/ gluten dough. I couldn't believe it!

You certainly hit the nail on the head for me. I was diagnosed very quickly... only several months of symptoms... and spent the next year eating all the stuff I COULD to make up for what I could no longer have. I gained about 40 lbs!!

Dunno about emotional eating. I keep asking... WHY is it emotional and not that I just LIKE macaroni and cheese better than broccoli??

I was diagnosed in my late 40s... the ONLY member in my extended family to have celiac disease. Middle daughter was diagnosed about 4 years later at about age 25. Like me, she was diagnosed very quickly (i.e... we weren't showing symptoms for years like so many) and her doc told her that she was lucky because she could avoid future things like anemia and osteoporosis being diagnosed so early. Youngest DD developed it a few years later at about age 26 and has had the worst time w/ it... her diet is extremely limited. Oldest DD was diagnosed last year at age 32.

Still no one in my extended family has it... it's just my 3 daughters and me!

Plus, I think as more and more companies jump on the gluten-free bandwagon, because they see big $$ in it... there's going to be lots of convenience foods out there for us that end up being as bad for you as gluten-filled convenience foods... full of chemicals and additives, etc. A good gluten-free diet involves REAL food... meats, fruits, veggies, and carbs like rice... REAL foods. A newbie on a gluten-free diet is going to look at those convenience foods as manna from heaven after having to give up so much ... and will be flummoxed when their symptoms don't go away cause of all the crap they're eating!

Wow!! The news story is fantastic! I hope they keep going and track him down in NJ!!

I'm not tempted to cheat either... altho it's been so long since I had REAL french bread... I'm sure holding it to my nose and inhaling so hard might make it go right up my nose!

Hi... my make is luvs... I'm a carb addict. And I like the gluten-free breads and pastas A LOT... so the unexplained weight loss many people have suffered?? Um... I didn't get that. And I struggle w/ weight constantly!!