luvs2eat

There are no gluten free breads where I live either. The only offering in the health food store is inedible and could be used as cardboard or as a bulletin board! I buy Pamela's gluten free bread mix from Amazon in a box of 6 packs. If you can coordinate your ordering (I also order my Tinykada pastas from them), shipping is free... the individual package cost is less... and UPS brings it to your door!!

Couldn't live w/o sandwiches!!

I've never had a reaction, but avoid them anyhow. They're not good for any of us!

Try not to be nervous about the actual test... it's a piece of cake. There's no icky prep (like w/ a colonoscopy) and they give you good sleepy meds.

I remember when I was in nursing school (in the mid 70s) and they gave endoscopy patients a VALIUM before the test... and then put this big tube down the patient's throat while he/she was completely awake telling them to "SWALLOW... SWALLOW!!"

Thank goodness for those awesome sleepy meds... you'll take a nice nap and wake up when it's all over!!

LOVE me some puppies!! Congratulations!!

We bought the do-it-yourself fencing from Home Depot. We didn't bury the wire, but just laid it on the ground around approximately 3 acres. A few times (in about a year), we had to search to find a break and repair it where squirrels or something chewed it. It worked really well until Peaches (the knucklehead boxer) decided our neighbor was her best pal. She started jumping the fence... but ONLY on the driveway... my husband put more wire across there... so that she had to jump thru about 10 feet of shocking. It was pretty funny to watch her stand there and try to decide if it was worth it to jump. She mostly always would... squealing all the way. Our neighbor finally got her to wait at the end of the driveway... he'd come over and take her collar off... and then take her w/ him. They went everywhere together... till he died last year. We don't use it anymore. We live so rurally... she comes and goes and visits all the neighbors... everyone knows Peaches. She doesn't chase cars and we just have to make sure to put a HOT orange t-shirt on her during hunting season.

Good luck!

I live in a teeny town near Mountain Home, Arkansas. Trips to Springfield, MO, (2 hours away) are trips to the big city for us... we always make sure to visit Chik-fil-A for french fries when we're there.

I order my Pamela's bread mix and Tinyada pasta from (Company Name Removed - They Spammed This Forum and are Banned). If I can coordinate those purchases, shipping is FREE.

My local health food store offered to get Pamela's bread mix for me, but buying it in bags of 6 and Tinyada pasta in bags of 12 bags saves me lots of $$.

,Nancy

Sorry, I am very guilty

How about "I axed him" instead of "asked"?

My daughter asked her friend, "Please explain to me how you look at the letters A-S-K and get axed?? ha ha. I don't remember what he said in reply.

Saying "I seen" rather than "I saw" makes me cringe too.

Remember the "Friends" episode where Joey said "It's a Moo Point!"? Then he explained that "it's like a cow's opinion, it doesn't matter. It's moo."

We say that all the time! It's a "moo" point... ha ha ha.

Wow, will my husband be glad to hear this! OG is one of his faves... altho he never gets pasta. He just eats bowl after bowl of the salad! The last time I was there, I had the mussels on their appetizer menu w/ no problems and it was delicious!

I've always made The Barefoot Contessa's Outrageous Brownies... you can find the recipe at Food TV. The recipe makes TONS and they're super chocolate-y and rich. There's so little flour in them (1 cup I think) that my gluten-free blend (Analise Robert's) works really well!

I've used it before without trouble... but NONE of my stores carry the Cream of Mushroom anymore!!

With the best of intentions and the greatest love in the world... people who haven't been cooking gluten-free for a while will poison you. Without a doubt, I'd bring my own meal...

This is the green bean casserole I'll be trying this year... I got it at Copykat.com. I'll use frozen green beans like I did the old casserole and probably Corn Chex rather than gluten-free cornflakes.

GREEN BEAN CASSEROLE

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No prep ('cept no eating after like 11 pm...) UNLIKE a colonoscopy... they put you into a really nice sleep... heated hospital blankets... that test was one of the best I've ever had!!

The management can swear up and down that things are safe, but all it takes is one person to dip the bread stuffing spoon into the mashed potatoes to make your baby sick. I'd bring his own food, without a doubt!!

How many years have you been trying to live a gluten-free life?

7 years

How often or many times do you think you've been hit with wheat?

In the beginning, when I thought I was being gluten-free, but was making tons of mistake... lots. Now... maybe once or twice a year??

Anyone been diagnosed with cancer, kidney or liver problems?

Nope

Have you ever said "what the hell" and just ate something you aren't supposed to?

ONCE... when I'd been gluten-free for about a year, I scarfed down a huge slice of homemade bread w/ butter and nothing happened!! I had this idea that I could "plan" a cheat... maybe monthly. But... the longer I was gluten-free, the more sensitive I became and now I would NEVER, EVER say "what the hell"... EVER.

What is your age? 56. Two of my 3 daughters have been diagnosed too.

I had an elevated ANA more than a year after Celiac diagnosis. It's a marker for Lupus and I spent 18 months seeing a rheumatologist every 6 months and having lots of blood drawn for further testing. Nothing ever showed up w/ the blood work and my visits w/ the rheumatologist were really interesting, but thankfully, never progressed to anything resembling Lupus.

The longer I've been gluten free, the more sensitive I've become. In the beginning, my "glutened" symptoms were milder... similar to my original symptoms... loud tummy and diarrhea. The more sensitive I became my "glutened" symptoms includes severe nausea and vomiting and the diarrhea and really sore tummy lasts for several days.

My cornbread's always been gluten free and is SO easy to make!!

I put a few tablespoons of oil in my small cast iron skillet that's only used for cornbread and put in the oven while it preheats to 400

Just this past Thanksgiving, a neighbor invited a bunch of people over for dinner. She went far out of her way to accommodate me and I brought my favorite gluten free (crust) pecan pie to go w/ her pumpkin pie. Everyone enjoyed my pie but by the time I got home, I was sick as a dog!! Couldn't figure out what I'd done to poison myself!! It wasn't till a few days later when I was making a pumpkin pie for my husband I realized I made the pecan pie crust w/ my gluten free recipe... using regular wheat flour.

DUH!!!

Now my gluten free flour mix has a HUGE sign on it!

I'm Pamela's greatest bread mix fan. I make it into a loaf and slice for sandwiches... or make it into 9 or 10 rolls on a Silpat ... and I've even tried the bagel variation, which was the closest I've had to a real bagel since going gluten-free.

Are there gluten free pot stickers out there somwhere?????

Unfortunately, I've not found a cookie yet that I've really liked... store bought or homemade. I guess I just have too good a memory of good old chocolate chip/toll house cookies and every one I've tried has either a gritty/crumbly texture or is too chewy/doughy.

Sorry... baked desserts just aren't in my diet anymore... and I used to love to bake!

I just save the "heels" from the Pamela's bread I make and grind 'em up for fresh bread crumbs or toast 'em for toasted crumbs.

I'd kill for some gluten-free Panko... but know the general Panko available is NOT gluten-free.

I usually have symptoms w/in an hour or so after being glutened. I have nausea and have to try hard not to vomit... I'd probably feel better if I did, but I fight it to the end! I don't just have diarrhea, but explosive D that feels like burning acid!! It lasts for a few days sometimes. Brain fog too... Yuck!

You've already been given good advice here, but I just wanted to tell you that I never got that "unexplained weight loss" either from my celiac. Then, I gained about 30 lbs. after going gluten free filling up on the foods I COULD have to make up (in my head) for all the ones I could no longer have!

I was diagnosed w/ blood work only as well. My (really nice) GI doc told me an endoscopy wasn't necessary w/ such positive blood work, altho I did end up having one a few years later for acid reflux symptoms.

I have a friend who's just been diagnosed w/ Crohn's disease. I told her the best advice I could give her was to look around for a forum like this one, where she could ask ANY question (no matter how stupid or graphic) and peeps who KNOW and LIVE w/ the disease would be the ones to give her info she needs... better than any doctor!!

Good luck w/ your new doc!!