luvs2eat

Like everyone's said... it seems daunting at first. All you can see is what you CAN'T eat, when there really are so many things that you can. It turns out what we can eat is REAL food... meats, fruits, veggies. And the rest of the stuff comes later... there are great mixes for breads and cookbooks for baking.

You'll most likely find way more info here on the forums than even a dietician can give you. By the time I got to one, she told me I should teach HER.

Good luck and come back. There are the most knowledgable folks here!!

Am I the ONLY one who can't pinpoint ONE trigger? I was fine... no symptoms whatsoever... till one day I started having diarrhea... no other symptoms. No pain, bloating... nothing.

It just came!

Thanks, Queen... that's just what I thought.

I thought gorgonzola cheese was a no-no for us cause it's a bleu cheese... am I mistaken?

Wegman's has an awesome website and puts Celiac recipes on there. But is their appetizer, Gorgonzola-Stuffed Apricots with Bacon, allowed for us??

I see a ROAD TRIP in my future. I was just telling a friend that the best food on earth is a crisply toasted bagel w/ tons of cream cheese, piles of thin slices of LOX, a few rings of red onion and capers!! Man, do I miss that!!

I've gained probably 30 lbs since going gluten-free... it's so frustrating!!

After a year of being (what I thought was ) gluten-free... I made a beautiful crusty loaf of bread that I'd been known for earlier... and my daugher walked in to find me stuffing a huge buttered piece in my mouth. It was like a slow-motion movie... her yelling "N-O-O-O-O-O-O!!" as I chomped down!!

Nothing happened!! I thought maybe I could "plan" a cheat every month or so... next month I was gonna try Pizza Hut stuffed crust pizza!! I was so excited.

I didn't try it the next month, but the next time I was accidentally glutened... it really hurt me.

No more planned cheats... and w/ the help of folks here who showed me stuff I was doing WRONG... no more cheats at all!!

Can't stand Oprah and don't care one fig what she says about anyone or anything...

My daughter and I went to a lovely tea room for a bridal shower recently... me w/ my handy, dandy lunch box in tow. As everyone was eating these gorgeous tea sandwiches, I took out the tiny egg salad sandwiches I'd made on thinly sliced crustless bread and delicious tomato sammies the same way. My daughter brought some yummy chocolate chip cookies for us... and we didn't feel deprived at all! I don't even know if the server knew we'd brought our own food or what he'd have said if he did know, but what would have been a really crappy afternoon was lovely!!

Huge Manna from Anna fan here.

Wouldn't you think that the "authentic" Mexical restaurant would have 100% corn tortillas?? We went to our fav Mexican place last night that's recently been bought up by another owner... and I (LUCKILY) asked the server to please check that the tortillas served w/ the salsa were indeed corn. He came back and told me that they were now using corn tortillas that are dusted w/ wheat flour!

I ate the cheese and chorizo appetizer w/ no chips or tortillas. Too bad... I really liked that place. Maybe I'll ask them if I can bring a few of my own corn tortillas.

My daughter had inconclusive blood work and a positive endoscopic biopsy.

I'd love to have it too! I've found A. Roberts blend easiest to use and w/ really good results! PM on the way.

My kids live in Phila. and my middle daughter has Celiac. She's found managers to be most cooperative and helpful, especially when she calls ahead and talks to them before rush hour. Her favs are El Vez and any of the Steven Starr restaurants.

Try ONE bag of Manna from Anna's bread mix. You will be hooked. It's the best bread out there... and I tried many recipes!!

Try one Manna from Anna bread mix. You won't believe it and will agree it's the best bread out there!!

www.mannafromanna.com

*Best Bread = Manna from Anna mix

*Best Bagels = Don't eat 'em... haven't found one.

*Best Pasta = Tinkyinada

*Best Pizza = Mr. Ritt's frozen crust or Jules in Doylestown, PA

*Best Rolls = Manna from Anna mix

*Best Crackers = Nut Thins (Almond)

*Best Cereal = Gorilla Munch

*Best Waffles = Don't eat 'em

*Best Donuts = Don't eat 'em

*Best Muffins = Homemade

*Best Cupcakes = Homemade

*Best Cake = Homemade

*Best Cookies = 3 ingredient peanut butter cookies

*Best Chocolate = the eating kind

*Best Candy = also the eating kind

*Best Gum = Don't eat it

*Best Ice Cream = Haagan Daas Vanilla Swiss Almond

*Best Sprinkles = Don't eat 'em

*Best Sorbet = Peach!

*Best Chips = Lays or Herrs Kettle chips

*Best Pretzels = Don't eat 'em

*Best Drink = Water

*Best Soup = Homemade

*Best Frozen Meals = Don't eat 'em

*Best Nutrition Bars = Don't eat 'em

I've had very good service and food at El Vez, one of the Steven Starr restaurants. The wait staff are most helpful and the food is out of this world!

I think it would be hard to embrace this diet if no symptoms were obvious. My symptoms are obvious so the choice is a no brainer... but I echo what everyone else has said here... there are too many reasons TO follow a gluten-free diet, and not many NOT to.

I have her cookbook and just used Bob's brown rice flour. The butter cake came out DELICIOUS!! I've also made a pie crust that was also DELICIOUS!!

The baked goods are not at all gritty tasting!! I'm so happy!!

When I was first diagnosed ...and pretty much till folks here set me STRAIGHT... I was kind of embarrassed to make an "issue" of my dietary matters. I did eat things I wasn't supposed to ... scraping the filling out of a cheesecake, etc... so I wouldn't make OTHERS feel uncomfortable.

It was when a friend of mine who uses insulin to manage her diet rather than her diabetes (in other words, she eats a LOT of whatever she wants and adjusts her insulin to manage it rather than adjusting her food to make her use LESS insulin) said to me, "Can't you just have a LITTLE??" that changed my response.

I told her, "Sure... if I want just a little MOLTEN ACID shooting out of my butt."

Dunno how far along his esophageal cancer is... but I do know that eating gluten makes him sick.

I know this happens to everyone, but it never fails to make my mouth fall open!! The father-in-law of a friend has been diagnosed w/ Celiac and has esophageal cancer (from undiagnosed Celiac and GERD, he claims... he will not acknowledge the possibility of a life-long smoking habit contributing, but I digress!)

So, my daughter and I brought some delicious gluten-free appetizers to the barbecue, a roll for his burger, and cookies. The man was beside himself at the delicious treats available to him. I took his wife's email address so we can share recipes.

His former wife, WHO HAPPENS TO BE A NURSE AT THE GASTROINTESTINAL OUTPATIENT PROCEDURE OFFICE walked in and handed him a cheesecake she made especially for him, "because I know he loves it." I asked her what the crust and topping sprinkled all over the top was made from. "Graham crackers," she announced.

I turned to the man and said, "You can't eat graham crackers." His former wife snapped at me, "He can just have a LITTLE."

I started to say "He could also have just a little rat poison with possibly better results!" But I didn't...

AARRGGHH!!!

Me too!! (LOVE babies!) I drank beer w/ one of my kids cause I didn't think I was making enough milk... till a friend told me that iced tea would do the same thing... it's a diuretic! Drink TONS of liquid and keep letting the baby nurse. I hope it works out for you... but try not to stress if it doesn't.

I don't know, erbetty, if the corn bread can be made in a regular pan. I've only used a cast iron skillet. You owe it to yourself to get one... you can get one in Kmart for less than $10. It really MAKES the corn bread!!

The CSA is saying that the only RISK-FREE choice is not to eat them. You risk a reaction if you choose to eat them.