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Thanks for the info! I love that stuff too. Good thing I usually stick with the orange

Yeah you should try it! It's not nearly as minty as the artificially flavored stuff. I really like it though.

I really like Glee Gum. Here's some info from their website:

Glee Gum is made with all natural ingredients including: pure cane sugar, rice syrup, natural flavorings and colorings. Our gum base has super chewy natural chicle harvested from Sapodilla trees in the rain forests of Central America.

Glee Gum is: Vegetarian, Additive Free, Lactose Free, Dairy Free, Wheat Free, Gluten Free, Casein Free, Egg Free, Yeast Free, Nut Free, Soy Free, and Peanut Free.

Glee Gum has: all natural ingredients, rice syrup instead of corn syrup, natural chicle, delicious, long-lasting, and popular flavors: tangerine, peppermint, and cinnamon. Glee Gum does NOT have: artificial preservatives, artificial flavors, artificial colors, artificial sweeteners (e.g. aspartame, saccharin, cyclamate, or stevia).

www.gleegum.com

I get it at Whole Foods. Looks like you can order it online too.

Liz - Sorry you had a bad experience (I'm guessing that's probably all you really wanted to hear?)

Here's a link with some info about gluten-free beer:

Open Original Shared Link

They just started selling Ramapo Valley beer at my local Beverages and More...which is pretty awesome! It's the first time I've been able to buy gluten-free beer in San Diego without having to order it online. I'm actually pretty impressed too...all the BevMo employees suddenly seem to know quite a bit about celiac disease (the last time I went there and asked for Ramapo Valley the guy was like "gluten free beer!" and he proceeded to give me an entire explanation of what celiac disease is. I was like "yeah I have that - that's why I'm buying this beer" lol). I guess they've been selling a lot of it.

Hey, I wash rice, veggies, and meat before I cook them! LOL It's just another wash before cooking item I guess.

LOL. Yeah I guess I need to go buy a better strainer so I can wash quinoa without losing half of it down the drain.

Anyone ever try the red inca quinoa? It's different...kinda good though.

Thanks for letting us know! Is it just called "Organic Trail Mix?" I eat the Organic Cranberry Harvest Trail Mix, which I always thought was fine. Maybe I'll have to look into that one further.

ps I'm really glad the dried mango slices are gluten-free. I would be really really sad to give those up!

Everbody needs to keep this in perspective. Saponin is a natural part of the plant, just like the shell is a natural part of a walnut, or the stone is a natural part of an apricot. It is not a soap or chemical added by man. BTW, apricot stones are poisonous due to large quantities of naturally occuring cyanide, but that doesn't mean you should not eat the flesh.

If the quinoa has been processed into flakes or some other form besides whole grain, then the saponin would have been removed. The caution only applies to whole quinoa, where some residue may remain.

Yeah definitely. It's just kind of a pain to wash when you buy the whole qunioa....but I still think it's really good. Actually thinking of making some tonight.

Yeah...you're TOTALLY weird! j/k

apparantly there are a few of you weirdos on this thread.

hahahahahahaha

The only thing I don't like about quinoa is it's really hard to wash. Maybe I just don't have the right kind of strainer. Hmmm. Go figure we have to worry about strange soapy stuff being in the foods that are supposedly safe and naturally gluten-free.

I just joined too!

I just made that cashew ranch dressing. It is so good!!!! I think I'll be making that really often from now on.

Maybe I'm totally weird - b/c I think it's good! Did you rinse it really well before you cooked it? If not, it has this soapy coating that can make you really sick. It's some sort of natural pesticide that you have to entirely clean off before you cook it...and it tastes really bad if you don't get rid of it. A lot of the time when you buy quinoa that soapy stuff is already rinsed off though...so maybe that wasn't the problem. Hope you feel better.

Alpsnack bars, Organic Food Bars, Larabars and Clif Nectar bars are all pretty good.

I was actually surprised to find about four or five celiac and gluten free groups already on myspace. Just go to the groups homepage and run searches for the words "celiac" and "gluten"

Organic cranberry harvest trail mix, the organic peanut and almond butters you make yourself (by pushing that button on the machine), mary's gone crackers, alpsnack bars, clif nectar bars, arrowhead mills pancake mix, arrowhead mills maple buckwheat flakes, Fabe's macaroons, 365 organic rice milk...I'm realizing I could go on forever - so I'll leave it at that!

At my Whole Foods they have these bright red "gluten free" lables on the shelves in front of all the gluten free products. It's pretty awesome!

Never tried the gluten-free bakehouse items due to the dairy issue :-(. I really wish they would make dairy free versions of all that stuff....

Actually, it usually comes up the most when im in a bar w/a group of people ordering pitchers of beer and i quietly walk to the bar and order myself vodka on the rocks. That usually stirs up a million questions about why im not drinking beer, so i usually start by saying "I'm allergic." Inevitably, from guys in their 20s, the response is: "You are allergic to beer? Thats the most awful thing i have ever heard!" (this never varies). So then i follow it up w/ "Actually, I lied. I am a celiac and cant eat anything w/ wheat, rye, barley or oats" and every single time, their responses are "Oh, ok, that makes sense." Thats it! and then they have 500 more questions about not being able to drink beer! Apparently, there is NOTHING in the world worse than not being able to drink beer! But they generally dont feel too bad for me about the rest of my diet...

hahahahaha that exact same thing happens to me ALL the time!!! I'm actually to the point where if someone offers me a beer - I just take it and pretend to drink it. It's soo much easier that way...although it can be fun to just say "I'm allergic..." and see what responses you get!

I usually don't feel too good after eating Kinnickkinnick bagels. I know they are definitely gluten-free and dairy free, but for some reason they throw me off a little (maybe it's the yeast, or something else they put in those???)

If she reacts to dairy, and she just drank a glass of milk last weekend, it might take a little longer before she feels okay.

I have coworkers who ask me EVERYday for an explanation of how much money I spent on whatever I'm eating. I usually eat really basic foods too....like the other day I brought a salad from home and a bottle of gluten-free Newman's Own dressing. An enormous deal was made over how much money I must have spent on the Newman's Own dressing...

They even brought up the cost of my salad dressing later that night at happy hour. Sometimes I bring things like rice and veggies and they are like "omg how much did that cost!?!" I try to explain that the rice I eat costs the same as the rice they eat...but they don't seem to believe me. I'm trying to be amused...but it is definitely one of the stranger reactions I've dealt with.

Anyone read da vinci code? -- catch the part about food alergy death?

No where was that part? I totally missed it....

Is there a way to order it...or do you have to live in an area where they sell it???

This diet is getting more and more complicated. I hope it is worth it in the end. I eat whatever Bernadette eats.

It actually helps me to think about the diet as getting more and more simple. The more foods I eliminate from my diet, the more I stick to stuff that is simple and naturally gluten and dairy free...Maybe I am just weird.

I use Earth Balance to replace butter/margarine (it's really good!)...but if you don't have access to that....olive oil works well as a replacement too. Actually, olive oil with balsamic vinegar is a really good alternative to many condiments on quite a few things.

Breakfast ideas: eggs (you can always get hard boiled eggs if you're at a restaurant or something and want to guarantee there will be no butter involved), canadian bacon, fruit, apples with peanut butter or almond butter, fruit smoothies, buckwheat groats, hot rice cereal, gluten-free cold cereal with rice or almond milk....

...there's actually quite a bit you can make with just fruits, veggies, meat, fish, rice, lentils, beans, olive oil and the right kinds of herbs and spices. I'm gluten, dairy and (mostly) soy free and it's easier than you think when you get the hang of it.

yes go ahead! just keep in mind that some use soy sauce in their rolls so be sure to ask. (for example, i once got sushi from whole foods and it made me sick- they actually put soy sauce in ALL of their rolls but stupidly i didnt read the ingredients first!)

The way the ingredients are listed on the Whole Foods and Trader Joes sushi rolls is really confusing. When they list soy sauce, I had always thought that they were referring to the soy sauce packet that comes with the rolls...but I guess they put soy sauce in the rolls as well? How annoying!!!!

This is all I can find:

The exact definition of natural flavorings & flavors from Title 21, Section 101, part 22 of the Code of Federal Regulations is as follows:

"The term natural flavor or natural flavoring means the essential oil, oleoresin, essence or extractive, protein hydrolysate, distillate, or any product of roasting, heating or enzymolysis, which contains the flavoring constituents derived from a spice, fruit or fruit juice, vegetable or vegetable juice, edible yeast, herb, bark, bud, root, leaf or similar plant material, meat, seafood, poultry, eggs, dairy products, or fermentation products thereof, whose significant function in food is flavoring rather than nutritional."

In other words, natural flavors can be pretty much anything approved for use in food.

How unhelpful is that? I don't know why "natural flavors" is an acceptable ingredient in food. It sure does make our lives more complicated. Hopefully the new food allergen labeling bills will help out a little. I'm sure others will have some better insight.

I like Arrowhead Mills Maple Buckwheat Flakes (actually all of the Arrowhead Mills cereals are pretty good I think). Erewhon Crispy Brown Rice is good too! I bought some Enjoy Life granola, took one bite...and thought it was the worst thing I ever ate I will definitely give it another try with a new perspective after reading these posts.