[Lisa]

I have been (as always, as best) for almost a year and a half and I am still learning.

After an obvious gluten experience, I re-traced my steps. I knew that it had to be one of three things and I still am not sure. One being cornbread made by and older friend, who claimed it was "just cornbread", some do contain flour; second a shift from what I was drinking although, distilled; three Burt's Bee's Strawberry Conditioner (which contains wheat proteins - in the garbage as we speak)!

When you do begin to feel better, often, you get slack, at least I do. My symptoms often remind me, that I just can't do it.

What product, that surprised you, contained gluten? I think this will help others, so please post.

[Kaycee]

The thing that surprised me with having gluten in it was the shampoo and conditioner I was using. That went pretty quickly, and now I use the same brand of shampo, but desinged for sensitive people.

Another surprise was the frozen french fries I was cooking had wheat in them.

Another thing that annoys me is not being able to eat licorice allsorts (I deliberately ate a bag of those once) and also the fact that the choice in alcohol is quite limiting. I know, alcohol is bad and coeliac is saving me from myself.



Cathy

[Mtndog]

MommaGoose- I'm sorry- that stinks! My biggest surprise was Tropicana Lemonade. I don't know if thye've changed their ingredients but at one point, after getting very sick, I read that they would only guarantee that products from 2 of their plants would not contain gluten! Even if they haven't changed their processing, I wouldn't buy their products again because LEMONADE SHOULDN"T HAVE GLUTEN IT!

[Nancym]

My walmart vitamins had gluten in them!

[mtdawber]

Since I'm still learning you many of you probably know these ones but they got me....

The ham I ate on Christmas Eve (glazed in more than brown sugar!)
My vitamins
licorise
BBQ sauce (most of them)
smoked salmon spread (damn MSG)

[Lisa]

mtdawber, on Jan 3 2007, 08:33 PM, said:

Since I'm still learning you many of you probably know these ones but they got me....

The ham I ate on Christmas Eve (glazed in more than brown sugar!)
My vitamins
licorise
BBQ sauce (most of them)
smoked salmon spread (damn MSG)

FYI: MSG had no gluten, but some react...it is not gluten related.

[Viola 1]

My biggest surprise was some Lemon Tea (herbal) that my mother brought in the house. I never even thought to look at the ingredients ... like you know, there's lemon and tea leaves in the bag. Right?
So, after I've been sick for three days and we are going crazy trying to figure out what it was, my Dad was standing at the counter watching TV, and when a commercial came on he was bored, so he started reading the tea box. Would you believe it had toasted wheat germ in it!!! I can't remember the brand, but read those tea boxes!

Good Thread!

[Kaycee]

Viola,

Isn't that odd, and silly to say the least, to put wheat germ in lemon tea!

But that I think answers one nagging question I had about a drink of green tea flavoured with lime! The ingredients said green tea and lime flavour, so I didn't even get the chance to make an informed choice. The fact that my mother had bought the tea and did not like it, I tried it because I like green. But it was a bad move, I was in agony not long later and paying for a silly mistake.

How often have I said to anybody and everybody if it says flavour without stating from what, I will not touch it. Needless to say, no more flavoured teas or coffees for me!
Cathy

[Jestgar]

My sugar. It seems that at least at some point I had dipped a flour contaminated cup into it.

BTW, I hope you are using "throw out" symbolically. My neighbor has greatly benefited from all of my kitchen cleanings.

[Lisa]

Neutrogena Mascara, newly bought and currently being used by my daughter.

Yes, our food pantry has benefited tremendously.

[Kaycee]

Jestgar, on Jan 5 2007, 05:42 AM, said:

BTW, I hope you are using "throw out" symbolically. My neighbor has greatly benefited from all of my kitchen cleanings.

Yes and my friends have benefitted greatly from my throw outs. But not any more, I am getting shrewder.
Cathy

[Felidae]

Soy sauce, almost every jar of spices (no-name brand), Tropicana juice, Quaker rice cakes, shampoo, conditioner, body wash, hand soap, and body lotion. I'm sure there were even more items that I gave away.

[prinsessa]

I had no idea that one brand of herring I bought had gluten in it until I ate quite a few pieces. It seems like gluten is in everything!

[mtdawber]

Momma Goose, on Jan 3 2007, 08:40 PM, said:

FYI: MSG had no gluten, but some react...it is not gluten related.

Ok see, I'm still learning... what is in the MSG that people react to?

[zansu]

I had an entirely different read on the title of the thread... I was thinking of the gluten-free things I bought that I (cheap as I am) threw out because they were GROSS!


I went gluten-free as an experiment, it was spring, I decided to try the gluten-free diet for Lent. What made it REALLY amusing was the article in the paper right about the same time on a Jewish woman preparing for passover by cleaning her home of all the things with leavening (many of which are also gluten!) and I felt a little Jewish that day My food pantry rejoiced in the bounty!!

Cold cuts were probably the biggest shocker for me.