Celiac Disease &amp; Gluten-Free Diet Blogs

Confessions

Ok, I must confess that before I "left" the ex unbeknowingst to him as he slept, before gathering up my gluten free food, I spied his laundry I'd folded sitting there. I took his favorite (You know how guys get really attached to things) t-shirt from his trip to Italy and I took a Sharpie and wrote something on the back (he is always in a hurry getting dressed and never looks in the mirror, and probably won't notice). It says something about him being...a liar and stuff. Couldn't resist. Coo

May 21, 2008

healthygirl's Blog

When Marathons Go Bad

So my first marathon in a year was this weekend...in short, it was a race gone bad. A few days before I started feeling vaguely fluish, but kept pushing the thought aside. If I don't think it, it can't happen, right? So after a couple of days of sore eyes, sore skin, and drenching night sweats, I stupidly headed out Sunday morning for the 8 am start. I was all excited with my new Garmin 305 strapped to my arm. The first hour was actually pretty good! I was right on pace, but then thin

healthygirl

May 20, 2008

nikky's Blog

Camping Trip

Im going camping soon Im going for an award called the Duke of Edinbrugh, should be fun but challenging, i have no idea what im going to eat though lol. We are going for 2 days and 1 night and have to split into groups and then fend for ourselves, we have to find the campsite ourselves, set up the tents, cook etc without any help, there will be teachers around but only for safety purposes. I just hope i dont get lost.

nikky

May 18, 2008

Gluten-free Blog

So I have been researching and adding things to my blog, which has a gluten-free tag to keep all the gluten-free posts together. Open Original Shared Link (look for the gluten-free tag) I read two books last night (kid books) and posted some information from them that I wanted to keep. And, I posted some links. Nothing else new at this point in time. Still need to clean/organize the kitchen. In a way we are lucky that we have this time to prepare. I realize not everyone gets that

May 16, 2008

125 Plan

Celiacs qualify for the 125 plan at work where you pretax spending! I get to pretax the DIFFERENCE of cost in gluten free items and regular gluteny items of similar food types. I'm about to sign up for it. I have to get a letter from my doctor to qualify me. The woman also told me I have to get a copy of a price list from a grocery store to show comparable gluten versions of the stuff I buy. BOY does that sound FUN!! Well, at least I used the 125 plan a couple years ago for my few but expe

May 16, 2008

Amusement Parks

Looks like Holiday World wins so far as being the most gluten-free friendly park near us. That's actually a good thing since that has become our yearly family vacation spot with my inlaws. I bookmarked their food/restaurant page for future reference. Looks like Cedar Point, otoh, has no gluten-free food.

May 13, 2008

Granny Garbonzo's Blog

Albany/corvallis Oregon gluten-free Seeking Others In Area

I would really like to meet other people in the Albany/Corvallis Oregon area. I am active and have eaten gluten-free and cooked for a gluten-free family for 20 years. Would love to help out newbies with questions or share life or food experiences with others who are gluten-free.

Granny Garbonzo

May 12, 2008

Not So Clever Deception

My not-so-personal, so-called Life...Well, things the boyfriend was saying hadn't been adding up. He began staying up weird hours. He had no trouble spontaneously getting off work to go on trips with me. His responses to "how was your day" didn't make sense. So, I decided to call his work and found out he was no longer employed there. And, of course, he hadn't told me. So, my mysterious scorpio traits kicked in, and I kept this secret. I sat beside him as he'd call his "sarge" and call of

A Little History - My Celiac Disease Diagnosis

May 10, 2008

Eating Out Gluten-Free and Without Fear

Now...I've been intending to sit down every evening for the past two weeks and post a new entry, but the time slips away...warm evenings have caused me to linger a bit too long in my backyard, but it's been worth it. In addition to this blog, as I mentioned last month, I've become an author on Celiac.com's website which is really exciting, but finding the time between working full-time, having a social life and exercising, and researching Celiac news, and...well, you get the picture. I need like

Aimee Eiguren

May 7, 2008

healthygirl's Blog

Getting Ready To Run

I am 1 1/2 weeks away from my first gluten free marathon. I really don't think food wise it will be any different than the others I have done. I use Cliff Bloks and Power Gels as food during the run...I had found previously I could tolerate Power Bars as well, but I think they have oat flour...if they don't I'll probably start using those for my next round of training. I am gunning for a sub 4 hour time, so we'll see how it goes. My PB is 4:00:21 so if I shave even 30 seconds off my time I'l

healthygirl

May 6, 2008

Cocerned husband's Blog

Help Finding A Good Gastro In Washington State!

My wife has Celiacs. She was diagnoised 5 years ago. Last year she started to have seaver lower right quadrant pain. she went to the gastro that diagnced her. he did a colonocopy and found that she had a cycset in her colon. it was removed but that did not relive her pain. So he refered her to a doctor at Virginia Mason in Seattle. well that guy did 3 colonocopys 2 indocoopys. a time trnasit study, that camera pill study, a doulble ballon Coloncopy, 3 CT sacans . After all that. all he could say

Cocerned husband

May 5, 2008

Motivation

If the spring weather hasn

How do I get the Celiac.com podcast on my mp3 player?

May 4, 2008

Q: So how do I get this podcast file on to my ipod or other mp3 player? A: There are so many ways to do this. First, if you're using a Windows computer, use the right-click (you can learn a lot about what's going on by highlighting things and right-clicking them) to "download link target" and let it download on to your desktop. If you don't see "download link target" but you do see "save link as," that means that your browser just sees the link to the file and not the actual mp3. You'll hav

Celiac.com Podcast Edition

May 2, 2008

So Much To Learn!

Wow, I had no idea that you had to even worry about SHAMPOO!! Something I just basically take for granted, but apparently I will have to make sure that my stepdaughter's shampoo and hair products are gluten-free. I'm honestly beginning to wonder how ppl afford such a restrictive allergy. I mean, we are a family of 7 when all are here. MOST of the time we are a family of 5. If she comes to live with us full time, which it sounds like she will be, we will have 6 here full time. (The 7th child

May 1, 2008

Preparation

So, I am thinking about when YSD is here and what needs to be done before she arrives. I wish I knew for sure if she would be LIVING here full time or here just for a month, because I probably would not go to as much effort to change as much for a short time span... but I also don't want to wait til the last minute to start changing things. I thought I'd make a list of sorts to get me on track and keep me on track. go through pantry and freezers, finding gluten-free foods we already have

April 30, 2008

Newbie To gluten-free

We recently found out my 14 year old stepdaughter has celiacs disease. My goal is to find gluten-free recipes I can cook that will feed us all without breaking the bank to do it... or finding gluten-free foods similar to what we normally eat and making it normal for us and making her gluten-free portion separate. For example, spaghetti. I can make two pots, one regular and one with gluten-free pasta. To me that makes more sense and should be less expensive, hopefully. Anyway, I am hopi

Yummy or Yucky Gluten-Free Foods

April 30, 2008

Southern California Stops for Celiacs

Awareness of Celiac disease is spreading, by Joe, and restaurants are taking full advantage of the added patronage! Some stops that are required for the weary traveller, or simply the local resident, are listed below: In N Out- Now, I know they have these guys all up and down the coast, but the one in Laguna Niguel is very aware of Celiacs' needs (I go there all the time, and they are more than willing to accomodate)! Skosh Monahans. The owner's son has autism, and because of his condition, they

Katie Nelson

April 30, 2008

Gluten-free Food Trials Cont'd

I've been baking and heating and knoshing and eating: 365 Pancake and Waffle Mix- Good, not spectacular Whole Foods Market Frozen baguettes- Amazing. A new favorite. 365 Chocolate Chip Cookie Mix- yuck Kinnickinnick White Cake Mix- yuckity yuck-o; had to toss it- "egg-y"flavor-eww! Trader Joe's Brownie mix (in brown bag)- good, but I reacted (and no, I didn't have milk with them) Kinnickinnick Chocolate Donuts (frozen)- ok, but I reacted (and no, I didn't have milk or other ?able items