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Chrsitmas Presents That Come Back To Bite

Googles

By Googles
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I have been having trouble the last couple of days. Feeling lousy, depressed, D. I couldn't figure out what had been causing it because I hadn't changed anything I was eating (or so I thought). Then I remembered that I had started eating the candy that my aunt sent me for Christmas (I checked and it did not have any gluten ingredients.) Ugh. I don't know if it is something else in the candy, or if it has CC, but I'm pretty sure that is what is causing me problems. Well I guess I will have to give it away to friends. Too bad. :(

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I have been having trouble the last couple of days. Feeling lousy, depressed, D. I couldn't figure out what had been causing it because I hadn't changed anything I was eating (or so I thought). Then I remembered that I had started eating the candy that my aunt sent me for Christmas (I checked and it did not have any gluten ingredients.) Ugh. I don't know if it is something else in the candy, or if it has CC, but I'm pretty sure that is what is causing me problems. Well I guess I will have to give it away to friends. Too bad. :(

Funny you posted this just now because I've been thinking the same thing! My family always visits my parents after Christmas and my dad always has several boxes of different kinds of candy. I check the ingredients and didn't see anything suspect, but it has to be the reason I've been feeling bad. I know it can't be anything else because I've eaten only at home with things I've cooked myself.

Well...I guess the silver lining is that I can't eat all that candy! lol..

(shhh....don't tell anyone I have two Snickers bars stashed in my dresser)

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I have been having trouble the last couple of days. Feeling lousy, depressed, D. I couldn't figure out what had been causing it because I hadn't changed anything I was eating (or so I thought). Then I remembered that I had started eating the candy that my aunt sent me for Christmas (I checked and it did not have any gluten ingredients.) Ugh. I don't know if it is something else in the candy, or if it has CC, but I'm pretty sure that is what is causing me problems. Well I guess I will have to give it away to friends. Too bad. :(

> Hey, just wondering if she made the candy or bought it. You can always have cross contamination. Also check the beauty products you use (shampoo, conditioner..) because believe it or not they too will have wheat in them.

Good luck!

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Googles
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She bought the candy. There could definitely be CC in the production process. It just makes me sad. I should have followed my first instinct and given them to my brother (who also got the same present). LOL

I know my beauty products don't have any gluten, and I haven't changed those in a long time anyway.

I does keep me from eating all the sugar.

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I had an incident with chocolates. I forgot that vanilla could have gluten and wound up with repeated glutenings. I never checked if that product was or was not gluten free, or if I got cross contaminated somewhere else, but I skip that brand of chocolate now.

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I does keep me from eating all the sugar.

Doesn't it just! I got glutened the other day, and the only thing I can think it could be was the chocolates I had. My coworker showed me the ingredients first and they looked fine, but I didn't eat a single other suspect thing all day and with my office mate away, it wasn't even as if there were other crumbs etc around.

Or maybe it wasn't a glutening and I just don't tolerate dark chocolate so well. Either way, I'm not having any more!

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