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At first (when I was first on the diet) it felt like the flu and quickly moved onto bloating and burping and horrible gas pain. Before the pain really set in I would feel distressed (despondent, I guess really) and just wanted to sleep, after about a few hours it turned from muscle aches to joint aches. Now, it's gotten worse - goes pretty much straight...

I don't think that you can be too paranoid when it comes to avoiding gluten. I say this after having been sick several times because I thought that the "avoid a crumb" and "beware pots and pans" advice was just going overboard. I can see how it might be harder to be so careful when you don't have intense reactions but unfortunately damage is still being...

I've gotten sick off of crumbs, but worse, got sick once off of just a smell. Actually I was taking a very deep smell of a plate of chicken nuggets - I probably breathed some crumbs in - very stupid move on my part. As tarnalberry mentioned a crumb can cause damage that you may not feel, though. My husband brushes his teeth after he eats gluten and it...

Wow, the little ones are contaminated? That's kinda scary. Butterfingers, Babyruths and 3 musketeers are safe , at least the normal sized ones.

Mike and Ike's.

This is an awful thing to have happen - I think that if some of these people (that lie) were faced with a person that had an allergy to peanuts, they wouldn't hesitate to tell the truth and certainly not have ideas about "just a little is okay". People seem to know about peanut allergies but it seems to me that anything involving gluten (wheat, grains...

I eat them like popcorn! I bought a tub of them when I was less paranoid about cross contamination and I guess I got lucky. The brand is "Homa" and they come in a plastic tub. Have never had a reaction to them and I am extremely sensitive (lucky me ). Like Carla said: pretty much bananas and sugar. Yummy!

I got it at Fred Meyer's which is kind of a west coast Kroger's. You can order it from their website, though. I tried their Biscuit mix and made Scones out of it (orange cranberry) and they turned out suprisingly well. It was a bit hard to handle the dough because it was kinda gooey (the xanthan gum, I guess) but I chilled it a bit and that made it much...

I tried (my first time) Bob's Red Mill gluten-free bread mix in my bread maker and it turned out really well. It's a little different than regular bread because it requires quite a few eggs but it was pretty easy all in all. I know this isn't exactly a recipe but you might consider it for a first time thing - those flour mixes that go into a gluten...

Concentrate on natural whole foods - what I mean is fruits, vegetables, meat, dairy (if you can tolerate it). All of these things are gluten free unless they're processed. I wouldn't worry about he "special" gluten-free food. It is expensive and takes a little getting used to in taste and cooking and besides living without all of the bready things...

Aargh! You're killing me with those yummy toppings! Thanks much for the recommendation. I had completely given up on having pizza again since I figured the crust is way too delicate for gluten-free flour mixes. Plus, gluten-free cooking is such an investment that I don't make anything unless someone says it pretty good first. Cowardly of me, I...

Naentzie! Oh I love it. I can just see the vein sticking out in someones forehead as they try to figure that out.

It's one of the few names that I could think of that had that "ae" combination in it. I like the way it looks.

Yeah that's perfect and thanks.

I've read what Penguin had to say and I'm very sorry to lose her but maybe it would be better to have a few threads and some discussion about what has degraded on the site. Speaking as a newbie, I'd hate to see experienced people dropping like flies (off the site) because things went downhill. I'm still a bit mystified by the degradation that is being...