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  1. Susanna
    For lunch, here's what I like: Dinty Moore Beef Stew or Chicken and Rice Cottage cheese with cherry tomatoes on top, and a little black pepper on top too Rice cakes with peanut butter and raisins. (also good on rice cakes: cashew butter, almond butter, tahini) Cottage cheese with blueberry yogurt mixed in Leftovers from last night Zone Bar and a piece...
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    Good news--there is now a company (Gifts of Nature) providing the first certified gluten free oats. I read about this in Living Without Magazine. Evidently, these oats are grown in dedicated fields (as opposed to most oats, which may be grown in fields rotated with wheat crops), and they're processed in dedicated gluten free facilities. Most experts now seem...
  3. Susanna
    Hey, Lindajoy--I think that as you continue to investigate what issue you truly have, I agree with the others that you should go gluten free immediately, because the tests for celiac are not 100% precise. Meaning, your tests could come back negative and you could still have the disease. Medicine is not a black and white science. One theme heard here on these...
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    Wow--your sister is really sick--I'm so sorry to hear that. I would recommend keeping her diet VERY simple to start-- Breakfast: eggs. rice cereal. grits. Cottage cheese with yogurt stirred in (I also love apple sauce or blueberries or chopped fresh tomatoes in my cottage cheese). YOu can get gluten-free bread at the health food store, and gluten-free bread...
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    ARCHIVED New To Celiac

    Susanna replied to newg's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    Hey, Newg--Welcome to our world. OK, so this is a new thing for you--Know that it will seem overwhelming at first. You will feel isolated. You will grieve your old favorite foods. This is all normal. The good news is: it gets better! The bad news is: it takes time (probably months, while you figure out what you can eat and you adjust to the diet and your...
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    Good for you! Hey, so some of those additional foods you've elimated, you might be able to try again after your GI tract settles down and heals the damage done during your glutenous years. When I went gluten free, some things felt better right away, but lots of my symptoms persisted for months--I think it takes a long time for a stressed bowel to heal. So...
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    Hey, Angel42--You are in that tough time where you first go gluten-free, but you haven't figured out how to actually live that way yet, and your peeps have no clue yet. When I first went gluten free, it was so isolating feeling and I was hungry a lot and SAD sad sad. I PROMISE, YOU WILL MOVE OUT OF THIS PHASE AND YOU WILL FEEL PHYSICALLY AND EMOTIONALLY BETTER...
  8. Susanna
    Puzzling. Hmmm. Any chance you have Raynaud's Syndrome? I don't know a lot about it, but I know people with Raynaud's complain of cold hands and feet all the time. I'm a nurse, and I gotta tell you--people with autoimmune disorders in general (and celiac is autoimmune) complain of being cold a lot. Maybe do a web search on Raynaud's, and on autoimmune disorders...
  9. Susanna
    These are FANTASTIC!!! I made them and took them to my celiac support group meeting, and when they bit into the cupcakes, conversation came to an abrupt stop--eyes got big, smiles got bigger--everyone LOVED them! The texture is the lightest and cakiest of any I've tried so far. Thank you sooooOOOOooOOOOoooOOOOoo much for sharing the recipe! Susanna
  10. Susanna
    Yes, you could bake the pumpkin puree with eggs, milk, etc. and it would become a custard. If you follow the recipe on any can of pumpkin for pumpkin pie, and just bake it in a glass dish (no pie crust), you'd have yourself a nice dessert. Or, how 'bout making it into a creamy pumpkin soup? You'd use veggie or chicken broth, pumpkin, onion, salt pepper...
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    Kody--Sorry you are having such a rough time. I don't think you're crazy to consider a sabbatical (Mexico or otherwise) to attend to your health. I said something similar to this in another thread, but I think when you get birthed into a new phase of your life, as you certainly just have, it's fitting to treat yourself like a newborn babe--rest, sleep, nurture...
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    Oh, Mayster--what a tough time you're having--I'm so sorry. Know this: IT DOES GET BETTER! But it takes time. I was diagnosed 8 mos. ago, and the first 3 mos were the hardest, then a little better until the 6th month, then things got a LOT easier for me. Some thoughts: 1. A hurt gut takes time (months) to heal. So, know right up front that you are...
  13. Susanna
    What a great story--thanks for sharing it! My son, Tanner, has just been gluten-free for 5 months, but he sorted all his Halloween candy, then asked me to double check it--he did a great job in the sorting, and crowed happily about all that was left OK for him to eat and didn't bat an eye at the stuff I got rid of. I am thankful for blessings like this.
  14. Susanna
    Wow--the friend was terribly inconsiderate! I'd be mad, too. I think that since there is so little understanding of celiac disease among the general public, it's our job to teach about it--starting with our family and friends. Maybe you could say to this friend: "If your kid was diabetic, I wouldn't torment him by dangling a candy bar he can't eat in his...
  15. Susanna
    Hey, Brizzo--this will by my first gluten-free T-giving, too (probably true for a lot of folks here). Sheesh, the holidays can be so hard--families can be difficult (and not always very understanding), and there's such a cultural and emotional connection to food in general, but even more so around the holidays with all the traditional (gluten-riddled) recipes...
  16. Susanna
    Yes, there is greater sensitivity to gluten after being gluten-free for a while. See, gluten is an allergen to us, so all the time we were regularly exposing ourselves to it, we were making antibodies to the allergen. But now that we're gluten-free, we don't need to make the antibodies anymore, so when we're exposed to gluten now, we have no antibodies to...
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