Meemsy

I'm in San Mateo (about 15 minutes south of San Francisco). Just wanted to give you all an FYI on prpobably the least expensive place to get your gluten free flours and noodles: Ranch 99 Market. I go there for all my noodles (rice, tapioca, bean thread, and sweet potato flours) and I get my tapioca and rice flour there also (rice flour for $.79 versus...

I am SO incredibly frustrated right now with one particular skin care company that I may end up screaming. Oh what the heck, I AM going to scream, "AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH"! Well, that was mildly cathartic. So here's the deal. I am the manager at an upscale day spa in the San Francisco Bay Area. We carry three skin care lines and...

I have spent the last several days working, taking care of the kids, and helping out with my mother in law who had a mild stroke last Sunday. No jokes about how she is trying to poison me with flour today...it would probably be in poor taste! On a positive note though, I got a package this morning from my mother (she lives in a different state). In...

Ah Tuesday...the day of the week that my husband and kids look forward to the most. Why, you may ask? Easy, it is what my son calls their "Gluten Filled Tuesday". This is the day of the week that the three of them go out and eat whatever they want for dinner and do not have to worry if it is safe for me, or if there is anything on the menu I can eat, and...

Let's see, it is 12:30 in the morning and I have to be up and bright eyed and bushy tailed for work tomorrow morning. Why am I up? Because I have stomach cramps that are making me feel like I am about to give birth. Since 7:00 last night. At this point I find myself praying for D...at least then it will get out of my system and the flipping cramps will...

...I finally signed up here and have spent the last couple of days trying to figure everything out! The information I have recieved from the posts and blogs have been incredible. Thank you for that everyone! My story, condensed and in a nutshell, is this: I have had digestive problems for probably 11 years or so. Nothing too serious, just the occasional...

I too have only suffered from a handful of "major" flareups (each lasting several months), other than that I would get the diarrhea (D) a few times a week. Until I went gluten free it never occured to me that it isn't normal to get D that regularly. The majority of the symptoms that I experienced were always explainable by other things...the migraines...

Okay yesterday (Sunday) I had: breakfast: the regular coffee with rice milk, Erwhon(sp) corn and amaranth puffs w/rice milk and a couple of dried black figs lunch: grilled chicken salad w/fresh corn and black beans tossed with olive oil and balsamic vinegar snack: a bowl of blueberries dinner: baby bokchoy stir fried in sesame/soybean oil and...

Thank you KarenB and GFpaperdoll for the info on the cast iron pans. I have my Gramma's set and have been using them for years. Last night I felt as though I had been glutened but for the life of me I couldn't figure out from where (since I cooked the whole meal myself with known ingredients). I just assumed it was something else going on with my body...

I never had much of an apetite before I went gluten-free, then again if my stomach was acting up, I would just ignore the hunger pangs. Since I have gone gluten-free I am RAVENOUS...for the first time in years I wake up in the morning and I actually want, no need, to eat breakfast. What I am doing now is eating several small meals throughout the day instead...

I have seen so many people here who have struggled to get a diagnosis, and I find myself thinking back to all the ridiculous things I have been told by various doctors over the years. Just wondering what the best advice/opinion you recieved from you doctor, and what was the absolute, most God awful thing you have heard? The best advice I got was just...

This is my first Friday weigh in. I'm at 155 (up from 146 about 6 weeks ago)....AAAAAARGH!!! Yesterday I had: my normal morning coffee with rice milk one Glutino blueberry breakfast bar and a bowl of rasberries (breakfast) a roasted turkey and hummus wrap for lunch (I used a Vietnamese rice wrap, SO good and the hubby's idea!) an apple for a snack...

My mother and I have come to the conclusion that it came from my maternal grandmother's side of the family. She was Irish and Scottish, she had horrible digestive problems her whole life, she had Grave's Disease, she was severely anemic (and iron supplements never worked), she was unable to put weight on until the day they removed her thyroid (and even then...

I have been gluten free for a little less than you have. Is it easy? Not by a long shot, but there are things you can do to make it easier on yourself. If I bake now, I bake gluten free only...that way I am not tormented by going through the trouble of making something for my husband and children that I can not have. Arrowhead Mills makes a great gluten...

Not only talked to the wedding planner, I talked to the bride too (actually the wedding planner told the bride I had called). Everyone was really good about it, and as it turns out the chef's aunt has celiac, so he is well versed in the food handling and preparation. Not only that, but the bride said she checked to make sure there will be something I can...