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  1. home-based-mom
    Shay, I don't know how old you are but I am almost 60, so I was in school in the 1950's and 1960's. And you are right - it just wasn't like that then. Kids were not always sick. Kids didn't just disappear. There were kids who were described as "slow" and yes I do remember names even though it's been 50 years and I was not close to them. They sometimes...
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    I agree completely. When I was growing up, there was no autism, ADHD, and few life-threatening allergies, etc. But everything has changed. In the name of convenience, we have added a whole laundry list of poisons and petrochemicals and preservatives and who knows what else, in doses so low the damage doesn't show up for decades. As I told my daughter...
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    Hey! Small world is right! I'm afraid there will be no free time. We get in Friday afternoon (a week from today) and it's pretty much non-stop until we leave Sunday morning. I searched all over Abuelo's website for anything regarding allergy or gluten concerns and there is absolutely nothing. Their menu is posted, but it doesn't give any clues. I used...
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    I will be attending a short missions conference in Plano, Texas next week. I have been in contact with someone from the host church about food (it turns out she is diabetic so she isn't a total stranger to food issues!) and she informed me that on Saturday the group will be going to "Abuelo's high scale Mexican restaurant." I googled Abuelo's and it seems...
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    Put everything in writing. Go back over your posts here, add and tweak as necessary. Make sure the doctor has a copy before your appointment. Your first appointment should be a bit longer because you are new so be prepared to fire questions and answers. Hopefully you have found someone who is intelligent and not someone who doesn't want to be confused...
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    It's going to depend on several things, such as 1) How good of a job did they do cleaning it out? 2) IF they missed anything, did the bars in the package pick up what they missed - or not? 3) How sensitive is your daughter? If she has no problems with them, and continues to have no problems with them, then they are probably OK for her. HOWEVER...
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    There is nothing quite like a mother's guilt trip, is there? Anyway, you have done the right thing by taking her off gluten. How do I know? Because if her body did not have a problem with it, there would be no reaction at all whenever she ate it. The fact that she has a reaction just proves the wisdom of what you did two years ago.
  8. home-based-mom
    Has your bread been talkin' to my bread?
  9. home-based-mom
    Does it seep out of the ground like radon gas? Do you eat home-grown or locally vegetables, and if so has there been a soil analysis?
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    Yikes is right! Now you can rightfully say, "See! I told you I was sick!" All that has to be a bit discouraging after being gluten - and all that other stuff - free for so long. I hope that now you know where the problems are, you can speed down the road to recovery!
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    I'm thinking that if your daughter is throwing up "several times a week and has to take laxatives everyday" then she is either not as gluten free as she is trying to be, or there are other food issues involved. Either way I suggest a very precise and detailed food diary to see if you can pin point the problem because this is definitely NOT healthy! How...
  12. home-based-mom
    WOW! What a great solution! Who said one person couldn't make a difference?
  13. home-based-mom
    Are you bilingual? Being able to speak Spanish in Costa Rica would be even more handy than being able to speak Spanish in California - and I don't have to tell you how useful Spanish is in California!
  14. home-based-mom
    Dig through the "Parents of Kids or Babies With Celiac Disease" section. I seem to remember there were quite a few posts about very young kids with "morning mouth" and such pre-diagnosis. You can always PM the moms if they did not come back and post follow-up results.
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    Lately I've been buying organic grass-fed beef because I think it tastes better and is better for me. I get it at Costco. As far as the logic goes, yes it does makes sense that it would matter. It has been proven that gluten - along with whatever else the mother ingests - gets into breast milk and I don't know how else it would get there except through...
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    Welcome to this oh-so-helpful forum! I can't answer all of your questions, but I can get you started. Gluten is found in wheat, barley, and rye. For various reasons, many gluten-intolerant people also cannot eat oats. Nowhere on that very short list do you see chocolate or sardines. In fact, if you shop around the perimeter of your grocery...
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    They could probably put this on their website, but in order to put it on their product, the print would have to be so tiny that many of us would think it would be just a shaded area. Can you read the print around the portraits on paper money? Even with a magnifying glass I can't read it anymore. In order for GlutenEase to fit all that on the bottle...
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    The easiest way to avoid cross contamination is to get any and all gluten out of your house and keep it out of your house. Learn to cook gluten free. It can be more tasty and healthy and nutritious than what you have been used to. If certain family members refuse to go gluten free, they can buy it and eat it elsewhere - such as lunch at work. Your home...
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    I'm not in Africa, but the meats and produce you find in the marketplace are naturally gluten free. Baked goods can be made with things like corn, millet, rice, tapioca, teff, etc. I am guessing you will probably not be able to find pre-packaged gluten free bread substitutes, but what you make yourself will no doubt taste better, anyway! There are...
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    Then why are cooked foods so much easier to digest than raw foods? Inquiring minds want to know!
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    Just for the record, I have no connection with GlutenEase whatsoever, other than as a customer. I am not a shill for them or anybody else. I am a retired postal supervisor with a part time job at a mom and pop store down the street that has nothing whatsoever to do with food or health. As I said somewhere back there in the last 10 pages, I use GlutenEase...
  22. home-based-mom
    Here is an earlier thread about Taco Bell which should turn you off forever. Open Original Shared Link
  23. home-based-mom
    Hi, Nancy, and welcome! I think all of us are so glad we found this board! The answer to your question is, unfortunately, "It depends." It depends on how sensitive you are, on how thoroughly the manufacturer cleans the equipment, if the equipment actually had residue was the product in the package you bought run through first and therefore more...
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    Thanks for the reponses. These breads were both yeast free, so there is no real "rise time." This last one I may have mixed too long as well even though it seemed like much less than 2 minutes before the mixer died. I may not have baked it long enough, either, even though it was at the long end of the range. Tomorrow is another day! As...
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    UPDATE After several e-mail exchanges with a CSR from Bob's, it was suggested that perhaps I might have done too much mixing before the baking. That is possible as the egg whites did not want to be folded in! It was also suggested that I not try this recipe again as it was such a miserable failure. Bob's Baking Powder does not appear to be available...
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