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  1. babysteps
    a friend who works at Starbucks told me she thought they were leaning in the direction of test marketing pre-packaged gluten-free snacks that would be displayed not with the food (to avoid cc) but with the 'products' - mugs, etc. stay tuned!
  2. babysteps
    My friend works for Stew Leonard's liquor store in Norwalk (across Post Rd from the main store) and she told me they now carry 3 gluten-free beers, at least 2 of them microbrews. I'm not a beerdrinker (wine for me!), but for those who are I know most of their prices are pretty reasonable so worth checking out if it's close to you
  3. babysteps
    FYI I had my eyes checked recently (hooray, no new prescription needed) and when I told the eye doctor that the skin below my eye used to twitch but since glasses & going gluten-free the twitching went away, he said "in my opinion the cause of eye twitches is almost always metabolic". He said the usual culprits are water and salt (too much or too...
  4. babysteps
    yes this happened to me, usually on my ribs - flushed, sometimes almost orange color with increased perceived temperature. Mostly in places that baked their own bread, like bakery/cafes - I wonder if it was airborne flour or something? Or just that I was eating a lot of gluten at once?
  5. babysteps
    quick update to this old thread - the french fries at Wilson's are safe! They use the fryer that fries go in only for chicken wings (to 'freshen them' after they have been barbecued with spice rub that is gluten free, nothing else is on the wings, no breading) and the fries. They do not make fried chicken (eg breaded fried chicken) at all. The fries...
  6. babysteps
    Ate dinner last night at Zinc restaurant in New Haven CT. We were walk-ins (no reservation, so no warning to the kitchen). The wait person said 'let me check, I think we have a list' - then came back & recited the 'no go' items; other items were either always gluten-free or could easily be adapted. About half the appetizers ('small plates') and all...
  7. babysteps
    I used to peel all my boiled eggs, now I more often cut them in half (well, cut them open, often it's more like 1/3 - 2/3 break) with a sharp knife & use a spoon to scoop/eat them. This would work with any 'hard to peel' eggs - but only before trying to peel them, lol ! The Brits use egg cups to make this easier; I just hold the egg on a plate with...
  8. babysteps
    I'm not a baking expert, but two ideas: 1-do you have an in-oven thermometer? Because I have had oven's built-in thermometers go bad - depending on the day a given oven could be 20 degrees cool or 100 degrees hot (!). Based on my experience, it is more common for an oven to be consistently 'off' (hot or cold), gradually more extreme for several years...
  9. babysteps
    The last 6 months or so before I went gluten-free I never felt full, was always hungry. Once gluten-free that subsided immediately. I still get hungry, but I actually feel full after a 'normal' amount of food. And now if I have a small snack between lunch and dinner (for me, usually a hard-boiled egg) I am not ravenous at dinner (for a while I...
  10. babysteps
    The USA Today weekend supplement that comes in our local paper (like "Parade" just from USA Today) did their annual 'recipes galore' issue pre-Thanksgiving. All the recipes in the Thanksgiving "Cooking Smart" feature managed to be gluten-free!! Not because they were aiming for gluten-free - but they were trying to be 'healthy' and low-cal, and the gravy...
  11. babysteps
    This sounds great! anyone know of a similar app for blackberries?
  12. babysteps
    if your gut is irritated this would probably be a bad idea, but for me a meal heavy in garlic (say, one-third to half a head per person) speeds things right along. Prunes work great too.
  13. babysteps
    Here is a Open Original Shared Link to today's NYTimes article "Quinoa A Protein-Packed Alternative to Grains". It is *very* short (a couple of paragraphs plus basic cooking directions), but obviously people found it interesting - I found it because after I emailed an article to my spouse, it popped up as the #4 most emailed article today from the NYTimes...
  14. babysteps
    I'm almost a year into gluten-free and feel lots, lots better - but pretty sure that I'm not completely healed yet. Lots of folks here who are long-term gluten-free mention a watershed at 2 yrs. For me, I started feeling better almost right away gluten-free, but it was a good 4-5 months of roller coaster on 2 counts - 1, learning not to get...
  15. babysteps
    not sure if this is exactly walking distance (may depend on weather!) from where you are staying, but in September I ate cleanly at Adega in the Ironbound district, there are many restaurants there, quite a few of them Portuguese or Brazilian cuisine. Address: 130 Ferry Street, Newark NJ ; 973 589-8830 Adega was not familiar with gluten free, but waiter...
  16. babysteps
    cat3883 - I hope that, like many of us, you will 'stabilize' -- and feel much better -- after a few weeks or months gluten-free. My experience is similar to mamaesq and Amyleigh0007: I am 42 and have weighed the same since high school. Except the 6 months before going gluten free, when I gained 8 pounds and a bloat and nothing would make it go away. ...
  17. babysteps
    I use neutrogena extra gentle cleanser and 'oil-free moisture for sensitive skin' Anyone have a good gluten-free, fragrance free, non-scratchy exfoliant? I used to use a.veda botanical kinetics (basically an herbal toner with salycilic acid), but it has fragrance - was the final fragrance-containing product that I dropped! I tried a gluten-free...
  18. babysteps
    This article doesn't seem to be on their website yet, but Connecticut Magazine did a 1-page story "Allergy-Tested: Where to eat when you can't eat everything" Despite the title, this is actually aimed at gluten-free dining! (First sentence: "Nearly three million Americans have celiac disease..." Anyway, restos listed: Elizabeth's Bar and Restaurant...
  19. babysteps
    Just called the number on the box, and the Nature's Promise (storebrand natural food line, we get at Stop & Shop grocery) organic chicken broth, beef broth, and vegetable broth are ALL gluten-free. My only question was the "flavor" ingredient. FYI at least the chicken broth has a "processed in a facility that also processes wheat, soy and milk" type...
  20. babysteps
    Caveat - I am not an expert on this, but I have cousins that farm, so here goes: Most hay is actually dried grass - hardly ever wheat or barley. Sometimes rye (according to wikipedia), depends on region usually - my cousins grow mostly 'timothy grass' ("Phleum pratense") in western Oregon, which is a true grass, not a grain. So as long as you don't have...
  21. babysteps
    Don't know about mixes, but if you use V-8, some Tabasco, maybe throw in some celery seed - you'll have a do-it-yourself gluten-free bloody mary mix. There are probably plenty of 'recipes' for such out there. I know you'll find something that works!! Happy tailgating
  22. babysteps
    canned chick-peas (aka garbanzo beans), whirl in food processor to desired consistency (will get all the way to hummus-smooth if you wish) - this is basically just bland hummus, since hummus is chickpeas with olive oil, tahini, lemon juice, salt & garlic - okay, there are a thousand variations, but that's the first one listed in wikipedia You can also...
  23. babysteps
    A few things that worked well for me when I was in grad school: Make a big batch of pasta sauce - in a (non-stick makes clean up easier) soup pot brown some ground beef or ground turkey with chopped onions, add canned tomatoes, fresh plum tomatoes cut in eighths, seasoning (salt, pepper, oregano, basil, or what you like), garlic if you wish. When it...
  24. babysteps
    Second that, once I went fragrance free as well as gluten-free my scalp & back (long hair) did MUCH better. I use Person and Covey brand, but I think anything gluten-free and ff would work for me. A Celiac Newsletter just mentioned that I think Dessert Essences has launched a whole line of personal care products that are gluten-free, fragrance...
  25. babysteps
    I'm not sure the airlines really get it 100% either, but at least in this case everything was either 1) raw, whole food or 2) fully sealed with an ingredients list. Even the raw food was in individual, closed (if not sealed) containers. So it was easy to pick & choose. Of course the main item wasn't gluten-free...sadly the meal overall may still count...
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