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  1. Takala
    Ditch the dairy. Re- introduce, cautiously and just the lactose- free versions, such as yogurt, butter, or aged hard cheeses, after about 2 months. If that doesn't work, wait another month or 2, then try again. No cheating. Really, you can't just take a pill and expect this auto immune reaction and gut lining destruction to go away, it takes...
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    If you want to really mystify the clerks at the American movie theatre concessions, you ask "can I please check the label on those M&M's before we buy them, to be sure they're not Canadian ?" You can see the wheels spinning as they try to figure out if Canadians eat candy or not, where does candy come from anyway, and why would that be a threat.
  3. Takala
    Sorry it took so long to get back to this, was outdoors yesterday. You take a small microwave proof ramekin, bowl, or soup or coffee cup, and put the single/double serving of gluten free ingredients in that, and bake it in the microwave on regular setting for anywhere from 1 min to 2 minutes, depending on the power of the machine, the cup materials...
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    Were the corn flakes "Gluten Free" certified corn flakes, or regular ones ? Regular corn flakes are NOT gluten free because they have barley malt flavoring. From my experience, a LOT of processed corn products here in the United States are cross contaminated enough, either the corn or the other ingredients, that a sensitive person will react. I can't do...
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    Yes, it gets easier. You're still relatively young. Wait until all these pizza and junk food swilling contemporaries reach their late thirties/early forties and their metabolisms slow down, they're going to look like what they've been eating. Since you're in a dorm, (ugh.... ) is there any access to any common cooking areas, or can you set up a corner...
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    Try to see if you can find a store with the Udi's gluten free bread, or try mail ordering it, which is supposed to be the closest to regular bread in texture and fairly good on taste. (it has one ingredient that I don't eat, so I'm limited to smelling it, bending it, and asking my spouse what it tastes like ) This would give you a baseline on what can...
  7. Takala
    You may be grumpy because you're still getting cross contaminated by your kitchen utensils and the glutenoid food as you work through the transition phase. Also, your physician must be thinking "IBS" stands for the "It Boomerangs Situation" where he tells people to keep eating crap that makes them sick, and then it guarantees a return trip in a few years...
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    M&M's are a Mars company candy, not Hershey's. In the U.S. in 2013 January, the plain chocolate ones are gluten free. I think the Canadian ones are not, but I'm not sure, as it's just the American ones I am seeing in the stores to check the labels on. "Smarties" here in the U.S. are not the same as M&M's. They are not a chocolate candy. More...
  9. Takala
    To the original poster, question being how have things changed over time - What I've seen over the past decade: There are a lot more people displaying symptoms of mild to severe gluten intolerance, and the processed food industry has responded to this, and increased the selection of gluten free food available. There are also more diagnosed celiacs...
  10. Takala
    What were we trying to make here, and what was the ingredients ? Got a link to the recipe ? If you are making a pizza dough, I highly recommend the Chebe, a tapioca based mix to which one adds egg and grated cheese, oil, and just a bit of water, which can be actually handled somewhat like a real "dough" if you oil your hands first and oil the pizza...
  11. Takala
    Everyone grows at a different rate, and if she is anything like other North American earthlings, she is going to be in a slow, near dormant phase now and start up again this spring. Sheesh! Doctors! I'm sometimes seeing photos of regular sized women with these 2 year old toddlers who are as physically large as what a 4 to 5 year old used to be 50 years...
  12. Takala
    Since you already have had the innards examined, maybe go quickly as possible, insist on having someone draw blood to run the celiac panel, and call it a day. If the results of the blood test shows up negative, so be it, call it gluten intolerance, and stay gluten free. You're done. You've tried. You can get a genetic test, but that just shows whether...
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    Chances are you'll have a much stronger reaction after being off of it for a year. Then you'll be wondering why you just did that temporary sensation for a week of brain fog, nausea, heartburn, & extra bathroom trips. Long term cheating means that you are at much higher risk of neurological and brain damage... imagine gluten antibodies running...
  14. Takala
    1/3 buckwheat, 1/3 bean flour, 1/3 potato starch - pancake/flatbread gluten-free flour mixture which needs no egg nor xanthan gum Some amaranth flour added to any mixture makes bread which does not go moldy in the refrigerator. Amaranth is a good ingredient in eggless recipes. The function of "egg" is to leaven (rise) the recipe, plus add some protein...
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    Maybe go to a different flavor of coconut flour cake, such as.... coconut ? add coconut extract and flaked coconut, plus the vanilla, and then just use chocolate icing ? Maybe try a different brand of cocoa powder? Or carob powder icing ? Or use mashed banana in the cake batter ? Don't give up, everybody has made something they thought was pretty...
  16. Takala
    Go to a doctor and get him/her to draw blood sample and send to lab for full celiac panel before you skew the results by being gluten free for very long. Very simple. He's got the symptoms, insist on this test, emphasizing he has symptoms of stomach problems, weight loss, and lethargy AND a family history. The cravings are also a symptom, but I don't...
  17. Takala
    It gets better. Give her some slack while she adjusts to the changes her body will be going through as it rids itself of the poisons. You may want to lay off of the dairy products for awhile, as the part of the intestines which gets damaged by celiac also is the part which digests lactose. There are many different milk non dairy substitutes, such as rice...
  18. Takala
    People are just weird about food. They can't imagine themselves having to cope with the same situation. And there are certain lobbying interests which pitch certain ideas through the media to reinforce that.
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    Hi and welcome.... uh, you do have "symptoms," it's the bone loss, early menopause, and bloating.... that's why it takes so long to be formally diagnosed, because of the stereotypical idea that it merely is a wasting disease and one is supposed to look pathetically scrawny. Italy is well known for having a larger percentage of celiac gene carriers, celiac...
  20. Takala
    I don't get it. Just because you are gluten free, does not prevent you from cooking for other people... it doesn't prevent you from drinking beer, if that is your "thing..." it just means that you are selecting and cooking with different ingredients, using different recipes, perhaps using different kitchen utensils, or bringing your own booze to a tailgate...
  21. Takala
    It is a lot easier to be on a gluten free diet all the time, as more people discover that they need to be. Humans have existed for tens of thousands of years (or hundreds of thousands... not going to get into the anthropology wars ) in their current form, without ingesting wheat, which is an extremely new foodstuff on the human timeline. By switching...
  22. Takala

    ARCHIVED Help Please

    Takala replied to AZGirl's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    Question 1 - your post is confusing. Were you diagnosed as a celiac by a medical doctor, or as gluten intolerant by a medical doctor ? How, exactly, does one get "undiagnosed" unless by medical incompetence ? Then, after a year of sucessful gluten free, you decided to go back to eating gluten in October 2012. You didn't have stomach issues, so...
  23. Takala
    Even after all this time, I only eat plain yogurt, never pre-flavored. If I want anything in it, I add it myself, from single ingredients I already know I do not react to. And I make sure it is as plain as plain can be, without added milk solids like dry milk or anything else, other than the lactobacillus cultures, because who knows what is in that stuff...
  24. Takala
    The best thing to do here is that you list out what the kid eats ever day at every meal, breakfast, lunch, dinners, snacks, and we then go through it and see where the holes are.
  25. Takala
    Perhaps he is waiting for the biopsy to come back before bestowing the "official diagnosis" seal of approval ? I really don't get the thought that the part of your intestines that got damaged by gluten in celiac disease is going to heal up in just a week and allow you to resume dairy that quickly. This is an auto immune reaction and it takes a while...
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