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  1. Takala
    The unspoken rule is, that even your most well meaning relatives are likely to have to go thru an intense learning curve before they figure out how to not gluten you, and even then they sometimes screw it up anyway. Cooking on old teflon or using old tupperware, or the same wooden cutting board for bread or the same toaster, for example. (you have...
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    He may not be in the dark about celiac, but he's not aware that his candle is burnt out on his assumptions about why cross contamination is not an issue for manufacturing AND labeling foods that may share production lines with gluten bearing ones.
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    I end up making almost everything baked from scratch for this reason. These mixes tend to: in the case of the Bisquick, or just run a higher chance of cross contamination in the case of the Arrowheadmills, for some varieties. ________ Buckwheat pancakes sans gums use equal parts of 1/3 each gluten free buckwheat, (I grind...
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    Finally the NY TImes puts up something on celiac that was not written by Snobby Food Trolls, Inc
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    Too much guar gum will act as a laxative for some people. You don't use much psyllium at all, and you pre soak it in water so it's already hydrated and "gelled" before mixing it into the dough. The directions on the bag I have for people using psyllium as "psyllium" fiber, and not as a baking additive, use about 3 times as much per serving as I would...
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    I need to invent a word that means "reaction to ingredient found in gluten free foods that is not the gluten." My lower gut has been kicking me for 2 days now because I ate "something" not made from scratch,(unlikely it was the Thanksgiving dinner, which we kept grainless, but more likely a brunch or lunch item, either some soup or a waffle. Only other...
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    Reminder that the beginning of this thread is from 2009. Your physician may be working off of medical theory from 1909.
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    Restaurants vary in the type of care they take to avoid cross contamination. I have happily eaten in every thing from a hole in wall off the beaten track with a really careful chef who came out to interview me on ingredients, to a chain restaurant with no gluten free menu but with a waiter who "got" it, and hadn't any problems. The worst hit I took...
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    ARCHIVED Did She Get Over It?

    Takala replied to Roda's topic in Doctors

    That's a moot point, what her "plans" are, as she will be too sick to implement them by that time, anyway, if she's actually celiac or gluten intolerant and does not start eating like one. Really no excuse not to get tested. Should fire her idiotic doctors while at it. Close relatives with celiac, relatives with celiac symptoms, and her symptoms, and...
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    The flour mixes I use everyday, I store in heavy zip lock bags in the kitchen refrigerator, because they take up less room that way. The ones I have in storage, before being opened or ziplocked, I have in the small spare refrigerator in the garage. I didn't mean to have a "spare refrigerator," but the first year we had the big, new one in the kitchen...
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    I gave up on the Campbell's juices several years ago, it was really disappointing, but I couldn't deal with the constant label changes, ingredient changes of the mystery thickeners, and potential low grade cross contamination. Their website seems to show they are marking a lot of it gluten free now, as of either late 2010 or spring 2011. Has Campbell...
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    I have the neurological form of side effects from gluten intolerance. Possible to have even no markers or not high enough on a scale and be truly messed up from gluten. Got the holes in the brain to "prove" it. I was never skinny nor had the chronic wasting nor D. I had some lactose intolerance by the time I was in my thirties. Therefore, it must...
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    What a p.i.a. ! I've tried the nut crust recipe off of that page and it didn't want to work without tweaking, either. You need more cornstarch. You have 3 tablespoons. This recipe used 4 tablespoons per 2.75 cups milk. Open Original Shared Link if you've got 2 cans of coconut milk you have about 3.3 cups "milk." The proportions work...
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    You can also soak the chia seed in cold water, and it actually expands and gels up faster. I put some soaked chia in pie crust the other day, trying to duplicate an old oil pastry recipe I had used for years pre diet change, and it finally came out okay. If I can duplicate the recipe several times, I'll post it. I didn't do a bottom crust, just the...
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    You should go over and check out Shauna Ahern's blog Gluten Free Girl and the Chef, because she has had to go egg free this year, so her newer egg free recipes will be adapted to that. The celiac auto immune reaction is a little different from the classical allergy reaction, so it will take longer for your body to stop reacting, because it affects your...
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    Uhm, ah, what does this stuff taste like ? If you want a crust that is sort of grease- crusted, you would lay a lot of olive oil down in the pizza pan first, maybe sprinkle with some gluten free cornmeal, then put the dough in it to bake until almost done. THEN you would put the toppings on it to finish it off, but you'd spread the top surface...
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    Congratulations! are you sure you meant 8 tsps of baking powder? seems like a lot.
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    Cut the bread up in cubes, and place it on a lightly oiled cookie sheet and bake or broil it until dry and toasted. Bake at 350
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    If any of these jokers were handling animals that weighed over a hundred pounds at birth, and had to halter break them, they wouldn't be thinking the anorectic look was particularly useful anymore. Our largest dog weighs about 130 lbs. (newf crossed with something else large) When we take him for a walk somewhere, sometimes other people leave their dogs...
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    Fix yourself a separate plate of food that is gluten free. Fix a common dish to take along and share with others. Make this one gluten free, and you can put some of it on your own pre - packed plate, if you want. If you're dipping out of your own communal shared dish at this thing, YOU GO FIRST and use a spoon you've brought along with you. Don...
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    I think you're a classic example of why I tell people to stop using lotion, soap and shampoo with wheat in it, if they are are getting drastic physical symptoms from it. Okay, to get you to friday if you cannot go shopping sooner - which I would recommend.... At least get a bar of soap that doesn't have that &&^%$#@ garbage in it! Take...
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    I would not eat the food. I only had day surgery, but I instructed my spouse not to let them give me anything. If I had to have stayed past waking up, I would have eaten food out of the emergency bag packed in the car. I do not have a formal diagnosis, but surgery is challenging enough, without them trying to kill me otherwise. I don't expect...
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    It's a bit bass ackwards here in The American Colonies with the comprehension of your parents could have donated to you your genetic material. Both my parents are deceased, and both had symptoms that could have been easily seen as celiac- related in retrospect, especially with my one parent passing away before the age of 50. Going back to what I can...
  25. Takala
    Some of that dramatic early weight loss can be water retention/bloat finally going away as a reaction to getting rid of gluten.
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