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  1. Takala
    Okay, you want bold ? Fri June 24, 2011 -What in the world is WRONG with GHIRADELLI for SCREWING UP THEIR CHOCOLATE BARS LIKE THAT over ONE LOUSY FLAVOR ?!!!!
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    ARCHIVED Frustrated With Drs

    Takala replied to milkmommy's topic in Doctors

    You're only 2 months in to this. You need to make sure you are not getting cross contaminated. You may have to evict gluten from your house. Including if you have pets eating it, there is gluten free pet food for allergic pets (that we humans benefit from). Keep a food diary. Write down what you eat, and how you react to it. Try eating a higher...
  3. Takala
    My computer is acting wonky so instead of risking losing the above comment, edit to add: If you can get a copy of Bette Hagman's The Gluten Free Gourmet Bakes Bread, that is a great classic book to have around, because a lot of these commercial baking mixes used her original flour blends. You can alter the "4 bean mix" for bread and add whatever you...
  4. Takala
    I know it's possible to duplicate the taste of a cinnamon roll/bun because Anza Gluten Free Bakery in Cameron Park, CA, can do it - and they're vegan, to boot. They also have the texture pretty close. Thank God I don't live really close or my waistline would be ..... I don't use much rice flour, and there are so many other types of flours/nut/seed...
  5. Takala
    You need to emphasize to whatever doctor you end up with that you had a positive biopsy for the DH, which IS the way celiac is diagnosed externally. Be sure to get a written copy of that test result. It's just a huge pain in the ***, when doctors attempt to go on "fishing expeditions" when they ignore symptoms and test results. If a blood relative...
  6. Takala
    I have a designated dish/hand towel, hung up higher in a slightly awkward place, but don't tell anybody I am also very fond of "pick a size" type paper towels. It's a lot better from a sanitary standpoint to wipe up areas with a dishcloth that is changed daily, so no guilt there. (When I was growing up, the dishcloth for counter wiping was sanitized...
  7. Takala
    That's wonderful news
  8. Takala
    Tangental topic: There was a story in the British media recently that statin drugs cause an increased risk of diabetes. What gobsmacked me was the physician they quoted for an opinion, link here: Open Original Shared Link who said patients should still take them because it's better to be a diabetic than to have heart disease. They've brainwashed...
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    ARCHIVED Mind Games

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

    One of the symptoms of being glutened is ..... a fuzzier thinking process. One of the symptoms of true gluten intolerance and/or celiac is that if you give it up, you do become more sensitive to trace amounts over time. Q. Is there anything I can do ? A. Yeah. Don't let socializing be an excuse for making yourself sick. There is the...
  10. Takala
    Request the actual test results, including the reference ranges. That's ridiculous. You know when you go to a lab, they sure as heck are VERY specific about checking for what the doctor ordered.
  11. Takala
    Has your son been really sticking with the gluten free diet, or is he being a teenager and blowing it when you're not looking ?
  12. Takala

    Brain Lesions

    Takala replied to jenarella's topic in Doctors

    I am/was one of the people with brain lesions and neurological symptoms resembling MS. It wasn't. How do I know this. Because by changing my diet, I regained much balance, and the feeling in my hands, arms, shoulders, feet, calves, and my vision improved dramatically, and I am no longer partially color blind in one eye nor almost night- blind. ...
  13. Takala
    I think you are supposed to freeze them if they aren't already, and if you are not going to eat them immediately. If Whole Foods had them frozen at some point, and then defrosted, they would tend to mold up pretty quickly. The only gluten-free breads I've had that didn't do that quick- mold routine is is the stuff I use with amaranth and almond meal...
  14. Takala
    Pica is caused by cravings for the missing minerals. Give the kid a spoonful of blackstrap molasses a day along with a gluten free multivitamin for children (B vitamins are tied into this) and that should help, once you get her off the freaking gluten. Get a new cast iron pan and dedicate it to cooking gluten free, and start making some food in it for...
  15. Takala
    Yes, there is hope of having your intestines recover after 53 years of eating gluten, but you have to actually want to recover. Eating gluten, when you are not able to because it triggers a severe intolerance or auto immune reaction, affects the function of your brain, as well. Besides subtle malnutrition, which affects mood, there can be actual brain damage...
  16. Takala
    The CA burger chain "In-and -Out" only fries freshly sliced potatoes in their fryers. You add your own salt. The menu is burgers, fries, and drinks. All eating out is risky. But some places are less risky than others.
  17. Takala
    The Lara bars are best slightly warmed from sitting in the car while you're busy doing something else.
  18. Takala
    I think I function best at whatever temperature it is not. I can't take either temperature extreme of very hot or cold anymore. Moved out of the midwest to get away from the subzero winter ****. In northern CA and the Pacific northwest unless you go up into higher elevations the winters in the valleys are not as bad, but they are wet. Wet. and wet...
  19. Takala
    We have "beer, pizza, and cookies" but they are just gluten free versions. Actually I don't like beer very much, and I can't do much sugar so lots of regular cookies don't really appeal to me, but we can have them if they are made with whatever we can eat. This isn't deprivation, it's just different. Re this depression thing: most serotonin which...
  20. Takala
    To roll pie crust, you can use 2 sheets of waxed paper and a drinking glass instead of a rolling pin. You can put cast iron in the oven on the cleaning cycle, then cool, scrub it out with water and a scritchy- scrubbie, and re season it. One time I wasn't sure about the last thing cooked in it not being cross contaminated, so I boiled vinegar water in...
  21. Takala
    I am wondering if pre - soaking the brown rice flour in some of the liquid in the recipes would help soften it up for this ongoing grit problem some of you are having. I am more of an almond/sorghum/amaranth/buckwheat/teff type of person, myself.
  22. Takala
    I have always used the garbanzo (chickpea, besan) flours since I bought her book several years ago, and noticed the same thing, if you add other ingredients, nobody seems to notice the garbanzos. I can't taste them, but onetime I was experimenting and finally created something in a microwave test that tasted awful.... I was sort of perversely proud of myself...
  23. Takala
    This should work, with substitutions, for a buckwheat based flatbread or pancake: Buckwheat Pan- Flatcake serves 1~ 1 heaping tablespoon of ground up toasted buckwheat (kasha) kernels (use coffeegrinder or kitchen mortar. can also use gluten-free buckwheat flour. kasha tastes better) 1 heaping tablespoon of gluten free chickpea (garbanzo...
  24. Takala
    That is a copy of the same JTA story with the mistake about spelt, a member of the wheat family, being safe for a gluten free diet. The problem with stories getting passed around the syndication circuit..... continues.
  25. Takala
    Go back to Dowgie Bowser's office and make them give you copies of the test results. They are yours, by law. ALWAYS keep written/printed out copies of your tests. I am living proof some docs will actually withhold test results, and make (deliberate) misdiagnosis. A certain % of us never test positive high enough on the blood tests available at...
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