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  1. Takala
    Your doctor is being wise and cautious. Folate is a B vitamin, and therefore if you had problems absorbing nutrients this could be a symptom of damage to your intestines. About 30% of the population carries the genes which could pre dispose them to develop celiac. Of those, only a small % go on to it. Obviously, having a close female relative increases...
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    Put about a half teaspoon of vinegar and a 1/4 to a 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda to each cup of gluten free flour mixture in a recipe. Maybe also a pinch of cream of tartar. You don't let it rise, you then just put it in the pan/bowl and bake it, or cook the pancake in the hot oiled skillet. If you can't do vinegar, you can use lemon juice, maybe a bit...
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    Welcome to the Rite Of Passage Known As Gluten Free Bread Brick. It would depend on the rest of the recipe, and what was in it, and what you did. Did you performThe Ritual ? This is why I make a lot of small things leavened with baking soda and vinegar. I will make a test batch of about a 1/2 cup to a cup of gluten-free flours in a microwave...
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    Takala replied to CruiseWriter's topic in Doctors

    Check and see if your meds are gluten free, too, as well as any vitamins or other supplements. Do try the gluten free diet. Celiac/gluten intolerance and thyroid problems are very interconnected. A shrink is not going to fix your malnutrition and hormonal imbalances.
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    Only 10 or 11 weeks ago ? I don't think this is "fibro," I think this is still inflammation from being gluten intolerant/celiac and generally having an auto immune condition that is not being healed yet. I have figured out a long time ago doctors have absolutely no freaking idea what so ever on what works with anything, as almost all of them do...
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    I don't use much of it, but most of my bread needs (I'm relatively low carb) can be met by making a pancake, a flatbread, a small skillet bread or a microwave bread in a small bowl, using almond flour mixes. Almond, amaranth combos done with egg this way don't need it. Buckwheat/potato/garbanzo pancakes don't need it, either, and don't even have to have...
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    It's easier to just rinse canned beans well, or soak dried ones in boiled water, then drain them and recook, drain again, to get rid of the starch, than to attempt to make a supplement work.
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    Shortest answer: the status of official diagnosis. All celiacs are gluten intolerant. But the current definition of celiac is that it is an auto immune disease. The current definition of gluten intolerant is undergoing massive confusion in the media, as the researchers attempt to split it off into another disease with another definition, since the...
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    I wonder what else they are doing wrong. With regular food or the drinks. You are lucky the waitress had a clue. This is call the health department to check them out time. They shouldn't have a gluten free menu if they are not bothering. There are lots of links online (including their own site) referring to their alleged gluten free menu, and lots of...
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    You may want to put in your sig line that you have a nut allergy -is is just peanuts or tree nuts or everything ? If you can eat sunflower seeds or pumpkin seeds, you may be able to mail order gluten free ones (watch out, as I have had a lot of trouble finding uncontaminated sunflower seeds in regular stores and even health food stores, way too many run...
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    _____________________ How to do salad dressing that does not need to be refrigerated. Take 2 cruet bottles, or a clean new plastic picnic condiment dispenser, like for ketchup. Put extra virgin olive oil in one. Put gluten free vinegar in the other one, such as pure apple cider vinegar or balsamic. Sprinkle on salads as needed. Add salt,...
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    Takala replied to ElseB's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    Invite her somewhere. BYOGFF. Show her how you successfully eat it, no, better yet, share it with her. If she does not reciprocate with an invitation, at least you've shared the guilt.
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    Your daughter sounds like a very mature person for her age. Turning down a few bites of dessert so she won't be acutely uncomfortable in a few hours. Congratulations. Q 1. Would you eat the cake? No way. Q 2. Any advice on talking to my mom? Call the cousin's family up and thank them for their hospitality, but emphasize that your child...
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    And you wonder why people learn to bake, at those prices ! For the price of 2 pre made commercial items, I can get 2 packages of gluten free flour ingredients and make lots and lots of servings of something that's fresher and better.
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    I grind the buckwheat, I like the toasted flavor. It only takes a heaping tablespoon for a flatbread mix. My husband teases me about the way I'm doing it, because I'm using the kitchen mortar/pestle, even after buying a little coffee grinder for it, but I broke my hand a few years ago and have had a bit of a time with working up to regular grip strength...
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    I picked up a loaf of the Rudi's once at the store, based on a gluten free review, read the label, thought WTF, and put it back on the shelf. I know I was at one of two stores which does not strictly segregate the gluten free from regular items, which is beyond annoying. I remember the label color had yellow/red color scheme. I thought, I am totally...
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    Hard as concrete probably too much xanthan gum and baked too long. Try this: Gluten Free Bay, Gluten Free Matzo (potato starch and almond based) Open Original Shared Link If you don't have almond meal, it is very easy and fast to grind up almonds in the blender, about a 1/4 cup at a time. Potato starch is usually easy to find in stores. The...
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    A shopping trip to the local health food store, which you can find by googling "gluten free name of your town health food store" may be in order. You can store a lot of things in the freezer, such as frozen gluten free bagels or waffles, for weekend use. Cookware that is stainless steel, or dedicated to cooking gluten free. This means a dedicated gluten...
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    What a bummer. Lost my original reply, grrr. I know this sounds counter intuitive, but try eating some good fats to feel sated, such as coconut milk, olive oil, nuts, avocado. Almonds are very versatile, (and can be ground up for almond meals in the blender cheaper than buying the flour) as is coconut milk and coconut flour. Also coconut oil...
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    Anybody who says "I saw it on Facebook" then tells me to watch a video to see what they saw, I don't bother unless they provide a full transcript and an explanation. Scare tactics which result in my supposed to be going "vegan" for my gluten free status health, I just laugh at. I'm more likely to run into gluten in processed "organic," or vegan items, since...
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    Cruel and Unusual !
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    At home, my husband takes a gluten free tortilla, large, and pre - crisps it in the heated oven. Then we add toppings to it. Unless he's in one of his territorial moods, then I gracefully retreat from the kitchen. Then the pizza is broiled to finish it. Makes a super thin, extra crispy crust. Several pizza chains around here (northern CA...
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    Well, anybody can claim to be a "Med Student" on the internet. I don't know if you saw my earlier rant on food trolls playing "shag the celiacs and gluten intolerants on the internet," and how I figured out what they were more likely up to, besides being obnoxious. Note the lingo. The lobbyists are very fond of that phrase "documented and analyzed...
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    Ah, two year olds. We had a baby foal years ago that would not take any sort of foal formula, and the mother mare was not producing much milk at all, and we were really in a jam. The vet told us to try anything that he would eat, because he was trying to eat hay already. (This mare was trying to eat solid foods at a very young age herself, which had really...
  25. Takala
    Their excuse was that on field trips some of the kids were bringing a soda and a junk snack instead of something else, or that they were buying junk food from the convenience stores on the way to school. Well, duh ! They're kids. What do you expect them to do ? They like sugar, candy, and junk! And fat ! Especially if they didn't get a high protein breakfast...
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