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  1. Takala
    St Ives facial scrub may not be gluten free, call the manufacturer and check. Lactose intolerance goes hand in hand with gluten intolerance, and may or may not resolve in time. Try avoiding lactose by eating dairy products such as yogurt or hard cheeses, or try going off dairy entirely and seeing if that helps. Go back to very basic foods and add in one...
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    That's a gluten reaction. They could have made practice cones and then if they aren't shaped properly they dump them back into the soft serve machine. mmmmm. Plus all sorts of other opportunities for cross contamination. And who knows what the manager knows about ingredients. Sometimes I eat a dilly bar at Dairy Queen if it's a pre packaged one,...
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    Carnation Instant Breakfast has lactose in it because it has powdered milk in it. Some flavors are now also not gluten free. Scroll down this thread to my username: https://www.celiac.com/gluten-free/index.ph...rt=#entry536584 and this one, click on the title if the thread doesn't expand: https://www.celiac.com/gluten-free/index.ph...rt=#entry50...
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    I am using a boxed, pre boiled, quick rice of a generic brand for the dog's food because one box makes the right size pot full of rice I need for the other ingredients. Every time I put it in the pot and it starts to simmer, a little grain or two of something else comes to the top, like a weed seed or a lentil, and I spoon it out. And I've used lots...
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    Soy flour is made from beans and is not going to act much like a grain flour, and some super sensitive people also don't like the taste of any of the bean flours in recipes using it. I can't tell the difference but I leave garbanzp bean flour out of anything I am making for a situation where it may be served to supertasters. Rice flour, or the standard...
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    Here is a post you made over 3 years ago, on Feb 16 2006 ___________________ this is from feb 28 2006 ________________________ On March 8, 2006, you posted that you recently discovered you had celiac disease, and had been gluten free for 3 weeks..... _______ Ah, the visiting the clueless relatives dilemma. Another poster...
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    I just went to the pet food store this weekend and checked Eukanuba's labels, and it is NOT GLUTEN FREE. I looked at many different flavors of Eukanuba, some with incredibly pretty pictures on the labels, with wolves and moose and whatnot, and all of them showed something like barley, which is a member of the wheat family that celiac and gluten intolerant...
  8. Takala
    Wheat gluten is just the protein inner kernel part of the flour, and it adds chewiness to the recipe. So you could use other ingredients that are high protein, like mashed beans and ground nuts, or even mashed potatoes, some alternative gluten-free flour such as amaranth, which is a little bit sticky, or tapioca, which is definitely sticky, and some...
  9. Takala
    Hello, Healed ! Open Original Shared LinkOpen Original Shared Link While somebody has been playing mightily with this article since the last time I looked at it, it still has charts showing how one of the genes associated with celiac disease and gluten intolerance is found in various ethnic groups worldwide, including Africa. About 30% of the...
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    My dear, you have to eat something. Or you won't be able to function, period. Especially on rice and sugar. You can't starve yourself out of this. You need protein, fruit, vegetables, and fat at every meal if you are going to pull this off. Otherwise, if you have allergies to the mainstay foods used in vegetarianism, and can't tolerate dairy...
  11. Takala
    It would be extremely difficult to keep one's self from being cross contaminated.
  12. Takala
    I eat raw undressed lettuce for breakfast sometimes, so I'm not sure I can help you. Othertimes I stir fry shredded cabbage or other greens in olive oil because this makes it taste sweeter, then I put a cider vinegar and some artificial sweetener (can't do much sugar anymore) on it to make a sort of hot wilted salad. This is a cultural thing from...
  13. Takala
    __________ Yup. Some of it does, from the vitamin E derived from wheat germ oil. And I felt like such a **** when I read that here, because I thought I was so amazingly clever and it never even occurred to me.
  14. Takala
    That study is flawed. It does not say what sort of diet any of them were on in that link. Were the people with the positive blood antibodies eating a gluten free diet, or not ? You said yourself in your earlier posts that you had trouble sticking to the diet, and I'll repeat my earlier reply that having trouble sticking to the diet is one of the...
  15. Takala
    Yes and yes. You can thicken it with mashed potatoes, or potato starch or dry mashed potato mix. Or thicken it with cornstarch, sorghum, or even ground up almond meal. You can also use other alternative gluten free milk substitutes as long as they are not too sweet, such as nut and rice milks. ( I had to knock down the soy consumption as it was not...
  16. Takala
    There are, actually. Cupcakes go directly to the hips.
  17. Takala
    Definitely sounds like Sjogren's syndrome. Dry eyes, mouth, sticky thick saliva, mucous membranes, lung secretions.... Jestgar, the reason some of us would like to be acknowledged as having this is that it is associated with having other auto immune problems, and the entire syndrome means that it will effect how a patient needs to be treated by a medical...
  18. Takala
    Cast iron: Turn off smoke alarms. Open windows. Turn on fans. Put clean cast iron in oven. Set oven cycle to clean. Burn off residue on pans. Scrub pans out and reseason. Turn smoke alarms back on. As for the bin, I would not use plastic that contained wheat flour for storage of gluten free grains, but get another one. Unless the rice was left...
  19. Takala
    I have multiple different side effects and other problems from a lifetime of being misdiagnosed. So I have no official sanction. If I were to be somehow officially diagnosed, now, in my country I would be uninsurable. I can't get officially diagnosed because some insurance conglomerate somewhere has set up criteria many people with the disease will never...
  20. Takala
    By law, they have to give you a copy of your test results if you ask for them. You paid for them, you own them, they are yours. They might try to bully you over the phone, but if you go back and tell them that, they usually cooperate, or if you go to the office and ask to speak to the manager and tell them they must let you have copies, by law or you're...
  21. Takala
    Snork. Yeah, if you put an entire stick of butter and enough sugar in rice flour, you could make almost anything taste halfway decent....
  22. Takala

    ARCHIVED So Confused!

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

    _________________ If it is an actual gluten intolerance you are dealing with, no, there's no such thing as being "mildly intolerant." The wheat, rye, and barley products would still be causing the auto immune reaction, no matter how small the quantity, up to a few crumbs- some people are extra sensitive and react strongly to even much less than that....
  23. Takala
    I don't know what country or what sort of medical system or insurance you are having to cope with, nor how much experience this idiotic doctor has with diagnosing gluten intolerance and / or celiac. I am appalled that he is ignoring a previous diagnosis of lactose intolerance. If a parent feeds the child dairy with lactose and the child gets sick...
  24. Takala
    ______________ (banging my head against the keyboard at the "Nutritionist" ) Where do these people come up with this. You are a wonderfully observant parent. Yes, Carnation Instant Breakfast used to be an option, but now some of it is no longer gluten free, because of the flavorings also, when one looks at their website. All that is in the stuff is...
  25. Takala
    No, but I felt a little queasy reading I might have to get some ginger to cope....
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