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  1. mushroom
    I can't imagine anyone being alienated by your offering to cook for him - I think he would feel that was a truly lovely gesture and be flattered by it. Pick the right time and go for it!!!
  2. mushroom
    I had several triggers -- I kept getting worse each time, and then would recover some. First was moving from a small one-room country school to a rough city school at age 9. Second was when I quit smoking at age 29 and I was introduced to Mexican food - couldn't decide if it was corn or wheat that bothered me (turned out it was both).. Third was a head...
  3. mushroom
    Invictus, have you had treatment for your depression? Sometimes going gluten free is not enough and you need some help to get you over the hump. It sounds like you are still suffering and my heart hurts for you. Do you have a free clinic where you can go for some help??
  4. mushroom
    That is a great place to start. Pay attention to what flours they use in the breads and which tastes you like and dislike. There are so many different flours used in gluten free baking and you may not like all of them. And be prepared that the bread is not going to be like gluten bread. Perhaps you could start making a grilled cheese or ham and cheese...
  5. mushroom
    Don't be in a hurry to eat at restaurants until you have mastered the nuances of the diet. Don't go running out right away and buying substitute gluten free foods for everything you are used to eating. Eat a mostly whole foods diet to start, along with a good gluten free bread and some gluten free pasta. Save the scrutiny of supermarket labels for...
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  7. mushroom
    Trader Joe's makes an Organic Hemp Protein Powder - Ingredients: Organic Hemp Protein Powder, Organic Palm Sugar, Organic Vanilla Flavor. I have used it for a couple of years - high in fiber and Omega 3's.
  8. mushroom
    I have some problems with spinach too. I substitute swiss chard. Of course, I don't like it raw that much. No green beans or peas either
  9. mushroom
    Do you tip the drained pasta immediately into ice water to stop the cooking process?
  10. mushroom
    May I suggest that if you think you do not have a gluten problem, but rather a bread problem, that you eat all gluten except bread and see what happens?? Load up on pasta and cookies and cake. That test should be fairly definitive on whether bread alone is causing your issues. If so, eliminate the bread; if not, then we can help you take it from there...
  11. mushroom
    I think you do know what to do, you are just having a hard time doing it. Has nobody talked to you about non-celiac gluten intolerance? This is where you cannot tolerate gluten, but you flunk all the celiac tests. It is only recently that the medical community and the researchers, including the "God" of celiac, Dr. Alessio Fasano, have recognized that...
  12. mushroom
    Actually, even being symptomatic is not enough. You can be symptomatic big time if you are that sensitive from just a crumb of gluten, but it doesn't mean that you will have a positive test. All the labs give ranges for their negative, equivocal and positive scores, and those ranges do not necessarily indicate the kinds of symptoms you are experiencing....
  13. mushroom
    I won't have electric can't cook on them, everything boils over or you turn it down too soon and it doesn't come to the boil
  14. mushroom
    Dave, sweet potatoes are not a nightshade
  15. mushroom
    Hi and welcome to the board. I hope we can provide you with whatever support you need. Yes, if there is one thing gluten intolerant people discover, it is that they have to do more cooking than they have been used to in the past. I once joked to a friend that if I want to make a pie with a cookie crust, first I have to bake the cookies You will...
  16. mushroom
    Yes, yes, we need good news. Sounds like you are on the right path.
  17. mushroom
    Your tests are negative, and you are a normal producer of antibodies. But one would expect the tests to be negative after four weeks gluten free. The antibodies do not enter the bloodstream that quickly (five slices of pizza in the three days before the test ) For valid testing it is recommended that you be on a full gluten diet for 6-8 weeks prior to...
  18. mushroom
    Here's some more hugs for you {{{hugs}}}}.. It can all be a bit overwhelming at first, so just bite it off one piece at a time instead of getting overloaded. Make sure your food is gluten free first, and in doing this it is usually better to start out with whole foods rather than diving right into gluten free substitutes which contain large amounts...
  19. mushroom
    Actually, to be honest, it has never even occurred to me to do it. Must be because gluteny stuff just does not look good to me any more.
  20. mushroom
    You may well be sensitive to nightshades. How do do with eggplant and potatoes? Those are the other two major members of the nightshade family, along with chili peppers and paprika (and of course the peppers and tomatoes).
  21. mushroom
    If you could manage it, I would recommend talking to the dietician ahead of time. I know, I know, some of them are hopeless about gluten; and you probably can't hope to luck out like I did (the dietician was a celiac), but they can help you and talk to the kitchen staff and give them a brush up on gluten free. The hospital I was in did not have a gluten...
  22. mushroom
    The first celiac panel test is measuring whether or not your are produce "normal" quantities of IgA antibodies, and your result puts you in the normal range. The next two tests are Deamidated Gliadin Peptide (DGP), both IgA and IgG versions; both of these tests are in the normal range, as are the IgA and IgG tTG (tissue transglutaminase). The DGP is...
  23. mushroom
    I have in the past eaten canned beets, home prepared "beet root" (pickled in vinegar) without problem. Last year I bought some baby beets and roasted them in the oven - with disatrous gastric results although hubs loved them. I dropped them from my food list. I just now did a google search and find that beets are quite high in lectins and quite extensively...
  24. mushroom
    I took her post the other way, IH, that the desperate lady is saved by having made these decisions, not that she was arguing with herself or others.
  25. mushroom
    Sounds to me like a case of her not standing up to her husband. She certainly doesn't sound lazy if she bakes cakes and pies all week long. Some men are so dominant it takes a bit to stand up to them and women end up being the peacekeepers in the family quite often to their detriment.
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