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  1. FreyaUSA
    I've become a compulsive flour buyer (a new member of Flour Buyers Anonymous? ) Yesterday I found, and bought, Urad Flour from an Indian market. Today it was Yam Flour from an Asian market! Does anyone have any suggestions on what to do with either of these? Urad seems to be a type of tiny bean. Yams are, well, yams. Help! I'm running out of cupboard space...
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    I would definitely look into the enterolabs test for your daughter, but in the meantime, a very easy way to find out if gluten is her problem is to simply remove it from her diet. She may notice a difference in just a day or two. When I went gluten-free (without consciously meaning to,) two weeks later I was a new person. It is strange that something so easy...
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    Kimberly, that is the FUNNIEST avatar! My favorite hot cereal is cream of buckwheat that I make this way...for half the liquid called for I use a VERY strong herbal peach tea (steeped for several minutes at least) for the other half I use a sweetened vanilla soymilk. It turns out like peaches and cream! Then, I cut up half an apple into a bowl, drizzle...
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    Lol! I just threw away a box of frozen gluten-free waffles because, imo and my daughter's, they were horrible! I love the cereal (my favorite!) but the Mesa Sunrise waffles are on my never to buy again list. Oh, the flax ones are great! (As are the banana and the cinnamon apple, these three are the ones my kids all like the best.)
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    ARCHIVED Medication?

    FreyaUSA replied to FreyaUSA's topic in Dermatitis Herpetiformis

    Thank you, Bratcat, for the cream suggestion. I'm going to give the doctor a call today and get a prescription. And, thank you Maggie and Bratcat for your kind thoughts! Yesterday he went to school, but he's home again today. He also gets very depressed from the gluten (when otherwise he's a really upbeat, together kid) and, though he might "feel" good enough...
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    I feel for you, Deb! Someday, however, your coworker will suddenly be hit big time, be it like your husband or cancer or brain damage. If he has all the damage to his intestines, it really is just a matter of time. As irritating as he is, you should also pity him. (And pity can be so much more annoying to another person than irritation! ) With four...
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    Here is a teriyaki sauce that is absolutely the best! Better than any of the bottled kinds by far. This came originally from a website called Lowcarbfriends.com (I swear, the low carb craze has been a boon to going gluten-free for me. Recipes without flour, restaurant menus without breading... ) Anyway, I hope you enjoy this. I've used it on grilled (or...
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    I am not certain exactly what psoriasis looks like, but my eldest has skin reactions to gluten (as well as many other more typical reactions.) He tested borderline (or so the doctor said) with just the IgG antibodies (I'm STILL confused about this. Either he tested just below the cutoff or just at the cutoff, but the doctor said not to worry about it.) My...
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    ARCHIVED Medication?

    FreyaUSA posted a topic in Dermatitis Herpetiformis

    My teenage son has dh. Since going gluten-free 5-6 months ago, his skin has pretty much cleared up, almost completely. Unfortunately, since going gluten-free, whenever he accidentally gets glutened, his reactions have become increasingly more severe. Yesterday, he suddenly broke out in a sweat, starting getting a migraine, developed a full body rash of tiny...
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    I'm mildly hypoglycemic (without diabetes as an added bonus, at least) and your reactions sound pretty typical of this. I can't let my blood sugar drop out or I'm a wreck. I generally don't eat very much at a time, but I have to have something pretty much every two hours. A small handful of cashews or a little natural peanut butter on a caramel corn cake...
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    I use fine ground corn flour in a mix to make sandwich rolls and banana bran muffins. They turn out really nice! The mixture is 1 part each: fine ground corn flour, chickpea flour and soy flour. This flour is not extraordinarily fine, it's more like the rice flour from Bob's RM in texture than regular flour, so I always mix it with other, finer flours. However...
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    I like this idea! Maybe every Tuesday whoever starts it can put something like: Recipe Exchange for the week beginning 12/6/04 and put in your rating system? Oh, and make certain to put in the name of the recipe. I'll post something a little later! (I'm a compulsive recipe collector/trier. )
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    I often wonder this, too. Being on these boards makes me think there are more people like me (and my kids) than maybe there are. Then, this last weekend I went to a holiday party where there were only about 100 people. Guess what? There were 4 people (including me) with celiac disease. We were all stunned. Random sample and it was 1 in 25.
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    Yesterday I made sandwich rolls that I usually use a mixture of equal parts chickpea, soy and corn flour to make with just quinoa flour. My husband liked it but my son (who eats these for lunch every day) and I did not. The flavor was just odd. Ah well! Next, I'm going to try the Bob's RM rice flour, glutinous rice flour and asian rice flour mixture and...
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    I'll give the unpopular answer, yes, I would. I would make certain it was VERY clean (and then throw all removeable parts into the dishwasher after that.) When I first found out I was gluten intolerant, I didn't even think of buying a new one. I cleaned the one I had as well as I could (it was used only a few times prior to this.) As far as I know, none of...
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    An interesting addition...my husband's coworker just had her son diagnosed with celiac disease (and soy allergy as well.) They're from Nigeria.
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    I bought the Oster at Target. They are also totally fine about returns and have several varieties to try choose from there, too. Good luck!
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    I use an Oster delux 2-lb bread and dough maker. It has 8 different bread settings, one is "bake" where it will start baking immediately, one is "quick bread" that will mix then go through one rise then bake (what I usually use.) It also has a light, medium and dark setting. Anyway, it's not a very expensive machine, but after my ancient one died, I went...
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    I was about to write that I thought it was from casava but had a fearful moment wondering if I'd misremembered, so I looked it up in Open Original Shared Link
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    I use it as well, but also in a mixture. Since experimenting with gluten-free flours I find myself more and more nutrition conscious and quinoa flour is one of the best out there (with rice being one of the least nutritious.) I actually haven't tried it alone, thanks for the suggestion, I think I will. Oh, I read somewhere that because it is very high...
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    You know how you read things and suddenly a light bulb flashes and you go, "Aha! now I know what he means!" I've been reading about brain fog and thinking, I didn't experience this, but I lived with a constant headache for years and years that would often peek into migraines. When you said "hangover" and since I'm sitting here right now with a very mild...
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    Nancynet, I've been using DaVinci brand of flavored sugar free syrups (sweetened with splenda,) I called the company and they are all gluten-free. I've also been using the splenda packets never called them! Do you know if this has gluten? I guess I call the company Monday. (Maybe that's what's been getting to me this past week? I hope not.)
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    I blame my eldest for bringing on my symptoms. I was never the same after giving birth the first time . I have to say, for a traumatic event (there was a lot of scary stuff surrounding his birth) the outcome was worth it. My father was gluten intolerant almost all his life, we know this because he and I had almost identical symptoms (from intense childhood...
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    Eight months gluten-free and this entire last week I've been symptomatic! No idea what I've gotten in to, maybe it's something that has changed its ingredient supplier recently. So, eight months apparently is not long enough
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    Just because he didn't test positive with the biopsy doesn't mean he's not gluten intolerant/sensitive or even just in the beginning stages of celiac disease. I think that is one very good reason why Enterolabs testing is better than the biopsy, thier tests let you know if you are intolerant/sensitive. Otoh, does he have pretty typical symptoms? If so, he...
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