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  1. lpellegr
    Thanks for the tips - I hope I get to use them! I was between jobs when I posted this so I was planning to go during the week to avoid crowds, but I'm starting a job next week and will only have the weekends left! Might be worth a try anyway, but I might not get there this year. But I'm definitely filing this info away.
  2. lpellegr
    I think Tom's of Maine lists their strawberry children's toothpaste as not gluten-free because part of the strawberry flavor is from vinegar. It could be just CYA for them, but it's something to consider.
  3. lpellegr
    I have seen research, but I don't remember where, that they tested several batches of oats from different manufacturers, including McCanns, and they did detect gluten, but the amount varied quite a bit from batch to batch. I'd avoid oatmeal entirely just in case. Pity, the McCann's Irish oatmeal was wonderful - one of the things I miss.
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    Good for you that you can cook! This is a much harder diet to cope with if you're used to living on fast food and opening cartons. Look into the South Beach diet - the start of that is carb-free so it's almost naturally gluten-free (just make sure to watch out for tricky ingredients like hydrolyzed veg protein and modified food (unidentified) starch) and...
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    I'm trying to avoid or minimize carbs, so here's some of what I eat (and it keeps me full a lot longer than grains): breakfast: rolled up ham and cheese slices, fruit hard boiled eggs sausage (make a bunch one day, then just microwave as needed all week) scrambled eggs with kale, bacon, and swiss cheese mixed in (bacon is leftovers, kale is cooked...
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    I buy the Clan Thompson foodlist for my Palm, and I love it. They update it about every 8 weeks and they will e-mail you in between if there's a change in something that you should know. I don't use it as much after 2 years gluten-free, but in the grocery store it's a help as I stand there in the aisle checking to see if this lunchmeat listing "modified...
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    If you search this site, some people have posted celiac-friendly restaurants, but they're usually the expensive ones not on a student's budget. There's a Whole Foods on South Street where you can stock up on gluten-free goodies for home, but your best bet for lunches is to pack. There are plenty of foods in any grocery store that fit a gluten-free diet...
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    The King Arthur Flour catalog has lots of good quality steel pans for things like hamburger and hot dog buns. It's torture to read that catalog because of all the goodies we can't have, but I love it anyway - it's like celiac porn . I'm sure they have a website.
  9. lpellegr
    A lot of the recipes using rapid-rise yeast have you add the yeast to the dry ingredients, while regular yeast is usually dissolved in warm water first. I think if you're going to use regular yeast, you might have better results if you dissolve it in the warm water with a teaspoon of sugar and make sure it's dissolved and starting to foam before you add...
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    I'd like to spend an overnight in Cape May, NJ for the fall migration this year, and wondered if anybody had any suggestions for a place to stay that accomodates gluten-free. A bed and breakfast would be lovely, otherwise I guess I'll just get a motel with a fridge and microwave and provide my own!
  11. lpellegr
    My problem is I stay hungry all the time. Does anyone else have this problem?
  12. lpellegr
    Marissa, keep at it! You will heal, and with time you will have as much chance at "normal" as anyone else, and will be healthier than all those people who have it and don't know it. To keep your weight down try cutting out most of the carbs and stick to protein and fruit and vegetables - don't bother replacing bread and cereal and cookies - just avoid them...
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    I'm coming up on two years of gluten-free life on 9/13, and as I look back I see it was worth it. The moment the doctor suggested that it might be celiac disease, a light bulb went off as all the symptoms fell into place. I thought it was irritable bowel, but he got it right. Here's what I haven't had in two years: No more waking up in the middle of...
  14. lpellegr
    After seeing what I go through to eliminate or replace items in my diet, I'm pretty sure my family would rather suffer their symptoms than be healthy but have to be so careful about what they eat! They admire me for my fortitude of character and unbreakable resistance to gluten-y goodies, but they don't want to BE me.
  15. lpellegr
    If you want less gritty rice flour, get it from an Asian grocery store - theirs is very fine, and cheap! I stock up at 3 lbs for $1. They also carry tapioca, potato starch flour, etc.
  16. lpellegr
    I mostly bake gluten-free bread to get the bread crumbs, although some recipes give me nice slices. But yesterday I had to laugh at my bread. I doubled the recipe for Bette Hagman's 4-flour bread - I made one loaf last time (for the first time) and it was beautiful, but after a few slices I made the rest into crumbs. Yesterday's loaves - when I opened...
  17. lpellegr
    I wondered about this too - I noticed a few years ago when I first had fresh beets that it turned my urine pink for a while. Now that I have been gluten-free two years I don't see much in my urine anymore, but I noticed some in my stool - maybe my intestine is less permeable to the color now that it's had time to heal.
  18. lpellegr
    La Choy soy sauce and teriyaki sauce are gluten free and should be available in any grocery store.
  19. lpellegr
    No specifically gluten-free restaurants on LBI or in Wildwood that I've found - I just stock up on gluten-free groceries and cook in the apartment, otherwise you just have to do the same things you would do anywhere else in restaurants and carefully pick gluten-free foods. There are always the chains - Wendy's, Dairy Queen, etc. If you go to a boardwalk...
  20. lpellegr
    I think Mr. Ritt's bakery in Philadelphia will ship you an undecorated cake. You can find them on the web.
  21. lpellegr
    Yup, you just scatter the dry cake mix over the fruit filling. The butter and the fruit juices will combine to make a sweet, crispy, crumbly crumb topping. Jeez, now my stomach is rumbling.
  22. lpellegr
    I tried the Comfy Cuisine ravioli and thought it was really good.
  23. lpellegr
    Yup, that's an old goin-to-the-beach-house-for-vacation treat, sometimes called "dump cake" because you just dump the ingredients together in a pan. Also good with apple pie filling. You could also cut the butter up into little pieces and scatter it across the top instead of melting it.
  24. lpellegr
    I'm glad that pie crust recipe is working for people, but the credit goes to Bette Hagman, and to my grandmother for teaching me how to make a good crust! I want to try it one of these days to make something like meat pies to put in the freezer - I used to love Amy's spinach and feta pocket sandwiches, and something like Hot Pockets would be nice. Mmmm...
  25. lpellegr
    I was diagnosed at age 45. I met a woman who was diagnosed at 80, after 8 years of trying to get a diagnosis for her symptoms. Yup, it can happen at any age, and either you had the symptoms all along and just didn't know what they were or thought it was something else and now they are finally bad enough to cause a problem (like anemia, vitamin deficiency...
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