gfkikamonster

I just thought I'd write in with a little counterpoint here. We all have to make our own decisions but what you described is exactly why I am willing to occasionally eat at places like Five Guys. I can watch everything they do and I am not afraid to refuse food or carefully explain why and how I need them to remake it. I have never had to ask for a refund...

Not a doctor, of course. But I have been diagnosed with PMDD and it's a lot more than PMS. Not only are the symptoms more severe, but they also cover more of the month. I have problems while I'm ovulating and for at least a week before my period as well as during. That being said, a doctor should be able to help whether it is bad PMS or PMDD. I have done...

I react to Chex as well, and also to the new gluten free Rice Krispies. It could be that they are glutened, but I considered another possible source: they all have MBT in them. I don't eat many foods with MBT anymore since most processed food has gluten in it (and much of the gluten-free processed food is "all-natural" or "organic" and doesn't have harsh...

Yeah, I would be afraid of how much worse my reaction would be if I ate that much. I haven't made angel food cake, but I make homemade pizza all the time (Chebe is an easy option). Also, a few years ago some friends were willing to have a gluten-free Thanksgiving and we made all the hard stuff (gravy, rolls, etc).. we used Pamela's Products Bread mix and...

I had an unused bread machine from back before I went gluten-free, and I used it extensively when I first went gluten-free (I had a particularly nasty store-bought bread first and decided I should be making bread at home). I haven't used it in a long time because I have switched to bread recipes that I bake in the oven instead.. Speaking of one of those...

That's crazy.. I've totally had them pass containers with ingredient labels over the counter for me to look at. It may be that you needed to be more specific (since Frappuccinos have a base and then lots of things they add in, rather than one big mix like they used to). But if he wanted to be more specific he should have told you that. IF you want to go...

I've never used Swanson's, so I can't speak to whether it is "really" gluten-free, but I've never had a reaction from Pacific Natural Food's chicken broth! And I see it everywhere around here, even at Costco.

Can you afford the brand name? Loratadine = Claritin, and I've had problems with the generic, so I switched to the brand name and no more problems. I get them in big bottles at Costco--it's still more expensive than the generic but cheaper than buying lots of things that all make me sick!

Thanks for sharing the warning about the tea! I am headed to Ireland in September and was planning to have tea while there, so now I know to check carefully. Also, I would love the name of the restaurant you ate at in Dublin with the gluten-free sandwiches.. sounds fabulous! I am even more excited about my trip after reading about how easy it was to find...

Depending on where you live, there may be a PF Chang's or a Pei Wei (they are connected). PF Chang's has a very large gluten-free menu (they started marinating most of their meat with a marinade that has gluten-free soy sauce so we can have it!) and I've never had a problem there. Pei Wei is more of a "fast food" type Asian place, and they have a much smaller...

I took the massive packet of multi-vitamins from Kirkland, which was labeled gluten-free, and I didn't have any problems. A small amount of cross contamination is usually enough to set me off. I have no idea about Nature's Bounty though!

I forgot to report back here. I took Gianvi for two months, then asked them to do my next refill as Yaz (even though the copay was significantly higher). Turns out it WAS the Gianvi causing my diarrhea. Joy. Then just recently I transferred my prescriptions to a different pharmacy and my old one didn't pass on the info about no generic.. so just had another...

I don't have a teen, but I have always been very picky about vitamins myself. I think because a lot of them made me queasy before I went gluten-free. Anyway, I started taking the gummy vitamins from Vita-Fusion. I get them at Costco, and they taste really good. There's definitely better vitamins out there, but if I don't take those better vitamins every day...

For bread, I was making Pamela's bread in a bread machine (which I thought was pretty okay, but nobody else really ate it unless they were gluten-free too). Then for Christmas I got the book Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day. There's only one chapter on gluten-free bread, but it's pretty amazing. You make dough when you have the time (I find it takes 3...