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  1. Pac
    I wash everything I can and I am quite paranoid about gluten (I am allergic and gluten in the air and on the surfaces seems to bother me more than traces of gluten in my food), but I honestly wouldn't worry about packaged food in the car, especially when I'm not in the car at the same time. There is so much low-level contamination everywhere - door handles...
  2. Pac
    one quesadilla made with fresh tortillas from fresh masa, no MaSeCa. one "pear banana" (never saw one before so I just had to buy it) with plain full-fat yogurt. Small shot of tequilla cause I'm still stomach sick from some bug I must have picked up while travelling (seems like Quintana Roo's bugs like my blood type )
  3. Pac
    Does that mean that all the "safe" dextrose and glucose-fructose syrup and such have to be labeled as wheat derived as well? That would be great.
  4. Pac
    Do you always use xanthan gum? I don't like the smell and taste of xanthan gum at all so that might be what you are smelling. When I use comercial gluten free mixes, they always have xanthan gum and they always have this weird smell and taste. Bread I make from plain flours smells good. If you use tapioca flour, I don't think you need the xanthan gum at all...
  5. Pac
    You mention eating millet although it is a grain. Do you have any problems with that? I used to eat it a lot pre-glutenfree but now it seems I'm either getting ever more sensitive to contamination or I am slowly becoming intolerant to millet too. I started eating millet for breakfast year ago because it kept my sugar level stable, which wasn't the case...
  6. Pac
    I react to food from shared oven too. It was the only intolerance I discovered while keeping a food diary, only at that time I brushed it off as total nonsence. Unfortunately my body don't need any scientific evidence to get sick. It even goes further than that and gets violently ill from grain products that are scientifically proven harmless to celiacs...
  7. Pac
    Looking way younger than your age? Oh I can so relate to that. Once I went to gather some leaves for my stick insect and decided to stop at the local animal shelter and take one of their dogs for a walk. The lady working there handed me a consent form to be signed by my parents 'cause kids under 15 aren't allowed to walk shelter dogs without that. I was in...
  8. Pac
    I join the other posters, check for other food intolerances and allergies. I get incredible migraines from rice.
  9. Pac

    ARCHIVED Vinegar

    Pac replied to GFreeMO's topic in Super Sensitive People

    I get sick from vinegar and it is the gluten or whatever traces of the grains in it. The reaction is milder than that to grain distilled alcohol.
  10. Pac
    I've never seen or eaten Udi's bread and I have local brand (czech) bread machine so I can only add a few general tips that might help. (or might be totally useless, who knows ). My bread machine has 12 programs. I only use three: "rise" - to let dough rise in steady temperature (20-48
  11. Pac
    I was suspecting cc in rice flour and pretty much anything made with flour (bread, muffins..) the first year. Turned out rice gives me headaches much worse than gluten, some gluten symptoms like hypothyroid, brain fog, astma, bloating, and some extra symptoms like itchy rash. I think it doesn't cause depressions and ataxia. I react to slightest rice cc...
  12. Pac
    Mexico (at least most parts) is very very easy to live gluten-free, both for staying in one place and travelling without being able to cook. You can buy lot's of snacks along the way, there will always be a taco stand or a see-food restaurant where you can eat, or you can just buy fresh cheese, salsa and tortillas... DH says he met many mexicans who went...
  13. Pac
    I don't agree. Gluten-free diet is not restricting you from any type of food, it only restricts you from eating three specific grains. You still eat bread or any other type of food, you still eat other grains and seeds with similar nutritional properties. In this case, gluten wasn't any new food for the body (eating small amounts of gluten is enough...
  14. Pac
    Not just mothers. If you wash your hands with gluten-containing soap before making your meal, you have little chance of eating gluten-free. It depends on your level of sensitivity if you will react to such trace amounts of gluten or not.
  15. Pac
    Also, do you use any packaged herbs and spices? Sometimes these are contaminated even when they claim gluten-free - in my case it was oregano and carraway seed, gluten-free mixed herbs and of course paprika.
  16. Pac
    I stopped eating millet because it is very often cross-contaminated and practicaly impossible to sort. As for the other dry food, buckwheat and lentils are the most contaminated (at least here). Canadian lentils from 2009 harvest were the worst so far - up to 40 wheat grains per kilo. Usually it is around 1-5 in buckwheat and a little more in lentils. Rice...
  17. Pac
    I react like that to some cleaning solutions as well as bread crumbs, spilled beer... (I try to wear long sleeves when going out )
  18. Pac
    saute spinach with olive oil, garlic and onion. I put milk or cream in this but it tastes good dairy-free as well. Tuna and olives are nice. Or a pasta salad - with brokoli and sweet corn. Is there some egg-free substitute for mayo? I use just oil, it tastes good enough for me so I don't feel motivated enough to search for something better. (I use flax...
  19. Pac
    If you have allergy symptoms after eating wheat and claritin helps, then it's probably allergy. On the other hand that doesn't mean you cannot have celiac or gluten intolerance. Did you get tested for wheat or gluten allergy?
  20. Pac
    I don't like the last sentence either. As for why they are developing the vaccine, they make that quite clear on their website: "It has been predicted that 50-60% of affected patients will be diagnosed in developed countries by 2019, creating a potential pharmaceutical market worth US$8 billion."
  21. Pac
    When I was 13, I wanted my dr to test me for lymes disease. We lived in a high-risk area, I caught a pretty large collection of ticks during that summer and I was feeling exhausted for weeks, with high temperature, joint and muscle pain. It seemed quite a good guess. Not to the dr. He questioned me, then my mom alone, and then came with a conclusion that...
  22. Pac
    I do make my own flours too. That's the only way I am able to eat any baked goods. I'm allergic to rice and to almonds, millet is too dificult to sort and has lots of gluten-grains in it. Buckwheat is quite easy to sort and make great flour for both bread and sweet cookies or ginger bread. I make garbanzo flour and white bean flour - wash them, then soak...
  23. Pac
    I have exactly the same problem, especialy with tomatoes. My own and from local farmers are ok, from the shop it's a hit and miss situation. Now I'm trying to go by the smell and it works pretty well. If it smells like tomato, I eat it, if it has no smell at all, I stay away from it. I also wash and peel everything that can be peeled. Then wash it again,...
  24. Pac

    ARCHIVED Bottled Water

    Pac replied to Lexi's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    Vitamin waters can contain gluten because some vitamins can be wheat-derived. Never had nor heard of any touble with plain bottled water. I do have severe trouble with local tap water though, don't know why.
  25. Pac
    "The findings of the study also provide information for design and introduction of safe gluten genes in other cereals, which would conceivably make them both better in quality, and safe for people with celiac disease." This is so insane. What about people reacting to other peptides? Either allergic or gluten intolerant?
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