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  1. AKcollegestudent
    I've been glutened, broken out in hives from dairy, and had more migraines from soy this past semester than could possibly be good for anyone. And this is with the nice idiots in the campus dining services striving not to harm me. At one point, I kept a count of how long it'd been since I'd gotten glutened--it never reached more than eight days before I had...
  2. AKcollegestudent
    I can eat the prepacked boxed soups that are gluten free by McDougall, but I too had a similar reaction to the tortilla soup. My solution has been to cook as much of my own food as possible; for me, it's easier to make soups and stews in bulk than to buy prepacked anyway. I also have a similar issue with fruit--I ate nearly an entire flat of clementines by...
  3. AKcollegestudent
    I'm 20, and my college, like yours, does not allow students to leave the meal plan. However, after a semester of damage, I'm in the process of getting an exemption. When the word celiac showed up in my life (again, as I was gluten-free as a child), I reacted like you did. But after going gluten-free? All I can say is that after a lifetime of baking, I'm still...
  4. AKcollegestudent
    Can I switch to your school? I've been sick since fall semester started because even after repeated discussions--and planning, and time out of my day--my school has not gotten better about accommodating my issues. Anyway, I'm glad that it worked out so well.
  5. AKcollegestudent
    Shot in the dark, but I figured it wouldn't hurt: anyone have recs for restaurants in Anchorage? To my knowledge there aren't many restaurants I trust (or could trust) in Anchorage, but I spent the past six months getting my kitchen and recipes under control; dealing in eating out was slightly beyond me.
  6. AKcollegestudent
    I'm heading to New York with a friend for Thanksgiving, and because the food situation's...let's just say "iffy" and leave it at that, I'm hoping to find restaurants that I can grab food at. Decent pricing is preferable given that I'm a broke college student. He lives in Queens, in Elmhurst. I can, with directions, navigate the subway to most places,...
  7. AKcollegestudent
    It isn't the yeast, most likely (though there are those who have candida on this board)---it's probably the fact that you've never had bread or pizza made out of beans before. I react to Bob's Red Mill, but I also have problems with the legume based mixes more often than not. I have problems with BRM as well because the price is not reflective of the quality...
  8. AKcollegestudent
    First thing I ate that was "cheese" like? Nutritional yeast. I can also eat goat cheeses (to a certain extent), so I have fun with that. But the alternative cheeses like rice cheese, soy cheese, etc, often have casein or they don't taste good. (Or they have soy and I'm allergic to them.) I had a block of rice cheese in my fridge quite literally until it expired...
  9. AKcollegestudent
    I got to deal with H1N1 last week--it quite literally ate a week of my life and energy (which I never have in excess to begin with). I'm told by friends and others who had it that while we all felt like kicked dogmeat, I had energy issues for longer than they did. I wasn't planning on getting the H1N1 vaccine, however, partially because I react badly to the...
  10. AKcollegestudent
    I'd been using Rice Dream since long before I went gluten-free and didn't think to call the company for probably a month after I went gluten free. (It said it was gluten free on the box, and I never thought to question it.) But I went from no associated symptoms with the RD until probably that third week of being gluten free.
  11. AKcollegestudent
    I'm from an area with lots of small coffee carts, so I found one that stocked rice milk and stayed there. My sister works at Starbucks, and we figured out the only way for me to get something there was to take benedryl and hope for the best.
  12. AKcollegestudent
    First off, you're not going to be magically better in two months. It doesn't work like that. And it does take a while to get over a glutening, even though your body might not have recovered enough to give you really fun reactions to gluten. Secondly, I'm confused by what you mean by limited dairy--are you doing only "lactose free" dairy items? If so, how...
  13. AKcollegestudent
    I was this way when I was a kid---you'd feed me twelve times in a day and I'd never be full. But I was raised in a family where the girls learned how to cook before we hit preadolescence, so I could help feed myself. Being told that "parent A" didn't exist only to feed me made me grow up a bit and take responsibility for myself. It also helped me figure out...
  14. AKcollegestudent
    I'm dairy, soy, and gluten free, but like someone else said, I can have *small* amounts of soy lecithin. Don't ask me what my limit is, but I've clearly hit it today--I appear to have crashed into the barrier somewhere around the less than a teaspoon of soy lecithin level. (It could also be a reaction to goat's cheese, which I've never had a problem with...
  15. AKcollegestudent
    Okay, my mistake--I thought I'd made this clear. I've traveled to other people's homes before who would let me use the kitchen; the problem is that his mother is apparently unwilling to cede control of the kitchen. That's where my worries come from more than anything because even though both she and her son swear that poisoning me is not their intention this...
  16. AKcollegestudent
    Hmm...I hadn't actually tried anything other than Hemp Dream, which came apart in two and a half layers, but if I can find the Pacific (and given that you appear to shop at Stop and Shop, it's possible), I'll give it a try.
  17. AKcollegestudent
    A friend offered to take me home to New York with him for Thanksgiving, and end of the semester insanity aside, this seemed all right. But I've been reconsidering based not only upon a ridiculous amount of work, but also on the fact that I'm going to be away from my kitchen and the dining halls that I've finally got trained in someone else's home for almost...
  18. AKcollegestudent
    Come back and tell us how the subbing goes, as those are the substitutions I'd have to make as well.
  19. AKcollegestudent
    Nancy, I think I may have said this elsewhere, but have you looked into food intolerances? While the chief "problem" for me is celiac, I also have symptoms that were only resolved when I removed dairy and soy. I know some people on the forum also have to remove nightshades or all grains, including rice. I don't cheat when it comes to gluten, but I've experimented...
  20. AKcollegestudent
    Call them back and ask them this question: "Do you use barley or rye at any point in your process?" The answer, unless something has changed in two and a half months, (which was when I called them in tears from exhaustion and a migraine) will be yes. They remove the barley in the process so they don't have to list it. I remember being about five seconds away...
  21. AKcollegestudent
    I'm a college student in Massachusetts, but trust me, I know the feeling.
  22. AKcollegestudent
    See, the way I read that is a) in the sidebar they say that they do add it at the treatment plant and if their goal is 4 ppm, then they're adding a lot of fluoride to bring those levels up. I'm actually slightly terrified of these numbers right now and am now interested in the differences between where I grew up and where I go to college. ...And apparently...
  23. AKcollegestudent
    Yeah, no way in hells. I can't even eat something that has been on the same *plate* as a couple of crumbs. The idea of removing the breaded skin, while ingenious, makes me laugh--you'd still be scattering the bread crumbs all over the meat. And the fact is that the gluten molecules have already made themselves at home on that piece of chicken--they're everywhere...
  24. AKcollegestudent
    I'm not going to have a chance until at least Thanksgiving (yay essays and second-round-midterms-of-the-semester), but I'll keep you posted.
  25. AKcollegestudent
    It will get better, but that's not to say it'll be fun getting there. Have you tried eating meat, vegetables, and carbs? (Quinoa as a grain/carb to replace rice comes to mind.) Eating unprocessed foods without any other possible allergens was how I survived on an elimination diet for months. And I know that even if I didn't react violently to soy and...
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