BlessedMommy

So are the scrambled eggs at a continental breakfast often safe? I've always avoided them since I wasn't sure.

  On 9/7/2014 at 3:36 PM, mamaw said:

I too vote  not to use  it....when I travel &  places  have  a breakfast  for free, I usually take my own cereal, bread, muffin  , a toasta  bag  &  use  their  milk, bowls & use the toaster  after a  quick check to see  if  it  is  fairly  clean. Some  places  never  shake  out  of  the  crumbs   from the  catch drawer other  clean  it out  daily...if  it looks  fairly  clean  I  use  it  if  not  then  I warm my bread  in the  micro  on a  damp paper  towel again only  if it  is  clean....  Sometimes  they  have  sausage  or  bacon,  hash browns , scrambled  egg  patties,,, I do  ask to look  at the  box  to see  if  they are gluten-free.... I rarely  eat  that  stuff anyway... Oh  fresh  fruit  & sometimes  they  have a gluten-free  yogurt.....If  you  can eat  oatmeal  I  take  a  packet  of gluten-free  oatmeal ... A  company called  vigilant  makes  a gluten-free  oatmeal  that  is  good  & has  some  other  good  ingredients  in it.....it is  very filling....

I found something new for my kitchen kit! The store was having a clearance sale on a lot of cookware and I picked up a little mini enamel coated cast iron skillet for $4. It is very cute and small and fits easily into my kitchen kit. It's the perfect size for heating up a small can of chili or for cooking two eggs. 

We had a church campout this weekend where they provided breakfast. I did not eat any of the food there except the pure maple syrup. (I brought my own homemade waffles, peanut butter, applesauce, strawberries, and a couple of raw eggs to cook there) They had eggs at the breakfast, but their eggs were cooked on the same surface as pancakes.

So I asked to borrow a burner and cooked myself up a couple of eggs in my little pan. 

Wait, so it's a portable freezer?

I know where you are coming from, as I try to take care not to overdo rice also. However, cut yourself some slack, you've only been G.F. for 4 months and you're vegetarian on top of it. I'm vegetarian too and I know the extra challenges that come with combining the two.

Hang in there!

If it turns out to be soy, Earth Balance makes a soy free spread. Olivio also offers a soy free coconut spread. Open Original Shared Link

Looks like they have about the same amount of grams of sugar and they just replaced the hydrogenated oil with palm oil. My favorite peanut butter for home is Krema which is made of only peanuts, but I wanted to find something for my car kit.

Lundberg Farms processes all their products in a dedicated gluten free facility. I use Earth Balance buttery spreads on a regular basis. All of their buttery spreads are gluten free. A quick look at the Earth Balance website products shows that their only products containing gluten are their vegan "cheesy" crackers and macaroni. I see no reason why these would be processed on a shared line with buttery spreads.

I don't know as much about medicines. Hopefully somebody else can pipe in with info on your meds. 

Anybody have one that they care to share?

Gordon Food Service (GFS) has both food and non-food items.

Hi!  You are in a great place, I've found this forum to be a real source of support and encouragement. I would encourage you to read the Newbie 101 and make sure that you have a handle on the basics like cross contamination and what ingredients are safe or unsafe.

I went gluten free 4 1/2 years ago and just this year I've tightened up my diet in some areas and become more strict in avoiding cross contamination and advocating for myself, thanks to the support from this board. I think that my health is now better than it has been in years and some of my last symptoms (some that I had pretty much accepted that I would have to live with) are now going away. It only gets better from here! It's a gateway to a healthier and a better life. Being G.F. is hard, but for those of us whose health depends on it, it sure beats the alternative.

Welcome to the board! 

Honestly, I mostly get my recipes off places like Google and Pinterest. If I want something in particular, I hunt for it until I find something that sounds good. For example, this weekend I wanted to make a vegetarian waldorf salad with my Beyond Meat chicken free strips, so I did a Google search and found a Pinterest recipe to check out.

For my house, I have mostly non-gluten free cookbooks. I find that it's so easy to just make a few minor adjustments to many of the recipes. For example, my whole grain waffle recipe is easily made gluten free by using certified gluten free grains. (it calls for stuff like oats, millet/cornmeal, flaxseed, etc.) 

Many recipes like tater tot casserole can easily be made gluten free be using gluten free tater tots (Ore Ida, Cascadian Farms, Kroger brand, etc.), gluten free cream of mushroom soup (homemade or Pacific Foods or other options), pure ground beef or the gluten free vegetarian crumbles from Gardein or Beyond Meat, etc. etc. 

They weren't open tonight when we went to town, (they close at 8 PM) but I will definitely check sometime when I'm back in town.

Well yay! When I went to the store tonight, I went and looked over in the peanut butter section to see if any options had appeared and Jif has natural peanut butter cups! I did not know that they had that option.

So I picked up a pack of them for the road. Open Original Shared Link

Yes, you do need to eat gluten before being tested, but keep in mind that if you've been gluten free for awhile, your symptoms when reintroducing it may be worse. You should not go overboard and eat gluten at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. One sandwich a day for the 2-3 month period is enough.

I was unable to complete my gluten challenge due to an extremely severe reaction on day 10 of it. In hindsight, I could have improved my chances of completing it successfully if I stuck to 1-2 slices of bread a day and ate all the rest of my food gluten free. 

So really the only purpose of allergy tests is to confirm a known reaction to a food?

For those of you wanting to find almond flour cheaper, this place is a good option to order online. They charge just $5 a pound for it. (When my BRM bag runs out, I'm going to order, the BRM is over $10 for 16 oz)

It is definitely certified gluten free, they only buy certified gluten free bulk bags and then break then down into smaller quantities in their gluten free facility. (the owners of the bakery have celiac kids)

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Oh, I wonder if Gordon Food Service would carry them?

I wish that Earth Balance would come up with individual peanut butter cups. I don't eat Jif and I'm not super impressed with Justin's PB packets. They're okay, but I would prefer a cup design.

Yes, I did google it.

Oooh, it looks like Sam's Club may be a possibility. 

The kid one is really hard. I have a 2 year old and she likes to play "dentist" and put her hands all over my face so I totally get this one. Can you take the toddler to wash their hands and face after eating something gluteny? It's probably good hygiene anyway to wash up after eating.

Does anybody know where to buy mayo packets? (preferably Hellman's) I'd like to have a few in my travel kit.

It is hard, but it gets easier over time.

Welcome to the board!

Okay.

I do know that Jif makes a cashew butter. Probably they have a separate line for that.

It sounds like you have NCGS. (non-celiac gluten sensitivity) Either that or you could possibly be a seronegative celiac. There are a few people on this board who tested negative on a blood test and positive on a biopsy. If you are not too far into gluten free, you may want to try a biopsy.

The standard for diagnosis of NCGS is if celiac tests are negative, to remove gluten and see if symptoms improve. Sounds like you've already done that and they did. So regardless, you know that gluten is an issue for you. Congrats on taking charge of your own health.

I'm an unclassified gluten free person (doctors couldn't figure out the source of my symptoms and I didn't think to test for celiac until after I went gluten free and by that point, I had very severe symptoms when I put it back in and wasn't able to continue with the diagnostic process) and I've gotten to the point where I don't really care as much whether people think I'm following a fad. I know that I'm not and I know what gluten does to me. There's nothing faddish about taking charge of your own health.

Welcome to the board!

Yeah, the problem with Subway is that they touch the bread and then touch all the toppings with the same hands.