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  1. Good, thanks for the input. My thoughts were that the kids handled the gluten free play dough with their contaminated hands and then rolled the contaminated playdough out with the rolling pin. I know now, not to allow the kids to use my rolling pin on play dough, because I still see tiny specks of color on my rolling pin. LOL.

     

    But anyway, I washed it with bleach and soap and then threw it in the dishwasher. Hopefully that will be enough.

  2. Yep, as a general rule, almost anything put out on a communal eating table is unsafe. LOL! I've gotten Pyrex portable glass dishes with snap on lids and my thermos and that pretty much covers most food transporting needs. If I bring a dish to a potluck to share, I scoop out my portion first and then put it on the table.

  3. Okay, so I think that wood rolling pins aren't quite OCD friendly enough for me. LOL! The kids held the rolling pin and rolled out gluten free playdough once while their hands were contaminated by touching another gluten source and now I won't let the thing touch my dough. Maybe I'm being overly paranoid, I don't know.

     

    Anyway, I was thinking about getting a marble rolling pin so that I can actually wash the thing thoroughly if anybody touches it with gluteny hands. Does anybody have one of these? How do you like it?

  4. I tried this restaurant out yesterday, after we dropped a friend at Detroit Metro airport. Everything in the restaurant was vegetarian and they had many vegan options. They have a large gluten free menu and are GIG trained. They have a dedicated toaster in their kitchen for gluten free bread. Their fries are made in a gluten free fryer. Their bread is actually gluten free AND vegan, which is a rare combination. That doesn't matter to me, but for vegans or people with egg allergies, it would be great. They get their bread from Rumi's Passion Bakery. Open Original Shared Link

     

    I got nachos made with Daiya cheese, a grilled portabella mushroom sandwich with pesto, and sweet potato fries.

     

    Open Original Shared Link

  5.  People can be very insensitive.  However, a situation I find almost more difficult is well-meaning people preparing something for me, going to a huge amount of trouble on my behalf, only to discover that what they have cooked/bought still has gluten in it.  I am getting to the stage where I just feel it is easier to always have my own treats/snacks on standby.  A good excuse to carry a bar of chocolate in my handbag!

     

    Yes, that scenario is one of the hardest! 

  6. Yeah, I generally tell restaurant staff I follow a celiac diet, am gluten free because of serious medical issues, have severe gluten intolerance or something like that.

     

    I don't go out to eat very much. I either pick places that have procedures in place to accommodate celiacs, or I pick foods that are unlikely to be cross contaminated. (like a smoothie at McDonald's or a baked potato (with the foil still on it) at Wendy's) Yesterday, I went out to eat at a vegetarian restaurant with a large gluten free menu. They had gotten training from the GIG's restaurant program.

     

    When I go to people's houses or potlucks, I carry my own food, kept warm in a thermos. If I eat any single ingredient foods (like raw veggies), I put them on my plate before other people have touched them.

  7. Hi and welcome to the forum!

     

    If you almost ended up in the ER, due to accidental gluten exposure, I would think that a gluten challenge would probably not be worth it.

     

    Fortunately, you don't need a doctor's permission to stay gluten free. I've been gluten free for almost 5 years now (I ended up in the ER 10 days into my gluten challenge) and it's completely possible to follow a celiac lifestyle without any doctor's notes. I have neurological complications (had a TIA/mini stroke) from gluten and I knew that no matter what the tests said, it wasn't going to change anything, I wouldn't eat gluten anyway. The biggest risk for me in eating gluten for 12 weeks is having a stroke (and therefore getting permanently disabled and dying). I had a relapse of neurological symptoms after I let the kids eat bread in my house for a few weeks for their gluten challenge.

     

    There's no way at this point, that I would purposely eat gluten for any reason at any time. If someone offered me a million dollars to do a gluten challenge, I wouldn't do it.

     

    The main thing to watch for, if you decide to practice a gluten free lifestyle without a celiac diagnosis, is cross contamination. I see so many people (who haven't even properly ruled celiac out) say, "Oh I'm not celiac, so I don't have to really be careful about cross contamination." If a person has decided to forgo celiac testing, it's better to just live as a celiac and be 100% gluten free.

  8. Plain sushi rice (as in, dry out of the package) is gluten free. Additives that a restaurant adds to make sushi could possibly be unsafe though. But the rice itself is fine. I just bought a bag of Lundberg sushi rice to make homemade sushi and it is clearly marked gluten free. You can also buy rice vinegar labelled gluten free if you want to flavor your homemade sushi a bit. I make sushi a lot with just plain rice and vegetables and that is really good too. :)

  9. Yes, there's lots of good options both for food and toiletries. You select the interval that you want it delivered at and then you can always be stocked.

     

    I subscribe to shampoo, toothpaste, razors, toothbrushes, dish soap, dishwasher soap, almond flour, grain free cat food, coconut milk, sponges, vanilla, and organic hand soap. The advantage of subscribing to so many items other than convenience is that if you have 5 or more subscriptions delivered in a month, you get a 15% discount off of all of them. My almond flour and cat food are substantially better deals from Amazon, than using the available options at my grocery store.

  10. Thanks so much for your input, I will start trying to implement that routine.

     

    I think that I'm still on a learning curve, trying to adjust to having so many gluten eaters around me. I will definitely have to insist that they absolutely wash their hands and face every time they come home. So much easier in the long run to implement that habit than to deal with all the problems that come from little hands touching my gluten free food. 

     

    Stephanie, if someone gives your gluten eating kid a glutenous treat (especially one that's not intended to be consumed on the spot), what do you do with it? I would like to have a totally gluten free house, but it's challenging to tell my kids that they can't bring things home that people gave them. My kids actually got a gingerbread kit for Christmas. We took that over to a friend's house and iced the gingerbread men over there and shared with them. Some of the other Christmas cookies have made it in the house, though, and I would just rather not have them around. Should I wrap stuff like that up, put them in a bag, and throw them in the barn freezer, and then take them out for out of the house outings?

    I got glutened pretty badly a few weeks into the kids' gluten challenge and I'm really not wanting to relive that....

  11. All my kids are eating gluten now. (yay!)  It's very convenient when away from home, but as soon as they come back in the house, it can create some logistical problems.

     

    If you are gluten free and have small gluten eating kids, what is your protocol? Do you make them change clothes and take baths when they come back from eating gluten? Or is just hand washing and face washing enough? If they eat out at a restaurant, do you just make them line up and wash up before they come home? Or do you wait until they get home?

     

    I'm wondering if it's better just to feed the kids stuff outside the house that doesn't have obvious gluten ingredients, even if it's not guaranteed gluten free. Then at least they wouldn't be potentially contaminating every surface that they touch or lean on before I get them around to washing their hands. LOL! (the 2 year old is in a phase where sometimes she pitches a fit when I want her to wash up) I'm more worried about kids than my husband, because kids are more likely to drop food on their clothes than adults.

     

    Thanks for any logistical help that you can give, especially if you also have small gluten eating kids.

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