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  1. MagpieWrites
    They work amazingly well in oatmeal cookies - since they ARE a little thicker than say, Quaker Oats, I turn the oven down about 25 degrees to what the recipe says and let them cook a little longer. I made two batches of these in the last few weeks : Open Original Shared Link and I gotta say they are pretty spectacular. I'm even fiddling around with the...
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    Ain't THAT the truth! My mom had an odd encounter a few months ago when she ran into her current and my old doctor while out at the store. Mom mentioned that I was doing really well... and had been diagnosed with celiac earlier in the year. The doctor burst into tears and actually ended up begging mom's forgiveness for missing it. Turns out SHE...
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    At the risk of coming across as a bossy stranger... in the words of my gran "Oh, Hush child!" On average it takes DOCTORS ELEVEN YEARS to figure it out here in the states, so stop fussing yourself with coulda/shoulda/woulda beens! You know, and that is wonderful. Yes. You can heal the damage. No. It isn't your fault. Not one single jot of it. (Don...
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    For what it's worth? No. Not really. But here's why. At about the 4 month mark - I was sick. Really really sick. (Dying actually. Brown recluse spider bites gone septic, septicemia, SHINGLES, my third set of wisdom teeth had come in... and had been causing a blood infection no one had caught for months. Not a good scene, I think we can all accept that...
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    Likely not for every case, but I have found it's often less of a case of trying to explain yourself to skeptics... as dealing with twits who won't drop it. Beyond telling the server that I have celiac and here are my needs - I really don't WANT to go into it at the table. But there often seems to be one soul at the table who MUST make it a thing. Either to...
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    Let's see... I thought at first I was the only one. But no - my grandmother (mom's mom) found out right before she passed from stomach cancer. Ditto my aunt (dad's sis - so Hey! Both sides of the family. Genetically screwed, table for one? ). Two cousins were diagnosed early - both of them have parents who decided the gluten-free diet was...
  7. MagpieWrites
    At home, and for most of his lunches (since I pack them, usually from leftovers!) my non-celiac husband eats gluten free. Only when out with his mom at restaurants, the odd fast food fix, and the rare beer does he eat gluten anymore... heck, when we go to out to eat together he usually eats gluten-free so we can share. Only change he's experienced? ...
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    I have to confess... while I'm cool with the smell of pizza, driving by the major bakeries in town will give me a royal headache and a knot in my stomach (to the point I'll even try to plan trips AROUND the bakery so I don't have to deal. Oddly... this means I usually pick the route with the sewer treatment plant over the smell of bread baking - people in...
  9. MagpieWrites
    Ummm.... I'm at just about the one year mark and am finally thinking I'm okay with keeping things on an even beam - most of the time. Had a moment of moron this last week (two bags of oats in the cupboard - one gluten-free, one just Bob's Red Mill NOT gluten-free. Guess which one I grabbed, make cookies from, and ate? Yeah. That bag... is now at my inlaws...
  10. MagpieWrites
    The best way I've found to help those who might also have celiac is simple - Lure them to the Wheatless Side. Come, we have cookies. And they are tasty! By that I mean, I really REALLY have made myself limit my griping about struggles I face when dealing with my celiac around people. My husband hears some of it, my mom on rare occasions, and you poor folks...
  11. MagpieWrites
    One of the nice things about vegan cookbooks is they can be pretty easy (as far as non-baked items anyway) to sub out gluten containing items. Rice noodles trade in easy for "normal", make sure to use a gluten free soy sauce, use sweet rice flour to dredge tofu to panfry, and stay away from seitan etc. The How It All Vegan books (even as a meat eater, I go...
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    A few websites and books to look at: Open Original Shared Link Open Original Shared Link Open Original Shared Link And this is a site with great gluten-free recipes, as well as SOME vegan and vegetarian recipes (but she does also use meat and animal products from time to time) : Open Original Shared Link Books - I own Flying Apron's Gluten...
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    To be honest, I'm not sure how much good my answer will be - I got seriously ill almost immediately following my diagnosis (brown recluse spider bites went bad, got shingles, and oh yeah... 3rd set of wisdom teeth came in and caused a massive blood infection. It's been... a year. ) so my view is likely skewed. I'm almost to my one year mark though, and...
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    Those sound great! I'm so glad the idea worked out so well for you.
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    While I can't explain it, I will say that until I found out about celiac my hands (arms, legs, body, heck... pretty much everything) were always covered in bruises. It got to the point that I really didn't notice when it happened, it would take someone gasping and grabbing (usually adding another bruise to the pile! ) while gabbling about "What happened...
  16. MagpieWrites
    As the weather warms up, I am less and less enthralled with eating hot foods. (By mid August, my husband will start calling me at lunch time to ask if I remembered to eat today!) So, I'm trying to find really healthy/tasty snack options now to start making that I can keep on hand and actually EAT before I do something stupid and pass out. Again. Which is...
  17. MagpieWrites
    I have a juicer, and as the weather warms up, I'll bring it out more often (I'm one of those people that when it's hot, I usually have to be nagged to eat. Juicing keeps the husband from yelling at me! ). But it will never be a daily thing for me, for a few reasons. One - they are a PAIN to clean. I don't have a dishwasher, so anything that has 8 parts...
  18. MagpieWrites
    That looks and sounds just amazing. I've been tip-toeing towards Indian food for a while now (the husband LOVES Indian) and this may just be what knocks me off the fence. Who am I kidding, I'm sold. Soon as I can get rid of my pesky houseguests (they of the "You aren't still doing that weird gluten free crap, right?" and "but, what are you feeding US....
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    ~shuffles feet~ Ummm.... in about a week, it will be up and I'm working on a cookbook. And I'm also going to start putting up videos of demo's on HOW to make the recipes (born from it would have been REALLY REALLY HELPFUL to have someone tell me the first time I made gluten-free bread "Oh, by the by, it's gonna look like cream cheese frosting -...
  20. MagpieWrites
    THIS! THIS! I actually thought I was ALLERGIC to the brassica family - made me so sick to eat them, that by about 14 I flat out refused to touch the dread veggies. Just the smell made me want to curl up and die from the associated thought of how ill I felt when I had tried to eat them. Than about 4 months into gluten free - the weirdest thing happened...
  21. MagpieWrites
    Had a negative on the bloodwork - My idiot doctors had me go OFF gluten as soon as the celiac question came up... and two weeks later called to tell me "Oh, yeah. You have to eat gluten for the bloodwork we are scheduling for you. You haven't stopped already, right?" Their justification for the screw up? Even though the doctor had gone on at length...
  22. MagpieWrites
    Glad to help! Just make sure to double check the ingredient list (yeah, yeah - I know. S.O.P for all foods once you have to go gluten free... still, a reminder never hurts! ) - really should only be rice flour, sometimes tapioca starch, water, sometimes salt. They can be found as : spring rolls wrappers, summer roll wrappers, or just rice paper. They...
  23. MagpieWrites
    I've gone, been assured they can handle with ease gluten free needs.... And spent about a week cursing my decision to do so, while curled up in the bathroom - more or less praying for death. (Each time I've been glutened its such a SHOCK. Twists my brain a bit because I can't believe I lived with feeling like this all the time before I was diagnosed with...
  24. MagpieWrites
    Fruit spring rolls - easy peasy ways to shovel in more fruit during the day. Cheap too (since I get the rice/tapioca papers at the local Asian market for about $2 for 30+ wrappers!) and quick to make. Soak the wrappers in warm water until soft. Slice up whatever combo of fruit looks good and is in the house (if using canned - drain really well.) Slice...
  25. MagpieWrites
    I make them pretty much the way I made them before celiac - its a thick batter, thicker than pancake, thinner than a muffin. After the batter rises for an hour or so, I cook them on a griddle using english muffin rings (you can use washed tuna cans that have the tops and bottoms cut out - but as those will eventually rust and can be rather sharp, I dropped...
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