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I'm sitting here eating a grilled club melt courtesy of Udi's as I type. My local health food store just finally got it in. $5.99 a loaf, but it's WORTH it. Very nice. Between this and my beloved Chebe, I've now got "bread" covered I think. I can do pizza, garlic and Parmesan bread sticks, and now, finally I've got a bread that's good for sandwiches! Yay...

FYI, the acidity of tomatoes changes as you cook them. Raw tomatoes are much less hard on the digestion than cooked tomatoes. Bad news if you have a sensitive stomach and like pasta sauce. Good news? There are lower acid tomatoes out there that you may be able to eat. They're the yellow and orange ones you see sometimes in the veggies section. Just stay away...

It may have been the Nature's Path cereal you ate. I'm having issues with their frosted corn flakes and their Mesa Sunrise. I looked it up and their cereals are supposedly gluten free but they are made on the same machinery as their gluten cereals. They say they wash the machines and throw out the first part of a no-gluten batch to try to minimize any cross...

I used to work in a Dunkin when I was in college. I agree strongly with what was posted above. If you are buying it from the store you'll need to check the bag but likely you'd be okay with the plain. (I'd buy that and grab your own flavorings to be safe.) I would not suggest you go to Dunkin and try to order coffee there if you are super sensitive. You...

I don't necessarily believe in the whole low carb vs low protein vs low fat diet thing. A balance works best for my body. I do find I need a certain amount of carbs and fat to function and while I make it a point not to gorge on either I do include them in my daily diet regime. I eat more fat than the Ornish and Pritikin type diets would suggest. I eat...

Does anyone know if regular Nacho Cheese Doritos and Chili Cheese Frito's are okay? The hot versions are on this list but I can't find the regular versions for all of them. I hope so. Doritos are a major urge thing for me at period time. Rest of the month I leave them alone but when I'm mega crampy and I need me some salty cheesy crunchies I usually will...

Well, I gave it up. 4 things of tapioca flour, a bunch of ingredients and several recipes later I can't make anything like a Chebe bread stick or pizza crust and I'm just not into eating bricks! For now I'm going with buying Chebe via Amazon. The cases there are actually slightly less than on the Chebe site and I don't have to pay shipping besides....

Well, 3 recipes later I still have not been able to recreate that tasty dough! Got one bag and 2 more recipes to try tomorrow night, but if that doesn't work I'm hanging it up and ordering a couple of cases of the Chebe off Amazon! So far all I've gotten for my efforts is a bunch of semi-decent tasting biscuits. I've tried the traditional on the stove first...

The Chebe Pizza mix, I heartily recommend. I've made it several times now, mini pizza addict here, and it's never let me down yet.

3 Worst 1. Gluten Free Pantry Bread Mixes. They actually looked great in the oven, but to actually bite into them was like eating cardboard. Complete waste of money. 2. Bob's Mill Pancake mix. The texture isn't too bad, and they are edible with banana, lots of vanilla and blueberries in but the garbanzo bean after taste thing completely kills this...

Thanks! Those look like they might work. I love the consistency of the Chebe, but the spicing on the pizza and the bread sticks is a bit hard on the stomach apparently. (Onions and garlic can be tough for me to process sometimes.) The regular mix seemed to work better, but if I am just going to go from a straight mix all the time I think I'd much rather try...

I finally found of tapioca flour locally and I am trying to figure out how to make Chebe style dough from scratch. I want to be able to make bread sticks, turnovers and and pizza crust that I can then season as I want. I love the Chebe mixes, they're very convenient of course, but I'd like to experiment a bit with tapioca flour dough and see what I can come...

I can understand people who cheat with gluten foods. I've been there with my addictions to chocolate and caffeine. I know I shouldn't eat chocolate or drink coke sometimes, waste my cals on that, but I still do it. There's this switch in my head when it comes to "forbidden" foods. Most of the time I am able to just forget about it, but now and again I get...

Well, at this point even my doctor has a good case of the gasps that's all I can say. For several years now I've been telling her I had hormonal issues, something that is very typical with all the women in my family. We all blimp out past age 40 for that reason. The thyroid and/or adrenals seemingly go nuts as we age, and it's been that way for every woman...

I got the idea of trying to make Cornish style pasties when I was looking at the back of the Chebe all-purpose mix yesterday and noticed the calzone/fruit turnovers suggestions. I thought they'd be perfect as a lunch food. Pasties are easy, portable, and will usually keep sans refrigeration okay for several hours so long as you wrap them in foil. (Anything...