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  1. psawyer
    They are indeed gluten-free.
  2. psawyer
    It is a major pain, and probably not worth it. What you can claim is subject to the rule that your medical expenses must exceed 3% of your net income. The claim is made on line 330. Only the part that exceeds 3% can be deducted. Open Original Shared Link You don't compare the price of a loaf of bread. You must calculate the price of a slice...
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    This brought-back-from-the-dead topic is six years old. MSG is the sodium salt of glutamic acid. Glutamic acid is a non-essential amino acid found in the molecular structure of most proteins. The often asserted claim that MSG contains gluten is just wrong. However, gluten (a protein) when broken down into its constituent parts will yield some glutamic...
  4. psawyer
    Honestly, I think that there is a mistake in the label. I cannot for the life of me imagine how carageenan could contain wheat. It does, however, make me wonder about how accurate the other information on the label is.
  5. psawyer
    Another thought, going beyond the interview to the job itself. You probably already know this, but I'll throw it out for discussion. I have worked in sales support, and have been to many customer food events. If you are the vendor (sales rep) then you are the host. The host controls the venue. I took customer preferences and requirements into consideration...
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    Short question, but it needs a long answer. The ingredient list is a legal document subject to strict rules. In an ingredient list, each ingredient is delimited by a comma. Between consecutive commas is the name of an ingredient, which may be more than one word. When it is more than one word, the entire phrase is key to the meaning. Here are a couple...
  7. psawyer
    If you were allergic to peanuts, would you try to keep that a secret? Would you risk Open Original Shared Link by not telling the server? I believe that honesty is the best policy. If you hide it during the interview, you will still have to deal with it later. They may then wonder why you hid it, and what else you may be hiding.
  8. psawyer
    The first two of those sources are each just one person's unsubstantiated statement that lipstick is a gluten source. They do not provide specifics. The third is a discussion from this site which seems to identify two brands as having gluten, and one being "not gluten-free." "Not gluten-free" in most cases does not mean that there is, in fact, gluten...
  9. psawyer
    Really? There may be some out there, but "most" is, to me, an exaggeration. As a man, I don't use lipstick, but in following the discussions here about cosmetics I have not seen wheat in lipstick come up as an issue. Perhaps you could provide some examples of ones that do have wheat in them.
  10. psawyer
    The link in the prior post gets a 404 error, but I think this is the correct one: Open Original Shared Link
  11. psawyer
    Welcome to the forum. I had migraines for years, but they stopped completely on the gluten-free diet.
  12. psawyer
    Quinoa is by its nature gluten-free. Washing makes a big difference. You wash at home, restaurants wash their utensils and other equipment. Manufacturers wash their equipment. Manufacturers in Canada and in the US are expected to conform to standards known as Good Manufacturing Practices. Failure to follow them will seriously annoy the government food...
  13. psawyer
    Keep in mind that during the healing process, your damaged body may lash out at any time, without needing gluten to trigger a reaction based on past, unhealed damage. In the United States, there is no regulated definition of the term "gluten-free." It means whatever the person making the claim wants it to, or rather, whatever the plaintiff's lawyer can...
  14. psawyer
    Vinegar is generally accepted as being gluten-free, with the exception of malt vinegar. Malt vinegar will always be labeled as just that--"malt vinegar."
  15. psawyer
    Do you have a self-cleaning oven? The clean cycle should run at a high enough temperature (600+F) for at least 30 minutes, which would destroy any gluten. Put the stone in the oven and then run the clean cycle.
  16. psawyer
    In over then years on the diet, I have not found a cheese that was not gluten-free. I have not encountered the "beer cheese" that Karen's husband found, but it would be a very rare exception to the general rule that cheese is gluten-free.
  17. psawyer
    Caramel color is not a concern, at least in North America. It's one of those old myths that refuses to die.
  18. psawyer
    We are on day seven in a row of rain, and counting. Nine hours of sunshine in the past week.
  19. psawyer
    I haven't tried that specific item, but the Kinnikinnick products I have tried have been good. If you miss Oreos, try their K-toos.
  20. psawyer
    I use Kraft shredded cheeses. There is nothing in them except cheese.
  21. psawyer
    It has been taken care of.
  22. psawyer
    GFinDC, thank you for that. It is a great analogy.
  23. psawyer
    You noted, "The other components of the ice cream bar also list carageenan but without the wheat after it." Under US law (and Canadian as well), once an allergen has been mentioned in the ingredient list it does not have to be repeated. Ingredients after the one listed as having wheat could also contain wheat.
  24. psawyer
    While the more common presentation in celiac disease is being underweight due to malabsorption, some people gain weight due to celiac disease, and lose it after going gluten-free. Sadly, there are still some doctors out there who believe that if you are overweight you can not have celiac disease.
  25. psawyer
    No, that's not the case. The first ingredient, not surprisingly, is potatoes. Here, from the McDonalds US web site, are the ingredients: Although there is hydrolyzed wheat in the beef flavor, the final products contains no detectable gluten. It is a question that has been beaten to death many times here. Make your own decision, but if that concerns...
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