luvs2eat

By the time I got in touch w/ the hospital dietician (about a week after diagnosis) she told me I already knew way more than she did about celiac. That was 10 years ago. One can only hope they're more informed about celiac now!!

I've had some bad experiences w/ Trader Joe's gluten-free stuff... be careful.

I used to buy Shaklee's breakfast powder... similar to Instant Breakfast but w/o all the additives and crap. My kids loved it mixed with milk and it was a good quick breakfast on those crazy mornings. I bought it from a woman who actually had a Shaklee store. Sure, she tried to get me to be a distributor, but I knew the game and just kept telling her I wasn't interested.

All that said... that was 15-20 years ago... long before me or my 3 daughters were diagnosed w/ celiac... so I can't attest to the stuff being good for celiacs at all.

I miss so much, but most are things I never ate in huge quantities anyhow. I think it's just that I can't have them anymore that makes me want them so badly.

Subway (tuna hoagie... loved their bread)

A Burger King bacon double cheeseburger

McDonald's Big Mac and their Sausage Egg McMuffin

REAL french bread

REAL chocolate chip cookies made from the recipe on the back of Nestles morsels

My homemade challah bread

Real, regular beer

I baked chocolate chip cookies for 38 years before having to be gluten-free and the taste is so imprinted on my brain that no gluten-free recipe has remotely measured up. It's just not the same so I don't eat them anymore (sniff).

I miss puff pastry. I've seen a few gluten-free versions, but holy cow, is it labor intensive. I miss phyllo dough. I used to love to bake. Not so much anymore.

Everyone in the Celiac world hates EnerG breads but I find they make great stuffing/dressing. The texture holds up well and doesn't fall apart like some gluten-free breads do when they bake in that liquid.

I'd read about the great stuffing EnerG bread makes and bought a loaf of their tapioca bread last year. I cut it into cubes and set it on a sheet pan to get stale... and it smelled so strongly (and BAD), I ended up tossing it!! Is there another EnerG bread flavor that you use?

I am SOOO sorry to hear about your health and travel woes. Did you get travel insurance? I'm beginning to think it's worth it to spend the extra $$ for things just like this!

Feel better soon!!

LOVE that stuff. Here's another yummy recipe.

Lemon Meringue Martini

Equal parts:

Vodka

43

limoncello

splash of pineapple juice

Shake it up and pour. YUMMM!!!

I have a problem with rice... any kind of rice... in that I can't control myself around it. Hot rice with butter and salt is like CRACK to me. I could eat it at every meal... it could BE every meal.

I LOVE the perfume of jasmine rice. I LOVE making different kind of risotto. I LOVE sushi. I love plain old white rice and brown rice. I LOVE long grain and wild rice.

sign me, carb junkie

New Cascadia bakery in Portland, OR ... the best cupcakes EVER. There's also a food cart w/ another location on the street called The Whole Bowl... YUM!!!

I'm luvs2eat on a recipe board and peeps have asked the same question... and I always answer... "Um... Duh..."

I use my Pampered Chef pizza stone all the time that's been used for gluten foods. I just put my pizza on a piece of parchment paper and still enjoy the crispness of the stone.

HA HA HA... what I MEANT was that I love many of the books on compact disc... but when i used the initials ... celiac disease came up! Sorry!

I read a whole bunch of Oprah's book club books and liked every single one.

Jodi Piccoult is an author I love.

LOVE the Bronte sisters and any English fiction.

Right now I'm reading Stranger in a Strange Land by Heinlein for the 3rd time.

I've been using their pizza crust mix for more than a year w/ no problems at all. This last time, I made up the whole bag (rather than one crust at a time) and baked 5 smaller crusts... froze 4 and can't wait to try them!

We go out to eat very rarely. We live so rurally that there's only a Chilis and, of course, all the fast food places. Even tho I know I can have some of their french fries and some stuff at Wendy's... I never do. The only thing I'll ALWAYS stop for is Chik Fil A fries... yum!

We like to cook and don't miss eating out much. I feel fairly confident going out for breakfast, which we also don't often do, but not for much else.

I completely understand your physical pain as well as emotional pain over losing Pooh. I had to put my big boy boxer Boozer down and everyone said, "Get another dog right away." I just couldn't do it. It took me two whole years to consider another dog and I got a pretty boxer girl, Peaches. As we were driving her home and she was crying in the little crate... I was bawling w/ her thinking, "What have I just done?? I've brought this little girl into my life and I will surely outlive her!" She is the best dog I've ever had and NOW I know that I will never be w/o a dog again. I peek around on Craigslist and places for boxer girls cause I feel certain I'll have to get another long before Peaches gets old.

I also get the adult kid thing too. Your travel plans sound like a great idea.

(((((hugs))))

I really like the idea of saying your doctor said... whatever... Telling them that you're fairly new to the diet/lifestyle and that your doctor strongly recommends not eating at other's homes for a (long) while is brilliant!

I think telling the boss to make chicken parm like he always would and bringing your own gluten-free portion is a great idea too!

One of my daughters and I attended a wedding shower at a fancy tea house where they served tiny delicate tea sandwiches on beautiful tiered serving plates. I brought tiny egg salad and tuna salad tea sandwiches for DD and me and we fit right in! It was great!

I am so sorry. Losing a pet is no less sad than losing a family member, imo. They ARE our family.

Count me too in the group who has appreciated your posts/advice/kind words.

I only had one episode early on when a friend asked, sort of impatiently, "Can't you just eat a little??" I've never been the "Woe is me" person about it. I always enjoy what I can and never say a word about what's being offered that I can't have. I just said, "That's like me asking you if you can't just eat a little poison. Gluten is poison to me."

This was a friend who is an insulin-dependent diabetic who adjusts her insulin to accommodate whatever she wants to eat rather than modifying her diet so she can use the least amount of insulin... so...

I only had symptoms for 2 months when I saw a gastroenterologist. He sent me for bloodwork and scheduled me for a screening colonoscopy since I was close to 50. After my colonoscopy, he said, "I have good news and bad news." I asked for the good news first. He said, "I know what's causing your diarrhea and it can be stopped." Then I asked for the bad news. He said, "You can never eat wheat, rye, or barley again." He told me he'd never seen such high blood levels before.

I went home and did my own research so that by the time I actually got to the dietician/nutritionist at the hospital she told me I already knew more about celiac than she did.

I love all the authors you mentioned and have especially enjoyed many of their books on celiac disease. There's NOTHING like being read to!

Come on folks,....I'm looking for bun recipes, not to have a thread chastising another member.

Ya know what? When I was a fairly new member, I made the mistake of posting that I wasn't so sensitive that I couldn't pick croutons off a salad and blow off the crumbs... or take a burger off a bun and eat it. The folks here set me straight... in NO uncertain terms... that what I was doing was NOT keeping a gluten-free diet and that I was hurting myself. I was so mad... I stripped my computer of the celiac.com website... and finally I realized that I was fooling no one but myself. The "tough love" approach set me straight and I've been completely gluten-free ever since. I've thanked those "tough love" peeps thru-out the years.

I have discovered I can cheat, and have a regular store bought bun about once every 3 weeks and not have any abdominal issues....you may want to consider that.

PLEASE do not even consider taking this terrible advice! As is well known... even if you have no abdominal issues or any symptoms if you are glutened, you are damaging your small intestine by eating gluten. Eating it accidently is difficult enough... to do it on purpose is insanity.

I use Pamela's bread mix and simply fashion it into buns w/ a spatula. I get 9 rolls from a bread mix. You could absolutely use your bun pan. Lightly toasted, they are awesome.

Wow... that looks delicious! I think I'd skip the caraway seeds tho... don't even care for the taste. I wonder what would happen if you baked it in a loaf pan? Or would it be too big for a standard loaf pan?

I've been gluten-free for 10 years and my husband is not. I have my own toaster and cast iron frying pans and some dedicated baking pans. We've not had any problems at all.

On the contrary! I was diagnosed w/in 2 months of symptoms so there was no unexplained weight loss for me. And after I was diagnosed, I was so upset at all the food I could no longer have... I OD'd on all the foods (translate carbs) I could have and gained 40 lbs. in the first year!!