luvs2eat

My eyes are popping out of my head... gluten-free egg noodles?? Wait till I tell my daughter!!

The applesauce molassas cake looks delicious!! Thanks for posting!!

I'll play...

1. FIRST NAME? Leslie

2. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? Nope. My dad used to tell me he wanted to name me Fanny so he could say to people, "Would you like to kiss my Fanny?" haha

3. WHEN DID YOU LAST CRY? I can't remember....I'm not much of a crier

4. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING? It's okay

5. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE LUNCH MEAT? bologna

6. KIDS? 3 daughters... 28, 26, and 23

7. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU? Not lately

8. DO YOU HAVE A JOURNAL? Nope

9. DO YOU USE SARCASM A LOT? Yep... all the time.

10. DO YOU STILL HAVE YOUR TONSILS? Nope

11. WOULD YOU BUNGEE JUMP? Sure

12. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CEREAL? Cheerios

13. DO YOU UNTIE YOUR SHOES WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF? Nope

14. DO YOU THINK YOU ARE STRONG? Fairly

15. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ICE CREAM? Haagan Daaz Vanilla Swiss Almond... and DON'T ask me for a bite!!

16. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU LOOK AT IN A MAN? I'm a leg girl.

17. RED OR PINK? Red

18. LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT YOURSELF? Sometimes I'm not nice and need a spanking and a nap, in that order.

19. WHO DO YOU MISS THE MOST? I miss my youngest daughter who lives in Oregon

20. DO YOU WANT EVERYONE TO SEND THIS BACK TO YOU? N/A

21. WHAT COLOR PANTS AND SHOES ARE YOU WEARING? Kahki pants and brown slides

22. WHAT IS THE LAST THINGS YOU ATE? Spaghetti squash w/ sauce and ground turkey

23. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO RIGHT NOW? Classic rock radion station

24. IF YOU WERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE? RED

25. FAVORITE SMELL? Cookies baking.

26. WHO WAS THE LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE? My oldest daughter

27. DO YOU LIKE THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU? N/A

28. FAVORITE DRINK? Lemon meringue martini

29. FAVORITE SPORT TO WATCH? None of 'em

30. HAIR COLOR? Light brown w/ lots of blond streaks

31. EYE COLOR? brown

32. DO YOU WEAR CONTACTS? Reading glasses only.

33. SCARY MOVIES OR HAPPY ENDING? Scary!

34. LAST MOVIE YOU WATCHED? A History of Violence and The Butterfly Effect (rainy day)

35. WHAT COLOR SHIRT ARE YOU WEARING? Purple w/ tan pattern

36. SUMMER OR WINTER? Summer

37. HUGS OR KISSES? BOTH

38. FAVORITE DESSERT? the eating kind

39. MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND? N/A

40. LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND? N/A

41. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING? The Sparrow... can't remember author

42. WHAT'S ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? ALLSOP and water bubbles

43. WHAT DID YOU WATCH LAST ON TV? Nothing... went to dinner w/ friends.

44. FAVORITE SOUNDS? Eric Clapton playing guitar

45. ROLLING STONES OR BEATLES? Beatles

46. THE FURTHEST PLACE YOU'VE BEEN FROM HOME? Russia

47. DO YOU HAVE A SPECIAL TALENT? I can bake pretty well.

48. WHEN WERE YOU BORN? February 16, 1953

49. WHERE WERE YOU BORN? Princeton, NJ

50. WHAT IS YOUR OCCUPATION? Medical claims examiner for an insurance company... YAWN.

I had a tongue-in-cheek conversation w/ my doctor a few years ago and whined... "I'm gonna end up in a nursing home and they're gonna feed me bread and I'm gonna have diarrhea and they'll be mad at me cause I'm messing my drawers all the time and I'll get bedsores... and ... yada, yada, yada.

The bracelet is a good idea, I think... but then you're at the mercy of people knowing or not knowing what GLUTEN is!!

Ha ha... molten acid shooting out of my butt is my response... if they persist beyond my more polite answer of, "I have serious intestinal distress."

Yea, I'm an ABC board reader too. I LOVE the show and can't wait to read the spoilers the next day to see all the little things I totally missed!!

But... maybe it's TRUE and we can all be healed and eat all the foods we haven't been able to!!

HA HA HA

My son-in-law got an email from a guy who wanted to buy his car... and wanted him to accept a "cashier's" check for twice what the car was being sold for. He was to cash the check and mail the remainder back to the guy.

My SIL wrote back to him and asked, "Sounds good... would you like all my banking information and credit card numbers too???"

The guy wrote back and said, "You stupid American... this is serious."

HA HA HA HA

I've not found a Campbells soup yet that is gluten-free. The Progresso Cream of Mushroom is gluten-free. If you go to the organic/health food types of soup... those are often gluten-free. Ya just gotta read the labels.

Manna from Anna bread mixes fan here. Check her out at www.mannafromanna.com. They're easy to make and the best bread I've found yet!

... um... DUH...

ha ha ha

I did... about a year after going gluten-free I scarfed a huge slice of homemade bread and had NO effects. I thought perhaps I could "plan" a cheat about once a month. The next time I tried it, tho... I had to ride in the car for hours and was none to happy to the noises my intestines were making. I gave up the "planned" cheat idea.

I've signed up for emails from Wegman's... a new store is opening in the next few weeks near me.

They're offering recipes for Celiacs and those w/ lactose intolerance and other food issues.

The first recipe they offered for Celiacs included gorgonzola cheese. I rated the recipe w/ a low score even tho I'd never made it just so I could review it and warn Celiacs that, unless the brand of gorgonzola cheese recommended in the recipe is absolutely labeled gluten free, we should not use it. I also emailed Wegman's and warned them... no reply as yet.

This week's email includes using some packaged seafood sauce, a puttinesca sauce, and vegetable broth. I again reviewed the recipe and warned people reading it that they must absolutely read all the ingredients themselves as some of the sauces may have things like modified food starch. I also emailed Wegman's again and told them that most Celiacs will read all the labels, but those who are newly diagnosed might trust Wegman's before they get the label reading down. Maybe they'll reply to this email.

Can we say YIKES???

Scampi is really just fish (shrimp/scallops, etc) sauteed in butter w/ garlic. It should be okay...

... BUT...

I always ask how things are prepared... and if they balk like they don't know, I ask them to please ask the chef if any flour of any kind is used or any kind of thickening agent. I've had success in restaurants where they also serve rice ... asking for my scampi on rice rather than pasta.

I'm w/ you, mamaw... I am avatar challenged!!

Like everyone's said... it seems daunting at first. All you can see is what you CAN'T eat, when there really are so many things that you can. It turns out what we can eat is REAL food... meats, fruits, veggies. And the rest of the stuff comes later... there are great mixes for breads and cookbooks for baking.

You'll most likely find way more info here on the forums than even a dietician can give you. By the time I got to one, she told me I should teach HER.

Good luck and come back. There are the most knowledgable folks here!!

Am I the ONLY one who can't pinpoint ONE trigger? I was fine... no symptoms whatsoever... till one day I started having diarrhea... no other symptoms. No pain, bloating... nothing.

It just came!

Thanks, Queen... that's just what I thought.

I thought gorgonzola cheese was a no-no for us cause it's a bleu cheese... am I mistaken?

Wegman's has an awesome website and puts Celiac recipes on there. But is their appetizer, Gorgonzola-Stuffed Apricots with Bacon, allowed for us??

I see a ROAD TRIP in my future. I was just telling a friend that the best food on earth is a crisply toasted bagel w/ tons of cream cheese, piles of thin slices of LOX, a few rings of red onion and capers!! Man, do I miss that!!

I've gained probably 30 lbs since going gluten-free... it's so frustrating!!

After a year of being (what I thought was ) gluten-free... I made a beautiful crusty loaf of bread that I'd been known for earlier... and my daugher walked in to find me stuffing a huge buttered piece in my mouth. It was like a slow-motion movie... her yelling "N-O-O-O-O-O-O!!" as I chomped down!!

Nothing happened!! I thought maybe I could "plan" a cheat every month or so... next month I was gonna try Pizza Hut stuffed crust pizza!! I was so excited.

I didn't try it the next month, but the next time I was accidentally glutened... it really hurt me.

No more planned cheats... and w/ the help of folks here who showed me stuff I was doing WRONG... no more cheats at all!!

Can't stand Oprah and don't care one fig what she says about anyone or anything...

My daughter and I went to a lovely tea room for a bridal shower recently... me w/ my handy, dandy lunch box in tow. As everyone was eating these gorgeous tea sandwiches, I took out the tiny egg salad sandwiches I'd made on thinly sliced crustless bread and delicious tomato sammies the same way. My daughter brought some yummy chocolate chip cookies for us... and we didn't feel deprived at all! I don't even know if the server knew we'd brought our own food or what he'd have said if he did know, but what would have been a really crappy afternoon was lovely!!

Huge Manna from Anna fan here.

Wouldn't you think that the "authentic" Mexical restaurant would have 100% corn tortillas?? We went to our fav Mexican place last night that's recently been bought up by another owner... and I (LUCKILY) asked the server to please check that the tortillas served w/ the salsa were indeed corn. He came back and told me that they were now using corn tortillas that are dusted w/ wheat flour!

I ate the cheese and chorizo appetizer w/ no chips or tortillas. Too bad... I really liked that place. Maybe I'll ask them if I can bring a few of my own corn tortillas.