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My daughter had inconclusive blood work and a positive endoscopic biopsy.

I'd love to have it too! I've found A. Roberts blend easiest to use and w/ really good results! PM on the way.

My kids live in Phila. and my middle daughter has Celiac. She's found managers to be most cooperative and helpful, especially when she calls ahead and talks to them before rush hour. Her favs are El Vez and any of the Steven Starr restaurants.

Try ONE bag of Manna from Anna's bread mix. You will be hooked. It's the best bread out there... and I tried many recipes!!

Try one Manna from Anna bread mix. You won't believe it and will agree it's the best bread out there!!

www.mannafromanna.com

*Best Bread = Manna from Anna mix

*Best Bagels = Don't eat 'em... haven't found one.

*Best Pasta = Tinkyinada

*Best Pizza = Mr. Ritt's frozen crust or Jules in Doylestown, PA

*Best Rolls = Manna from Anna mix

*Best Crackers = Nut Thins (Almond)

*Best Cereal = Gorilla Munch

*Best Waffles = Don't eat 'em

*Best Donuts = Don't eat 'em

*Best Muffins = Homemade

*Best Cupcakes = Homemade

*Best Cake = Homemade

*Best Cookies = 3 ingredient peanut butter cookies

*Best Chocolate = the eating kind

*Best Candy = also the eating kind

*Best Gum = Don't eat it

*Best Ice Cream = Haagan Daas Vanilla Swiss Almond

*Best Sprinkles = Don't eat 'em

*Best Sorbet = Peach!

*Best Chips = Lays or Herrs Kettle chips

*Best Pretzels = Don't eat 'em

*Best Drink = Water

*Best Soup = Homemade

*Best Frozen Meals = Don't eat 'em

*Best Nutrition Bars = Don't eat 'em

I've had very good service and food at El Vez, one of the Steven Starr restaurants. The wait staff are most helpful and the food is out of this world!

I think it would be hard to embrace this diet if no symptoms were obvious. My symptoms are obvious so the choice is a no brainer... but I echo what everyone else has said here... there are too many reasons TO follow a gluten-free diet, and not many NOT to.

I have her cookbook and just used Bob's brown rice flour. The butter cake came out DELICIOUS!! I've also made a pie crust that was also DELICIOUS!!

The baked goods are not at all gritty tasting!! I'm so happy!!

When I was first diagnosed ...and pretty much till folks here set me STRAIGHT... I was kind of embarrassed to make an "issue" of my dietary matters. I did eat things I wasn't supposed to ... scraping the filling out of a cheesecake, etc... so I wouldn't make OTHERS feel uncomfortable.

It was when a friend of mine who uses insulin to manage her diet rather than her diabetes (in other words, she eats a LOT of whatever she wants and adjusts her insulin to manage it rather than adjusting her food to make her use LESS insulin) said to me, "Can't you just have a LITTLE??" that changed my response.

I told her, "Sure... if I want just a little MOLTEN ACID shooting out of my butt."

Dunno how far along his esophageal cancer is... but I do know that eating gluten makes him sick.

I know this happens to everyone, but it never fails to make my mouth fall open!! The father-in-law of a friend has been diagnosed w/ Celiac and has esophageal cancer (from undiagnosed Celiac and GERD, he claims... he will not acknowledge the possibility of a life-long smoking habit contributing, but I digress!)

So, my daughter and I brought some delicious gluten-free appetizers to the barbecue, a roll for his burger, and cookies. The man was beside himself at the delicious treats available to him. I took his wife's email address so we can share recipes.

His former wife, WHO HAPPENS TO BE A NURSE AT THE GASTROINTESTINAL OUTPATIENT PROCEDURE OFFICE walked in and handed him a cheesecake she made especially for him, "because I know he loves it." I asked her what the crust and topping sprinkled all over the top was made from. "Graham crackers," she announced.

I turned to the man and said, "You can't eat graham crackers." His former wife snapped at me, "He can just have a LITTLE."

I started to say "He could also have just a little rat poison with possibly better results!" But I didn't...

AARRGGHH!!!

Me too!! (LOVE babies!) I drank beer w/ one of my kids cause I didn't think I was making enough milk... till a friend told me that iced tea would do the same thing... it's a diuretic! Drink TONS of liquid and keep letting the baby nurse. I hope it works out for you... but try not to stress if it doesn't.

I don't know, erbetty, if the corn bread can be made in a regular pan. I've only used a cast iron skillet. You owe it to yourself to get one... you can get one in Kmart for less than $10. It really MAKES the corn bread!!

The CSA is saying that the only RISK-FREE choice is not to eat them. You risk a reaction if you choose to eat them.

I was like you... my reactions after eating gluten weren't severe. After I'd been gluten-free for a year, I melted and wolfed down a huge slice of homemade wheat bread w/ butter as family stood around yelling "NOOOOOO!" Guess what? Nothing happened!! I was pulling the burger off the roll and picking the coutons off my salad.

Now it seems like I can be in the same ROOM with bread and gluten and react. I don't try those experiments anymore.

I read every single label... every SINGLE time.

Edited to add... good luck! It gets way easier!!

Manna from Anna bread mix fan here! They're easy to make and I make a loaf and 3 rolls in English muffin rounds from each mix. I freeze all the rolls and when the loaf is completely cooled, I use the knife that slices uniform slices (I got it on sale for about $4. at Bed, Bath, and Beyond years ago) and freeze 2 slices in their own zip lock. I take them out of the freezer, toast 'em, make my sandwich, and use the zip lock bag to take my sammy to work! Works like a charm!

My cornbread recipe has never contained flour and it's straight from my friend's grandmother from Alabama!

Put a few tablespoons of oil in a cast iron skillet and put it in a 400º oven to preheat.

Mix 1 cup of cornmeal

1 egg

1 cup milk

1/4 cup sugar

1 tablespoon baking powder

Mix well and pour in HOT skillet (it'll sizzle a little so be careful)

Bake for about 20 minutes. Cut and ENJOY!!

I make this much in a small cast iron skillet. When I'm having a crowd for supper... I double the recipe, dump in a can of corn, and put it in my BIG cast iron skillet that's been preheated in the oven.

[[There is an incredible recipe for Yellow Cake in the book by Annalise Roberts, gluten-free Baking Classics. ]]

I ordered this cookbook and made the yellow cake this past weekend. I was delicious!! It's the best flour mixture I've found for cakes (brown rice flour, potato starch, tapioca flour).

I've heard that Bard's is way better than Ramapo Valley... I was too excited to find the website and started clicking the BUY button!! Only to find out they won't ship to PA!! AARRRGGGGHHHH!!

I am A+, as is my ex-husband... so imagine my surprise when my middle daughter, who is also a celiac, told me she is O+?

Two A+'s don't necessarily add up to all A+ kids.

I was going to suggest making him go w/ you into the bathroom... but you don't seem to have the molten acid volcanic explosions I have when I am glutened. THAT would make anyone believe that celiac ain't in my head!!

ha ha

I make these every holiday time when I can get the kids to come and roll balls ... a recipe makes a ton!! I freeze 'em and have 'em for months!!

Gotta love chocolate and peanut butter!!

I was thinking that being gluten-free is just not that big a deal (once you get the hang of it), but if your son has not been definitely diagnosed and you are separated w/ a husband who doesn't agree w/ the whole gluten-free thing... a definitive diagnosis might be necessary.

I like the idea of a MEDIC ALERT bracelet for kids w/ celiac... it makes it much more "real" and serious and people (like separated, unbelieving fathers) pay attention and take it all seriouslyl.

Another bad experience at Applebees here. I went thru the whole litany of what I could NOT have on my salad... no croutons, no bread anywhere, nothing that might have contained flour in its lifetime...

So, I get to the bottom of this shrimp salad bowl to find a pile of chinese noodles! I called the waitress over and pointed to them and asked, "What do you suppose these are made of??"

"Those have wheat?" she asked.

UGH!!!

Really good sounding idea for kids. Teachers and parents are so much more likely to believe an Emergency ID bracelet than just saying your child can't eat wheat, etc. How many say, "Oh, just a little won't hurt."