luvs2eat

Yea, I've only heard of it to predict a baby's sex. I'm thinkin'... if I did it over a Pizza Hut 3-cheese stuffed crust pizza... it would tell ME it was okay to eat!!!

Yea, Immodium is my friend too.

I always tell folks that if I can't read all the ingredients that were used to prepare something, then I can't eat it. And I bring rice crackers and rice cakes with me most of the time!

I can't tell you how many times I've been told there's no wheat in stuff... I went to a party where the hostess insisted there as no wheat in the soup and I went to ladle it out and there was PASTA in it! YIKES!!

I just read that there appears to be a small window where, if you feed your baby wheat/gluten... at about 4-6 months... you may be able to PREVENT future celiac disease???

I told my kids that they were screwed... cause I went out of my way NOT to give them foods that are common to allergies. I didn't give them eggs, wheat, milk, citrus, or meat until they were a whole year old.

It's an interesting idea and I'll look forward to reading more about it. Has anyone else heard about this??

Our favorite appetizer at our fav mexican restaurant is a cheese and sausage mixture that I recently found a simple recipe for.

Just brown up some chorizo sausage and crumble it in the bottom of a pie plate. Cover it with lots of shredded meunster cheese and broil till the cheese is bubbly and browned.

Serve with tortilla chips.

Delish!!!

Don't forget good 'ole rice cakes. I used them for bread for a long time. They work well in lunch boxes too... easy to spread a little tuna or egg salad on!

Count me as one who's gained weight! Ugh!

Eating out will be a challenge... especially if you're not a cook and don't know how things are made.

But eating at home can be easier. Just cruise around this site and read lots of different posts. Folks here have great ideas and have done so much of the work FOR us! There are even lots of convenience type foods that we can still have.

Think about learning to cook too! You can start your own gourmet club!

Hey frenchiemama... I wanna grab all those little faces and stick in my pockets!!!

It only took about 3-4 months before I wasn't eating Immodium like candy, but it took a whole year before I found my bowel function to be "back to normal."

And now... I do not move my bowels as often... sometimes it's 2 or 3 days before I have to go.

You're so right... bowel discussions are hard... hahaha.

I make my Manna from Anna bread in English Muffins rounds. When they're cool, I freeze them in as airtight a ziploc as I can manage. I can take one out, slice it, and make my sandwich and pack it for work. When it's lunch time, my "sammy" is defrosted and YUMMY.

soft boiled eggs, or scrambled eggs on rice cake, or fruit and yogurt. Yum

I attributed my lack of weight loss to my early diagnosis. I only had diarrhea for about 2 months when I was tested and went gluten-free immediately. When I told people about Celiac disease and they asked me the symptoms... I said, "Unexplained weight loss..." and I'd sort of look down at myself and say, "Um... I didn't GET that one!"

Other people would ask me, when I told them the dietary restrictions, "Oh my... WHAT do you eat." Again, I'd look down at myself and say, "Plenty of stuff!"

I'm not chuckling about it anymore tho. I've gained about 25 lbs. since diagnosis and hate it!! I know that when I was diagnosed, I sort of went off the deep end eating foods I COULD have... like potatoes and rice (risotto is my fav food!!). Now I'm trying really hard to be low carb... more lean meats and fresh fruits and veggies.

UGH!!

My ONLY symptom that sent me looking for answers was diarrhea. Like you, Imodium was part of my daily diet. I had no abdominal pain (lots of NOISE, but no pain) or any other symptoms. It was reading about all the things that can happen down the road that convinced me that going gluten-free was mandatory.

I've been completely gluten-free for almost 3 years now... and almost 3 years later, I'm noticing new and different symptoms cropping up... arthritis-like pain in my joints (yea, it could be age, I'm 52) and I've had blood work to rule out Lupus.

celiac3270s list of other diseases related to Celiac is awesome. A must read.

Good luck.

I think I'm going to make up a card that says:

No gluten means don't give me anything that contains any kind of flour or food starch.

That would be a huge help. Ya can't just say wheat... cause people offer you WHITE bread... it's not wheat bread. Yikes!

After I'd been gluten-free for a year, I gobbled a thick slice of the beautiful crusty loaf of bread I'd made and always loved. The repercussions were so negiligent... that I started dreaming about scheduling cheats... maybe a Pizza Hut stuffed crust pizza one month... a Subway hoagie another month... but the planned cheats never happened.

Now, I've been gluten-free for going on 3 years... there are no cheats for me. The smallest accidental glutenizing and I'm a hurtin' cowgirl!!

Something similar happened to me in the short procedure unit. After a shoulder manipulation (for a frozen shoulder), I woke up in considerable pain. Before they could give me a pill for the pain, they insisted I have some food on my stomach. We started going thru their list, "No, I can't have toast, No I can't have crackers... or cereal... or a cookie." Just as I was about to start crying... my friend walked in and handed me a big fat Snickers bar!! Ha ha... It was the best thing I've ever tasted!!

Next time (hoping there is NO next time!!!) I'll be sure to bring my own snack!!

I've always made gluten-free corn bread... this recipe comes from my Southern friend.

Turn the oven to 400

My southern girlfriend makes her family's fried okra with corn meal. I'll ask her how she does it.

I've been making bread crumbs for things like crab cakes out of the thin rice crackers in the asian section of the grocery... do you know the ones I'm talking about? They come in neat flavors like seaweed and wasabi. I just wiz 'em in the food processor for awesome crumbs.

I just ask for a burger without the roll... folks always ask if I'm on Atkins. I'd also bring wine and ask if I might bring something (salad, appetizer, dessert) that I'm sure I can eat.

I always tell folks not to worry if they're serving food I can't eat. I NEVER starve eating a bunless burger and salad.

That's one of my greatest fears... that when I'm old, I'll end up in a nursing home and they'll feed me white bread (cause it's not whole wheat bread) and I'll have terrible diahrrea all the time and they'll get really mad at me and I'll get terrible bed sores.

My doctor laughed when I told her this. She said it'll be written all over my chart in such a case. But, we all know how that can go!!

Cream of wheat is okay cause it's cooked in water??? YIKES!!!

Yea, I don't get eating gluten on purpose either. I had mild gastro symptoms for a long time and used to think I might be able to "plan" a gluten cheat... a beer here, a yummy piece of homemade bread there... but then I realized that I'd become so sensitive that there are no on purpose cheats for me!

I have that "romantic" craving for gluten. It's like smoking. I know darn well that it makes you cough and feel lousy... but I still crave a smoke. I want to feel it go into my lungs and see it blowing thru my lips. I know... it's sick.

I still don't have all the symptoms I read about on this board, thank goodness. And, from the beginning (loving to cook) I've always said... in the scheme of life and the things that can go wrong with people's health?? Celiac disease is nothing.

Yea, I was gonna say check the soy sauce and the hash browns. All the gluten-free brands of soy sauce I find too heavy and dark... I can't believe wheat makes that much difference, but apparently it does. I've not found a brand yet that's tasty.

My house isn't even remotely gluten free. I just don't EAT it. I cook food that's not gluten free all the time for my sweetheart and kids when they're visiting... I just don't EAT it. When there's a recipe, for example lasagna, where I can substitute brown rice pasta and almost no one will know the difference, I'll make the switch... I can't imagine eating gluten on purpose!!

Another Manna from Anna fan here! I don't use a bread machine tho, so I can't help there. I mix it up in the old Kitchen Aid and bake it in english muffin rings.

My doc told me when he gave me the celiac diagnosis that it's most common in those if Irish descent... my mom was right off the boat, born in Belfast. All my relatives are either Irish or Scottish.

Hope the German and Russian added in to my daughter's gene pool will help them avoid this NO FUN deal!!

I did the same thing a few weeks ago. We made this awesome taco meat and it didn't occur to me to read the many ingredients cause my son-in-law was cooking and he's got the skin form of celiac (hives and only mild intestinal symptoms). I woke up in the middle of the night positive there were WOLVERINES trying to claw their way out of my intestines!! I didn't know whether to sit or turn around, if you know what I mean. I sat... and sat... and sat... and sure enough... both the adobe sauce and the mole in the taco meat contained "toasted wheat bread."

I accused him of trying to poison me as he thinks I "cursed" him to get celiac disease... he found out about his about a year after I did... and as celiac disease didn't appear to be as common as I believe it will come to be... he accused me of cursing him. Hahaha