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San Francisco is one of the better places--and that is what makes me so mad. SF is not nearly half as good as it should be. I want to be able to live a life where I can go out and expect, say, one in every four or five restaurants to be gluten aware, instead of making the long side-trips to the same few restaurants again and again and again. I am fed up...

I suppose this is venting more than anything, but, as I am going through a really bad patch where my stomach/intestines sound like a washing machine, and I am downing imodium and pepto like candy, I really feel that enough is not being done to help celiacs. I am sick of the lack of choice, particularly the lack of texture in the food I eat. I eat pretty...

I have bought them in Safeways in San Francisco, and I am really disappointed. I lived off of these in the UK (marketed under the DS Brand) but these just don't taste the same--too powdery, funny tang. Perhaps it's just me--but I have a feeling that they haven't got the recipe right.

Hi all, So after purchasing Brazil nuts from Trader Joe's I find that they were made on the equipment shared with wheat products. Not wishing to be defeated, I washed them in cold water and dried them off. However, I was sick after eating. My question: is there received wisdom about the efficacy of washing such products made on shared equipment...

It took me about 2 years gluten-free before I began to feel any benefit; even then I put the "recovery" in part due to the fact that I returned to the UK for a break and responded to a more familiar diet. 3 years on I still have problems, though better. A few things to consider: First, if you have watery diarrhea you might want to be checked for microscopic...

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I have had peas, not beans. I used to eat a lot of peanuts and I have also taken them out of my diet. Is it unusual for symptoms of a glutening/food reaction to last five or more days?

I would appreciate feedback. Diagnosed with celiacs for three years, and later, when gluten-free diet not working, microscopic colitis. I have plenty of "ups and downs" but the last five days I have terrible, terrible flatulence, belching as soon as I eat, and bloatedness/pain. I am very careful to monitor my food. Does this sound like I have been...

Hi all, Thanks for your replies. I emailed the company just to let them know in case there was a pattern--I made it clear that I was not complaining, I appreciate their efforts, and I have no proof that I was actually glutened (though reasonably sure). The operations manager phoned next day, very polite, professional and apologetic. Stated that they...

Gottaski: This is helpful. I am not out to complain, but I will email the restaurant JUST in case there is a pattern here. I was probably unlucky--I definitely plan to go back and try at least one more time as it was so nice to eat Chinese food!

Thanks for the replies. My plates definitely had writing on them--I am guessing that the normal plates are just plain? I didn't touch the soy sauce, only the mustard and the chili sauce which the waitress said was good. It all seems very odd, as I eat out quite a lot and have never had such a definitive reaction before.

It was definitely made it clear both on ordering and on receipt that it was gluten-free. Have been to Outback, Chipotle, Vietnamese, Indian etc all in the Bay Area and have not had these after-effects! Can't help feel that I was glutened, and badly, though it seems strange.

I visited PF Changs yesterday for the first time, and had some wonderful food (broccoli beef, noodles, garlic spinach), but 6 hours later have had continuous bouts of diarrhea, about 8 bathroom visits so far. I feel terribly disappointed, mostly with myself, as I had somehow imagined myself as "above" being glutened. and not that sensitive!! This is the...

I just wanted to get this off my chest: I am kind of irritated and fed up with articles that begin "you can't avoid seeing all that gluten free food around--what is it?" or "with all the publicity it is getting, all those Hollywood starts trying out the gluten free diet, what is it?" First off--I wish there were gluten-free food everywhere. But 99...

Lots of great places in SF. My top recommendations for dinner are Zadin and Dosa (Filmore Dosa is bigger than Mission one)--both these restaurants are incredible. There are places to eat for lunch in the Westfield Shopping center basement downtown (Thai and Vietnamese), including spring rolls to go in the Vietnemese. The Thai place you have to ask for...