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    There is unity of teaching, and transubstantiation is a non-negotiable. Unfortunately, there is often bad catechesis and it sounds as if your friend is the result. Catholics should not believe that the Eucharist is symbolic.
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    Yes, this. I'm very blessed in that my home parish offers wine to everyone, so it's not been a big issue. But if her parish doesn't normally offer wine, she needs to talk to her priest. I've found that in most cases, they are helpful because their job is to ensure that the faithful receive the sacraments. I'm a music minister so I explained to my pastor why...
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    Try laying off of all alcohol until you've healed somewhat. It made my stomach burn for the first month or so after I went gluten-free. I don't have problems with it now (officially 1 year gluten-free today!). Ditto for onions and things like peppers and broccoli- notoriously hard-to-digest veggies. This is such a hard time of year to go gluten-free, but...
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    I think the only food gifts I received were a holiday lunch from my boss (at a restaurant where I could get a safe fish and rice meal- he was kind enough to ask before making the reservations for our group) and a fancy box of Penzey's baking spices from my sister- and brother-in-law. Oh, and a bottle of wine in a gift exchange. My parents and in-laws cooked...
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    I survived! My in-laws roasted a safe ham and served it with spinach salad (homemade dressing, all safe ingredients), mashed sweet potatoes and homemade cranberry-walnut sauce. I brought food from home for breakfast and lunch, and the extended family dinner main dish was gluten-free homemade sloppy joe meat with either buns or corn chips. Couldn't eat all...
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    This. I totally agree. I don't know that such an extreme diet would be healthy for anyone out of childhood. I am 5 feet tall and small-framed (105-110 lbs is my natural weight set point), and I have to eat at least 1600 calories per day or else I turn into a crabby, shaky mess. I also find that my weight stabilizes if very few of those calories come from...
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    It's my first gluten-free Christmas (last Christmas was my unofficial gluten challenge/last hurrah) and so far, so good. I've survived two restaurant lunches (the second in an awesome restaurant with a big gluten-free menu) and Christmas Eve dinner at my parents' house (my mom has been super awesome about gluten-free cooking and roasted a whole beef tenderloin...
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    Do the bread and cookies both have tapioca starch in them? I had trouble with that one for a few months post-diagnosis. I can eat it now, but it used to upset my stomach. Otherwise, yeah, check your ingredients. Anything that a glutened knife or measuring cup/spoon could have contaminated is cause for suspicion. I replaced all of my sugars and leavening...
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    ARCHIVED French Fries?

    i-geek replied to MWIXON's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    I wonder if it's CYA- the fries themselves don't contain gluten, but this warning covers all the restaurants that don't use dedicated fryers and thus drop the fries in the same oil as battered stuff.
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    ARCHIVED French Fries?

    i-geek replied to MWIXON's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    Five Guys burger joints have safe fries. They only do french fries in the fryers. Mmm...
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    It will be one year for me at the end of this month. As long as I can control food purchases and prep or can rely on someone I trust (my husband, my parents)- about 95% of the time- it's easy. The other 5% is sometimes a challenge but it's worth it.
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    Here's a link to a short review on autoimmune T cells from the Public Library of Science Biology journal: Open Original Shared Link It should be freely available to the public. If I come across any other good ones that are free I'll post links.
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    Nerd alert again- a lot of why you feel sick when you have, say, a cold is due to your very active immune system spitting out inflammatory chemicals and causing tissue damage in the process of clearing the infection. And fever is actually good- it upregulates heat shock proteins that help cells recognize infection. Autoimmune cells are behaving in a similar...
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    This. Also, the T cell biology is out of date and what is there is highly inaccurate. As a T cell immunologist, I am actually offended that someone wrote this article with so many inaccuracies. T cell-based autoimmunity results from inappropriate selection of immature T cells during their development in the thymus. T cells are normally selected so that they...
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    I haven't tried any cookie mixes, although I was impressed with Gluten-Free Pantry's truffle brownie mix (even more awesome with a few tbsp of peanut butter swirled into the batter before baking) and all-purpose flour (used to successfully replace gluteny flour in a standard cranberry-nut bread recipe). So far I've done my gluten-free cookies from scratch...
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    My rule of thumb is that if it's made in a shared facility, give it a try, especially if it's as carefully labeled as the Nut Thins (which are quite good IMO). I don't knowingly eat things made on shared lines anymore. I've gotten sick a couple of times from doing that.
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    My husband has two uncles and a cousin who are supposed to be gluten-free. Uncle #1 is a diagnosed celiac and a medical doctor. Mostly he's gluten-free, although I did see him take communion from the common plate at a recent family funeral and then pull the filling out of a sandwich and eat it at the wake (both of which would have me paying with symptoms...
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    My blood tests were negative: I was eating a very low gluten diet to make the migraines stop, plus the doctor only tested for TTG IgA and never ran a test for total IgA, so the test might have been invalid anyway. I fully believe that I have celiac disease and have no problem telling others that. The majority of my parents' siblings (on both sides) have some...
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    I had lost enough weight via diet and exercise to go from a size 6 to a 4 the summer before celiac kicked in full-steam. My weight hasn't changed at all in the past 11 months of eating gluten-free (106 lbs at 5'0"), but I've been doing more resistance training and have dropped down to a size 2 pant. The fact that I'm not bloated anymore helps too. I'm not...
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    Haha- yep! I was sure I was intolerant of peppers. Never mind that when I made something naturally gluten-free with peppers in it, I had no problems. I usually ate peppers on pizza or pasta, so it must have been the peppers. And my lactose intolerance was just getting worse with age. That happens, right? Lactaid pills don't work for everyone, right...
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    I can eat dairy now. I don't have daily headaches, bloating or alternating C/D anymore. My skin is a lot clearer and I'm not getting weird mouth sores. I don't have strange food cravings or hunger pangs every 90 minutes, and I'm not waking up in the middle of the night dreaming of food. I'm not exhausted, sluggish and fuzzy-headed all the time. A year ago...
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    I survived! My parents hosted dinner for the four of us (mom and dad, my husband and I). I provided gluten-free bread (one loaf of my own recipe, one loaf of Gluten-Free Pantry French bread mix) for the stuffing and Mom stuffed it in a fresh turkey from a local poultry shop. Gravy was from scratch: pan drippings and cornstarch. She opened a fresh pack...
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    Ooh, rice cooker. We use ours at least weekly. We also do quinoa in it, and I've even done lentils in it.
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    No, I don't think you're overconfident. If you're already cooking from scratch and aren't a baker, you will have few difficulties switching to gluten-free cooking. My husband and I love to cook so switching over wasn't a big deal. I always tell people that 95% of the time the gluten-free diet isn't a problem, and the other 5% is when I'm not in control of...
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    Awesome! Your planned meal sounds delicious. If you don't have a stuffing recipe, we found out today that bread made from Gluten-Free Pantry's French bread mix makes terrific stuffing. I baked that up and my mom used it as the bread in her regular stuffing recipe. Everyone liked it better with the gluten-free bread- my dad said that the texture was better...
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