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    Blue Diamond almond packs, Snickers, dark chocolate Raisinets.
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    I have to second the concerns about the food dye. My husband has always had an intolerance to Open Original Shared Link. He hardly ever consumes it now, especially since I had to go gluten-free (most of our food is now cooked from scratch at home). He recently bought a juice drink that was bright red, drank it without reading the label, and had a scary reaction...
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    We have a little Weber Smokey Joe that we take camping and it works well (I think we paid $30 for it at Walmart a few years ago). Unfortunately we took it to a party recently so we could grill my food safely and the husband let his friends grill their gluten-filled veggie burgers on it, which meant that my stuff still had to go on foil. Boo.
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    i-geek replied to bincongo's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    I've been gluten-free for 7.5 months now. I had to heal for about two months before I could handle butter and hard cheese, and another month or two before I added back yogurt and lactose-free milk. I ate ice cream with a Lactaid pill at the end of May (usually I would need several pills and would still get sick), no problems. Last night I had a cappuccino...
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    Sounds very familiar. Last year it got to the point that I had to constantly medicate myself with antihistamines and sinus meds because I was constantly puffy and stuffed up. That all went away once I went gluten-free and flares right back up if I'm CC'd.
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    Yes. I can eat pistachios now and have tentatively tried walnuts with no problems so far. I never had anaphylactic reactions to them, but I did have a bad contact allergy. I also thought for years that I was intolerant to peppers but am having no problems with them now that my gut is healed. I also drank a cappuccino last night made with regular milk, no...
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    The Kinnikinnick hamburger and hot dog buns are good.
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    I'm a big fan of Nuts Online. Their Open Original Shared Link is certified gluten free. They have a ton of other gluten-free products as well, including some Open Original Shared Link. Shipping is pretty fast and I've been very satisfied with the products.
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    I recently tried Katz chocolate-dipped cookies at my sister-in-law's wedding (she had a dessert reception and thoughtfully provided gluten-free cookies, which I could eat along with the fresh fruit). These were SO good- simple little vanilla cookies half-dipped in dark chocolate. They were pretty, too- they looked almost like black-and-white cookies.
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    Yep- soaking the beans helps break down lectins, which cause GI discomfort in a lot of people. I usually make beans weekly and definitely notice more discomfort if I forget to soak them the night before and just toss them right in the crockpot. Also, some people are allergic to pork- two of my friends are. One of them has reaction symptoms to pork that...
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    Good to know, thanks. Signs are definitely pointing to my husband having gluten intolerance.
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    I have some beautiful stainless steel Calphalon pans. In fact, I used celiac disease as an excuse to replace my old non-stick omelette pan with a new stainless one. I do have one non-stick pan that is crucial for pancakes, otherwise everything else is stainless except for the cast iron dutch oven (our kitchen is gluten-free except for husband's beer).
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    No kidding. I remember just last year seeing the "gluten-free" label on a co-worker's jar of organic peanut butter (he's not a celiac, just extremely health-conscious to the point of being annoying on occasion) and thinking "oh, here we go again, now everything has to be gluten-free. What's next?" And of course then my own celiac disease went from latent...
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    Oh, that's just frightening.
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    Yet another thought: do your gluten-free baked goods have tapioca flour or starch in them? That one usually upsets my GI. It's less of a problem now that my gut has healed (when I'm really craving a grilled cheese now I can usually tolerate a couple slices of Udi's) but when I first went gluten-free it took a bit to realize that the tapioca was setting me...
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    I've heard that celiac can affect both male and female fertility- usually in both cases due to nutrient malabsorption. My husband and I started trying to have children a little over 6 years ago. I had one early miscarriage that coincided with a bad flare-up of otherwise latent (or so I thought) celiac disease 5 years ago. I went gluten-free right after Christmas...
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    Update on the husband: he went gluten-free for five days last week as a challenge from me (after we ate dinner at a local gluten-free restaurant and he followed it up with a pint of standard beer). By Thursday night he couldn't stand it so we went out for drinks and he had a beer. When I came home from work on Friday he told me that maybe there was something...
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    I've got the French Transit Crystal Stick Body Deodorant (no directions other than "wet crystal and apply to underarms"). It seems to work for me about 75% of the time. I can't really figure out why it fails when it does. The AC was out in my building yesterday morning (we've had temps in the high 80s/low 90s with humidity ranging from 60-90% all week) and...
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    I've had no problems with Larabars- I eat them frequently. I can't speak for the other products but Whole Foods is really excellent with safe labeling practices so I doubt there would be gluten-related problems with the fruit spread.
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    It's a varietal of wheat, but not the same species as common wheat(or sub-species; there appears to be some confusion). Some of the proteins in the two species will be identical and someone who reacts to those proteins in common wheat will also react to spelt. However, some of the proteins will be different, and someone who reacts to a protein that is only...
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    Depending on what allergenic protein a wheat-allergic person reacts to, spelt might be safe. At least they didn't suggest it as safe for celiacs.
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    Food poisoning was my guess until you mentioned that this has happened before in response to dairy. You need to stop eating dairy. Go see your doctor and explain that this is not a one-time thing.
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    In my experience, the people handing out samples usually don't have a clue what they're handing out beyond the name of the product, a couple of descriptions of the taste, and basic prep instructions. Likely that guy had never heard of gluten before you brought it up and probably assumed it was an artificial additive. I'm betting his manager would have been...
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    I think you'll be okay if you sort and wash the lentils well before you use them. I prefer not to buy bulk ingredients but sometimes it can't be helped. You're supposed to sort/wash beans and lentils anyway to remove little pebbles and surface dirt, so this is just one more reason to do so.
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    It might not be the potato starch. It could just as well be the tapioca starch. I know another poster on here has allergic reactions to tapioca, and personally, I can't eat a lot of it- it gives me an unpleasant GI reaction (although less severe now that my gut has healed). As for what might help- maybe an anti-histamine, either ingested or topical (on...
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