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    In your own gluten free home, the potatoes would be fine. But given all the other foods being prepared at the same time, even gluten free by ingredient dishes can get ruined. Back in the day if I were making multiple dishes I would have easily used the same utensils. Boiling pasta, dumping out the water and then boiling potatoes in the same pot, seems harmless...
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    It's nuts. And you're right, they are personally insulted. That people will keep pushing food, or denying you should be scared of contamination... "surely a little bit won't hurt?" is mind boggling. Would they go up to someone with a pin and poke them and expect that to be ok because it'd only draw a little blood? I will never understand why people...
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    That was a lovely post. I'm so glad things are going so well for you. And I totally agree about how wonderful and supportive this place is. It made a huge difference to me too. All the best to you and your family!
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    Hi. I had the same kinds of symptoms. Felt fantastic after a month inadvertently gluten free (I went entirely grain free). I then spent 3 months eating huges amounts of gluten, feeling half dead the whole time but nonetheless tested negative. A few days after got the 2nd set of negative test results back I went gluten free (the doctor knew and supported...
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    I voted "by myself (elimination diet) - tests were negative" . But I wanted to add that my doctor supported me going gluten free as she she said she'd seen a lot of patients see improvement. She encouraged a grain free, dairy free diet but I haven't managed that yet :-)
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    I'm gluten intolerant; tested negative for celiac and don't have the genes. Seriously, try going entirely gluten free. I probably wouldn't have but for the encouragement to do so that I got here to do it thoroughly and properly, and omg did it change my life! So many random, bizarre symptoms totally resolved. I will eat like I have celiac disease for the...
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    Ha! Do you live at my place? I smashed a glass plate on Sunday while doing the washing up :-)
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    I look at the menu first, not so much to see what is gluten free, but to see what else they offer. If most things on the menu would be things I couldn't eat, I don't trust the gluten free selection. Too easy to get cross contaminated. Also don't assume that the things listed are the only ingredients. Often they just list the main selling point type ingredients...
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    I spent four weeks travelling around the states. Sometimes in hotels, sometimes with friends, travel mostly by train. I always had a food bag with me, it's contents varied. I kept rice cakes and larabars for emergencies, but barely touched them. Chex was awesome, I could eat it dry on the train or with milk and I enjoyed it even when I was feeling awful...
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    Be careful with things like sugar and baking powder. Back in my gluten-y baking days I used the same measuring cups and spoons for all ingredients because back then I didn't care if flour residue got in the sugar, etc. I ended up giving that stuff away too, rather than risk it.
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    I'm sorry I don't have any tips add but I hope you feel a lot better soon. Getting glutened sucks, whether it's by accident or through something like this. But I would encourage you to try and stay strictly gluten free from now on. Whether or not you have officially diagnosed celiac doesn't make much difference unfortunately to how our bodies react to it...
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    Ha, I was the same when I got my gene test results. I know I can't eat gluten, it would have been nice to have a concrete reason why. Oh well, I'm just waiting for science to catch up with how I feel.
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    I say, I don't eat gluten because it makes me sick. Then people either (a) ask me if I have celiac and I say the tests say no but since I have to be strictly gluten free, it doesn't matter much either way or ( they say what is gluten? and I say that it's in wheat, barley and rye and give them a brief run down on what it does to me. I find a lot of people...
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    I found it took repeated glutenings in a short time to get the symptoms back again. Usually I get stomach pains and D about 2 hours after getting glutened, but by the end of that night I am ok. At home I have very good control over what I eat, so it's usually accidently contamination eating out. However, on my recent trip I found that while the first...
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    Ooooh, could I get the recipe from you? They sound awesome. I keep meaning to go back to being grain free. And I'm back in Oz again now so it's not like I can eat the trader joes ones anyway.
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    I loved Udi's bread so much and now that I'm back home I decided I wasn't going to eat the icky tasting gluten free bread I'd been buying at my local supermarket any longer. I decided to try a bread mix, but since I've also recently narrowed down tapioca starch as the ingredient I really hated, it was a very easy process of elimination. And I hit gold first...
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    They make really yummy snickerdoodles. I don't think the box says gluten free on the front, because it's actually more than just gluten free (free of I can't remember how many of the most common allergens). I highly recommend them
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    Wonderful news! And best wishes to your daughter too.
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    These (and the other posts) are all really good suggestions. I had to comment on the this though . That chain is hilariously non-australian.. I haven't tried their gluten free menu yet (and I'm sorry you've not had good experiences with it) but I've eaten there a few times in the past (here in Australia) because my step mother was homesick for...
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    I had a look at their website and it looks like you'll automatically get a fridge and microwave which is fantastic. So much easier than hotels that only have minibars. But I don't think there will be any grocery stores nearby. Not without taking a cab, or maybe one of your colleagues would be driving. But you could pack a lot of food in your checked...
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    I saw them in Whole Foods in the US. It made me laugh to see them somewhere so fancy - I never thought of them as being anything special pre-going gluten free. But yes, they are gluten free and they are very tasty. I like the multi-grain ones best. Unfortunately I've found I don't tolerate corn very well and I had to stop eating them. I save my occasion corn...
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    I had some from both types of packaging within a week or so (from Washington DC). I didn't notice any difference in taste. Interesting about the calories.
  23. anabananakins
    I use Colgate, I'm sensitive and I've not had any problems.
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    Are you staying in downtown Chicago? I was there recently and I found it the best place of everywhere on my trip to eat gluten free. I'm not sure from your list of things if you would eat at Chipotle, but there were lots of those in the Loop and I would sometimes pick it up for later. For groceries there is a Trader Joes off Michigan Ave and a Whole Foods...
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    I was just searching for info on this and turned up this thread. The gluten free bread I buy in australia has a very weird taste, I can only bear it as tuna sandwiches since the tuna hides the taste. The ingredients are: Ingredients: Contains Rice Flour, Tapioca Flour, Water, Eggs, Almond Meal, Vegetable Gum (Xanthan), Linseed Meal, Yeast, Psyllium Husks...
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