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    Everyone else has suggested useful tips but I just wanted to stop by and say how touched I was by your thoughtfulness to your future room mate. You are being the sweetest friend to her and I hope you both have lots of fun living together.
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    Gosh, thats pretty crummy (ha, pun not intended). How many nights did that fee cover? I stayed in the Holiday Inn in North Hollywood (the Beverly Garland) a year or so ago and they were great. I don't have a formal diagnosis and I was still new to gluten free so I didn't feel comfortable saying it was for a medical need, I just called and said I wanted...
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    Thanks for all these great suggestions! I will check them all out. I really appreciate your help
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    I loved this! Made me laugh. Hee, such honesty :-)
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    I'll be visiting Chicago in a few months and there will be a group of us catching up. I'd love suggestions of places to eat downtown (loop area or Magnificent Mile) that that are gluten-free friendly and vegetarian friendly (I'm not vegetarian but one of my friends is). Last time I visited we ate at Ben Pao and PF Changs, but I think I'm beginning to...
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    This is how I feel about Chipotle ( love eating there and never have problems), and how I judge other places. I look at the whole menu so that I can get an idea about likely cc issues. I feel really anxious if the rest of the menu is full of croutons and bread and breaded products.
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    I'm late to this thread but I remembered you from last year. I'm glad you had a good trip and didn't get sick. It sounds like your sister and your friends are irrationally jealous of any perceived extra attention you are getting, though why anyone would be jealous of something with food problems is beyond me. Oh well. It's good you and your sister talked...
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    Fun thread! The best bit for me is realising that reading through all these lists of awesome foods no longer makes me want to throw myself on the floor sobbing. Score! It'll be 2 years in June. I miss the spontaneity too. Trying to find a restaurant for a birthday dinner has been a bit of a pain. Actual foods: Ovalteenies They were...
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    Oh, the poor things! That's just cruel I would never touch Marmite, but I feel their pain, I hated having to give up vegemite. But I totally agree that they are both revolting, it's just that for me, vegemite is revolting in 'but I got started on it early enough in life' kind of way, so it's something special. Whenever tourists express an interest in trying...
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    Hee! It sounds awesome - except for the not sending toast flying, that was such an amusing feature - but lol at your husband still not managing it! Does he like burned toast? I'm sure my father's fondness for burned toast and vegemite was part survival mechanism (he taught the cat to love it too - since he'd had that cat before my parents married, the cat...
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    I feel your pain! I loved my toaster. It used to get carried away and half the time it would flip the toast out of the toaster, it'd land on the counter, sometimes on a plate and one time the toast vanished altogether and I only worked out what happened later when I pulled the plug in the sink (which was full of dishes soaking) and discovered it was full...
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    If it's in a packet from the supermarket and the ingredients are all clearly labeled it *might* be ok, but that's all the sort of thing you can get here really easily, I wouldn't waste space in my luggage. Australia is super, super strict, I think only New Zealanders can relate. It's depressing dragging stuff all the way over here only to lose it going...
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    I haven't with gluten specifically but I have struggled with bingeing generally for years (always on carb-y stuff) because when I try to lose weight the mental restriction of giving something up triggers an urge to binge. It doesn't matter that I can eat anything else from other categories, the concept of having to give something up would trigger an overwhelming...
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    Glad you found this thread! I'm sorry your friend has been sick. I guess those places aren't recommended. The gluten-free stuff is pricier, usually. The best brand of pasta in my opinion is the San Remo stuff. In Coles it's in the 'health foods' aisle with all the gluten free stuff, I think Woolworths stock it in with the regular pasta. White wings...
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    Please don't worry, I'm sure you'll do fine. Things are well labeled here, and restaurants have a high level of awareness. With regards to bringing stuff, be careful what you bring. Australia has extremely strict quarantine regulations. You must declare all foods, and they may confiscate some things. There's more info here: Open Original Shared Link...
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    Hi Michelle. Are you from the US? Australia is pretty easy. Supermarkets will have a health food section, and most of the gluten free products are located there. But there are are also many regular products throughout the store that do not contain gluten - some will be labelled gluten free and others it will be clear by the ingredients. In general, products...
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    I think they have a shop at Bondi Junction, if so then I've had their products. I enjoyed the bagels and they have little mini crumbles that were great. I can't remember if I've tried anything else.
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    Most of what we're getting is all from woolies and coles, diandliam, so you should be able to get the same stuff too. The range changes all the time so it's worth investigating. I was at David Jones foodhall (in the Market Street store in Sydney) last night (sorry - diandliam, you probably don't have one of those) and there are lots of little gift boxes...
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    I hate the sweet pastry that most store bought mince pies are made with. If bellyhoo made them with that pastry, I'd think they'd be great. We've always been a gravox family and I can't stand the stuff. But in germany my host mother would make gravy with flour and the juices from the roast. I'm not sure if she added other seasoning. But I guess that...
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    I'm hanging out for easter, I adored the gluten free hot cross buns that were around last year. Our family's christmas is mostly gluten free, so I haven't had to miss out or adapt much. Yorkshire pudding works fine with the white wings gluten free flour, and I never liked store bought mince pies anyway. The only thing my mother and sister have with gluten...
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    Hi! I'm aussie and I've travelled a bunch in the US since I went gluten free. -Chipotle are great. I eat there all the time - get the buritto bowl. - Supermarkets are overwhelming. There is SO much stuff. I remember staring gobsmacked at all the varieties of premade frosting! There is a billion more brands than we get in woolies or coles. So...
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    It's a valid point though, about the worrying. And my peeve! On another forum I belong to we had a person post all the time, and we were all good friends and then one day she vanished. She completely dropped off the face of the earth (she'd posted elsewhere in the fandom, so it wasn't just she'd vanished from us). It was really weird and we all wondered...
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    I'm actually in Australia where it's supposedly summer, though given it's been surely the coldest, wettest spring/summer ever, your point is still entirely valid I think I know all my deficiencies and they were on their way to resolution last time I saw the doc, but I haven't actually mentioned the joint pain since I complained of it when I was little so...
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    bellyhoo should market those pies in the regular section too, making the 'gluten free and dairy free' wording tiny so it doesn't turn people off, LOL. Because they are the best pre-made frozen pies I've ever tasted and frankly, better than plenty of fresh stuff I've bought from bakeries or eaten at people's houses. I love that type of pastry so much more...
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    So my joints ache all the time and have done most of my life (I'm 34). It's gotten worse since I've been gluten free and started eating tonnes of vegetables - because an awful lot of those veges are tomato and bell pepper. So I've just started to go nightshade free, slowly (still have some spices) I'm also trying to psych myself up to go dairy free. ...
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