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  1. anabananakins
    I got glutened once on my recent trip, but before that I can't remember - months and months. But I live alone and I'm single and my friends let me pick where we eat (which I don't do all that often if I'm not travelling). I share an office with one person who is careful and I go through a million paper towels when using the shared kitchen at work. It's...
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    I hate people touching things of mine when they've eaten but not yet washed their hands. Ugh, I don't need their gluten-y mitts on my stuff! I am an obsessive hand washer now. Crumbs just freak me out. Damn evil things. It does become second nature though, and you do stress a lot less as time goes by. I remember the first time I ever ate out I was...
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    Yes, I've not had any problems at places with a gluten free menu. It is a leap of faith, but the chef and servers want you to enjoy your meal (unless they are mean, bitter people!) and if they have a gluten-free menu then there is at least some level of understanding. It's not that hard for a restaurant to avoid CC if common sense is used. The bigger the...
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    Hi. I've travelled around the US twice now since I've been gluten free. I tend to drag around lots of snacks and fruit and things (just because it's easier and more affordable to be able to eat on the go like that) but I also eat at Chipotle a lot, especially when I feel that scurvy will set in :-) I think the food there is delicious (last year on my 4...
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    It could well be the plums! I had the same thing happen. I was strictly gluten free and certain I wasn't being contaminated but I was having a lot of bloating and pain. It turned out I need to (at least try) to follow the low FODMAP diet. Onions (fructans), apples, plums (sorbitol) and chewing gum (also sorbitol) are particularly bad for me. Have...
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    Ooh, pie. I'll check out my Coles. Also the UK supermarkets gluten free range was everything Saz promised it'd be. The FreeFrom Brownies from Sainsburys were divine. I ate an appalling number of them. I also had crumpets even though I had to microwave them to avoid cross contamination. Still yummy. I've brought home english muffins, little ciabatta...
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    Yeah, you'd more likely be proving to your mum that you were ok eating gluten.
  8. anabananakins
    No, because if you've been gluten free awhile you'll likely test negative and that's not going to help you any. They say you need about 4 slices of bread a day for 3 months for a gluten challenge and even then you might not test positive. In my opinion, it's not worth it, especially not just to make your mum happy. If I told you to bang your head against...
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    I understand that you were very angry at the service you received, but it makes me very angry to read your choice of wording. The man wasn't knowledgeable and he ummed and ahhed a bit. Bad service, but what do you mean by "quite a typical aussie hick"? Or for that matter, "a very BACKWARD area of the country."? Way to insult me and everyone else in this...
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    *hugs*. Try and post here more, Serenityskyz It makes you feel much more part of the group if you post too (just reading can be quite lonely - I learned that on another board years ago), and this is definately the place to voice challenges, to ask questions, rant and rave on the bad days - anything you need. Not quite the same as in person, but maybe through...
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    This is awesome, thanks! It's true, it's perfectly easy being gluten free here, and I eat so much better now. But have I've missed croissants, english muffins, naan and crumpets A LOT. Heh, I'm going to gain so much weight in the next two weeks
  12. anabananakins
    Haha, I always wondered who an earth would call those info lines. Now I know - me! And yes, there is always someone stocking the shelves near by... You know you're gluten free when your fear of being near people eating toast (or garlic bread, agh!) has become stronger than your fear of spiders.
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    Yep, always C for me, very rarely D. Stomach aches my entire life - gone gluten free. It usually takes 2 hours after eating for me to know I've been glutened.
  14. anabananakins
    I used to have nightmares about gluten all the time. Generally I'd dream that I was at a party and absent mindedly took some crackers or chips from a bowl and then I'd panic and spit them out. One time I dreamed I was being chased by cupcakes. If it's any consolation, the nightmares got less frequent the longer I was gluten free (it's been 15 months now...
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    Oh my god, can you get gluten free crumpets in the UK? I'd put those on my mental "will never eat again" list. I'm in the UK next week. Which supermarket chain would you say was the best? Generally I think it's easy to be gluten free in Australia (eating out, for example) but I loathe the Country Life bread you get in the supermarkets here. I ate it...
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    Good to know about Virgin Atlantic. The gluten free meal on V Australia (now Virgin Australia) was fine. Incredibly bland and boring and no where near as much food as other people got, but I didn't get sick and I'm pretty sensitive and it's quite reassuring seeing a meal without any sauce or seasoning, I don't think I'd trust a sauce. Though it was a bit...
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    It is so weird! I have trouble with corn chips, taco shells, tortillas. Corn starch doesn't seem to be a problem. Corn on the cob is fine too. So for me it's semi refined (to the consistency of ground corn meal) that seems to be the problem. Hmmm, maybe it is cc for me. There's no 'may contains' warning on the brands I eat (in Australia) and I find labelling...
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    I ate at The Winery yesterday, it's on Crown Street in Surry Hills in Sydney. It was a group event and we had a fixed menu. I called the restaurant in advance and so did the person who organised it and the staff were fantastic. The server came over to speak with me and went through the options I could have. From the shared platters to start there was only...
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    Come to Australia! It's super easy to be gluten free here.
  20. anabananakins
    Hee, me too Cass and my friends find it hilarious too. I would say "I was glutened" but if I'm worried about a food I'd say "no, I won't have any because it's probably contaminated". I want people to realise that take even the chance of a dusting of "poison" seriously. They wouldn't eat something if there was the slightest chance it was contaminated...
  21. anabananakins
    You're welcome but please do still speak to the coeliac society for advice. The Board of Studies website wasn't particular easy to navigate and they'll have more experience in how to handle this, talking to your principal etc.
  22. anabananakins
    FWIW, I thought that I was getting glutened and could not work out why or how and it turned out to be fructose malabsorption, specifically, onion in large quantities. I was so puzzled at first, I could not understand how I was possibly being glutened at home. I'm not sure if my reactions vary. I feel like there are times I've been lucky and should've...
  23. anabananakins
    Yay! It's awesome, isn't it? For what it's worth (your experiences could be totally different but they sound similar so far), I felt great generally pretty fast but the neurological issues took longer to resolve. My ataxia started to seem a lot better from about 6 weeks, it probably took 3 months to be really good. I was unsure about the anxiety as 7 months...
  24. anabananakins
    Wow, thanks for this! All near my work. I've been sticking to eating at Guzman & Gomez a lot (burrito bowls) and never get sick, but that's more casual. I need to branch out, sounds like there's a lot of other options I've been missing.
  25. anabananakins
    Jocelyn, have you checked out some of the PCOS support groups? There are some wonderful women out there and they know so much about the PCOS side of things, especially trying to conceive. There is one I know called cysterworld I have PCOS but I'm not trying to conceive so I don't know much about that side of things. But I totally agree, PCOS really...
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