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  1. Skylark
    Oops. When I saw all the French I assumed it was European. Peter knows all the Canadian labeling laws. You might PM him. Profile is here. https://www.celiac.com/gluten-free/user/3445-psawyer/
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    It's always nice when the good instruments go to someone deserving. This gluten-free crockpot blog might get you started. Open Original Shared Link
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    Your pudding sounds delish! I've been working on my black eyed peas. Agreed the first looks fine. I don't know much about labeling in Europe. I'd write the company about the second to be sure "natural flavor" doesn't include any malt unless someone who knows labeling better comes along.
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    Starting in on the Hoppin' John a day early. I'll have a little with steamed broccoli and cauliflower tonight, traditional collards tomorrow.
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    My picky nephew loves bacon and will sometimes eat sausage. He also loves ham, "the kind you bake" and breaded chicken tenders. I've seen them gluten-free in health food stores or you could make some with cornmeal. We discovered pretty early on that he would eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, which is a great source of fat and calories for little...
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    I felt left out with the childhood allergies, so I empathize. I was off a whole list of foods including milk and wheat. Mom did little things that helped a lot, like sending a rice flour cupcake with me to birthday parties, or rice krispie treats with me to school when there were events in class. Classroom events weren't too bad because I preferred...
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    Butter is easy. Make yourself ghee. It tastes just as good, keeps for months, and all the troublesome casein is gone if you're careful about filtering it. Open Original Shared Link Organic has nothing to do with A1 vs. A2 casein. Individual cows have to be tested for what kind of beta casein they have, but holsteins are the most likely to have A1. ...
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    You have to stop doubting yourself! You have things figured out really well, probably better than a doctor could ever do. Tell your family the kids can challenge foods on their own when they are adults and are able to understand the consequences. They are asking you to poison your kid and the answer needs to be "no". For what it's worth, with my childhood...
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    What are the ingredients?
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    My milk reactions can take a couple days. If you're feeling "iffy" I'd go back to strictly corn-free and see if you get back to feeling well.
  11. Skylark
    I don't eat anything from Food for Life. I haven't trusted them since they labeled spelt bread as "wheat free" a few years back. Someone on the board figured out that they were using barley-treated water in some of the tortillas that were labeled gluten-free. The response when they wrote the company about undeclared gluten was very rude and dismissive. ...
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    Amy's tests for gluten and states that their gluten-free products will be below 20 ppm. You would probably be just fine having a couple Amy's cookies.
  13. Skylark
    I use different words. It feels like someone replaced my brains with cotton and I can't think straight or remember anything.
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    The casein research is pretty interesting, isn't it? I'd stick to A2 milk as much as possible if I had a lot of type 1 diabetes in the family, at least until they learn more about diabetes and milk. Unfortunately the holstein-heavy US dairy industry is trying hard to suppress the research. Goat milk dairy is pretty widely available now.
  15. Skylark
    Sorry you're sick. It isn't your liver that processes gluten so feel free to take painkillers. The gluten is long gone with the D. The problem is an autoimmune attack and you will have symptoms until your immune system settles down and the autoantibodies are gone again. You could try natural anti-inflammatories like bromelain or MSM. L-glutamine...
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    Like Jestgar I cook on the weekends and live on leftovers and homemade frozen foods during the week. Raw veggies are great, especially things like carrots and celery that require almost no preparation. I soak/sprout nuts on the weekend too, so I have plenty during the week. You want a cooking time sink, look at the Open Original Shared Link. I'm off dairy...
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    Totally normal. It's a big relief but an enormous change and you will not be able to eat the same. On the bright side, you will probably start feeling a lot better. If it makes you smile, I like to tell my friends who are freaked out by my "difficult" diet that champagne, truffles, Russian caviar, and pâté de foie gras are gluten-free. I eat w...
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    Go for it! I hope you get the store changed. It's lunacy to put the gluten-free food next to a flour grinding station.
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    I've seen folks on the board whose doctors told them flattened villi was sometimes dairy. I can't find a single thing on dairy and villi in the peer-reviewed medical literature and I've looked more than once. Soy is tricky to begin with. It's hard to verify that cultures used for miso and tempeh weren't grown on barley. Unfermented soy is supposedly...
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    Right. Food intolerances are usually unpleasant but not harmful. Just make sure you don't get into a situation with a true allergy where you ignore a strong, systemic reaction. I went into anaphylaxis once from a medicine reaction and it was awful! That's why I always tell folks who think they have allergies to talk to a doctor. An allergist...
  21. Skylark
    Digestive enzymes can help with that sort of feeling. There aren't any enzymes that are proven to specifically with gluten (despite some misleading labels) but our digestive systems don't work as well as one might hope. The other thing that can help is eating smaller meals and having some probiotic food like kefir or unpasteurized sauerkraut or kimchi for...
  22. Skylark
    Heya, Shroomie. Itching, rash, and hives in various combinations could definitely be an IgE allergy. Hives in particular are usually allergic. You would know for sure if it improves with an antihistamine. You can put Benedryl cream on a small reaction or take a Benedryl pill if it's more widespread (assuming you have read the package and Benedryl...
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    It's up to you. There are a lot of peer-reviewed medical articles saying that people with multiple positive results on the celiac panel don't need an invasive procedure, and that if you go on the diet and your antibodies go away there is no question of celiac disease. You could talk to your doctor about retesting antibodies in six months. The endoscopy...
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    Food testing usually costs a few hundred dollars. It tends to have a lot of false positives and doctors don't consider it diagnostic. Usually it guides an elimination diet. There are folks on the board who have found IgG testing useful. When you pick a lab, be sure it's accredited and avoid labs performing IgG4 only testing. You want total IgG. Some...
  25. Skylark
    Nora has given you great advice.
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