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    Today I was hurrying down to a grocery store in a strip shopping center. I smelled something offensive, sort of like old dog poo. I looked around on the ground, then looked up to my left. I was coming up on a chain submarine sandwich restaurant. They were baking wheat bread. I used to be sad when I smelled wheat baking. Anybody else gluten...
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    Hormel hash, Spam and Dinty Moore Beef Stew are gluten free but I would label it for the Food Bank because you only read gluten-free when you read the small print.
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    My gastro consistently harped about my low body weight. My FP (female) told me she thought I looked good and that tons of women in her practice would pay good money (with gastric bypasses, etc.) to be as thin as I was. I'm putting on weight now, but it's been 15 months gluten-free. I think my gastro will be happy. I'm not sure if I am. Another...
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    Good luck to you! If you get Paypal going, the easiest and most delicious recipes are in The gluten-free Almond Flour Cookbook. The author lists online sources for ingredients. They're a bit spendy though. (And worthwhile so far.) She doesn't use very many ingredients and I don't recall a recipe calling for corn. (I can't do corn either.) Now...
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    ARCHIVED Travel

    Marilyn R replied to cait's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    Wow. This trip doesn't sound like fun, and it sounds like opting out isn't an option. If it's a road trip, I guess I'd spend the next week cooking and freezing individual portions of safe food to take in a cooler. Then purchase a teensy crock pot. (They're cheap, but I don't think I've seen one with a removable liner.) A blob of frozen cooked...
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    I loved corn at first. Then it kicked me hard. I haven't tried reintroducing it yet.
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    I like a good long soak in a hot tub with lots of epsom salts, baking soda and a couple of drops of peppermint oil, and a paperback trashy novel.
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    I've been in your shoes and it is confounding. I'm still not sure what helped me the most, rotating my diet, eliminating similar proteins. or just time. You could actually be having a problem with legumes since you are vegan. But I'm not an expert, and could be giving you utterly unsound advice. The protein is similar in structure and your cells...
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    Tonight for dinner we had grilled sirloin burgers. I sauteed some sliced onions and portabella mushrooms in olive oil with s&p to top the burgers. We had roasted potatoes too. When we sat down to dinner, I asked my non gluten-free sig other if he'd like some bread. He said "yes!". I said "Too bad!" and cracked up laughing and you know how it goes...
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    One other thing I wanted to add is that what you're going through is perfectly normal. I started crying the first couple of times I went to the grocery store. And probably the first times I went shopping, I left with less than 10 items because I felt so overwhelmed from reading labels and worrying.
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    ARCHIVED Spices

    Marilyn R replied to Mack the Knife's topic in Super Sensitive People

    I had to drop two different salts. One was when I couldn't seem to get well and my dietician mentioned that iodized salts contain corn and could be contaminated. Changing to sea salt helped with that. Wow, I never knew that. Hope you are doing better!
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    Hi Ashley, and welcome to the forum! Yes, omg the diet gets easier! Shopping gets easier. Do use the seaarch engine on the forum (upper left) to learn about cross contamination (cc) if you haven't already. As for grocery shopping, it will be difficult at first, but then you learn to go to just the aisles that have the stuff you need (whole...
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    Are you willing to give up the recipe for Grapefruit Tarragon Viniaigrrette? Sounds yummy as a dressing or marinade. Pretty please? I'd really be trying to raid your recipes if I didn't have so many other food intolerances/allergies. We're having grilled fish again tonight. I marinated it in pineapple juice, fish sauce and pepper. That's...
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    Are you willing to give up the recip for Grapefruit Tarragon Viniaigrrette? Sounds yummy as a dressing or marinade. Pretty please?
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    I concur with GfininDC. I can do coffee. There's only a couple of chocolates that I can tolerate without repercussion. One is homemade chocolate sauce with just boiled cocoa, sugar, water, chocolate (you can find the recipe on allrecipes if interested) or the high content dark chocolates with minimal soy lecithin. Did you change you alcohol or mixers...
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    What kind of wierd spots? What do they look like? I know it's hot everywhere now, I live in the deep south and a lot of people don't grow herbs in the summer because they don't thrive. But I find if I harvest them regularly and water daily they do well. I don't fertilize or spray them, but do feed them diluted coffee and very ocassionally coffee grounds...
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    I don't feel guilty about stashing my safe food, or even marking it off limits with a red or purple marker. I used to, but then I found that I felt even guiltier for having to call in sick yet again, then feeling awful and being snarly for 4 or 5 days. I explained it to my sig other and relatives. They get it. It's not that I'm being ungracious,...
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    That happens. Sorry. It's best to go with whole foods that you've cooked yourself at first. I became convinced when I had a gluten-free salad that cost $15 for lunch at a chain fern bar when I first went gluten-free. Additives may be bothering your system. Good luck, hope you find your way down this path of discovery.
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    I use a mini food processor. For this batch, I used about 1 1/2 cups fresh basil, 2 cloves garlic, 1/4 cup pistachios,(can use any nuts, or no nuts), approximately 1/8 cup good olive oil, sea salt. You don't need pepper because the basil is so peppery. Grind it until it is pesto consistency. I also like this made with parsley half and half or all out...
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    OMG! You sound just like me! I don't know if you have a wholesale store in your 'hood, but I find it helpful to buy chicken breasts, fish filets, shrimp, etc in the big bags or boxes. Then I just figure out which one I want tomorrow and stick it in a glass bowl to defrost on the bottom shelf of my refrigerator. When I come home from work I figure out...
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    ARCHIVED Spices

    Marilyn R replied to Mack the Knife's topic in Super Sensitive People

    No, I don't think you're being paranoid. I grow my own spices (a few basils, flat leaf parsley, chives, sage and thyme, rosemary on my front porch in a big pot). It gets eastern exposure. The sum total of my efforts is filling whatever is left in the bottom of my coffee pot in the morning with water, and dumping it in the potted herbs, being careful...
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    I'm super sensitive too. I was reading through this thread and thought about the food fights we used to have as teens. We're in full tilt food war now. I gave up on Chex about six months ago, and I've gradually given up on most grains and proceesed foods. I'll have rice about once a week. I rinse it well and inspect in, then cook it. I love...
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    The ingredient list looks soy free to me,(plenty of dairy and gluten though), but do they make this food on the same lines with the soy based baby foods? That could be a concern. Good luck to you and your precious baby.
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    Surgery isn't always successful in resolving sleep apnea. What surgery did you have? Uvulopalatoplasty? I had a surgery I'm fairly sure I wouldn't have had to have if I'd discovered my intolerance to gluten earlier. I wonder if celiac disease could be linked to sleep apnea. My father had it, and I always figured I inherited my problems from my...
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    Last night we had goat curry. (Not curried goat, if you know what I mean.) Tonight we had grilled chicken marinated in pesto and roasted potatos. And sweet cheeries dipped in chocolate sauce. That was too good to be true! (Found the recipe on Allrecipes.) It was even good on watermelon. Yea. Had a little chocolate fest down here today...
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