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    I would wait a while to make the decision about kids if I were you. Right now, it sounds like you feel your Celiac diagnosis is a heavy burden to bear. Those feelings will probably fade over the next year or so......as you get used to your new food choices. If I thought that I had a high probability of passing on a condition that would make my child unable...
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    Naturally gluten free is the easy stuff. Meats, vegetables, and fruit. You have to watch processed meats (lunch meat, sausage, etc) but many are fine. Oils, vinegar (but not malt vinegar.) Rice is fine. I use Adolphus rice because the American Rice Co says it is in fact free of cc issues and I haven't had any problems. I don't have problems with oats, but...
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    I think I agree with the comment about the knowledge of the staff. My lifestyle requires me to go out rather frequently and I feel more singled out if I bring my food with me than when I ask for special food preperation. I went to On the Border last week and with a print out from Brinker's website of what was and was not ok. I had a bad reaction and GI...
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    Is frozen as nutritious as fresh.......the answer to that is it depends. If a fresh fruit or vegetable is in season where you live, the grower can pick it much later. In these cases fresh is usually more nutritious because freezing does degrade some of the nutrients - but not as much as canning does. If a food is not in season locally, it has to be...
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    ARCHIVED Gaining Muscle

    Alison R replied to katharos's topic in Sports and Fitness

    I guess creatine is a personal choice, I personally say it's a no-go. I used it for a few years in my late teens.....when I stopped, I lost a lot of the gain I got with it. From what I understand, it really just added water bulk to my muscles, but didn't really help with extra muscle mass. If you want to get that ripped mass that so many of you guys crave...
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    Good info. We'll have to go this weekend and I will have them add some herbs. I do not like bland sauce.
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    I don't. My dad retired two years ago and this is one of his new hobbies. He has a dehydrator and checked out all his ingredients to make sure everything is gluten free for me. I'll get his recipe this weekend and pm it to you if you'd like.
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    If you add fruit and seed granola, maybe beef jerky (never checked ingred. on store bought, we make our own), and maybe some type of yogurt to your diet of roll ups, salads, fresh fruit and veggies, it sounds like great out of town food to me. Other than that, if I had a power outlet, I would take a small George Forman grill and then you can easily cook chicken...
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    Wow! Just looking at the website is making me hungry. Anyone tried the California Cactus or the Buffalo Chicken Pizzas in gluten free? They look wonderful. Pizza delivered again....I'm doing a happy dance! Glad to hear about the Dallas location. We will have to check it out.
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    Salax, I am new to gluten free, but not sadly not so new to soy free. After a hospitalization from soy, I began cooking almost everything from scratch at a young age (20). I use basic, real, fresh ingredients to make my life easier (a big piece of fish, hormone free steak or chicken), fresh or frozen vegetables, etc. Going out, I find that a quality restaurant...
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    I'll have to try freezing my prebaked dough next time instead of just refrigerating it. I think that the xanthan gum in the mix may have continued to draw the baked item in after it was made. My pizza stone is clean, I had two stones before diagnosis.....sadly one had never been used, so I pitched the other one and seasoned this one. No cc issues here.
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    I'm really looking for recipes from scratch instead of mixes, but I'm sure I will try that one when experimenting for a smaller family gathering. I live in Dallas, so I am blessed to have a few bakeries close by that at least have a few gluten free baked goods. I tried a cupcake at Sprinkles here in town and I was less than excited. Having said that,...
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    Hmm, this has me thinking I should do food journal to keep myself on track....especially while starting gluten free. Yesterday B: 2 slices of french toast made with Udi's bread and topped with 1/4 cup of plain low fat yogurt and 1 TBL pure maple syrup mixed in and a cup or so of blackberries and strawberries L: leftover homemade turkey and black...
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    I thought about halfing the package as well, but this is a yeast activated dough mix and I don't know how successful I would be at halfing the yeast package. Freezing dough could possibly work, but I am new to gluten-free baking and I wonder if this would change the consistency of the dough. The package says that you can save the dough in the fridge for...
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    Okay, my fiance and I have just gone gluten free. I made pizza this week so that he would feel like I am not depriving him and had mixed results. The mix makes two crusts, so on Tuesday I mixed up the dough, made the first crust, put the pizza together and went ahead and baked the second crust wrapped it up and put it in the refrigerator. Tuesday's pizza...
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    My fiance and I recently went gluten free after realizing that it was probably causing many of our medical issues. Surprise, surprise.....something is finally working! After neurological problems stretching out over more than a decade, I am starting to see some real improvement in my health......FAST! My mother is so excited that she overloaded my pantry...
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    Thank you. I will have to look into that one. My mother, trying to be supportive, went out and bought just about every gluten free flour she could find this week. So right now I have nine different packages of flour and two packages of xanthan gum and a package of guar gum in my pantry (along with several mixes and a small stash of pasta) for a family...
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    Congratulations! I agree with what others have written with one exception. If you are prone to allergies, I wouldn't stick with SILK, soy is too much of an allergen. If you want to use it that's great, just rotate it with almond milk and even So Delicious coconut milk beverage, etc. Don't keep them all, just buy a different product when you run out. Allergies...
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    Also, one more note. If you can't afford to go organic on everything, start with things that you can't wash chemicals off of (meat, dairy, etc) and things that grow in the ground. For instance, going organic on your onions and potatoes has a bigger effect than going organic with your apples. The tree helps to filter out some of the chemicals used in farming...
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    Portions have been a problem for me for years. In high school and college I was involved in athletics six days a week.....that made me get used to eating like a man. I try to shop the perimeter of the store and to help with my portioning and I have moved all my meals off of my dinner plates and onto salad plates. The plate looks full and pretty and I am...
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    Jess, Most of us are just trying to get back to nearly normal health, and if that was your goal, your current diet would be wonderful. At 20 you could have probably lost the pooch eating like you are. But as we age, it does get a little harder. Your diet sounds healthy, but not like a weight loss regimen. If you are specifically trying to lose the bulge...
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    Sounds awful. I am sorry that your family is not supportive. My best advice is to cook your own food and go on the specific carbohydrate diet. I believe you start out by eating nothing but grilled chicken, rice and pears. Then slowly add other foods back in your diet. You have to be very slow about food introductions while your gut is healing. I have eaten...
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    I'm a 31 yr old Texas girl, who like many others I see here has not been a stranger in the doctor's office. I was diagnosed with "benign familial tremor disorder" in 1998, I couldn't tolerate the medication they gave me and I wasn't willing to let the neurologist shove two long metal rods into my brain and a battery pack in my chest, so I went off caffeine...
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    Thank you for all your support. He is lucky that I am as concerned and detail oriented as I am, but then again I am pretty lucky to have found such a wonderful man, too. He is not always this much of a pain. The only thing I am trying to force is the testing at this point, but I really can't force that either. And you are right, I can't force him to not...
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