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    Here is the response I received from D'Lites Emporium, Thursday, May 29. ALL OF THE FLAVORS HAVE A VANILLA OR CHOCOLATE BASE. YOU THEN ADD A NON CALORIC EXTRACT TO PRODUCE THE FLAVOR YOU WANT. GLUTEN FREE REGARDLESS OF THE FLAVOR YOU PICK. BEST WISHES, D'Lites is located in Florida in Gainesville, Hernando, The Villages, Altamonte Springs, Tampa,...
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    Great topic! When I started dating the man who is now my husband, he said, "Let's go out to eat!" And i said, "I don't really eat out." (The diagnosis was new and I was terrified to tell him because I really liked him and for some reason I thought it might scare him off, and I was just embarrassed about the whole thing. Later on when I did tell him, he...
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    I finally remembered to write that email to General Mills to say thank you for the reformulation. I am loving buying cereal at the grocery store! Here is the link if you'd like to thank them too: Open Original Shared Link
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    I TOTALLY get what you're saying and I think you should skip it if that is what will make you feel better. Or spend the night at the hotel and then go shopping, or to a fabulous restaurant with a gluten-free menu! I know how you feel... and it gets better eventually... but after almost 3 years (in August), I still have bouts where I just get upset at things...
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    Hi, all (and especially to those of you in the Sunshine State)! I just popped in the D'Lites Emporium on 34th St here in Gainesville, because my friend had been to the store on NW 16th Blvd and told me they had lots of gluten free stuff. Well, I guess this one must be smaller, but still, they had bars and whatnot that I have never tried. I was planning to...
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    OK -- I opened this thread hoping to get some help... but I see a couple of different tacks being taken. One being appetite and perceived hunger and one being actually ravenous... I fall into the latter camp. It's not just that I feel hungry, I am STARVING! I eat all kinds of snacks every day (if I didn't, I wouldn't have a husband or any friends because...
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    I am so glad to have run across this thread! I definitely have avoided caramel color like the plague unless I knew about the product's gluten free status beforehand. Whew! It is great to know that US-made is okay (well, depending on what is going on with this vinegar). Nancy, I feel you on the no reaction thing -- I cannot say definitively whether in the...
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    Flourgirl gave you lots of excellent advice! I would just add to stay away from milk for a little while (some people have trouble handling it when they are healing) as well as things like broccoli that can give you gas... I continued to feel like I looked pregnant after I started the diet and I had to weed out things like broccoli, beans, etc. until my system...
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    I thought the "technicalities" reason for the bottom two was pretty weak. This is my first season watching Top Chef. I don't like any of the judges whatsoever (Padma is so smarmy!) and I don't really like any of the chefs either! I liked the first one that went home and then Erik (until he trashed Rick Bayless!) but now they all get on my nerves! My husband...
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    Soooo... what did everyone think??! I like Meredith less than ever after she screamed out "Tumor!" I can't believe Derek and Mark actually even talk to each other. That's so weird to me. Lexie's speech at the end was awful! All in all, I thought it was a pretty good episode, though. I'm just glad the show's back!
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    I'm reading the Nine Steps to Financial Freedom by Suze Orman... and I can't put it down! I had no idea that wills could be so expensive to carry out and how important revocable trusts are! She writes on a level that I can understand, and I have learned so much. I definitely recommend this book. I'm also reading Marley and Me by John Grogan, and it's making...
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    Well, I don't know how helpful my reply will be, but I just wanted to say how wonderful the Authentic Foods superfine (which is fun to say) brown rice flour is. Annalise Roberts's (if you like baking, the most awesome cookbook out there!) flour blend specifically mentions it, and one time I ran out (it's not cheap) so I substituted regularly ground brown...
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    Jacksonville has a great store called Native Sun; lots of gluten free items and a person who checks to make sure that the gluten free stuff is truly gluten free; if not, she doesn't give it the colored price sticker that indicates gluten free stuff. Lots of restaurants -- Maggiano's, PF Chang's, and Ted's Montana Grill in the St. John's Town Center, and...
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    Dude! In the preview for the episode this week (FINALLY!) that nurse says she's in love with Derek! What?!! Apparently a lot has been going on at Seattle Grace while we've been trying to entertain ourselves for months on Thursday evenings!
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    TV!!! At my gym, there are 6 different screens downstairs in the "cardio theater", but upstairs each machine has its own screen. One day I found "Friends" on, and I ran 10 minutes longer than I'd planned because I wanted to see the whole episode! The food channel used to be good, but it makes me too hungry to watch anymore. CNN helps me catch up on what...
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    Hi, Gainesville Celiacs! Let's get together!! For our first meeting, we could go to dinner somewhere.... Outback? Carrabbas? or just meet at Starbucks or Maude's or somewhere and toss around ideas. I tried to find out about a group here when I was diagnosed Aug 2005, but the "contact person" said she was too busy. So then I went to Jacksonville for months...
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    Hi! Is anyone planning on going this year? Did anyone go to Denver last year? I am just dying to go, but it's pricey! I love baking more than anything and am only still getting this ph.d. because my husband and family won't let me drop out at this point! Here is the website; it looks amazing! Open Original Shared Link
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    Hi, hathor! I let my travel agent know, and she sent an email to the company, who then sent back the gluten-free order form for me to order my items. I tried to get back in touch with them closer to the time of the cruise, but they said I didn't need to do anything else, just talk to the maitre d' on board once I got on the ship. I don't know to what extent...
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    Happygirl, I just wanted to say thank you for this amazing recipe! I had 3 ugly bananas on hand and was unhappy with the recipe I'd been using, so I searched here for "banana bread" and then tried yours -- it was even better than the gluten version I loved before! My husband and I ate it up in under 2 days!
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    Hi, all! I wanted to report on my honeymoon on the Norwegian Spirit (stopping in Roat
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    i am the bottomless pit! people can't believe how much i eat. usually i eat small amounts very, very frequently, but lately it seems like it takes so much for me to get full. my biggest problem is being constantly hungry. i eat cream of buckwheat several mornings a week and that used to hold me for three hours -- now i'm lucky if i'm not starving in an hour...
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    Cheese straws are awesome! You can't have a wedding in the South without them. Although mine will be lacking... sadly... since the reception is gluten-free. Perhaps they go by another name in other parts of the country? They are like cheese wafers, made with flour and (generally) cheddar cheese and around here people use cookie presses so that they come...
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    Hi, all! I recently received a wonderful Williams-Sonoma cookie press as a wedding gift. It made me sad when I opened it, because I didn't know if it would work with gluten free dough, but according to this thread it looks like for some things it might do fine. The lady that gave it to me attached her family's favorite cheese straw recipe. Has anyone ever...
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    I'm sorry you've been feeling bad! I guess each person has to draw his or her own line about allergen statements... I personally try to stay away from the ones that are processed on shared equipment. I make some exceptions for Nestle because I talked to someone there on the phone who told me they thoroughly wash down the lines (this was for Maggi chicken...
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    Here is a link to one of my favorite blogs, by Shauna James Ahern, the Gluten Free Girl: Open Original Shared Link She describes her honeymoon in Italy over several posts, and the reading is great even when she's not talking about GFness! I lived in Spain this summer and I would agree with pretty much everything Mafyta said about being Celiac there. If...
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