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    You're very welcome! For corn tortillas I buy La Banderita brand which I can usually find at Walmart for about 97 cents. The package says gluten free. Most corn tortillas should be gluten free but you definitely want to read labels to make sure they're not made on the same lines as the flour ones.
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    For coupons you can always go to a brand's website or Facebook and see if they're offering coupons. If they aren't, you can email them and express how much you love their products and sometimes they'll send you a bunch of coupons. Focus on fruits and veggies and try to figure out the cheapest place in your town to purchase them. (For my family, it's Aldi...
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    I'm trying desperately to figure out if pepto bismol chewable tablets are gluten free or not. Their website says nothing and I've called twice and spent 10 minutes listening to hold music each time, I think I'm having a reaction and my stomach is upset and these chewables are the only thing I have available right now. I'm not even sure if pepto would help...
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    Hidden Valley has a lot of dressings that are gluten free. They've started putting a little yellow icon next to the products on their website if they're safe. Open Original Shared Link I think the only unsafe hidden valley bottle dressings are the Caesar and creamy Parmesan but you would still want to double check any before you try them. My two favorites...
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    I'm still very new to this diet (a little over 2 months, I believe) so I not sure if this is my first glutening or not? I'm about 99% sure that I haven't actually eaten anything with gluten but cross contamination is a possibility. I've just read a lot about people getting 'glutened' and a lot of peoples' symptoms seem to be worse than mine. But here are...
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    So we have a huge antique wooden island in the middle of our kitchen that we do pretty much all of our food preparation on. I know that wood is not safe but we really don't have much more counter space...certainly not enough to prepare full meals. I'm the only one in the house that's gluten free and we don't prepare food directly on the counter. If something...
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    I actually just read my first post and realized I made a typo. The "positive gluten intolerance" should be "possible gluten intolerance." My bad. Also, I do not have a copy of the biopsy report. All I have is the paper they gave my parents at the hospital when I was still drugged up haha. That's the paper with pictures and the one that says they saw...
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    Thanks for the help! I must have gotten the DGP confused with another test.. is it this one that has 99% accuracy? I read that one has 85% accuracy and I thought that was the one I tested positive in. And just to be sure, false negatives on blood tests are extremely rare, correct? It probably sounds like I'm trying to deny that I have celiac or something...
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    Thanks for replying. I don't think switching doctor's will be necessary. I like my GI doctor and I'm sort of stuck with my regular doctor anyway. I've already had all the tests done and gotten results. Now I just need someone to interpret them and help me figure out if I have Celiac or not. I know that some people on here are good at interpreting test...
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    Back in January I got the blood test done for Celiac but wasn't able to get copies of my results until yesterday. Shortly after my blood test, I had an endoscopy. The endoscopy initially showed damage that apparently looked like Celiac but the the biopsy came back negative. About two months ago my GI doctor went ahead and put me on a gluten free diet and...
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    Larabars or nature valley almond crunch bars, raisins, squeeze packs of Justin's nut butters, homemade trail mix (chex, nuts, raisins, etc). That's all I can think of right now. Hope I helped a tiny bit! Good luck!
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    Perhaps you could try making your own baked potato chips? These look delicious: Open Original Shared Link
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    Thanks so much, guys! Oh and believe me- my mom and I LOVE Cabot. We have some of the Seriously Sharp white cheddar right now and it's sooooo good. I bought the Kraft pre shredded because it's better for salads. Not really taste wise but in texture. The Cabot is very moist and it tends to stay in one big clump when you put it in a salad while the Kraft...
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    I was wondering if anyone could let me know for sure if this shredded cheese I have is gluten free? It's Kraft Natural shredded sharp cheddar cheese. The ingredients are: "Cheddar cheese (pasteurized milk, cheese culture, salt, enzymes, annatto (color); potato starch, cellulose powder, and calcium sulfate added to prevent caking; natamycin (a natural...
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    Thanks for the links, squirmingitch. I've started reading through the topics and it sure is a lot good info! I can already see that it's a lot more difficult to get a diagnosis with dh just from reading these two topics. I'll continue to read more about it and then maybe actually sit down with her and see if she'll read up on it herself if I give her some...
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    Unfortunately I don't think she understands. If she does then she's just playing dumb for fear of having to give up all of her good food (she's not convinced that gluten free can be tasty) and beer. I told her she should get tested and told her what untreated Celiac disease could lead to and that she should get tested and she just kind of made a joke about...
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    Wow, thank you so much for all of this information! And it's very interesting that you mentioned that it could be on the same places on each side of the body because that's exactly how my mom's rash is. In fact, she has it on her thumbs right now. I mentioned it to her and told her about it but she didn't take me seriously and just kind of brushed it off...
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    I've been recently diagnosed with Celiac with no one else in my family ever being diagnosed. I know it's hereditary so it's got me wondering if anyone in my family lived/is living undiagnosed. I was thinking about it earlier and remembered my mom complaining about a rash a few months ago. I think she said it comes and goes every few months and itches really...
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    This is a really stupid question but my mom and I are grilling hamburgers tonight and mine can't be grilled on the actual grill grates due to non gluten free things being made on the grill. I know the grill can be cleaned by getting it to a certain temperature for a certain amout of time but I don't want to do that tonight and I've read that you can grill...
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    Thanks for the responses. I definitely won't use it again but you guys did put my mind at ease a bit. I have another kitchen question and it's not on the topic of colanders but I didn't want to start a whole new topic for it. Hopefully it's okay if I ask it here? If not, I apologize. I got a really nice waffle maker as a Christmas gift last year that...
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    Over the weekend I was away from home and didn't have access to my own kitchen tools. I was with other family and on Saturday they used their colander to wash fruit for a fruit salad and I ate it.(And it was delicious.)I was really nervous about eating it but my dad convinced me that it was safe because he said that the stuff the colander was coated or painted...
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    I did consider cross contimation. I wasn't sure if it was too soon for my body to have a reaction to gluten since I've only been off of it for such a short about of time. Is this possible? I haven't eaten at any restaurants since starting the gluten free diet but I am the only person in my family that is gluten free so my meals are prepared in gluten...
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    Thanks for the response, Mushroom I woke up feeling okay today and then after lunch things started going downhill. All of a sudden I'm extremely tired, (and I got a good 9 hours of sleep last night and haven't done anything today!) emotional (for no apparent reason. This is what I imagine it feels like to be pregnant. I'm laughing about it at the moment...
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    I stopped eating gluten about a week ago and for 3 or 4 days I felt great. Not 100% better by any means, but I was already noticing small changes and I was really excited. I felt energetic and my stomach felt semi-normal and I just felt good. Yesterday I woke up with stomach pain. It got a little better but the rest of the day I just felt like my old self...
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    It was just plain broccoli florets, which was why it was so crazy to me! But it sure taught me a quick lesson, so that's good at least. Thanks for the suggestion on the chicken broth- I'll look out for that brand!
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