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I'm very intersted in hearing more about your homemade crackers. Crackers are something we miss and haven't found a decent substitute for. Also, they were a common lunch box item. I did buy a brick of parmesan cheese so I can make cheese crisps for her lunch instead. That's the best idea I had.

I'm not a fan anyway. I went once because others I was with wanted to go there, but the food wasn't great and cost much more than it was worth. They seemed to understand what "gluten free" meant though.

Carrabbas is one of the few places we go when we go out to eat. We have a wild 3-year-old, so it's partly because of her and partly because of the gluten. But I've always had really good luck with them. The one by me is really good about it.

My daughter and I both feel so much better, obviously, but the best thing to me is that my daughter is eating such a better variety of foods, and much healthier foods. She snacks on apples dipped in (natural) peanut butter now. No more crackers for every snack! I swear she ate nothing but crackers and bread before, but I saw her snacking on carrot sticks...

Great idea to just freeze blobs of cookie dough! We'll do that for sure. In fact my daughter could make the dough herself, freeze the blobs herself, and probably even cook a few cookies at a time herself. She'd love that project. And I will look for the book. She'd like to be able to look up what she can have herself, I'm sure. I'll have to see if they...

Thanks! Are the gluten-free beers any good? Do they taste like beer or are they really ciders? I've had cider and it's nice.

I'm glad to hear this is related to celiac disease, because my 10-year-old daughter has had this problem occasionally (like a few times a year -not often), and you can imagine her worry that it would happen during sleepovers or slumber parties. I'll have to tell her that it hopefully won't be a problem again. She'll be really relieved to hear that. It...

Do you live with other people? Be careful of the toaster and that kind of thing. It took me a couple of days of having gluten-free bread toasted to realize that I was probably getting crumbs on my toast from using it in the toaster other people in the house use. Now we have two toasters. And have your own butter or margarine and peanut butter or anything...

For me I didn't get better while I was still forgetting and accidentally eating stuff I shouldn't have. When I was finding myself nibbling on a bit of a kid's sandwich rather than throwing it out and thinking, "NO!! That has gluten!", I was still getting sick. About five days after not forgetting, I started to feel quite a bit better. I woke up one morning...

When we changed over my 10-year-old daughter's diet, I took her out and let her get all the gluten-free snack food that looked good to her. I am usually careful with sweets and snacks, but I decided that for the first couple of weeks I'd be very relaxed and let her have extras so she didn't keep thinking about all the things she had to do without. We're...

I've only been gluten-free for a few months, and I really try, but I sometimes get hit without knowing where it came from. The first thing I feel is a huge wave of fatigue and like a mental fogginess. I was worried at one point I could be narcoleptic or something. It's horrible and difficult to concentrate even to drive, so I just don't go to restaurants...

This is really interesting to me. I hadn't thought of alcohol when diagnosed with celiac, but even when I was in college, I couldn't drink beer. Even just a few gulps would make me sick to my stomach and get a horrible headache. I never thought about the gluten in it. I assumed it was just part of my migraine headache issue. So I don't know whether this...

Her foods she's missing the most at this point are bread to toast, and flour tortillas. Oh and crackers. She likes whole grain crackers so it seems like she'd be able to handle on that wasn't specifically wheat. She also likes sweets of course but we don't have a ton of sweets anyway. I will have to learn to do some gluten-free baking I guess. If kids...

My dad was horribly, horribly ill for a couple of years. He's in his 70s so we were afraid he was just at the end of his life. But no, he got diagnosed with celiac disease, and amazingly the past year his health has turned around. His doctor said his kids should get tested, and of the three of us I'm the only one who tested positive. I wasn't aware the...