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    Maybe there are some family camps! I just found this one googling around: Open Original Shared Link
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    My daughter wasn't ready for camp this year, but we are talking it up for next year. She wants her sister to come, so I'm glad that they take siblings. Did she love it? What were the highlights?
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    I know that there are lots of great ideas on the other links, but here are a few from our house. My daughter loves some of the GoPicnic gluten free lunches -- they come in little boxes about 350 calories, mostly organic / preservative free, really healthy options. Of course her faves are the ones that are more junk-foody. The one called Turkey Stick Crunch...
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    I'm sure it varies from location to location. I've walked out of restaurants when I felt that they wouldn't be able to handle the food to my satisfaction. We went in at an off-peak time and when the host asked if he could help us, I told him that I wasn't sure and that I had some questions about their gluten free menu and how they handle gluten free food...
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    Our whole family has been traveling for the last week, and we brought most of the food with us and prepared more on the road. Even so, we found three occasions where we risked dining out, and they all worked out okay. It's the little things that get you all excited after living such a restricted lifestyle, but lemme tell you what we found. 1) A non-chain...
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    Okay, well, the visit with the doctor was okay, but I didn't feel like I could speak freely in front of my daughter, so now I'm waiting on a call back. The good, no GREAT news is that now at 6 months gluten free, all her serology results are back in the normal range!! Her TTG was ridiculously high in December, and now it's 3!! that's right, three! Whew, I...
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    I have been there and know what you mean. Some days (and occasionally nearly ten years later we still have times like that) I just felt that I had nothing left to give! My celiac daughter was so sick the whole time I was nursing her and I had to go through an elimination diet. I ended up eating no dairy or beef and she got some better, but we were clueless...
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    Yes, it would!!
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    She ACTS like a bullied child, but she's not! She usually wants me to stay and watch her activities, and the other kids really like her. She has spurned their invitations and to my perspective been rude to other kids, and then tells me that they don't like her. What is this way of thinking?? She is very sensitive and very competitive and genuinely gets her...
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    No worries! It's not hijacked - it's shared information! It's been a long week in which my sweet daughter refused two parties, quit gymnastics, worked incessantly in the garden and swam like a fish with her sisters. I didn't fuss, didn't push her to break away from the family. I'm feeling that she needs time at home to be nurtured. My biggest fear is...
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    She loves both peppermint tea and camomile tea. I really didn't realize that Pepto had aspirin in it! We have generally avoided pain killers except for children's Tylenol.
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    Not sure how I gave that impression because I am definitely interested on getting help. A pediatric therapist might be very good for us, but we are quite far from any services like that. I want to ask the GI Doc for a recommendation when we go back in a couple if weeks. I don't even know of anyone whose child is in counseling of any kind in the rural area...
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    She is getting everything she wants. How can you tell the difference between a spoiled brat that you've given in to too much, and a sick child that needs additional nurturing in order to feel safe in the world?? This parenting gig is TOUGH.
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    Actually her thyroid function never has been tested. She goes for follow-up blood work in a couple of weeks, so I will see if they can check that then.
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    Thank you! Summer is a great time for us to cleanse our diet and we have been working on that since school got out. We are eating a lot straight from the garden, but we can certainly do more. Well meaning friends have given us gluten-free cookies and other 'treats' that they find. I am fully embracing a simpler diet where we know the source of most of our...
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    First, thanks for all of the support and help so far. If is very encouraging just to say these things to somebody and have them get it. I do think we need to involve some kind of therapist, even if it's just to help with communication. She has never been able to communicate well verbally and has always been shy, so our problem isn't new. She didnt talk...
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    I need advice, recommendations, or anything at this point. My 9 year old celiac daughter (diagnosed 6 months ago) has been feeling much better on her gluten free diet. We are trying very hard and still learning about cross contamination and healthy options. But, she has become very clingy over the last year and is slowly becoming reclusive. She has withdrawn...
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    In this kind of situation, we always pack GoPicnic gluten free boxed meals. Our favorite one is turkey jerky with pop chips, dried fruit, etc. Each boxed meal has about 5 things in it that add up to 300 - 400 calories, so there's really enough. Of the Golden Corral locations that I've been in, I really wouldn't trust anything, except MAYBE the salads.
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    Had a Chebe pizza crust in our gluten-free Tasterie box, so made pizzas with that. The crust is chewy and delicious, but doesn't brown well because it's mostly (or completely?) tapioca flour. Next time I'll get the pizza stone scorching hot first, then put the crust on there. But it was very good anyway. Had Pamela's oatmeal cookies (also from the box) and...
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    Ok, we got our first Gluten free box from Tasterie yesterday! It's great! https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/q71/s480x480/293060_10200626089827642_10301535_n.webp It contained two full-sized Pamela's mixes -- one for brownies and one for oatmeal cookies, a full sized Bob's Red Mill thick cut gluten free rolled oats, Udi's chocolate...
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    As tough as this is now, it's going to keep on getting tougher for a little while, but you can get through this in baby steps. Do not eat out. Period. Not until you're a few months in and have got more of this sorted out. I'm only 5-6 months in w my daughter and we are still learning. Read everything in the newbie forum. Find the Perdue gluten free chicken...
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    Well, the crust was ok. Not as good as Pamela's mix. I'll have to post our Pamela's modifications in the recipe section. But it was good enough. Thinner than most and got floppy during cooking. Next time I'll do it on the griddle. Tonight was a family feast. Ribs, fried okra, hash brown casserole, sweet potatoes and roasted root veggies, green beans...
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    ARCHIVED Sonic Drive In

    LFitts replied to heathen's topic in Gluten-Free Restaurants

    Lol! I would forage for grubs and berries too, ha. The place is a NIGHTMARE. You cannot eat at a sonic without getting gluten. The shakes ARE NOT SAFE. Maybe the cokes, but why bother because you'll just be tempted to get chili cheese tots or some other atrocity.
  25. LFitts
    There is truly nothing worse.
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