DuckyDiva

This is a great restaurant - I recommend anyone who has celiac in IL to check it out. The food is excellent and it's a wonderful family business.

I believe the article also mentions a great gluten-free restaurant in Chicago. They have amazing italian dishes, all gluten free. I just finished some of their Tiramisu.

just don't make the mistake I made... I drank the Double Chocolate Chip fraps. everyday for a week before I realized they had gluten in them! Dumb on my part.

What I normally do (and I know at times I do take the risk of CC) is I let the waiter/waitress know that I am allergic to anything containing wheat, and if there is any way they can make sure my food doesn't come in contact with any bread, croutons, etc. Most of the places my friends pick are restaurants that serve burgers and such .. so I normally ask...

Whole Foods gluten free bakehouse sandwich bread is the ONLY type of gluten-free bread I like. I usually refrigerate one half and freeze the other. It is very tasty! The banana bread is also amazing, along with the muffins (although sometimes they can be a bit dry in the middle) and the walnut brownies!

I recently had a very positive experience at Outback Steakhouse.. I called ahead of time to make sure they had a gluten free menu, and although the hostess at the door had NO idea what I was talking about - the server for my take-out order did. He brought out the menu (which was obviously used often) and pointed out the ones with "gluten-free" are gluten...

My new 'quick grab snacks' are corn tortillas.. I can eat 5 of them plain and be filled. Another is peanut butter on bananas. I just bought Dinty Moore Beef Stew today, I will have to try it. They sell them in the small plastic cans so I can take those with me if I am going out somewhere and need something gluten-free to eat... Tonight my mom is making...

Thanks all for your responses Actual cooking from me is (for example chicken faijitas) Have to sautee the peppers then remove them from the pot, season & cook the chicken, and then mix in the peppers.. I have no problem doing that on days I have time, but sometimes I just want to grab a quick meal where there is little to no cooking involved...

I've been gluten-free for a week .. happy that almost all of my symptoms have gone away (except now I'm a little constipated) but frustrated at lack of yummy foods that don't involve actual cooking! I tried Kinniknick bread .. didn't care for it too much, but I guess I just have to get used to having "fake" bread.. I tried rice noodles, ick! Amy's Shepard...

Not sure how many of you use AIM .. but here is a cute celiac icon! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v348/shayliz/celiacs.gif

Thanks all.. I'm so glad I posted something (and I guess glad that I had a bad stomaxh reaction to them early) .. I was going to order a case of these because they were so good! I am not a sesame person.. but I will look into pretzels that are SPECIFICALLY STATED gluten free. Like I said.. I'm a newbie celiac, so it'll take some time for me to get down...

I plan on calling tomorrow. I never would have even thought about looking up spelt.. but I started getting a nasty stomachache and so I came here to check responses to see if anyone said "wait - spelt is bad!" and sure 'nuff...

I emailed the company, and this was the response I received ... Spelt does contain gluten. After all, it is the gluten that provides elasticity to dough, allowing bread to rise. Spelt bread has few air pockets, is well formed and tastes great. The gluten found in cereal grains is not all alike. Gluten is made up of glutenin and gliadin molecules, and...

Went on my first gluten-free shopping trip.. I tried a brand of gluten-free pretzels before and they were really bland... but today, I bought VitaSpelt original Pretzels and they taste like normal pretzels! Even though they were in the gluten-free aisle, they didn't specifically state gluten-free, so I had my mom and the store owner look over the short ingredient...

Ooh.. I will definitely have to look into getting some of those on my first gluten-free shopping spree. =) First on my list is Knickinick(sp?) gluten-free bread.