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You can definitely manage cooking even though you live with roommates who don't eat gluten-free - I've done it for the past two years, and at one point I lived with 7 other girls! You just have to talk to them about your situation, and make them understand how serious it is, and stress that they need to clean up after themselves/put aluminum foil in the toaster...

It is depressing at first, but you do adjust to it, I promise, and not feeling sick all the time makes up for it. As for cereal, Rice Chex are gluten-free, but this is a new thing, so you have to make sure it says gluten free on the front of the box, as some of the older ones still don't have it. There's a lot of foods you CAN have, but eating in a dining...

Babycakes! - Gluten-free bakery on the Lower East Side. www.babycakesnyc.com. It's a cute little place with a lot of great options, and it's sugar-free and vegan as well (I promise, they still taste great). I think you take the F train to Delancey Street and walk down to Broome Street, but I would look up their address and look up the subway directions on...

I'm heading into my senior year as well, and I was diagnosed at the end of my senior year of high school. I definitely agree with you about most people not understanding what you're going through - I've gotten the whole "if I couldn't have beer I would die" comment more times than I'd really care to count. The adjustment was pretty rough - I feel like a lot...

I went to Disney for New Year's in December 2005-January 2006. We stayed at the Grand Floridian and I don't think I've been so well-taken care of anywhere else. They even made me gluten-free mickey waffles. It was amazing.

Mama's is fantastic. I live about half an hour away when I'm not at school and it's worth the trip every time. Get the fried calamari! (My mom tried to send it back to the kitchen because she was convinced it wasn't gluten-free. That's how good it was!)

Sambuca on West 72nd street between Central Park West and Columbus Ave has a gluten-free menu, and I thought it was pretty good. You can also hop on the 1 train, get off at Christopher Street, and walk down to Risotteria (Bleecker and Morton streets) which is my favorite gluten-free restaurant in the city.

I'm a junior at NYU, and I was in a traditional (no kitchen) dorm freshman year, so I was forced to be on a meal plan. While dining services said they would help me, they weren't always willing to accommodate me, so I wound up eating a lot of soup and frozen chicken nuggets from whole foods in my dorm room. I also got sick a lot when I attempted to venture...

I made the Pamela's mix a few months ago, and all of my gluten-eating roommates loved it, and said you couldn't tell it was gluten-free.

I was the one who originally started this topic... Being gluten free in Prague can be a bit challenging, but if you're going for study abroad you'll be fine if you have a kitchen. A lot of drugstores (the DM chain in particular) sell Schar products. This is a great gluten-free brand, and I actually wound up bringing a lot of their pasta home in my suitcase...

There's PF Changs, as well as Cafe Baldo in I believe Seaford or Massapequa and Mamma's in Oakdale. I think there are reviews of both on this board if you search through old posts.

yay long island...suffolk (but school in nyc) here

I'll just post most of an old reply I made on the travel thread... 1. RISOTTERIA - this is an absolute must. It's by far my favorite gluten-free restaurant in the city. It's on the corner of Bleecker Street and Morton Street in the West Village (near the 1 train (Christopher Street stop) or the A,C,E,B,D,F, and V trains (W4th street stop)). It's a great...

I don't have any experience with eating outside of the park, but Disney is more than accommodating when it comes to celiac disease. (There are a lot of past threads on this board attesting to that.) A nice treat for your daughter, if she's having issues with her diagnosis, might be to have breakfast on the property somewhere...I went to a character breakfast...

I was DXed at the end of my senior year of high school, and I honestly feel like it would have been easier if everyone had known all along. I have one friend with a peanut allergy, and everyone is used to dealing with that because he's had it as long as we've all known him, but I still find myself attempting to explain celiac disease to my high school friends...