Jump to content

tarnalberry

Advanced Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    8,591

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    13

 Content Type 

Profiles

Forums

Events

Blogs

Latest Celiac Disease News & Research:

Everything posted by tarnalberry

  1. tarnalberry
    Hmm... none of them are very starchy - I think quinoa and amaranth are on the lower end of them, though. What other food intolerances are you dealing with besides gluten and rice? I love modifying recipes and finding all kinds of variety in meals, so I'd love to take a crack at the problem. :-) I get mine from Mother's Market or Wild Oats for...
  2. tarnalberry
    gluten-free pumpkin pies are nice and easy. If you need to make it low fat and dairy free as well, boil down non-fat soy milk to replace the condensed milk that's in most recipes. (I use homemade pumpkin bread, dried and crumbled up, then stuck together with apple sauce, for the crust. Definitely more work that way, though!)
  3. tarnalberry
    Absolutely! Many of us are not formally diagnosed! (My blood work was "inconclusive" at best!)
  4. tarnalberry
    Buckwheat is indeed gluten free (it's not even technically a grain). It has a fairly hearty taste. You can use it in place of rice (either whole groats or roasted groats), as a hot cereal (grits - basically just groats ground up a bit), or as a flour. Amaranth can be a tasty alternative as well. As a whole grain, it produces a creamy, slightly nutty...
  5. tarnalberry
    Echoing Berness' statement, my dad is allergic to dogs, but we had poodles (teacup for us) growing up. They don't shed, and if you have them as indoor dogs and keep them bathed every so often, they don't much smell "doggy" either.
  6. tarnalberry
    nice! Thanks for posting that!
  7. tarnalberry
    That's the type of approach my husband prefers - joint problem solving for even those kinds of problems. (Of course, he has to have at least a passing interesting in the problem, but the health and well-being of the family is usually enough to provide a passing interest unless it's otherwise an extraordinarily unappealing problem.) I'm sure plenty of people...
  8. tarnalberry
    Please don't feel like you shouldn't post. I don't think we've got any mad/upset people - just a friendly discussion over different ways of dealing with different situations. That's always a good thing! (I'm a fan of learning from other's experience, and I probably wouldn't ordinarily think to handle the situation jnkmnky described the way she did, but...
  9. tarnalberry
    Interesting. My husband wouldn't work well with that approach (but I totally accept that other people would! definitely not questioning that), and wouldn't respond that way about the butter. (Not better or worse, just different.) But that's the great thing about life - a fabulous variety of people! :-)
  10. tarnalberry
    I think that generalization does a disservice to men, however. My husband, and the husbands of my friends would certainly know if there were two instances of butter in the fridge, and would want to know, in that situation, which one was safe. If you don't discuss why it's important to use the uncontaminated butter, if the situation comes up, he may make...
  11. tarnalberry
    You wouldn't be making him angry - he would get angry all on his own. But the real question for him to answer is why a bit of inconvenience on his part is SO much more important than the health of you and your son? Perhaps he's in denial, perhaps he's scared, perhaps he's uneducated, perhaps he doesn't care. It may just take a lot of discussion to get...
  12. tarnalberry
    "Accidents" or cheating as infrequently as once a month is - as far as the risk of negative outcomes - nearly equivalent to not treating celiac disease at all. So yes, it is vital that you don't get gluten that frequently.
  13. tarnalberry
    Also, making chicken-rice soup from scratch doesn't have to be hard - if you've got 15 minutes to chop up the vegetables and chicken, and 30 minutes to let it simmer unattended, you can do it at home in a large pot and have leftovers for quite a while. (I know, 15 minutes uninterrupted in the kitchen isn't always possible, but if there are times it is, this...
  14. tarnalberry
    The answer to both questions depends upon how long you have been an undiagnosed celiac (so how long it was between when it was triggered and when you went gluten-free), how old you are now, and how quickly you heal. In the vast majority of cases, the damage will eventually heal if you remain strictly gluten-free for the rest of your life - and most of...
  15. tarnalberry
    You could easily be "used to" the gluten effect, and will find that you notice the effect again as you go gluten-free. 1. Yes, you are still getting damage. It may lead to nutritional deficiencies, the symptoms you're experiencing, or any of the other complications of untreated celiac disease. 2. You definitely haven't outgrown it - genetics can...
  16. tarnalberry
    Welcome to the board. I hope the support you find here will help you keep to your diet, because it is SO important in order to have a long and healthy life. Eating gluten-free can be onerous at times, but it doesn't have to be all bad. Feel free to ask any sorts of questions, or post about what parts trouble you the most when trying to follow the diet...
  17. tarnalberry
    My bird's food has wheat in it, but I pour straight from the bag (plastic) into his food dish, wash my hands, and haven't had a problem. You might try the plastic gloves; it's worth a shot.
  18. tarnalberry
    Applegate Farms and Diestel make gluten-free(and CF) lunch meats.
  19. tarnalberry
    I've got a couple "gluten free" cookbooks, but I prefer - for a specialty cookbook - the allergy free ones that I've found: Open Original Shared Link and ... another one I can't find on amazon at the moment. Really, outside of baking, I find that using a regular cookbook and just making substitutions as needed is just fine.
  20. tarnalberry
    I was never a huge junk food fan, but I do crave my old homemade pizzas. (Yeah, rice crusts are OK, but pizza without cheese... oh, how I miss dairy...)
  21. tarnalberry
    Should have noted... in the meantime, please, don't eat any meals that are primarily carbs. Make sure that they all have a decent balance of fat and protein with the carbs, and that the carbs aren't simple ones (like white rice, or the like) to keep from spiking your blood sugar.
  22. tarnalberry

    ARCHIVED Sports Team

    tarnalberry replied to melly's topic in Sports and Fitness

    Can I vote Man U? ;-) Nah... if I *had* to pick a baseball team (and ... er ... let's just say baseball isn't exactly my favorite sport), I'd have to at least go with one from the West Coast. I'd ordinarily say Angels (being from Orange County ... no, they are not and will never be the Los Angeles Angles, unless they move their stadium into Los Angeles...
  23. tarnalberry
    Fast Shrimp Soup (takes about 1 minute prep time, 20 minutes to cook unattended, and 3 minutes on the end - I make this when I get home late from yoga and want something healthy, high in protein, and easy to make - and that provides leftovers for lunch that can be eaten cold if I want) Ingredients ----------- 1 box Imagine brand Chicken Broth 1 1lb...
  24. tarnalberry
    The second day after a gluten exposure is my worst, in terms of mood, but everyone is different. It's nothing but a "wait and see" game after the fact, unfortunately.
  25. tarnalberry
    It could well be a blood sugar problem. Please talk to your doctor about testing to find out which it is, as there are some important differences in treating the two.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

NOTICE: This site places This site places cookies on your device (Cookie settings). on your device. Continued use is acceptance of our Terms of Use, and Privacy Policy.