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  1. tarnalberry
    You just really have to get back to the basics and stick to eating things made from scratch that are naturally well balanced and don't include sugar. Soups (vegetables, meat, broth, don't even need the rice), stews (meat, carrots, onions - leave out the potatoes), chili (tomatoes, beans, ground turkey), stir fries (without rice or with a small amount of...
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    As was mentioned, that's the rub - they're a private enterprise and do have the right to refuse service. Bad PR is worth much more than a lawsuit as well - bad PR can drive them out of business quicker.
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    Eden makes gluten-free miso. You always do have to check, but there are a number of types that don't have barley.
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    huh... I've seen pasta sauces with gluten in them, but never a tomato paste. (Then again, I've never seen Ragu or Prego make tomato paste, so maybe I just haven't seen them...)
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    lol, thanks! ;-) I'll just keep working on getting everyone to know from first hand experience that healthy, tasty, fast, gluten-free meal creation isn't just a dream! ;-) Oh, I should have put tuna tacos in there... essentually a tuna salad (with less lettuce) wrapped in corn tortillas (though I do the wrapping at eating time, not packing lunch time or...
  6. tarnalberry
    Always check the ingredients, but tomato paste should be nothing but tomatoes. You can make your own by blanching/peeling tomatoes, seeding them, and then cooking them down to a paste, but that's way more work than it's worth most of the time. ;-)
  7. tarnalberry
    You may need to bake your own gluten-free items if you're avoiding things like rice flour and tapioca starch. :-( But it's not really that hard, aside from sandwhich bread, which I haven't even attempted. ;-)
  8. tarnalberry
    There's so much more to lunch than sandwhiches! :-) * Rice cakes with peanut butter work well for me for not giving me a blood sugar crash. * Raw veggies are also good - pack some bean dip (combine a can of beans, half a small can of tomato paste, italian seasoning, and a pinch of salt in a food processor and you've got italian bean dip) to go with it...
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    Perhaps I'm too apolitical, but I don't see *celiac* as a political issue. Health issurance, absolutely, but that is above and beyond celiac. Even the prevalence of wheat in the foods in the supermarket isn't a political issue, it's a business case. But, like I said, I'm pretty apolitical.
  10. tarnalberry
    At some point you stop explaining, and you just do what you have to do. When they say "you can use the same knife", you just say "no" - no explanations needed. In the end, it doesn't matter if they understand, only that you do what you need to do.
  11. tarnalberry
    One way to keep the cost down is to stick with naturally gluten free foods. Sending your kid to school with snacks that are things like carrot and celery sticks and some nuts (if allowed in your school) will be cheaper and healthier than buying speciality gluten-free replacements of things like cereal and pretzles. I realize, however, that for many kids...
  12. tarnalberry
    There are a couple reasons for this, the primary one being that European nations have a standard to go by - the CODEX standard - that puts a quantifiable number on what amount of gluten is allowed to be in "gluten-free" foods. The US has no rule regulating this. In part, due to this, European food manufacturers have produced a wheat starch that is so highly...
  13. tarnalberry
    I think, in that situation, it's important to stress the functional differences - saying "it would be easier if it were only a wheat allergy, because then I could have barley, rye, or oats" and noting "but an allergy is an IgE reaction, which can be treated with antihistamines, this is an IgG reaction, which can't be treated the same way at all". It sounded...
  14. tarnalberry
    gluten is - technically - the term used to describe all grain protein. be it rice, corn, wheat, barley, rye, oats, millet, etc... . We just colloquially use it to refer to the specific glutens we have to avoid. Corn gluten is safe for celiacs. The contamination issue is something for you to decide on your own. :-/
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    It sounds more like he's afraid of hurting you - by taking your food, even if he rationally knows you can get more. He may just not want you to feel deprived. If you let him know that it makes you feel better to share with him, that it's about more than the food, and really *discuss* the issues surrounding the food, maybe you guys can get somewhere on it...
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    I don't know why he'd do that. You might want to sit down and talk to him about it in more depth rather than about one particular situation. My husband - who is a very picky eater - doesn't have a problem eating the things I cook that he knows he'd like. He won't eat pasta if I make it, but he doesn't like pasta in general. He won't eat my chili, but...
  17. tarnalberry
    I find avoiding casein (which I discovered I needed to do by a dietary test) to be harder than avoiding gluten. :-(
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    ARCHIVED Grrrr....

    tarnalberry replied to a topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    Sigh... My coworkers aren't mean about food things, but I've been having a little pity party in my head over the food issue (there's been so much focus on eating out in social occasions that I haven't had the opportunity to prepare for recently) and today, in a meeting that had lunch brought in, a coworker said "what is it you can't have again, everything...
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    There are a lot of things he can do that support the military while still being a civilian - particularly in the engineering fields. It's the large defense companies out there that do a lot of the interesting development work for the military.
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    For breakfast, I don't have time to cook (and I hate cleaning pots...) so I often have something like: * hot cereal (buckwheat/rice/millet/flax combination) made with water or a milk substitute (soy, rice, or almond) spiced up with honey, cinnamon, and vanilla - an added bonus is that this is very filling and lasts with you quite a while * rice cakes with...
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    Advil/Aleve starting at least a day prior to cramping. B-vits and Calcium are also helpful, as is *daily* exercise. I can tell if I've missed a day in the two weeks before hand. And, ironically enough, orgasm is one of the best things to do to relieve cramping - though I don't know how well it work for the mood part of it all. ;-)
  22. tarnalberry
    Almond Breeze is pretty good, as are some varieties of Rice Milk (avoid Rice Dream, however).
  23. tarnalberry
    Go to google and enter "usda nutrient database". You'll have to look up the foods one at a time and add them up, of course, but it's a great reference and they have *most* foods.
  24. tarnalberry
    It seems counterintuitive, and I don't know if it would make a difference in your specific situation, but I find that I *need* daily exercise (at least moderate intensity - walking isn't really enough) to keep my energy levels up. Of course, when you're starting out tired, it's a nasty chicken/egg problem, but that's what willpower is for. ;-)
  25. tarnalberry
    Just for clarification, that's ALL medical expenses need to be at least 7.5% of your income for the year - not just gluten-free food. ;-)
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