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  1. C-Girl
    It might be nice for your friend to know where you got the ingredients, so she can be assured they were certified gluten free. That would be my deciding factor more than your kitchen. Having seen my kitchen after a baking binge, flour gets everywhere so your air purifier should help eliminate any wheat flying around. If you use the other room, the air purifier...
  2. C-Girl
    The standards for mixed-use facility recommend waiting over the weekend for any gluten dust to settle - do you have an air purifier? Maybe you can run that overnight? It's my impression that anything that can go in the dishwasher should be safe, so long as it isn't wood or a scratched up surface that can hold hidden gluten. You're an absolute gem...
  3. C-Girl
    My lovely garden is bursting with cilantro, mint, coriander, and lemongrass, and although I didn't consciously make the decision to grow herbs for Vietnamese cooking, it seems that my subconscious mind was telling me something! Does anyone have a favorite cookbook or website that has good recipes? I've looked around some, but they're so varied - even...
  4. C-Girl
    Are you absolutely certain you were glutened? There are other conditions that can cause vertigo and peripheral neuropathy, like cervical spondylosis, or just compression in your cervical vertebrae. Just checking, because not everything that is wrong with us is because of gluten
  5. C-Girl
    I inherited a spinner from my MIL who gave up on fresh lettuce in favor of the bagged stuff. I love it with all my heart! I can buy these lovely, fresh heads of lettuce or spinach or other greens from the farmers market, and easily wash off the dirt. You should welcome the critters - it means that organic label is accurate! If you're afraid of bacteria...
  6. C-Girl
    It made me sick as a dog! Don't even risk it. It's not worth it. It wasn't that good even. There are lots of really great gluten free ciders you should try instead.
  7. C-Girl
    Thanks! That's precisely what I was looking for. I love math that's done for me!
  8. C-Girl
    I'm perfecting my recipe and it's getting better and better - I ate about half a loaf yesterday! Maybe I should just stop baking, for my waistline's sake...
  9. C-Girl
    This sounds a lot like how I felt, especially the constant D with veggies, and the feeling of fullness. It ended up being lymphocytic colitis, and your GI might not be aware that it's more common in those with celiac disease than the rest of the population. He/she might not consider testing you for it, because it's "rare". Unfortunately it takes a colonoscopy...
  10. C-Girl
    Coming from a scientific background, I have an issue with this <20ppm "safe" limit for gluten. Has anyone come across a microgram/milligram limit for a meal? If you eat a bunch of stuff that is "safe" but contains just under the limit, can you get an immune reaction? Has anyone actually tested this? (not like any of us want to be the guinea pigs!) My...
  11. C-Girl
    I agree, it sounds like food poisoning to me - maybe norovirus. Here's a handy chart that might help diagnose Open Original Shared Link
  12. C-Girl
    There is one in Durham, NC too - a Mexican place called Open Original Shared Link. They had a post on their website announcing they'd made their entire kitchen gluten free, but seem to have removed it, probably due to lawyers. They say that everything made in house - their mole thickened with corn instead of wheat flour, their calamari in gluten-free flour...
  13. C-Girl
    I may have one for you Questor Open Original Shared Link
  14. C-Girl
    Keep that *memory* of the terrible feeling, and hold onto it to motivate you to stick to the gluten free diet in the future. Trust me, it's a strong motivator. Once you get back the ability to absorb nutrients, you should be able to gain strength. You may not be making the hormones necessary to build muscle (but for the love of god, don't let doctors give...
  15. C-Girl
    I splurged, figuring that as expensive as Udi's is, I'd be better off in the end if I could figure out how to make it myself. So I got the various flours from Nuts.com, the expandex and whey protein isolate - the works. I followed it all to the letter and just make bricks. Yesterday I made a recipe from Open Original Shared Link and it came out AWESOME. Maybe...
  16. C-Girl
    Has anyone else tried making bread from Nicole Hunn's bakes bread book? I can't get a single recipe to work. They all come out like bricks... I weigh everything carefully and follow the instructions to the letter but no luck! I wonder if it's the Fleischmans yeast failing me... So far I've tried to make at least a dozen loaves and got two that were sort...
  17. C-Girl
    I agree that this doesn't sound normal. I had similar issues, feeling like I was chasing my tail trying to pinpoint problem foods. I finally was diagnosed with microscopic colitis, which I'm told is fairly common in celiacs but not in the general population. The treatment is simple - a steroid called Entocort that only acts on the intestines. It's pretty...
  18. C-Girl
    Doctors can be so frustrating! I would seek out another primary care doctor, maybe a woman because clearly this guy is not taking you seriously. Of course you're going to be depressed! You feel like garbage! As I and many others here can attest, when your intestines are unhappy, you're unhappy. It's very hard to feel good with all of that going on. Hang...
  19. C-Girl
    Welcome to the forum! It's been an immense help for me, and I hope you too can benefit from the brain trust here! WestCoastGirl was kind enough to share this recipe with me and I made it around Christmas - it was VERY good! Open Original Shared Link I order my gluten-free flours from Nuts.com - they're reasonably priced and have certified gluten free...
  20. C-Girl
    Hey y'all. So I have a Mexican place near me that has some items labelled gluten-free on the menu. I've been there a couple times, and usually get the steak and rice dish because it's safe. I'm afraid to eat the tortillas even though they claim they're gluten-free. The first time I went, I sat at the bar because it was packed, and the bartender claimed the...
  21. C-Girl
    Inflammation of the rectum and/or anus can cause a burning sensation... I can neither confirm or deny that I know this from personal experience. You might want to see a doctor if it continues to rule out Crohn's/colitis. The microscopic kind is apparently quite common in celiacs. Who knew. Barring that, there is a certain kind of bacterial infection that...
  22. C-Girl
    After a month of miscommunication between the GI's nurse and my insurance company, I finally have the results from my colonoscopy and it's microscopic/lymphocytic colitis that's behind my never ceasing D. I've started the Entocort and am already seeing improvement - I had a gluten-free chocolate cookie to celebrate Thank you everyone who helped convince...
  23. C-Girl
    It can take months to get back to normal after antibiotics. My dear hubby had surgery and they gave him prophylactic antibiotics that caused him tons of grief, and he isn't even celiac. Check the kinds they gave you - some are more prone to cause C. Diff overgrowth. Stick with the probiotics and pre-biotics. They'll help. He was back to normal after half...
  24. C-Girl
    I'd keep track of the sweet potatoes - those are high fodmaps. I had explosive bright orange D the day after a sweet potato binge Of course, now I'm questioning all of my food/symptom correlations.
  25. C-Girl
    I'm in NC but I bet there are people in Colorado who are doing the same thing. It was just such a surprise! I usually hate going to street fairs and markets because they're chock full of delicious things I can't eat... I'm not sure if it was the hormones or the fact that I haven't had a decent sandwich since last September, but I really had to fight hard...
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