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  1. SMRI
    My sister's mixed household has a gluten-free toaster, everyone else toasts their bread in the regular oven. I'd just spend the $20 and get a second toaster though .
  2. SMRI
    It's a Hampton Inn. I haven't stayed at a Hampton Inn in years that has not at least had a fridge in the room. None of the rooms at this hotel have a fridge or microwave. I brought food with me. I brought some microwavable dinners and such but no microwave. I have cheese, crackers, some "granola bars", pudding, some single serve vegetable cups (that need...
  3. SMRI
    Well, strike one for my first night at the hotel. NO refrigerator or microwave in the room. The guy at the desk offered to store my food in the fridge in the employee area so that is good. The hotel is next door to a grocery store so I walk over to find something for dinner. I finally found some cut salami that was gluten-free so I added that to the cheese...
  4. SMRI
    As long as what you bring is TSA approved you are fine, but liquids and and gel foods, especially if you package it in your own bags, will not clear. If you buy some pudding and leave it in the original packaging, etc. you are fine but you do need to be aware of what is acceptable.
  5. SMRI
    Tonight--who knows--probably some crackers and cheese and toostie rolls....
  6. SMRI
    I guess it depends on the scale but most scales I've seen would put a 27 as a weak positive but back up with genetic testing and the biopsy, she is positive. Also, is the GI a celiac specialist? If not, well, they know some, but not all. Look at it this way, say you sprain your ankle, you go to your GP, they tell you to ice it, wrap it in an ace bandage...
  7. SMRI
    Diabetes is really hard to diagnose in kids, just an FYI. Their blood sugars are hard to catch. It might not be food related too. Urinary tract infections can do weird things to you for example. Underweight for Type 1 diabetes is very common and often one reason dr's look at that with kids. Given she already has Celiac, diabetes is, unfortunately, not...
  8. SMRI
    Based on "normal" ranges, her IgA is in the normal limits so that is good. Now, they could have some funky scale and that might be totally different. The ttgIgA is WAY positive. Your daughter has Celiac, cut and dry, end of story. Now, if she was an 10.5, eh, could be lab error but at +128 there is zero question she is Celiac. If her GI is questioning...
  9. SMRI
    Not that it isn't possible that you have Celiac, but lab tests are lab tests and while there is some room for error, they are pretty cut and dried providing they did the correct tests. Your doctor has little to do with the actual lab tests outside of ordering the test and seeing the results. Did you see a Celiac specialist? Did you have a good endoscope...
  10. SMRI
    Open Original Shared Link I would assume, given their company philosophy that their food handling is pretty stringent.
  11. SMRI
    Potatoes are easy too!! Baked potatoes are as easy as you get, wash, poke a couple holes in them, stick them in the oven. We are Irish, we eat a lot of potatoes. We bake, mash, fry, roast, grill, potatoes. I just made red skinned mashed potatoes the other day. Easy, easy--clean, cut, boil, mash. Leave the skins on for those. I tossed in come garlic...
  12. SMRI
    Well, it sounds like you are trying to open a restaurant or get the owners to open one closer to you . If I lived near a gluten-free restaurant, I would go there often if the menu changed frequently or had daily specials to keep the menu fresh. Even the draw of being a totally safe gluten-free place would get stale if the offerings were the same week after...
  13. SMRI
    Did they give the normal ranges for those tests? Is that the total IGG and IGA, the 60 and 9.8? A ttIgA of over 100 is Celiac, plain and clear and IF that 9.8 is her total IgA, unless that is a weird scale, that number is way low, making that ttIgA number even higher. So what if she is growing normally, not everyone with Celiac is skinny and short. ...
  14. SMRI
    Just a tip---when I got mine at Home Depot, it was NOT by the other coolers--why, I don't know. My Home Depot had them stored by the appliances??? I asked the guy in area by the coolers and he didn't really know what I was talking about. I explained it to him a few different ways and he then brought me to the ones by the appliances. He said they just...
  15. SMRI
    It's an industry term I guess...sometime they are packaged on the same line, other times they ship the products to another place in bulk and it's packaged there but generally it's considered "repackaged" either way.
  16. SMRI
    Aldi and Trader Joes are owned by brothers from what I understand.....and maybe theses threads should be merged...
  17. SMRI
    No, they don't take it out of one box and put it into another...the boxes or containers are just switched out on the line....
  18. SMRI
    I'm using mine for the first time tomorrow. I got the soft sided one. It's pretty well insulated and I would expect it would keep things cool for a while after it is turned off. If your car does not have the capability to keep your car plug powered when you turn off your car the cooler will shut off. I don't know that I would hep it plugged in if it does...
  19. SMRI
    Just found this on Pinterest...hope it's ok to post this link-if not, SORRY Open Original Shared Link
  20. SMRI
    WONDERFUL ORGANIZATION!!! There are jobs you can do that do not involve working with the food. Just let them know when you get there.
  21. SMRI
    I just posted on another thread about Aldi today .Their gluten-free products, the ones I bought are all certified gluten-free, From what I'm reading on the packages, they do not process on shared equipment. Someone got an email back from Aldi on the other tread on this topic. https://www.celiac.com/forums/topic/107698-aldis/ It doesn't address the...
  22. SMRI
    Ok, I was starting to feel sorry for you until I got to "we had to drive to Italy..." .
  23. SMRI
    I have no desire to cook anything tonight. I wish I had some frozen pizza or something in the freezer!!! I might have some gluten-free noodles--I can make spaghetti or something easy.
  24. SMRI
    Corn dogs were one of the gluten-free options . Open Original Shared Link MN State Fair--largest and best state fair in the country (Texas doesn't count, their fair is longer so not 'bigger') . 1.8 million visitors this year.
  25. SMRI
    Some people just like the attention too. I know someone like that . She was tested, all negative, but claims even a bite of "gluten" will set her off, but then find her cheating all the time. Some people will believe anything they hear/read and do no research to confirm. I once knew someone who told me her kids were allergic to wood. Um, really? I can...
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