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    Hello Eeyore! Thank you kindly for the birthday wishes! It's been quite a while since I've visited here, so am hoping this comment reaches you.

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    Happy birthday and may God bless you today!

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    We've been using Ghirardelli's. I've never called the company but we've been using it for about 3 years and haven't had any trouble with it. The double chocolate flavor (and maybe others too) is dairy free. We make it with almond milk and like it a lot. I'm not sure there are any other dairy free hot chocolates. Of course ... if you're not dairy...
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    Go for it! And good luck! Our local stores are much better stocked now than a few years ago, but we've driven over 100 miles to visit specialty stores in our state and in two other states. Also any time we travel I check out any natural foods or specialty stores to check out what they carry that I can't get locally.
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    For the most part, yes. Now and again I will still have one of those irritating dreams, but more often, when I dream of food at all, it's something yummy that I can eat. It will be 5 years for me in a couple more months. Have you thought about keeping treats for yourself on hand as comfort food for when you wake up in the middle of the night with such...
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    Eating the wrong thing happens from time to time ... don't beat yourself too hard over it. Try this for the next two or three days: Double up on your B vitamins, if you take a B vitamin separate from your daily vitamin. Otherwise double up on your daily vitamin. If you're not allergic to eggs, then eat an egg or two a day for the lutein...
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    Here's something that worked for me (we are both gluten intolerant). I joined the local support group, and once a year they have dinner out. I signed us both up and told him he was going ... he had a good time talking with everyone else, enjoyed himself, and did not come home sick! We got references from other people there for other restaurants, including...
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    I hope you start your web site! That's one of my pet peeves, too. It irks me lots when people repeatedly complain about this list of symptoms they are being treated for, and every item in the list can be one of the symptoms of celiac disease, so I tell them they should get tested, or just try the diet for a week or two ... I get responses like: ...
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    I've been using The Pressure Cooker Gourmet by Victoria Wise. I think you can still get this from Amazon if your local bookseller doesn't carry it. Also, I've read that Indian cooks have adapted traditional curry recipes to the pressure cooker, but I haven't been brave enough to try this on my own and haven't managed to come up with receipes either...
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    I think it depends on the role that cheese plays in the recipe. Is it sprinkled on the top for flavor and color? If so, then chopped red pepper, chopped olives, gluten-free cracker or bread crumbs, etc., might play the same role. In fact, bread crumbs were the traditional topper for casseroles in decades past. Is it an essential ingredient in...
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    Since going gluten-free and then CF, and discovering how negatively food can affect our health, I've become a believer in using food to gain health too. For the stubborn yeast infection -- yeast loves sugary, starchy foods, so have your daughter cut out any sweets and go easy on any bread too, until the infection eases up. For me this usually takes about...
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    Brown rice generally leaves me with indigestion. Despite what the nutritionists say about how you're supposed to eat so many servings of whole grains a day, I generally feel better when I eat no grain at all in a day. Eating more veggies and fruits helps me manage my weight, too.
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    Hi Nancy! I realize it's past Friday but this thread really hits at the heart so thought I would post anyway. The link below is something perhaps your doctor would find interesting. Open Original Shared Link I've read all the posts in this thread and so much of it matches my own experience. When I first went gluten-free (3.5 years ago) so much...
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    Good questions! When I stopped eating wheat (I'm self diagnosed -- didn't realize until so much started to heal up that it was more than an allergy) I went low carb because I didn't know what else to do, and there's not so much hunger on a low-carb diet. That was three and a half years ago. My companion and I both went dairy-free in March of this year...
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    Brian, Sometimes headaches/migraines are symptoms of a food allergy. Gluten intolerance tends to mask other allergies and intolerances, so it could be that you're allergic to something and just don't know yet what it is. Have you tried getting tested for food allergies? It could be something you are eating now that you didn't eat before going gluten...
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    Hi! Hope this helps without causing confusion ... The role that the gluten proteins play in grains is as a "storage" protein. Took me a bit of research before I found out what that meant -- it means that the gluten proteins store energy for the grain to grow a new plant from. Given that this is a rather important role, different grains do have gluten...
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    Hey folks! If you find your way to Madison and like Chinese food then check out Imperial Garden (Open Original Shared Link). A couple of people in the local support group mentioned this place so we finally got bold enough to go. Sure enough, the waitress knew immediately what gluten free meant and said we could order anything off the menu except for...
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    Don't know if you bake or cook yet, but you might offer to make her something nice that she likes? Especially something you can share too? From time to time I feel socially isolated because I can't eat the same as others around me. Doesn't bother me as much now as it used to, but still sometimes it hurts. When we humans are social our activities tend...
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    Hi Stacie! That's a hard road you two have been on! May your future be brighter! Migraines do seem to go hand-in-hand with gluten intolerance, but gluten intolerance is not the only cause of headaches / migraines. My own migraines ended with the gluten-free diet, but my companion commented several times over a period of three years that he was disappointed...
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    This sounds like the same issue I have with bouillon (sp?). I finally threw all the little cubes and jars out as they made me feel ill and gave me D, although it's an entirely different feeling than being glutened. I, too, couldn't find anything in the ingredients that I thought I should be wary of. As someone else mentioned, maybe something hydrolized...
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    Each person's reaction is different ... If I get enough gluten (say, about 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon of wheat), then about 20 minutes later I'll get the runs and will be in the bathroom several times for the next few hours. No matter how little I get, I have various different ailments that follow over the next several days, including dry eyes, inability to...
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    It's really tough to be so busy and live in a tiny town! If you can't get ready-made polenta locally, it's easy to make from cornmeal. If you can't get gluten free pasta, then try your pasta sauces over polenta instead. BTW, if you can find corn tortillas in your local grocery those might be gluten-free as well, so you can make tacos. If you use a taco...
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    Mongoose replied to gavinsdaddy's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    Congrats on getting a diagnosis! Maybe that sounds odd, but by the time most of us found out what was wrong with us we were pretty sick! Now there's a chance you'll start to get better. It takes a bit to get used to the diet, but after a while you get the hang of it, and get in the swing of it, and it's not so overwhelming.
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    I'd like to know Molly's mother's blend too This one works well for me: 1 cup finely milled white sweet rice flour 1 cup finely milled brown sweet rice flour 2 cups quinoa flour 2 cups sorghum flour 2 cups white bean flour (buy from Bob's Red Mill or mill your own) Seems to substitute cup for cup for wheat flour almost all the time...
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    I don't think it will work to leave out the corn starch as that acts to separate the base from the acid in the container, until such time as you need the base and acid to make air bubbles in your baked goods. You'd need to find another starch -- perhaps finely milled rice flour would work?
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