gfs2000

Some companies seal their tea bags with wheat paste. Celestial Seasonings has a gluten free disclaimer on their boxes- some of them say 'may contain gluten', but most of them say 'gluten free'.

While I was in college I was living in the dorms, and just cooked all my food. There were meals available but I didn't feel like interrogating the cook, and besides, I preferred to make my own things anyway. I didn't use the oven at all, just the stovetop- all the other students were cooking frozen pizzas and cookies, things like that.

It was pretty funny my first night in the dorms: I was cooking my first meal and one of the dorm guys told me that he's prefer my sausage and stir fried veggies to his pathetic frozen lasagna or ramen noodles.

sarah

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Even if whoever you're dating is not celiac, you may find out later on that they are. I discovered my boyfriend had celiac a few months after meeting him (2002). We had a pretty serious converstion about his symptoms almost matching my pre-diagnosis sypmtoms, and he's been gluten-free ever since. I've always thought that was pretty neat. It turned out to be really helpful for both of us.

But then again, both of us being gluten free could be pretty annoying. Stupid tiffs over the validity of each other's gluten-free product knowledge, and me worrying a great deal about whether or not he was taking the gluten-free thing seriously enough. I guess overall it was a positive thing- both of us being celiac.

I was informed by a friend of mine that high fructose corn syrup is frightening in many ways. One of them is that it turns off the body's ability to know when it's full, another is that it spikes insulin levels dramatically. I'm not sure if these other things have been documented in humans, but in rats it caused cirrosis of the liver and infertility. It's horrible horrible stuff!

During my first couple years on the gluten-free diet, if I ate something contaminated I would know within 20 minutes. I would get severe stomach aches and bloating, and the other less pleasant sypmtoms. I would also stay sick for an entire week.

Now, 3 years later, I don't get nearly the reaction I did, and I don't always even know if I've been glutened, becuase I don't get much in the way of a stomach ache, unless it's something really badly contaminated. The intestinal symptoms still there, but they're delayed, not as bad, and only last a day or two.

I almost wish I had my old symptoms back, because it there was much more motivation behind staying 100% gluten free.

The company making the chocolate boost may have changed ingredients. Do they have a useful faq?