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Sheesh, I'm away for four days and I have, like, 200 pages to go through on this thead. Holy cow!

Happy belated birthday, Donna!

I agree on the shoes, if they're cute and they're calling your name, who cares if you don't have anything to match them

Yeah...I do belong to a union....a weak and sucky one! I wouldnt count on my union for anything....just calling them would be a complete waste of my time.

Grocery unions are the worst! When I worked at a grocery store they took $6 out of every check and said it was to work towards raises, etc. We did get raises, but the union dues went up the exact amount of the raise They really are useless.

Be well everybody!

If he told you to eat yogurt earlier on, I would stick with that. Try yogurt first. The dr. may have suggested to the nurse that you eat frozen yogurt if you don't like normal yogurt, and that got relayed as eat ice cream.

To try dairy again, eat something cultured, like yogurt or cheese. The "bugs" in these eat the lactose, so most cheeses and yogurt don't have lactose.

Was the dipping sauce a bbq sauce of some kind? A lot of mom-and-pop bbq places especially use malt vinegar in their sauces, which has gluten. Distilled vinegar is fine, malt vinegar is not.

Also, do they know that there is wheat in things like white bread?

I found this cake recipe on celiac.com

Chocolate Garbonzo Bean Cake

1 ½ cups of gluten-free semisweet chocolate chips

3 cups of caned chick peas (garbanzo beans) drained and rinsed.

6 eggs

1 ½ cup sugar

1 ½ teaspoon baking powder

1 ½ table spoon powdered sugar

In a small bowl melt the chips in the microwave 2 minutes on medium. In a blender or food processor combine chick peas, eggs, sugar, baking powder and mix until smooth, then add the melted chocolate blend and mix until smooth. Pour into 2" x 9" non stick pan, greased and gluten-free floured. Bake at 350F for about 45 minutes. Use a tooth pick to determine that it is cooked. Cool for about 2 minutes and take out of pan and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Serve with raspberry jelly and shredded coconut.

Please keep me posted on this. I'm trying to find a gum-free cake recipe, and there is no such thing... anywhere. If you manage to come up with something clean, I might be able to modify it. Again, keep me posted.

I've read that in a lot of cake recipes, you can just leave out the gum.

I'm sorry that you and your friend are "breaking up", that's always hard. When I read her response, all I could think was - What a selfish B!!!

Friends are supposed to care, and to be there with you. If thinking about gluten-free food is too hard for her, than she isn't a friend worth having, IMO. What if it were diabetes or something? Would she serve cupcakes and koolaid because thinking about the glycemic index is too hard?

Sorry, that just pisses me off. Jessica is right though, you will make new friends, better ones even. Sometimes it takes a crisis to find out who your friends really are.

For the "same facility" question, usually for me it depends on the company. Kraft, unilever, general mills, hormel, mccormick...I trust those. If I see a facility statement I assume they've triple washed and taken precaution and that policy has served me well. I don't trust, however, products that say gluten-free and have a facility statement, those have consistently glutened me! I've been glutened more times by "gluten-free" foods than by mainstream!

There is nothing wrong with wanting a hot dog, especially around the 4th of July. Have you looked into Ballpark franks? I'm 98% sure they're on the clan thompson list, though my palm is dead right now and I can't check. I looked at the ingredients online and didn't see any gluten or soy. They have to list it now because of the law (with wheat and soy, anyway). Sara Lee makes those and they clearly list gluten.

President's Choice may just have that statement as a CYA thing since the new law. You may want to call the company and ask for specifics.

EDIT: Whoops, re-read your post! Good for you for calling the company! I'm not sure what kind of call I'd make there, but since they're hot dogs and not say, cookies, I'm guessing they'd be alright.

These are great recipes, i don't know why I didn't notice this thread before! Thanks for posting

Where did you find a gluten free worcestershire sauce? I haven't seen any in my area.

Lea & Perrins (in the US) is gluten-free. It has gluten in Canada.

Ok. No laughing...what is refractoy sprue?

It's where the villi are unresponsive to the gluten-free diet, and the villi remain atrophied. That means you basically don't get better and you continue to not get enough nutrition, etc.

I'm sorry your daughter got sick

This was discussed at length a while back...try searching old threads and you'll see all of the posts on the subject.

You can take a fiber supplement like Konsyl or Metamucil (both are gluten-free, my gastro reccommended Konsyl). It's psyllium and it is just pure dietary fiber, no laxatives.

Also, DH is the skin manifestation of celiac disease, and many people that biopsy positively on their skin also have dignigificant intestinal damage. Either way, you have the IgA antibodies going. If you did the full enterolab gluten intolerance panel and stuff came back positive, sorry, you are damaging your intestines, even if it didn't show up on endoscopy. The small intestine is 22 ft long, the endoscope can go 5 ft. in. You do the math.

All forms of celiac are dangerous. Please don't tell anyone that some celiacs can handle a miniscule amount of gluten, because they can't. Studies have shown that as little as 1/38 of a slice of bread can do visible damage.

Potato starch (or any of the plant starches for that matter) have proven problematic. My tolerance for eggs has swayed back and forth but I tried them again last night and did okay. For now, I'd be willing to try a recipe that includes eggs.

I posted a potential recipe on your thread.

Chelsea, I see your cat is an alcoholic, but apparently not a celiac. He doesn't have mucousy bm's, right??

She doesn't as far as I know. I think she drinks to deal with her epilepsy

My mom is intolerant to artificial sweeteners, and that happened after living on Diet Cokes forever, too. No matter the product and no matter how safe it is, someone won't be able to tolerate it.

Well that's a chicken and egg question, isn't it? My nose is always nutty when I'm not gluten-free or have been glutened.

Beano is made from mold. If you are allergic to mold, it will make you sick.

Yikes! I didn't know that! Good thing I've never taken it, and now I never will!

THANK YOU Plantime and SKBird!!!

The fiber was my initial thought, but it's been about a week since I've taken any. I now have this lovely habit it seems of going 2 hours after eating so the fiber hasn't really been needed.

I have eaten things both fatty and greasy. My nose is runny, but not stopped up. I haven't been sniffing much, just blowing my nose.

I've had a lot of mucus before but more as a coating, not as the whole blob itself. Really grossed/freaked me out!

Yes, I will be glad when this challenge is over

I apologize for the utter nastiness of this question in advance.

So I had to run to the b-room at work, again. When I was done, I saw that it looked like I had a couple of normals looking stools, except that they were floating. Imagine my horror that when I flushed, I saw that the "normals" were like, 85% mucus. EEEWWWW.

I feel like there must be an alien invasion going on in there. The aliens produce a lot of slime and don't like vegetables.

Anybody know what that's about? Again, sorry for the grossness.

Quaker makes some of the cereals you mention, and they don't consider ANY of their products to be gluten-free. At all. Period. That includes rice cakes. It's because oats are grown in the same fields, transported in the same trucks, and stored in the same silos that gluten containing grains are. Here is a statement from their oatmeal FAQ:

Do oats contain gluten?

Because oats are grown, stored, transported in bulk, they may contain trace amounts of wheat, rye and barley. USDA grain standards allow a certain percentage of other grains to be present in the oats. Therefore, gluten may be found in oats, even if very small amounts of these other grains are present.

Malt flavoring is never safe, because it is made from barley. I agree with Vincent, just because you don't react to it, that is NOT a good reason to reccommend it to others. And are you sure you aren't reacting to it? Just because you don't feel symptoms does not mean that you aren't reacting.

Jif is gluten-free, and so is skippy. Yes, you can eat normal peanut butter. I don't think I've ever seen a peanut butter with gluten, actually, but always read labels. Don't share pb containers with anyone else, because those containers get contaminated with bread crumbs.

I may be a super taster, but I can't smell a damn thing. I think my olfactory glands are damaged from having grotesquely huge adenoids in an already too small sinus cavity. I've always figured my sense of taste is stronger to make up for my lack of sense of smell I know that if I can't smell well, I shouldn't be able to taste well, but I wouldn't be such a good cook without such a good sense of taste.

409 gives me an athsma attack though, I'm pretty sensitive to airborne chemicals.

recipe for chicken biscuits??? I didn't MAKE them! I got them at Po Folks! LOL or at Bojangles!!! But if I had a good recipe for the chicken, I could put them on 123 gluten-free Southern Glory Biscuits...

oh and thanks for the Fried Okra recipe! I'm gonna have to try that!

Oh, you just need the chicken & gravy part? Well that's easy enough! It takes a while but is easy. I guess you could easily do it in a slow cooker. Just dump everything in and leave it alone until you need to make the gravy. I'm going to have to try that!

CHICKEN GRAVY

1 whole chicken or 3 bone in chicken breasts with skin (my mom uses whole, my sister and I use breasts because there's less skin and bone to pick out later)

1 onion quartered

2 cloves of garlic, whole

garlic salt

lemon pepper

3-4 c. water

add a bay leaf if you want (my mom does, I don't) make sure to remove it at the end.

3 tbsp. cornstarch (or some gluten-free flour blend, whatever floats your boat)

1: Liberally season the chicken with garlic salt and lemon pepper. Rub the seasonings into the skin, under the skin, and any exposed part of the chicken.

2: Put the chicken, water, onion, and garlic into a dutch oven or large pot over high heat. Heat to boiling and reduce heat to low/med-low and cover. Simmer for approximately 2 hours until the chicken falls off the bone.

3: Remove the chicken and pick the meat off the bones. Set chicken aside. Discard the skin and bones and either check the broth for skin and bones or strain it. Remove the onion (if you can find it by this point, if not it's ok), remove galic cloves.

4: Bring the broth back up to a boil. Dissolve the cornstarch in a small amount of cold water, shaking it in a mason jar works best. Add the dissolved cornstarch to the broth and stir untl thickened to gravy. Season to taste if necessary, if you seasoned the chicken well enough at the beginning you shouldn't need anyway.

5: Serve over your favorite gluten-free biscuits.

Hope that helps!

I'm sorry you're going through so much with your husband.

FWIW, my dad was an alcoholic sociopath. I say that as nicely as I can because he was a good man with a poor upbringing and psychological problems. He self medicated since he was a teenager. When I was about 9 months old, my mom talked to his psychologist and he said that he would not be able to change until he wanted to, and the sociopathic thing would be the hardest to overcome. He told my mom she had decisions to make. She loved my father very much. My mom kicked him out telling him that as soon as he was clean and sober that he could come back, but until then he couldn't see me and neither could his family for my protection.

Long story short, he died from a drug overdose and chirrosis before that happened. I was 13 when he died, and I never knew him. His twin brother died 8 months later from similar complications.

I share this because unless he wants to change, it's not going to happen. You cannot change him. You probably have some decisions to make regarding your family and you already know that, I'm sure.

Before you can better your situation though, you need to better your health. Your daughter needs you at top strength. Go gluten-free and just do it, it's all you can do. As soon as you decide for yourself that you can do it, then you'll be able to.

((Hugs))