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  1. Fiddle-Faddle
    Have you looked at A Year of Crockpotting? There are 365 AMAZING recipes in there, all gluten-free. See Open Original Shared Link You can also email the blogger and ask for advice, she's an expert! For cream soup substitution, I have found that the best substitute by far is, for 1 can of "cream of something" soup, use Mix 2-3 tablespoons of corn...
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    Nacho cheese sauce is usually thickened with flour. I looked at the ingredients on the big industrial-sized can sold at Sam's Club. (They don't usually make these things from scratch in a school cafeteria.)
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    That site lists margarine, vegetable oil, mayonnaise, and OreIda Tater Tots as being UNsafe. I don't believe that is correct. I've never seen gluten listed on any of those items' ingredient lists.
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    Good advice from Maddycat---my first baby was IUGR because I kept trying to eat the stupid crackers they told me to eat (I had never heard of gluten or celiac at that point. We nearly lost him (I also had pre-eclampsia), and for all three of my pregnancies, I had hyperemesis, and was unable to gain more than a few pounds since I was constantly barfing. ...
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    Tough call, but I'd say with your family history, you MIGHT want to try the diet. If celiac/gluten is not the problem, then nothing will improve. You should go ahead and make appointments with specialists--but in all likelihood, it will be quite some time before you actually get to see one, and then more time for tests, and the tests are notoriously inaccurate...
  6. Fiddle-Faddle
    Forget the cookie mixes--make from scratch! This recipe tastes just like regular Tollhouse: Open Original Shared Link (scroll down for the chocolate chip cookie recipe) They use this flour mix: Open Original Shared Link I use butter-flavor Crisco for the shortening, but plain shortening works just fine, as does coconut oil (which is solid at room...
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    Physical therapy is a great idea. They should give you exercises to strengthen abdominal muscles and your entire trunk, to help support the weakened spine, and those exercises should be specific ones that don't put more stress on spine (crunches, for example, are OUT). A good chiropractor can make a WORLD of difference. Unfortunately, there are a lot...
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    The other thing that occurs to me is some kind of Vitamin D deficiency? A friend of mine and her mother were recently diagnosed with this, and in the mother's case, it caused a parathyroid problem. My friend spent the whole summer outdoors, but apparently her body was not able to synthesize vitamin D from the sun--something blocked that in her system? ...
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    Protein! Are you having any besides for the nuts? I would add eggs, fish, broiled chicken, and lean meat, maybe one small serving at each meal. (Are you vegetarian? If so, then you'd need to find another protein source, and iron, too.) Look for organic, if possible--you don't need additional hormones, pesticides, and antibiotics!
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    Thank you!
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    I understand what celiac disease is. I don't understand your statement. Your comments are not confined to celiac disease but to "specially Celiac disease?" I repeat my question. What is "specially Celiac disease?"
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    The problem is, those "other things" that can be ruled out are usually not things that doctors use biopsies for. If the first thing suspected is celiac, then the diet ought to be the first thing tried, not a biopsy, as the diet is non-invasive and dietary response is obviously a better gauge of diagnosis. If the diet doesn't work, you can always do a...
  13. Fiddle-Faddle
    What is "specially Celiac Disease?"
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    So are the doctors who want you to have a biopsy. In fact those doctors are selling way more than the "Gluten Doctors" on the website above. The Gluten doctors are selling the idea (with references) that going gluten-free can cure many, many ailments. You don't need to buy their book to try it. Think how much a doctor earns for a biopsy to confirm positive...
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    Our local grocery sells Rice Chex for $3.99 for a stupid 10-oz box, and the Target in the same shopping center sells a larger box for $1.68! Yay Target!
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    My 7-year-old is the only child in our family who might not need to be gluten-free. She has had inconsistent reactions to gluten--a severe tummy-ache one time, but no reaction whatsoever the next. However, she does remember the severe tummy-aches, and she sees her older brothers being REALLY good about staying away from gluten (even though none of them...
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    My understanding is that it only works on true allergies--and celiac/gluten intolerance is not an allergy at all but an autoimmune disorder, which works in a totally different way. Studies have shown that it takes as little as 1/16 of a slice of bread to cause visible damage to the intestines--often without a single symptom being felt. SO I'd be skeptical...
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    sbj and tallforagirl, we all value your input and do not want to chase you off the board! But Emmielou and shayesmom and taeweavmo3 have valid points. Most of us here have already been through the avoidable tragedy of having been either misdiagnosed or undiagnosed due to doctor ignorance. That seems to be much more common than the also-valid avoidable...
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    Thank you for posting this. This is one of the reasons I have turned down further testing for myself. We all know that the health insurance industry's primary concern is $$, not health. If you have not reported anything in writing, but only over the phone, your best bet might be to ask to speak to a supervisor and say that you were given erroneous information...
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    Corn meal is much coarser than other flours, and is definitely gritty. Some brown rice flours are grittier than others. Brown rice flour that is really fine is hard to find and expensive; I sub out half of the brown rice flour with white rice flour that I purchase from the Asian grocery store--it's VERY fine. I have used the Tom Sawyer blend, and it...
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    I would agree with you if #1) the biopsy were a risk-free,non-invasive procedure (it's NOT) #2) if it had a higher degree of accuracy (apparently, dietary response + bloodwork is MORE accurate) #3) if there weren't so many doctors pushing procedures and medications that line their bank accounts, but don't necessarily help the patient. So many of us here...
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    Please look up Asperger's Syndrome! Asperger's is basically very mild autism, and the autism spectrum is closely linked with gluten and casein intolerance. People with Asperger's are NOT sitting in the corner, rocking and flapping. They tend to be quite intelligent; where the autism spectrum thing comes in is that they tend to obsess easily, they are...
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    Home-made taste better, and are surprisingly easy and quick to make. I use chicken tenders, which are already the right size for older kids, but for toddlers, you can cut them pretty easily into 4 pieces of McNugget-size. Dip each piece into cornstarch, then beaten egg, then corn meal. Sometimes I use potato flakes instead of corn meal. You could...
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    Is the diagnosis and paperwork absolutely necessary? Here in the US, as long as I am healthy, nobody cares what I can or can't eat. Nobody asks me what conditions I have, either. I have had no trouble finding things I can eat. I make whatever non-nutritious-but-yummy things I want from scratch (like cookies, pancakes, bread, pizza, etc), but could...
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    I just saw this in the natural food store today! I can have dairy (at least, so far I can), but it's nice to know that there's a reasonable alternative! Hooray for nuts!!!! (It's made from cashew and almond, I think)
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