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okay, long story short... a few years back, when i was away at college, i came down with a 'cold' that lasted for months. when i finally went to my university health office, i was exhausted and miserable all the time and was constantly dizzy and depressed. i wasn't going to class, or leaving my room. i slept all day. they tested me for mono more times than...
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ARCHIVED Really Hacked Off At Kinnikinnick Foods.
kari replied to a topic in Gluten-Free Foods, Products, Shopping & Medications
I noticed the change too, and stopped buying them just because the price had gone up so much. But the 123 calories before was definitely not 'per crust', but 'per serving', which no doubt is smaller than one of those crusts. also, I haven't tried the new crusts (again, because they're just so damn expensive, and I usually just use one then the rest get all... -
wow - if I hadn't known better, I would have thought that I had written that myself!! You're probably... 17 or 18? and you probably don't realize it but you are very fortunate to have figured this out at this time. You have your whole life ahead of you, though you may not realize it. And believe me, there is life beyond high school. I also dropped down to...
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argh. i've been trying so hard to live gluten free. i'm not overly paranoid about it though, i want to live my life. but it's seeming more and more like this disease is the most horrible unfair torture out there and i hate living this way. before i knew i had celiac disease, i spent years not wanting to get out of bed. being depressed, irritable, anxious...
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i should hope you're not eating sour cream that was on the shelves before jan 2006! if that's the case, i'd say any resulting sickness would be from the over a year old rotten sour cream, not from modified food starch!
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I can't believe i've never heard of this product before. I work in a restaurant and when i'm pms'ing, the only thing in the world that i want is a big plate of french fries. I know ours are pure potato, but they are not cooked in a dedicated fryer, but around that time of the month I usually snag a couple and hope for the best, which is usually just a minor...
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ARCHIVED Problems From Being Glutened. Need Life Advice!
kari posted a topic in Coping with Celiac Disease
i'm just getting over being glutened twice in the past week and spent the day in the hospital yesterday for a nasty kidney infection that honestly came out of nowhere and i suspect had something to do with my immune system being under a great deal of stress. normally, in social situations like this i'd bite my tongue and deal with the possibility i might... -
vodka does not have to be potato vodka to be gluten free. as far as i know, there really is no reason for vodka to have gluten in it. also, every bar i know of has a separate cutting board behind the bar for cutting fruit and only fruit, and it is washed every time it is used. there is no other use behind the bar for a cutting board, so there isn't really...
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it is my understanding that for the most part, liquor is gluten free. it is distilled. when i drink, i go for whiskey, vodka, or margaritas and have never had a problem. then again, i've only ordered margaritas from the restaurant where i work and we don't use any of those processed mixes, just juice, etc. but the tequila, vodka, and whiskey have never been...
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powderprincess, which restaurant are you talking about? i'm in ma also and yes, nancy m... i think i've officially decided chefs are appealing as dates. i'll have to stick to chefs from now on in my dating endeavors
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a lot of these posts have mentioned that if you eat at a nicer restaurant, you're more likely to have a good experience and get out of there un-glutened. i agree with the fancy restaurant thing. so much so, that i had to post a new topic about it. i've worked in restaurants for years, waitressing and bartending, and with the schedule you keep in that business...
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i'm confused now. i happened to have a packet of it in my cabinet, and the ingredients: maltodextrin, salt, monosodium glutamate, onion, garlic, parsley, buttermilk, spice, and calcium stearate - are not on the "forbidden ingredients list". where's the gluten? the only possible gluten i could even see heree would be maltodextrin, and we've all been told...
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my symptoms started as i was going though a breakup with my boyfriend of three years and was failing out of college due to severe depression (which i know recognize was one of my main symptoms of celiac). my diagnosis came two weeks before my brother died of cancer. i've heard that celiac symptoms in adults can come up in times of severe stress and...
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i eat tons of green veggies. that does contribute to having really really dark stools, though i wouldn't necessarily say they're exactly black.
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i've been a waitress for.... probably about 8 years now? until the couple of years of doctor's apptmts, etc. leading up to my being diagnosed this past february i had never ever heard of celiac disease or gluten before, and had never met anyone with celiac disease up until today. well i just worked a double shift at the restaurant i've worked at for the past...
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the soda gun shouldn't ever touch the liquor, but even if it did, they are usually cleaned at least once a day, and the soda (mix) comes from inside, so doesn't really come in contact with the outside of the gun anyway, so that's really a non issue. i think just about all liquors and mixers (soda/juice/milk) are gluten free, so you should be all set with...
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oh my goodness, i couldn't believe how many responses i got to this or how helpful you guys were!! i really appreciate it. i guess i just wasn't sure how to go about it. i know 'food issues' sounds bad, and if you refer to it as a disease you sound 'diseased', etc. etc. and i know on any other first date situation, going out somewhere since there's always...
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ack!!! i've been wondering for months since my diagnosis how this works, what i'll do, how i'll ask you guys for advice. I'm one of those with no obvious or horrible sudden symptoms, i just feel real sleepy and a little achy and cranky for a few days. a real pain considering i'm a waitress and need always be on my toes, but usually my a.d.d medication, some...
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ARCHIVED I'm Gluten-free, But I'm So Glad I Don't Have To Give Up....
kari replied to RunnerNYC's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease
i didn't realize i was hungry until i got to the end of this post... i'm gluten free and i'm glad i didn't have to give up spinach and artichoke dip or the red pepper strips and snowpeas i'm dipping in it -
I used to work at a ruby tuesdays and every ingredient/side/whatever comes prepackaged and overly processed in individual preportioned containers, so the food you're paying rediculous money for is basically just processed gunk that someone dumped out of a container and onto your plate and warmed up, or pulled out of a freezer, dropped in a fryolator and plopped...
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ARCHIVED Ignorant Server Of The Day
kari replied to floridanative's topic in Gluten-Free Restaurants
i agree with you. completely. and as a server, i always answer the questions asked to me to the best of my ability or ask someone who will know the answer. i think it is worth mentioning, also, that many restaurants do not have a chef or sous chef, and that in several restaurants that i have worked in, the guy in charge in the kitchen didn't even speak english... -
ARCHIVED Ignorant Server Of The Day
kari replied to floridanative's topic in Gluten-Free Restaurants
actually, it isn't rediculous. i wanted to respond about the same error in the earlier comment about the server saying rice has gluten, and the comment about the potato chips... potatoes, rice, and corn DO have gluten. just like motts said, gluten is a mixture of proteins, etc. etc. there are CERTAIN forms of gluten which are similar to each other... -
i have two cats who have never eaten anything other than ordinary dry cat food. we keep it in a plastic cereal container with a lid that pours, and while i'm not the only one who feeds them, i pour it into their dish at least several times a day and have never ever had any problem with that or even thought anything about it.
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ARCHIVED Enforcement Of Labelling Laws
kari replied to kari's topic in Gluten-Free Foods, Products, Shopping & Medications
i understand what you're saying... the specific flavor I looked at (I don't rememeber which one, it was the first one I reached for on the shelf) had a long long list of chemically sounding ingredient names, none of which was 'milk' or any variation thereof. 0bviously, being yogurt, at least one of those ingredients is a milk product, but none said that they... -
ARCHIVED Enforcement Of Labelling Laws
kari replied to kari's topic in Gluten-Free Foods, Products, Shopping & Medications
that's exactly my point - obviously yogurt contains milk - but at the bottom, it doesn't say 'contains milk', which means if it contains wheat, or anything else that is an allergen, they aren't printing it on the label the way they are supposed to