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  1. gfp
    OK.... How's about... Chicken breast wrapped in ham and stuffed with garlic, herbs and cheese steamed in white wine? You can cheat and find a soft cheese with garlic Just get some foil ... slice open the chicken breasts sideways (the little flap on the back) stuff with a couple of teaspoons of soft cheese, spinkle some mixed...
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    It's both.... As Ravenswood said the insistence that wheat starch can be rendered 'gluten free' (<20ppm) means it can contain gluten and claimed to be gluten-free. Just as it can say wheat free and contain rye or barley. This unfortunately leaves us in a no mans land or between the rock and hard place....
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    If all you want is the consistency then you can just make a roux from corn starch or rice flour. Both are bland and won't alter the taste much. I didn't think you were specifically looking for condensed soup recipes, just that google searches for "crockpot recipe" tend to be dominated by this kind of quick recipe. Instead of this I was thinking...
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    Wow I am so pleased for you.... I get 'classic' GI symptoms but to be honest these are either pretty mild or just overshadowed. I hear people complain about how much it hurts and I wonder just how much can it hurt??? After 20 years of migraines (to the point of bursting blood vessels in my eyes, nose and bleeding ears) ... 5 years gluten-free...
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    Do you have a 'valid' negative diagnosis ? (full celiac panel while eating gluten) Open Original Shared Link For some reason noone commented on this.... The results clearly show damage at very low levels (10mg/d) albeit less damage than 200mg/d... Gluten free snacks are not that hard .... but like everything else about the diet it involves...
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    Neither is it news really..... The fifth taste (MSG) has been defined for some time but is generally known by its Japaense name Unami. Ikeda's study was sometime in the early 1900's... so this has been known for over 100 yrs.
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    I think you are searching for something like "crockpot recipees" ??? Almost by definition these are a lot of 'cheats'.... but most take barely anymore time to make properly. I make my own soups anyway but for the crockpot/slow cooker there are plenty of recipees... Last night I had beef bourguignon... (just sub 1/2 rice flour and 1/2 buckwheat flour...
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    Doubly so when in clubs etc. where who knows how the glasses are washed or what gets splashed about.... Not to mention our own defenses are down so its easy to accidentally pick up someones beer (done it myself) even when trying to stick to cider etc.
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    Perhaps it's a European thing but ??? In my last 3 serious relationships (including one marriage) I have done 90%+ of the cooking and 80%+ of the shopping. I do my own sewing, 100% of the house repairs... (to the point in my last relationship where I gavew up asking since apparently it's a guy thing... Non of my partners have ever said this was...
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    Whereas my brother was breastfed and definately NOT celiac.... ??? Myself and my mother are.... My trigger for celiac disease was after I got typhiod BUT .... this was just a trigger. When I look back I can see I had been suffering the problems prior to this, just less so or less often .... Typhiod certainly did play havoc with my guy flora BUT I...
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    Rebecca, I'm in the UK but I have to agree with everything deb said.... Quite honestly I don't trust the "If it's doesn't say then it's not from wheat" because of reactions similar to Deb... (generic asprin amongst others).... Like Deb's I then investigated and got the same response... "We never claimed it was gluten-free" ... This has happened...
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    Ali, While this may be a key to some problems I don't think it is the key to all celiac disease problems. A long while ago we had someone on the board who was run off for suggesting lymes may be the cause of celiac disease. Now as many will tell you this turned out to be the case for many of the people here. However the person in question claimed...
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    Yes because the blood tests are not a binary Yes/No .... Putting everything together (and taking into account libido) this sounds like anxiety and depression. Xanax won't help with the libido though.... HOWEVER: This certainly doesn't rule out GLUTEN as the the culprit. Depression can be caused by gluten ... anxiety is of course normal when...
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    Can't really stress this enough..... Healing depends on many things such as .. well how gluten-free and also general health.... I think you know the answer.... the healthier you are the faster you heal. Binge drinking certainly is not going to help.
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    I agree 100% with this.... If you do eat out (and sometimes its unavoidable) then you will sometimes get caught out. Having a 100% guaranteed REFUGE is an absolute lifesaver..... This will also help you pin down the random events, you KNOW it cannot be in your kitchen then this reduces your confusion over just what might have caught you...
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    Just an alternative viewpoint.... Stress, illness, injury, pregnancy .... all of these put stress on the immune system. When we get older we also heal less quickly and effectively. Once we go past that critical point of destroying faster than repairing then regardless of other things we loose our ability to adsorb nutrients and repair ourselves...
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    Of course if you do this you need a complete set of sponges, dish towels, cloths etc. Should one accidentally be used for gluten then it needs to be somehow identified. I guess you could use some dye and mark the 'glutened' towels and cloths ?
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    Besides the above problem with the test cases being 100% gluten-free to start with: Open Original Shared Link
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    True but it depends how we DEFINE celiac disease. My opinion is that many those people classed as gluten-intolerant because villi damage is not enough to classify as celiac disease are really just people with celiac disease waiting to happen and that the biopsy confirmed celiac disease means nothing than we crossed a threshold.
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    Open Original Shared Link QUOTE ("Establishing a gluten threshold in celiac disease Nutrition Research Newsletter @ Feb, 2007 ") Celiac disease (celiac disease) is an immune-mediated enteropathy triggered by the ingestion of gluten--the major protein fraction contained in the cereals wheat, rye, and barley--in genetically susceptible persons. The standard...
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    It looks good, what is missing is a definition of 100% gluten-free .... Frankly, they seem to be fence sitting... but that is a whole lot better than endorsing gluten-free != gluten-free ... but now would be the time for those concerned (us) to add weight that gluten-free should mean (as far as possible) gluten-free. I don't think its bad...
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    celiac disease is an autoimmune disease. Basically the body turning on itself. The trigger for this is gluten which the immune system misidentifies. there is an individual threshold that our body repairs as fast as it damages but that threshold changes. Also the body is doing other damage that is not so easy to see until too late. Cross that...
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    If your Dr. ran tests while you're gluten-free then you need to change doctor. No it's not harder, it's impossible. No test exists to test for celiac disease without consuming regular amounts of gluten over an extended period of time. You GI is convinced ... by what if he hasn't SEEN the records ??? Once again.... unless you are eating gluten...
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