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  1. Laura
    I've had two different kinds of reactions. Well, I should start by saying that when I was first dx'ed, I didn't have noticeable reactions, and I've actually gotten more sensitive. Or just learned better to hear what my body is saying. Then for about a year or two, if a tiny tiny bit trickled into my diet, I didn't notice gastro symptoms, but I had hemorrhoid...
  2. Laura
    Probably none of these are very good, but let me brainstorm. Well, one thing is that in recent years it seems like there's a trend toward people changing jobs more, so maybe it won't come up so much. Or, uh, does the fact that you're moving mean you're done with school? Because if you have all that time put back into your life, the work thing might...
  3. Laura
    I never met my mother's father, because he died before I was born. But this is what I know about him: Irish-American, lifetime of nosebleeds among other problems, died of leukemia. Seems like a possibility.
  4. Laura
    Adding to what others have said about the shingles as a trigger for celiac, shingles themselves can be triggered by stress, which could also have acted as a trigger for celiac. So it could be a complicated set of causes like that.
  5. Laura
    JenniferM, here's a passage from Celiac Disease: A Hidden Epidemic, by Peter H.R. Green, M.D. and Rory Jones: So it sounds like in all probability it doesn't matter, and you should do what seems to work for you. The really important thing is that you breast-feed.
  6. Laura

    ARCHIVED Risotteria

    Laura replied to watkinson's topic in Gluten-Free Restaurants

    My best friend recently moved away from Manhattan, so I've lost my best reason to go into the city, and therefore to Risotteria. But I think I'm going to go in just to eat there sometime in the next week, and of course I have a freezer full of their pizzas (I buy the frozen cheese ones and add my own toppings at home). But when my friend was there, it was...
  7. Laura
    My easiest chicken is to cook a piece of chicken (bake, pan-cook, whatever) with just a little salt and pepper, then eat it on rice with the following oh-so-easy sauce: gluten-free tamari mixed with mirin to taste. It's very much like teriyaki. Mirin is a sweet rice wine, what gives most teriyaki sauces that distinctive sweetness that can't be achieved...
  8. Laura
    Homemade frosting is wicked easy, too. Cream a stick of butter, dump in powdered sugar and cream and a teaspoon of vanilla and a little salt, mash it all together, add more powdered sugar or cream to bring to the right consistency, and voila! it's so much better than the packaged kind. Anyway I think so. I always end up eating it straight out of the bowl...
  9. Laura
    I've never found gluten-free cake mixes to be any different than G ones were. If anything, they'd be a little easier because with gluten-free flour you don't need to worry as much about overmixing (because the whole reason you avoid overmixing in G foods is to avoid developing the gluten). Maybe watch it a little more closely in the oven, because I have...
  10. Laura
    I love it all. Love the sense of serenity and joy I have almost all of the time, and the lack of despair when things don't go well. I love that I had a cold this week and it sucked but I hadn't had one in months and I know just how much worse it could be. Shoot, because I'm something of a control freak, I even love having the excuse to always have dinner...
  11. Laura
    When I was first diagnosed, I tried two brands that were nasty, so when I found the Bob's Red Mill mix I just quit looking. So yummy. I replace the oil with flax meal, and up the milk a little bit. It makes them slightly less fluffy, but still very good, and I figure it's worth it for the fiber and omega-3s.
  12. Laura
    Just a warning about Serendipity 3 in New York. When I ordered, I talked to the waiter about gluten and he immediately knew what I was talking about and had me substitute a salad for the fries, so I felt really well taken care of. Weeelllll, let's just say there was gluten in something I had, and that train bathrooms are not my favorite place. So maybe...
  13. Laura

    ARCHIVED Risotteria

    Laura replied to watkinson's topic in Gluten-Free Restaurants

    Love love love Risotteria.
  14. Laura
    I have to say, while of course it's sad when we lose any of our few options, I won't miss Happy Happy Happy nearly as much as I would Risotteria, both because I much prefer Risotteria's cookies and because I found the people at Happy Happy Happy a little snotty - I was so excited to be getting gluten-free baked goods (that I didn't have to make myself) and...
  15. Laura
    Does anyone know a gluten-free brand of butterscotch chips (and where I can get some)? I want to make a recipe that uses them but the only brand I can find of butterscotch chips at all is Nestle, and that has barley protein. I'm just this side of experimenting with substitutes, but I thought maybe someone could help me... In a week I'm visiting my parents...
  16. Laura
    Maybe someone's mentioned this before, but I just went to Trader Joe's today and while I was disappointed that they don't have an actual gluten-free section, they have a long list of gluten-free foods (at my local store, they have a wall of different handouts at the back of the store). They have canned tuna that doesn't have broth, they have lots of sauces...
  17. Laura

    ARCHIVED Carraba's

    Laura replied to lauradawn's topic in Gluten-Free Restaurants

    Thank you so much for posting that -- there's no Carrabba's right around me so I don't think of it, but there are some I can get to without too much trouble and it really looks worth it, since they have several things that look really yummy.
  18. Laura
    It's been mentioned in this thread and if you've been reading so much, you may have come across references to it, but from my point of view it can't be stressed enough that depression can be a symptom of celiac disease. So while you should do what needs to be done to make you ok right now, if you end up going on medication for depression I'd encourage you...
  19. Laura
    Wow. It sounds like you've really been through a lot. But it also sounds like you have a supportive family, who have now had a good chance (too good!) to see why it's important you don't eat gluten from now on. And the dietician you saw sounds like she knew what she was talking about, which a lot of them don't seem to. So you have two good things going...
  20. Laura
    Gosh, I can't think of a pancake recipe that would work for you, but if you find one, maple syrup should work. I mean, maybe you'll find out you can't have that either, but it wouldn't contain any of the things you know you can't eat and I can't think where you'd get cross-contamination problems or anything with maple syrup.
  21. Laura

    ARCHIVED Paraniod

    Laura replied to nthei's topic in Coping with Celiac Disease

    I think we just have to go by how sensitive we are individually. If you feel better already, that's a good sign that what you're doing is working. And if it's working, keep trying to improve on a good thing, but don't tear yourself up over it. I forget the thread, but someone had really good advice about you need two of -- I remember it included things...
  22. Laura
    Tiffany is right that it's awfully sad to get rid of all the food you can't have. I gave like 8 pounds of pasta to my friend when I was diagnosed, because it had been on sale so I'd stocked up. And for a while, I just about cried every time I went grocery shopping. A few times I did cry. Now I'm fine almost all the time. Sometimes I just have to stick...
  23. Laura
    And dill pickles? What do they put in their pickles? But it's really nice to know that there are some options, since there are Chili's almost everywhere I ever go. Those are actually enough options that you'd feel like you had some choices and could order kind of like anybody else. Thanks for posting that list!
  24. Laura
    Hi Kerry, Welcome here. It seems like people have widely varying times before they start feeling better. That partly depends how much damage had been done before they were diagnosed, but also it seems to vary for other reasons that are less clear. It's hard for me to know how quickly I felt better, since my symptoms weren't totally clear-cut so...
  25. Laura
    Has anyone else found the Glutano brand gluten-free flour mix? I've only made one thing with it and that worked pretty well, but I haven't tested the mix enough to say much about it. And it's not cheap. When I have some time, I make up big batches of different flour mixes and freeze them. That way I don't have to try to mix it each time I want to bake...
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