celiac3270

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Just regular white sugar? Yes.

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Yay, Chebe! Do you like it as bread or pizza?

My Favorites

Chebe Bread Mix -- I absolutely love their pizza-- have tried Amy's and other brands, but this one takes the cake, lol...no pun intended. You can order online at Open Original Shared Link and it's very unlikely you'll find them in any health food store. There is no shipping cost, but you get a discount on the packages if you buy them in bulk. I'd recommend the bread mix over the pizza mix for making pizza, just because it seems to work better. Also, it gets better as you make it more often...you sort of get the hang of it. Umm...cover in gluten-free sauce (I use the Four cheese Classico, but Prego is also gluten-free) and grated parmesean and mozzarella (Kraft has both in those see-through bags and both are gluten-free).

Foods By George -- Great English muffins, excellent brownies, realistic corn muffins, good blueberry muffins, and a fabulous pizza. Comes in small sizes though and outrageously expensive--like $7.50 for a small container of brownies. Website: Open Original Shared Link

Ener-G -- Open Original Shared Link . I like their Tapioca loaf bread the best--the rice is extremely dry and too thick. I use their bread, though, and they make other products, as well.

Tinkyada -- The undisputed pasta champion over DeBoles and everything else. I don't think I could tell the difference between it and regular pasta and if I could, Tinkyada would win. In the San Francisco Chronical there was a taste test and Tinkyada had a score of something like 93 from professional chefs and Deboles had like 40, some gluten-free pastas had 10 or 0, a few had 60 or so. Tinkyada won by a lot, though. Definitely would recommend it.

Mrs. Lepers -- GREAT mixes for meals. I've tried a...chicken alfredo, beef lasagna, and cheeseburger something. They come with packages for sauce, uncooked noodles, and you add the chicken or beef to it. Would work fine without the meat, though, very good.

Kinnikinick -- Also a good bread. They make muffins and other bread products as well. The website is their name, though I'm sure I misspelled it.

Pamela's Products -- Great mixes and the best packaged cookies.

Gluten Free Pantry -- Great mixes.

Glutino -- I love their bagels! Lighter than normal ones, but the best I've found so far. And they actually toast well.

Arrowhead Mills -- Pretty good "grits" called Rice and Shine. Excellent gluten-free choc. chip cookie mix. Be careful about buying the gluten-free ones, though, cause some of their products contain gluten.

Amy's -- great frozen meals and they also make a pizza. Be careful that you buy gluten-free products by them, as many are not gluten-free.

Nature's Path (Envirokids) -- I liked some of their cereals. Many like the bars.

Mi-del -- I don't like them, but some swear by their animal crackers. Also make ginger snaps and mini choc. chip cookies.

Though if I could only have one selection, I would pick the gluten-free pantry/glutino, I gave my vote to the Chebe products because I love the pizza and because I know that they won't get many votes since they only make a few products.

There was another topic here: Open Original Shared Link that asked this, but unfortunately, it was made so you couldn't reply. Since many want to, here's another poll.

I know there are many more brands than listed, including

Ancient Harvest Quinoa

Authentic Foods Mixes

'Cause You're Special Mixes

Chebe Bread Mix

Cybro's

Dietary Specialties

Dowd and Rogers

Enjoy Life Foods

Foods By George

Gillian's Foods

Glutano / Barkat

Instant Gourmet

Josef's Gluten Free

Mary's Gone Crackers

Montina Indian Rice Grass

Mr. Spice Sauces

Mrs. May's Natural

Nu-World Amaranth

Pastato / Pastariso

Shiloh Farms

Ener-G

Tinkyada

DeBoles

Mrs. Robens

Mrs. Lepers

Bob's Red Mill

Kinnikinick

Pamela's Products

Gluten Free Pantry

Glutino

Arrowhead Mills

Amy's

Nature's Path (Envirokids)

Mi-del

Food for Life

Actually, wouldn't it be cool if we just...named all our favorite brands? Good resource for newbies, as well...helps them to avoid buying all the nasty products out there.

Also, newbie doesn't refer to your knowledge of celiac, but your status on this message board. Even if you've been on the gluten-free diet for 20 years, you're a newbie when you first come onto the board.

Yeah. The other problem with that type of poll is that it quickly moves to the back without any replies to keep it on the front page. I'll make a new one with the same sort of thing, though.

Don't worry about the advanced/newbie/member thing...it isn't really the # of posts that builds a reputation, but the quality. And the numbers are very low for it to change--on some boards it might be...50 to no longer be a newbie, then regular member till...500 or something, then advanced member, then something crazy like SUPER MEMBER at 1000 and then...you live on this board at 5000....lol. Post a few times and you'll be a member

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I believe that Quaker claims that the normal-sized ones are gluten-free... but Quaker is a risky company...very high oat contamination. Not sure...I haven't had their rice cakes in many months and then I was getting symptoms from something else, too, so often that I wouldn't even have noticed if I was ingesting gluten or not.

Oh, funny! My site and your's are the same, but your's has a diff. name...

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Yeah, it is a difficult poll. I chose the brand that had my favorite gluten-free product because many of them had a large selection of products I liked.

You can't reply to that one because the creator of the poll made it so you can only vote, but cannot reply to the thread. That's one of the options you have when creating a poll.

A gluten challenge is when you go back on gluten (after being gluten-free for awhile) to see if it causes symptoms again... it's not as common anymore, and I don't recommend it.

Dining Cards for different languages:

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Open Original Shared Link -- with this one you make a customized card

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Offering a translation card tailor-made to your personal requirements. Choose up to eight allergy/intolerance foods

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celiac disease in different languages,translations for travelling

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Here's a link for San Diego:

Open Original Shared Link

I have an Adobe file with 140+ pages of restaurants -- mostly chains that are found everywhere, but about 15 pages of certain states, one of which is CA...not sure if it has stuff for San Diego specifically, but if you PM, e-mail, or post your e-mail address, I'll send it to you.

Dining Cards in English

They basically tell the chef what your condition is, how you need your meal prepared, etc. I don't think you need a link for something like that...you could write your own. Something like...btw, I'm making this up on the spot:

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I have Celiac disease, which is an intolerance to gluten. Gluten is found in wheat, rye, barley (malt), oats, and all derivatives of these grains. Foods that contain gluten include bread, pasta, pizza, (etc.). Even the tiniest bit of any of these can make me very sick. Please prepare my meal simply, with no spices, gravies, or fillers.

Also please make sure that utensils that are used to prepare gluten-containg foods do not touch my gluten-free food. A crumb can make me sick so this is very serious.

Thank you for your effort and help.

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You do not need a dining card when you're eating at "restaurants" such as McD's and they are sort of optional at places w/ gluten-free menus, such as Outback Steakhouse and TGIF. BTW, I included oats because most are contaminated and I wouldn't trust the chef at a restaurant with oats.

You can probably make a better one and I could probably make a better one than that, too, but that's just to give you an idea

-celiac3270

Isn't it **fascinating** that people don't question you if you are on the **Atkin's** diet (which has been questioned in terms of how healthy it is). But if you say, I have a freaking DISEASE, they think you don't know what the hell you are talking about?

The people on Atkins have probably read **one** book about their diets -- that book. We, on the other hand, read food labels, medical studies, each other's advice, food lists -- and we are questioned.

It's darned insulting!

Phenomenal point, Westiepaws

What do you mean? Dextrose is always gluten-free because it's sugar. Do you mean dexTRIN which can be made from corn or wheat?

Yea...those types of doctors aren't the ones you want to go to. I go to a doctor because he can monitor the medical aspect of this much, much better than I can and because my doctor is EXTREMELY knowledgeable about celiac disease... (part of the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University).

But go with your gut! (no pun initially intended, but then I thought it was funny)

If you feel good without gluten, then that's reason enough to stay gluten-free.

Sent

Sorry again for filling this thread up w/ pointless posts...

Here's their list:

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But I wouldn't eat there, anyway, because of cross-contamination.

Awww...cute puppy

Sent. Sorry to make these posts, but it makes it easier to tell who I've sent it to and in case the intended recipient doesn't receive the file, at least he or she knows I tried to send it and can ask again.

Woohoo, 2400! lol...didn't realize it until after I posted

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