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Yes...I eat mostly Jif, but a little Skippy--and I don't get sick from them either.

Unfortunately, that isn't long enough. Most doctors recommend 3 months of gluten prior to testing for accurate results. Now, on the other hand, you've only been gluten-free about 3 days....so just go back to a normal diet now and your testing should come out fine. You want to get accurate results, so I wouldn't risk another two weeks eating gluten-free, etc.

Open Original Shared Link. Then look for "health and wellness" on the left and click it. Then the first one should be Celiac Disease Online Support Group & Message Board (or something of the sort). You need to register, but that's free.

I eat mostly Haagen-Dazs....also if you go to Edys website and go to flavor finder, then you can choose "gluten free" as an option you want and get the gluten-free list.

This carrot cake recipe came from Mireille (a really knowledgable celiac from the Delphi Forums board). She has her own restaurant and posts multiple recipes daily:

Carrot Cake

Nonstick cooking spray

2 1/2 cupsGF all-purpose flour mix (msg #4848.5)

2 teaspoons cinnamon

1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar

1 cup drained, crushed pineapple (see note)

1/2 cup fat-free egg substitute, or 3 whole eggs

1/2 cup buttermilk

1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce

1/3 cup vegetable oil

2 teaspoons gluten-free vanilla extract

3 cups grated carrots

1/2 cup chopped walnuts

Your favorite Philly icing.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a 9- by 13-inch baking pan with

nonstick cooking spray and set aside.

In a medium bowl, combine flour, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda

and salt. Set aside.

In a large bowl, whisk together brown sugar, pineapple, egg

substitute, buttermilk, applesauce, oil and vanilla. Stir in grated

carrots. Add flour mixture to carrot mixture and stir until well

blended. Stir in walnuts.

Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake for 35 to 40 minutes, or until a

toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean. Set pan on a

wire rack and cool cake completely.

While cake is cooling, prepare icing.

Refrigerate until ready to use. When cake is cool, spread icing

evenly over top. Cover with plastic wrap and store in refrigerator.

Makes 24 servings.

Note: A 20-ounce can of crushed pineapple will yield about 1 1/2 cups

after you drain it well. Empty the can into a wire strainer, and

press down on the pineapple to remove the juice.

Mireille, Waterloo Quebec.

Be careful with this list. It used to be a constantly updated one until the board on Delphi came about and the list was moved to and updated there. This one is many years old.......

Sorry...I'm back

There's a cooking/recipe section on celiac.com that I think is kept moderately simple. The PB cookie recipe is probably amongst them....

https://www.celiac.com/st_main.html?p_catid...-51105312601.75

Peanut Butter cookies are easy to make: This is how I make them:

1 cup peanut butter

1 egg

1/2 cup of sugar(I can't take really sweet ones)

and then roll around in sugar

put in oven for about 20 minutes at 300-350 degrees

Yes--the PB cookies are great, simple, and quick.

Also, if you want to eat out, it's still an option. Certain chains have gluten-free menus (on the internet), such as McDonalds, Outback Steakhouse, and Arbys. Here are some specific options in New York City:

Open Original Shared Link

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Open Original Shared Link (see the key on the side for the abbreviations that tell you which foods are gluten-free.)

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There is also a restaurant on the Upper West Side called Sambucca. It will soon offer a gluten-free menu that includes 22 pasta dishes, homemade gluten-free bread, homemade brownies, and a kids menu. Check back on the...1st link to see when new restaurants open. The restaurants on this program are ones you can trust...

The last link is also quite good--two women who live in NY eat out in NY and take pictures of everything and basically have a whole blog on eating out gluten-free in NY...worth a read if you live here.

Feel free to e-mail about anything specific in NY Cool to have a fellow New Yorker on the board

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I think that inhaling gluten can cause you to have a reaction. I know that when I inhale flour I get a sore throat. I read somewhere that you have villi in the back of your throat and villi is what reacts to gluten.

Nope...not in the back of your throat. Only in the intestines. And like Kaiti quoted, theoretically, gluten wouldn't cause damage if it got in your nose or mouth...it's just that if it gets in your mouth, it's nearly inevitable that some will get down your throat, through stomach, etc. until reaching the small intestines and causing damage.

Dessa,

A couple things bothered me (about that article) also. I didn't like that they said Milk (2 servings) or something. It makes it sound like if a celiac has more than 2 servings of milk, he or she will have a reaction or something.

I also thought that for a new celiac it would give the wrong impression. Not all candy is gluten-free, not all jelly, etc. It's vague, which is acceptable I guess for an article, but it could be confusing to a newbie.

Open Original Shared Link

Above is a post I made about restaurants.....and I think I mentioned a couple delis. Also, if you go into basically any deli, they'll usually have something you can have (chips, etc.). Where will you be most of the time? I know there are quite a few healthfood stores downtown, on the Upper East Side, and on the Upper West Side there's Fairways (where the entire second floor is like a healthfood store, but much better priced)...most of the stuff up there is gluten-free. E-mail me or post back if you want addresses for anything

And welcome to the big apple!

Sarah,

I really dislike eating out, as well. I find it very stressful and not enjoyable in the slightest. Since being diagnosed, I've only had one enjoyable experience eating out, which was when I went to Open Original Shared Link (in New York City). Almost their entire menu is gluten-free: all the desserts are, they have gluten-free pizza which is terrific, they're famous for their risotto (gluten-free), they even have gluten-free beer, Bard's Beer (I'm too young to drink, not that I'd want to, but a lot of adult celiacs like that). I had a great time eating there once since I knew everything was gluten-free and it tasted good. At the other restaurants, I keep wondering if I'm going to get sick, I get so bored with my plain food, (usually a baked potato and a hamburger or piece of steak with no seasonings or anything on it) and I feel alienated, different, and left out........

Just wanted to mention my good experience because if you ever come to NY, do visit there. There are also a few more gluten-free menu-restaurants springing up, including one in a few weeks called Sambucca, which will add a gluten-free menu w/ 22 pasta dishes, a kid's menu, homemade bread, brownies, etc. NY is a good place for celiacs

Anyway, my point is, I can empathize with you on not wanting to eat out (at a restaurant w/o a gluten-free menu) unless I really have to...

Yes--I wouldn't recommend Bette Hagman's recipes for someone who doesn't like to cook in the first place. Many of them are complicated or require a lot of time. If they some looked easy enough, though, you could just divide the ingredients from something that makes 4 servings by 4......then you get one serving. Or make all four and freeze it for when you don't want to cook another night.

Eating out will not be easy to do on this diet and you're always taking a risk, so you don't want to do that every day. A company, Amy's, makes some gluten-free some non-gluten-free frozen dinner-type things. Those require only the ability to press a few buttons on your microwave!

If you find that you eat portions that are too large, try eating on smaller plates (because you can only fill a smaller plate so much and you get the illusion that you're having more than you really are.

Umm....oh, if you get gluten-free noodles, such as Tinkyada, you can use the cheese shaker or packet from Kraft...it's gluten-free. Then you get very easy macaroni and cheese. Umm...breakfast you could have eggs or gluten-free bagels or gluten-free toast, Oscar Mayer has a gluten-free list and I know you can get their bun-length hotdogs...those just require boiling....dinner...meat, rice, vegetables.....pretty simple. Oh, for meat, I'd highly recommend those George Foreman grills (it's small and it's the easiest, most efficient way to do meat. Also, I think Mrs. Leepers has a chicken alfredo thing that you just need to heat up or something? And....oh, gluten-free mixes are always helpful...don't require much cooking ability...Pamela's makes a pancake mix...just use the mix, eggs, a tablespoon of canola oil, and something else (water or milk?).......mix together, and then you can just spoon the batter onto a pan....yea...I'm not the recipe-baking type either, but these are a few simple things that I think work.

By the way, I also live in NYC . Sorry my points weren't very...organized, but I was just typing them out as they came to me.

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Oh, you can post it under an existing topic, such as this, or make a new thread on it....for this question, under the ingredients & food labeling issues section.

It's fine.

Yes, you can buy them at Open Original Shared Link

Yes--my family ordered about 10 . They're great!

I doubt that such a thing is true. Maybe her doctor didn't read the results correctly or maybe she's just saying that to feel....less guilty or make you cheat? And you can never cheat....not because of the antibodies (after all, those don't do anything to you, they're just a sign of whether you're fully gluten-free or not)...but because your intestines will be torn up and they'll have to heal all over again. And frequent phases of cheating will put you at risk for those terrible complications listed so many times on here. Additionally, if you heal yourself, then cheat, then heal again, then cheat right away, you're not helping yourself much at all because just as you get back to normal, your villi get demolished and your body can't even really feel the effects of a gluten-free diet.

I haven't been there, but the term "safer" wouldn't make me feel very comfortable about it. Remember that he might still be getting contaminated, but not enough to experience the....EXTERNAL SYMPTOMS that he normally feels when he has had gluten.

Oh, wow...that's great!

What you can do is buy them and taste it then return it if you don't like it. Companies around here will do that. We got apple muffins that were gluten-free and tasted them and they were horrible so they took them back 

What? Do you mean that the healthfood store will do that or the manufacturer?

About that--be careful because some companies will and some won't do this. I know that the Gluten Free Pantry does not have such a return policy and Miss Robens does...

A gluten-free diet will bring your levels down and make you appear normal, which is why people always say you should be on gluten for three months prior to testing to get a diagnosis of celiac.

It is natural for your antibody levels to go down on a gluten-free diet. If you go back to gluten, you may feel fine now, but your antibodies will eventually go back up and you'll feel sick again. Not to mention all the terrible complications you are predisposed to as a celiac on a gluten-filled diet.

Yes...Celiac cannot be given to anyone else, except of course, through genes. You didn't necessarily have celiac a birth, but you had a genetic predisposition to it...HLA DQ2 and DQ8....then the celiac had to be triggered, such as with surgery or high-stress situations. Once triggered, of course, you have it. Of course, triggers aren't contained to a high-stress situation, surgery, etc.....

The fact that you have it means that someone else in your family had it before you. It could be a parent, it could be a grandparent on either side of your family, or even one of their parents....

Ha...that's actually happened to me. I had a dream once where I was in a really dark restaurant and I was told a chocolate cake they had was gluten-free and even though I knew it wasn't (in the back of my mind) I ate it anyway (in the dream of course).......then I panicked and woke up...this was a few months into the diet.