Huey Vincent

My friend just got back from summer reserve training, and he was joking that there were complete meals that were marked gluten-free so that my girlfriend can join the army, you know the kind of meal that's air-sealed and you only have to add water and heat it up. My friend told me they're trying to get Celiacs into the army hehe.

I just maybe thought that I'll call the army and ask them who supplies these meals and if (I doubt it) it's possible to buy some for trips. It's marked by the Canadian Army, so I doubt it'll be a problem getting it through customs because it's garanteed to be only food. So maybe bring a week's worth of real food and a few packs of these and we can go quite about anywhere.

Is it just me, or is this the miracle solution for long vacations with my friend? Has anyone else ever thought about this and tried? I'm searching around to find discussions about this.

Hey thanks so much guys. What I love the most about your posts is that some of you guys seem to have been drinking socially for some years and you guys don't mention any problems so it must be all good. Yeah to tell you guys the truth I chose to make some sacrifices like the bars and some other places, but in the end isnt it just better to do some dinner at home? I'm thinking about the recipes and finding something I can muster up and maybe check out the wines. Someone talked about different categories and labels for the French wines and I'll read into that for sure. I maybe thought about talking about this to her parents, but they seem quite protective right and maybe I should get higher in their esteem before asking stuff like making food for her... but it will surely come in time. But the problem is that my girlfriend doesn't really want me to get implicated because sometimes she would go at it with her mom, who's the overprotective one here, and we think it's best if I didn't say anything...

Oh absolutely, my girlfriend has often talked about people who we're very much too insensible to the condition, but hey, the world is full of stupid jerks.

Yeah Smunkeemom I was thinking about the risk taking and all that, but for now I think everyone here agrees that its best to play the safe card with the priority going to her health.

And 2kid4me, I see what you mean and that's the conclusion I came up to myself also. Her parents would sometimes talk about how they would stay with her to watch her when she got sick and all that, so to a certain degree I understand why they're overprotective. Add the fact that her mom used to practice the very honorable job of nursing...

Hey,

I was just wondering about travel, especially to places like let's say Peru, Vietnam, Africa and all that. My girlfriend's can't eat the gluten and anyone here knows if we'll be able to someday travel to those places? Like is it actually possible to live without being sure that the things she's eating is completely gluten-free in places like those?

Did anyone travel to those places?

I'm sorry for not writing correctly I'm so used to writing without capitals haha. Hey, you guys know what I'm extremely grateful for your help, I'll take into account everything you guys told me and I'll do my best trying to help Amy. It's just that I didn't know it was this complicated, this serious. To tell you the truth I kinda thought it was like lactose intolerance... woops.

I've noticed for my other questions I'll run around on these boards to find my answers, I won't disturb you guys anymore . Thanks again, I have found peace of mind and I can better help her deal with the parents.

ok thanks a lot guys! im starting to grasp what celiacs is. ok so we should just refrain from drinking, and if ever we wanted to get a drink, it would be better if it were at home and only one drink a night and that we double check with the company that makes the liquor (yeah, we actually got the whole thing in one night but we happen to be resistant to alcohol... but were not great drinkers dont worry we were just celebrating something).

other than that, if i understand correctly even if it isn't supposed to contain gluten it might always. now that comes to another question i have, should we not take the risk at all and only eat food certified gluten-free either on the package or by the company, or can we just look at the ingredients and see that it isnt supposed to contain anything bad. because like skunkeemom said jsut a small amount can be very hurtful. what do most celiacs do? whats the best for my girlfriend?

im sorry im bombarding you guys with questions... it kinda killed me when she called me. she was all sad and i didnt know what to say.

well we couldn't know the brands of the alcohol because it was at a bar, and yeah im starting to get to see whats its all about. yea the drinking age here is 18 so that wasnt the problem with her parents, and other than that hmmm i never knew it was that dangerous. but other than gluten free beer you guys sure theres nothing else that she can drink? we got into a serious talk and she was quite depressed, its because since she was a child she was a bit shunned by others because of that allergy, meaning she never actually got the chance to be like others. i know some of you guys started getting glutten intolerant at an older age and already tasted alcohol and all that, but she never did. so what im seeing is that she should completely forget about alcohol, or are there some people with celiac who can drink alcohol, others cant?

hey, I'm new here "hello!"

I come to you guys all stressed, it's not really me who's celiac, but it's my girlfriend. I went to check on the website and they said that there were some drinks that were ok with celiacs. But then my girlfriend has to go check with the gastro physician about how levels of "gliadin" or something like that, and she had to admit to her parents that she took some vodka shooters, some amaretto, some armagnac and some red wine. I supposed it was ok, but then her parents went into a hell of a rage (we're rather young, well we're 19...) and they told her it was extremely foolish to do that, because the wine fermenting barrels we're splashed with whiskey and they couldhave contained gluten, that she can't drink ANY alcohol at all, that celiac.com can't be trusted because we live in Canada and the alcohol in canada is prepared differently ???

ok, let me tell you I love her so much, that i'm ready to sacrifice doing lots of things to be with her, but are her parents psychotic? becaues right now i don't know if i should jump in and take the blame for her if they're right, but I find her parents to be nice and caring yes, but they're actually quite controlling when i think of it. hey, we're 19 and chances are we might move out and amy has to know how to live on her own, right?

and btw, this is one great website, kudos to the creators and the people from the community

oh and i forgot to say, nothing happened to her and she's completely fine now, but her parents say that it might be asymptomatic. also, i read some more articles about alcohol from the website and there's another that say that there is always a possibility that the distilled alcohol can contain gluten by other means... that some of it doesn't dissapear after distillation and some liquors have added stuff that contains gluten.

what do you guys do?