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Well, thank you all...I'm passing on the remarks almost in total to give
some hope to those of us who really cook! These thoughts can also be
applied to those of who who don't know how to cope with _______ (fill in
the blank) lunch, dinner, birthday parties, etc.

My husband is allergic to wheat and gluten, but not dairy, soy etc. Use
your judgment when adapting recipes for your specific allergies.

Sally Nagy

Thank goodness a word of wisdom. I eat in cafe's and ask for potatoes
instead of toast. I've been on the [breaking the vicious cycle] diet for
30 days and found
that I can now eat corn, rice and other complex starches. My stool's
returned to normal.
Being celiac is an inconvenience not a catastrophe. People should wake
up and smell the roses. celiac is much better than many other ailments.

And for the ones of us that also have diabetes you can get Pocono's
Cream of Buckwheat and it is sugar free as well as wheat and gluten
free.  According to their ad it actually lowers your cholesterol.
www.thebirkettmills.com I microwave 1/3 cup in milk and add fruit and
two whole grain saccharin tablets.  Then I let it cool while I read the
paper and drink my coffee.  No hassle at all.  And it's only 2.18 a
box.  I used to order it by the case from the above address now our
health food store carries it.  Since CSA won't list it in their catalog
of foods because "wheat" is in the name I dropped my subscription to
them.


Hear, Hear!!

My husband is celiac and he eats like a king.  Tonight we are having
Blackened Chicken Salad for dinner, with a delicious homemade honey
mustard
dressing.  For lunch today, he took a hoagie made with gf French bread
and
Boar's Head lunch meats and cheeses.  I packed lettuce, tomato, onion
and
some Hellman's mayo to put on it at lunchtime.  He also has a piece of
Strawberry Pretzel Dessert in there (made with gf pretzels, of course).
It's not that hard to eat well on this diet -- it just takes a bit (not
a
lot) of time in the kitchen.

BTW -- I work full time also.


I too don't have any problems with breakfast.  I see products with the
Trader Joe brand listed in my book from CSUSA but don't know where to
find them - they are not in my supermarket. Also, FYI - have you ever
tried the English Muffins from Kinnikinnick?  They are terrific toasted
and put underneath a pair of eggs or with jam.  I like Van's waffles,
but one of our health food stores that carried them has closed and the
other doesn't seem to be carrying the gf ones.


Well written, Sally.  I'm getting tired of reading e-mails that talk
about the
"dull" diet we are forced to adopt, about people wanting to duplicate
all the
high calorie foods they "used" to eat & then reading all the e-mails
that
complain about weight gain.

As well as learning to cook lots and lots of delicious ethnic type
foods, this
has been a wonderful opportunity to be empathetic and pro-active when
someone
says they are lactose intolerant or vegetarian or whatever.

The bottom line is that all the discomfort we had as undiagnosed celiacs
has
ended and isn't that wonderful!

* Visit the Celiac Web Page at www.enabling.org/ia/celiac/index.html *