<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>> 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 *