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While many people equate a gluten-free way of eating with low-carbohydrate, they are not the same. For many people, including myself, eating foods that are gluten-free is a medical necessity. We need to eat foods free of contamination by wheat, barley and rye to avoid being sickened. Low-carbohydrate on the other hand is a choice […]

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This is the third in a series of what to do when you discover you can no longer eat gluten. One of the first steps in living a gluten free life is identifying the foods in your house that you no longer can eat. If you are single or are in a household which will […]

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Eating out in a restaurant has in many ways been my biggest challenge.  I got in the habit of cooking many years ago when I started eating low carb. At that time, I realized that in order to do so, I needed to stay out of the aisles of the grocery store and shop the […]

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This is the first in a series of what to do when you discover you can no longer eat gluten. There are two ways to figure out that gluten can’t be a part of your diet anymore.  Either you get a diagnosis, or you try an elimination diet and discover that many of your issues […]

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Getting Glutened

A few weeks ago, I got glutened. It was my own fault, I wasn’t the advocate that I should have been when my boyfriend and I went out to a chain restaurant for a quick breakfast before we went camping. Once we were there, I mentioned to the waitress that I was gluten intolerant and asked […]

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My Gluten Free Adventure

In August of 2010, I was at a house party in Upstate New York when I realized that I was most likely gluten intolerant (if not celiac). For the last 10 years, I had followed a mostly low carb diet. It worked and I considered it a very healthy diet for me. Meats, full fat […]

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