Posted in Gluten Free, Low Carbohydrate on Sep 18th, 2012
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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Posted in Gluten Free on Feb 14th, 2012
This is the fourth in a series of what to do when you discover you can no longer eat gluten. Probably the hardest issue when dealing with no longer being able to eat gluten is the issue of cross-contamination. Cross-contamination basically comes down to tiny pieces of gluten which have been cooked, or prepared on a […]
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Posted in Gluten Free, Ingredients on Jan 3rd, 2012
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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Posted in Gluten Free, Personal Story on Dec 13th, 2011
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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My Thanksgiving was small, just GC and myself, but oh so satisfying. I spent most of the day in the kitchen and dinner was both delicious and stress free. I think one of the reasons that I didn’t invite anyone to partake with us was that I was nervous. I did a very different menu […]
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So my boyfriend, the Grumpy Curmudgeon (aka GC) and I are doing a small Thanksgiving alone. He was recently diagnosed with a blood clot, which means a lot of the regular fall veggies are off his radar (he has to avoid green leafy vegetables like kale and spinach as well as cabbage, brussel sprouts and broccoli), and […]
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Posted in Gluten Free, Seasonal on Nov 16th, 2011
This is the second in a series of what to do when you discover you can no longer eat gluten. For me, I think one of the most stressful holidays I have to go through food-wise is Thanksgiving. Since realizing that I can’t eat even a small amount of gluten, eating at someone’s home that doesn’t […]
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Posted in Gluten Free on Nov 15th, 2011
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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Posted in Personal Story on Sep 28th, 2011
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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