Cross-contamination has been a recent topic of discussion on my cousin Sally’s facebook page. She was officially diagnosed last week and has lots of questions about her new journey so when I saw this I thought I’d share. The following was taken from the Vitacost.com website under the heading of […]

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard someone say they were just going to cheat this once or they’ll just suffer the consequences because they really like a certain food!  Celiac is an auto immune disease which is related to and can lead to so many other health […]

Once I finally knew what had been making me sick my whole life I had to figure out how to stop eating it.  Unfortunately my doctor was of no help, saying “you could probably eat just a little bit of soy sauce and be ok.”  Yeah right!  I was also […]

As you may or may not realize, celiac disease is hereditary.  After I was diagnosed it took us another year to finally realize that 2 of my 3 kids were also affected by gluten.  The first to be taken off of it was my youngest who was in preschool at […]

I am so sensitive to gluten that I cannot even touch it.  When I was first diagnosed I didn’t know how serious my allergy was.  I was still making two meals, one for me and one for the rest of my family.  One day, about a month after my diagnosis, […]

Several years ago, in early 2011, I discovered that I had Celiac disease.  I later learned that I’ve had the symptoms all my life but didn’t know they were related or what was causing them.  I’ve had lots of doctors prescribe me lots of different medications to treat each symptom…separately, […]