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Cooking, art — they are all good skills to know and learn about in school. That is until your celiac child finds him or herself elbow deep in whole wheat flour with their friends throwing flour at each other nearby. Or the paper mache paste starts flying everywhere. So what can a parent do to keep the gluten-free diet in check while maintaining our child’s participation in class?
Time to cut corners. A job loss in my family means a second look at the budget — including groceries and gluten-free foods. How can we make the most of the almighty dollar? We explore it in this post.
Are you secretly worried about a guest cross-contaminating your gluten-free food during your dinner party? After a few experiences, here’s what I have come up with and a few other suggestions to quickly educate and hopefully ensure a gluten-free friendly dinner.
What’s the difference between clean and “celiac clean”, well if you have a kitchen with both gluten-free and gluten-containing foods this is a post you’ll want to read.
The Girl Scouts organization really is great with teaching girls values, community and service, but when it comes to the cookie thing — the fact that there are no gluten-free cookies brings annual frustration for me, albeit brief.
A new article out by a researcher on environmental toxins discusses their impact on a child’s (and unborn child’s) immune system. And yes…it does come back to celiac disease.
Last night I got back from our big annual meeting for the Raising our Celiac Kids Twin Cities Chapter and I left ready for action: inspired, energized and ready to “keep up the good fight”! And — no — I didn’t feel this way because yesterday (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day) was a national day of service. But just seeing and talking with all of these people who are deeply involved in the same celiac issues gets my blood pumping; and I’m ready to see what else I can do to help. I leave meetings like that the way I leave the gym after a good workout! Making Time for Your Cause Because I invest a lot of time and effort into our annual Making Tracks for Celiacs fundraiser walk/run, I have, in the past, tuned out other volunteer opportunities or events because I’m a bit spent. But tonight I found my mind going – there were so many events to get involved in within our group: Gluten-Free Fun Camp, Summer Picnic, plus new “breaking” opportunities involving gluten-free product testing. But also other opportunities with committees that stress awareness like our education and website committees. What to do? I am […]
When I told people I was going on the gluten-free diet this month, many reacted to me, “I’m surprised you haven’t already tried it.” I’m not, for me I needed to do it on my own when I was ready. Now I am…here’s my first post since going gluten-free on January third.
If you ever doubted the high cost of gluten-free specialty foods, a relatively new study out of Canada slaps us all in the face with the incredible cost of those foods. Sometimes you have no choice but to buy them (gluten-free pretzels/pasta/pizza), but this post looks at other ways to save on gluten-free food and my theory on why it’s all so expensive.
