Diagnosed with celiac (can't eat wheat)

[KnottedYet]

Thanks, Duck! I think I'm good with the mix supply here in sunny Seattle.

OTG - how are you doing finding GF stuff? Have you done it all online, or have you found a store yet? This is my B12: Source Naturals MethylCobalamin 1mg. www.sourcenaturals.com I get the 60 tablet bottle for around $10 or so. 16,670% of your daily value of B12 per tablet! (and that only brings my blood levels up to the "low-normal" range)

[tygab]

Thanks, Duck! I think I'm good with the mix supply here in sunny Seattle.

This is my B12: MethylCobalamin 1mg.

Whoa, I realize this is random, but that's precisely the stuff [well I got a different brand] I had to hunt down to help my diabetic kitty with his weak hind legs. Apparently this is a common symptom in cats. So it's supposedly good for the CNS too.

...sorry for the tangent...

[KnottedYet]

Yup, and since celiacs can't absorb B12 properly, they get weird CNS symptoms sometimes. Pretty wild how everything interconnects in the body's systems, eh?

[Wahine]

I can't believe how much I've learned from this thread. I have an allergy to something related to wheat processing, it's never been pinpointed and I know it's not the wheat because I can eat wheat in Europe and Asia without trouble.

Anyway, I am faced with training for Ironman and was dreading figuring out how to fuel up. Everyone here has had such great ideas that it almost seems easy now.

Thanks for contributing to such an intellegent thread and unknowingly helping me train.

[Offthegrid]

I tried quinoa this morning. Yuck. But I managed to eat it.

I use 8th Continent soy milks. They are pretty good, as far as soy milks go. For hot chocolate when I was sick, I heated up the chocolate soy milk and added some Da Vinci hazlenut syrup I already had for my latte machine. Yum.

The Lactaid definitely has an aftertaste to it, but it's tolerable.

I will definitely have to get a Crock Pot next.

[Duck on Wheels]

When a cereal bar says, "gluten free, wheat free, egg free, dairy free, soy free and fat free,"
it really makes you wonder WHAT in the world is actually in it.

My spin instructor last year gave us some samples of an energy bar called "green". It actually was green inside, which looked yucky, but it tasted pretty yummy. Made with dates, figs, and bean sprouts, as I recall. Don't remember whether there were any grains, egg, wheat, dairy, soy or fats in it, but it might be worth looking up.

[KnottedYet]

OTG- have you tried Lara Bars?

www.larabar.com

their website is a bit slow, oh well. Around here I can find Lara Bars just about everywhere, and can buy them by the case at Costco.