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Gluten Free dining
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This year I've started using dietary alert cards from www.dietarycard.com on holiday and in restaurants in my home town (Glasgow). Its meant that I don't have to have an extended discussion about my 'special' diet at the start of every meal with everyone in the restaurant listening, and I can try new things abroad
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Re: Gluten Free dining
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My Granny has just got those cards and took them with her on a trip to the US and found they helped - I think I'm going to invest as well! Anything to avoid the 'so if there's flour then that's not good' conversations! Why can't the industry have some training for staff!! I know some chefs who are brilliant and and always working on ways to make kitchens safer for those with 'dietary' issues but a lot seem to lack the knowledge! Has everyone you've shown them to been receptive to them
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Re: Gluten Free dining
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I've never had any problems anywhere with my Dietary Alert Cards, and the more chefs and restaurant staff become generally aware and alert to gluten-free and other special diets and allergies, the more useful I think the cards will become. I do have a friend who gave up trying to get a wizened old sausage seller on the top of a German mountain to understand her coeliac diet, Dietarycard or not. But she's been to Hungary, France, Canada, USA, Spain, Austria and Italy with her Dietarycards and they've made the world of difference to her holidays
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Re: Gluten Free dining
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Having got my dietary cards and been using them I think everyone should know about them!!!! It's made life SO much easier!!! I have one friend in Germany who thought that I had mistranslated things - she didn't understand how anyone could live like this! Now all we need is for ALL restaurants/bars etc to label (just as they do for vegetarians) and we'll be getting somewhere. For the record - I work in the City and a growing number of establishments have GF markers on their menus - apart from one All Bar One where they didn't know, the kitchen staff didn't know and my food was delivered with a comment that our waitress was the first aider, so if it went wrong I'd be ok
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Help!! Desperate
Posted by xxSarahxx
Please help! I really need it....any advice would be SO greatly appreciated. I am intolerant to; Wheat, Gluten, All Meat, Fish, Dairy (including egg)! I have been on the diet since December....I'm fed up. Eating out is a huge issue and even just eating at a friend's house. Doing the weekly food shopping is even depressing me now. I live in England, U.K. Any ideas about anything I can have apart from Fruit, veg, pure rice and baked beans!?!? and the very expensive plain puffed rice for breakfast. I am really missing cheese, bread, pasta, ice cream and so on and so on!! Oh and my money.....everything is so expensive...if I want the special pasta it is a treat once a month....Please help! I know you only specialise in Gluten-free but I am trying everything and anything right now and will appreciate anything help and/or advice I can get so please don't be afraid, even if you think it is a silly sugggestion!
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Help!! Desperate
Posted by Peter
The first question I would ask is - how do you know that you are intolerant of all these items? For example gluten and wheat is something very specific, but fish covers a huge variety of biologicaly diverse creatures. Shark, herring and shellfish have very little in common.
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Help!! Desperate
Posted by xxSarahxx
I am intolerant to all of these things due to a condition within my digestive system. It can't handle an awful lot of things and I am sick whenever I eat anything from the list above. The doctors have said that the condition I hav eis what has made me intolerant to all of the above. Does that help? xx
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Help!! Desperate
Posted by Peter
Do you know the medical name for the condition that the doctors have diagnosed? Is the sickness reaction somthing that started suddenly, or have you had it for a long time?
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Help!! Desperate
Posted by xxSarahxx
All I can tell you is it is a series of infections that live in all of my digestive organs and mean that they shut down if I eat anything they don't like!! I've had it a long time, most of my life, but it only surfaced as this severe in November 2004. It is a very rare condition, expecially to have it to the extent that I do. Every now and again I try to defy the doctors and eat something I'm not supposed to and I'm still sick unless it's only half of a mouthfull, in which case sometimes I feel fine or just feel unwell and my temperature goes up but that's about it. I can't remember ever being told a name for it. I already have Benign Intracranial and Axial Myoclonus and have suffered from Reflex Neuro Vascular Dystrophy as well as severe problems in my left knee as a result of an on-going injury! I'm pretty good at remembering names of conditions now as well as hospital names, directions, doctors and nurses names!! I'm meant to be being referred to a dietician / nutritionist soon but I think I may have to push for this! My main problem is as this is so rare no one seems to have any answers and I can't find anything similar to it on anyone who can help talk me through things like how I'm meant to cope with it, I feel like I'm going to be on a different form of anti-biotics every fortnight for the rest of my life! Nothing seems to be helping, infact sometimes the gelatine coated capsules or something else in one of my many many many medications makes me ill! HELP! There has to be someone out there who has a clue as to what I am meant to be doing with my life. I can't go out and eat anywhere and just the thought of trying to eat something is depressing at times. I don't even want to go food shopping as it is too depressing as there is just too much I can't eat.
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Help!! Desperate
Posted by Peter
You certainly have a lot of problems there, but it is up to you to make the most of the life that you have. No one is going to offer you another life, and it is unlikely that a magic pill will make it better. You have to take charge of your own diet by keeping a detailed record of what you can and cannot eat - there are no tests that will identify these for you. The biggest problem is correctly identifying what you react to. We all eat so many different things that pinpointing a problem is not easy. It is not always the last thing that you ate either, as one food may irritate your digestive system but you only feel the discomfort after a later meal. Drinks such as tea and coffe, and wine can cause irritation, but are often overlooked. It can also be a question of quantity. An allergic reaction may be caused by the mearest trace of one food mixed in with another - so is it the main food that caused the problem, or the unexpected trace of somthing else? An averse reaction may be caused by too much of one food at a time, when your body will cope quite hapily with small amounts. You say that fresh fruit and vegetables and rice don't cause problems. have you tried eating meals based on polenta(maize) quinoa, soghum? Set out to explore the wide variety of different fruits and vegetable available now, especialy those in shops serving the ethnic communities. Aim to eat as wide a variety of different foods as you can. Enjoy what you can eat, and accept that there are many things you cannot. Good luck.
Peter
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gfcf vegetarian diet only name the ingredients
Posted by rajagopal
I am a father of an autistic son and I want to know about the list of diet that we can give him.
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Posted by Emily Print
Rajagopal, please see
http://coeliac.info/suppboard/viewtopic.php?t=91
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Re Gluten Free dining
Posted by Nadja Clifford
Where do you buy alert cards?
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Re: Gluten Free dining
Posted by s pike
I am traveling to Toronto and would like to fine some good places to eat and drink beer. The downtown area by the convention center.
Thanks,
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Re: Gluten Free dining
Posted by Laura Leadbetter
Hi
Just browsing this site, can you tell me where I can obtain dietary cards please.
Would you think they would be delivered by Monday if I ordered.
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Re: Gluten Free dining
Posted by tracy gates
ide like to find out where i could purchase diatry cards please pontefract area