A Great Book for those First Few Weeks

Remember that first week after your celiac diagnosis? Perhaps you have actively wiped it out of your memory, but I still have vivid nightmares about it. I remember leaving the doctor’s office thinking that I simply needed to take certain baked goods out of Amy’s diet. And then I got home and...read more

Gluten-free meals for school lunch

As a young child I brought my own lunches to school.  While most of my friends were slurping down their spaghetti and tomato sauce from the school’s hot lunch program, I was happily (but eventually unhappily) munching my way through the cream cheese and jelly sandwiches my mother prepared for me.  I...read more

The G-Free Diet

I confess to have not yet read Elizabeth Hasselbeck’s book The G-Free Diet, but I join Scott Adams (of celiac.com) when he publicly thanks Elizabeth for raising celiac awareness.  There is nothing better for a cause than to have a popular public spokesman. While I have not yet read the book, I did see...read more

First Big Test

This weekend was my first big test.  My three year old, Amy, started eating gluten-free products a little over a half a year ago but so far I have managed to feed her exclusively in my house.  This weekend we ventured out into the big scary world of eating in public. I knew I would need to prepare  food...read more