Re: Please help, looking for gluten-free foods/snacks

[Guest guest]

Sandi: Have a look at this site.

Val in Winnipeg

http://www.celiac.com/

Please help, looking for gluten-free foods/snacks

My daughter, Shelby (5ds) underwent a biopsy on Dec. 31, to determine for

sure whether or not she has Celiac disease. The doctor wants us to go ahead

and put her on a gluten-free diet, since she's almost certain that Shelby has

the disease (her antibodies tested very high, 137). The biggest problem is

that she has always had a very limited diet (all most all of which is now off

limits) and is extremely reluctant to try anything new. For the past couple

of days, she has basically lived off of grapes, fruit cups, corn chips,

yogurt (which I'm not even 100% sure she can have) and noodles for dinner.

She keeps asking me for food (goldfish crackers, regular crackers, all of her

old standby's) and I feel horrible having to constantly tell her no. I

desperately need to find some replacement snacks/crackers so that I'm at

least not giving her corn chips everyday starting at 10:30am!

Any advice from Mom's out there that have gone through this would be so

helpful. I've seen a few online stores, but I'm a little weary of buying a

lot of food products online, not too mention you have no idea what they taste

like. I've already thrown out two different types of crackers that I bought

at a local health food store that were horrible. I'm feeling so overwhelmed

by all of this, especially since I am scheduled to have my 3rd child in two

weeks, and my 17 month old has a nasty cold.

Thanks so much for listening!

Sandi Long

[Guest guest]

Sandi,

First of all congrats on the new one. I just had mine 9 weeks ago ( I know..

everyone on the list is probably sick of hearing that LOL!). Second, My

daughter Jordan had high antibodies too and we had her on a gluten free diet for

two weeks before realizing that wasn't the problem. It was a lactose problem.

That said, Your health food stores will carry gluten free stuff. You can find

everything from gluten free brownie mix to gluten free pasta. I will tell you

though that the food is not cheap. I got a total of 10 items and my cost was

well over $30. The packages weren't very big either. But, there are also lots

of websites that provide recipes for you also. But check the health food stores

because the people who work there are very knowledgeable (just my opinion from

experience).

Good luck and keep us posted.

Judi