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Hi Kandee! I actually moved 3 hours north of Vegas to my hometown. Its a tiny little town with nothing in it! Im planning on driving to Vegas tomorrow since Ive been reading so much about gluten intolerance - it looks like every day counts. This worries me a little since I had the blood tests taken so many months ago and have continuted to eat gluten! I cant believe my doctor didnt tell me to go GF because after reading about it, it should have been obvious that it might help with my test results. Now you're seeing the big picture!!! To bad these docs are in the dark. Unless it affects them, or their own family, they just don't understand it well enough to make sound recommendations. With what you are learning you'll be able to teach him!! My primary's first words to me when I see him, is "well, what are you going to teach me this time"...LOL. Anyways Ive been reading posts and info on Celiac.com all day long so with that and the help from you guys here on the boards Im sure Ill figure it all out soon! You'll be an old pro in no time I'm sure of it. I did notice that you said you could probably adapt Heather's recipes to be GF so I was wondering about her banana bread, chocalate applesauce cake and the peppermint fudge cake Can do... - any ideas! Thanks again for all your help!

Well darn..here I was hoping you'd be close to me. We have a Celiac support group just starting up that is wonderful. Bad part is we only are meeting once every 6 months, but I hope that changes. We have so many that are devistated and don't know where to start. It's especiall hard for the the older ones that don't take to change easily. The worst part is the longer they took to get a diagnosis the longer it will take to heal the intestines and start feeling better.

YOU COOK? I'm so impressed!!! This should be easy for you, really. There are just a few things to remember but once you start in there will be no stopping you, and you'll be eating up a storm.

I'm not sure if anyone else reading these boards is interesting in how to adapt Heather's recipes to GF so unless there are other responses here, I'll email them to you and Beth (Ruchie?) seperately. Her banana bread, chocolate applesauce cake and the peppermint fudge cake are all do-able, (I'll email the adapted version) but why not start out with something first that is a no-brainer, and needs NO changes. There are 2 in her EFI book that don't call for any flour of any type. One is the Chocolate Pecan Fallen Souffle' Cake (pg. 250) and another is the Meltaway Raspberry (or chocolate) Angel Kisses (pg. 241). The Chocolate Fallen Pecan Cake I've made with ground pecans, ground almonds, and ground hazelnuts and it came out good everytime. I bought the nuts all ready ground at TJ's or if you have a food processor or little coffee bean grinder you can grind them yourself. Sometimes I put the raspberries on it, sometimes I don't, or sub with another fruit. I'm sure there are others in the book. I'll just have to go through it to find them.

Keep up the good work. I know you're on your way to feeling better and looking fantastic!!!

Kandee

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