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Reading Your Labels – Clarified
These days, health food stores and supermarkets are offering gluten-free foods such as pasta, cereals, breads and cookies. Also, most of your chicken, beef, turkey, fresh produce, beans and rice, etc. are available too. It is extremely important to read labels when shopping. As of January, 2010, if you read a label that says […]
Help Your Celiac Child Avoid Cross-Contamination
I can’t insist enough the importance of teaching your child about his own condition and cross-contamination. How much your child can absorb depends on his age and maturity level. You’ll be surprised by how much a child is capable of understanding, though. Even two-year-olds can practice “reading” labels with you at the grocery store. Practice […]
Avoiding Cross-Contamination: Learn How to Read Labels
Learning how to read labels is an absolute must. Before you go grocery shopping, make sure you’re alert and not hungry so you can read labels carefully. When you do purchase gluten-free products, buy those that have been “certified gluten-free.” The GFCO (Gluten Free Certification Organization) certifies products that have less than 10 ppm gluten, […]
Avoiding Cross-Contamination: Watch over Food Preparation
You can teach friends, family members, and even servers and cooks at restaurants about cross-contamination, its serious consequences, and how to prevent it from happening. Then ask food preparers every question you can think of regarding the content and preparation of your meals. Learn the questions you have to ask and have them memorized so […]
Living Gluten Free: Avoiding Cross-Contamination
If you’ve recently been diagnosed with celiac disease, it is likely you’re still adapting to a gluten-free lifestyle. It may seem overwhelming at first to a celiac patient to begin the gluten-free road to recovery, as there are many challenges to face in adjusting to your new gluten-free diet. One of these challenges is […]
Avoiding Cross-Contamination: Home Cooking is Your Best Bet
If you’ve recently been diagnosed with celiac disease, it is likely you’re still adapting to a gluten-free lifestyle. It may seem overwhelming at first to a celiac patient to begin the gluten-free road to recovery, as there are many challenges to face in adjusting to your new gluten-free diet. One of these challenges is […]
Protect Your Celiac Child from Hidden Sources of Gluten
Learning all the usual gluten-containing foods, such as breads and pasta, is only part of the challenge of going gluten-free. Gluten makes soups and sauces thicker and salad dressings creamier, keeps yogurt and soft cheeses firm and dried spices from clumping up, and it keeps candy bars from sticking to the factory conveyor belt. […]
