A gluten free diet: easy gluten free recipes and the celiac child
Another birthday, another gluten free birthday cake! This time it was my daughter’s. She is not celiac and does not follow a gluten free diet, but her birthday was gluten free anyway because:
a) She’s a kind hearted little person and wanted her brother to join in.
b) All my baking stuff is gluten free and I [...]
When your child is first diagnosed with celiacs disease, one of the biggest questions is ‘Should the whole family go gluten free?’
Certainly there are advantages to this option: equally there are disadvantages. It is a question that needs discussing and working through,preferably as a whole family, as everyone is affected, the earlier the better.
The first [...]
Having blogged a few times about the mystery of Jamie’s ongoing tummy aches, despite my keeping of a thorough (I thought) food diary, and trying every remedy under the sun, I thought I should update you.
It was the tomato ketchup!
And yes, I have to take full responsibility and yes, I have been on the world’s biggest [...]
Having written about Jamie’s gluten free day last Wednesday, I did get to thinking about the impacthis celiac disease, and gluten free diet has on me!. So here is a day in the life of my celiac child from the point of view of the one who feeds him.
Early morning: I’m packing up the lunch [...]
Tags: celiac, celiac disease, easy gluten free recipes, gluten free, gluten free brownies, gluten free diet“Does a gluten free diet make life difficult for Jamie?”
Someone asked me that the other day, and although I said “Not really” at the time, it did make me stop and think. We have got so used to living gluten free that we don’t talk about it much anymore. But there are little challenges Jamie (and [...]
Coeliac UK (don’t ask me why we have to add another letter to ‘celiac’ over here!!) held its first research conference in London on December 3rd for scientists and researchers to network and report back on research they are doing at the moment.
The most exciting development, I thought, was the research being done to find [...]
This is one of my favourite gluten free christmas recipes. We have always made star shaped biscuits to hang on the tree and I never get to decorate many because it’s one of the family traditions that the kids go wild with icing sugar and sprinkles so ever biscuit is a real sugar high, and [...]
Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without advent calendars and selection boxes,- even a gluten free Christmas! Okay, so talking about gluten free advent calendars is a little late - we’ re nearly two weeks into them and the excitement is running high. I’m sure there are gluten free advent calendars in the shops, but I didn’t [...]
The Centre for Celiac Research at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, are selling wrist bands and magnets to raise money for and awareness of celiac research. The wrist bands are only $2 each and more than 35000 celiac awareness bracelets have been sold already.
I’m looking into getting some shipped over to the UK.
Check it out!
http://www.celiaccenter.org/bracelets.asp
Jamie saw the paediatrician for his four month review today. He had a blood test two weeks ago (which was much better than the first one because they did put the numbing cream on, although he still got very stressed.)
Today was to be weighed and measured, get the results of the blood test and generally [...]
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