smoking a bowl, drinking a gluten-free beer,

[Minimus]

waiting for my gluten-free pizza to finish cooking.

it is Friday and I am content.

:P

[cordelia]

1. Sharing the moment.

Don't know what I'll have for dinner, but I think it will be a night of grazing.

Oh, and a scotch.

[KamaAina]

2. It is a gluten-free bowl, right?

:smoke:

[Minimus]

8. it is all natural and organic.

[Swede]

3. What are the symptoms of gluten intolerance?

[Minimus]

4. I have Celiac disease and Dermatitis Herpetiformis

gluten makes me very very sick :puke: :hurts:

plus the added joy of the blistering painful itchy rash.

[mike_c]

5. just a thought to remember....

It's always 4:20 SOMEWHERE! :smoke:

I'll be joining you in toke land in just a few moments.

[LeftyMom]

6. A friend of mine is a nutritionist with celiac.

She's also vegan and allergic to soy.

After going out to eat with her, I will never, ever complain about my diet being restricted by my allergies again.

[Minimus]

7. it is especially hard to go out to eat because of the limited menu items.

[LeftyMom]

9. I have some idea of how that goes.

Between being vegan and having a lot of allergies, a lot of more mainstream places there's one thing on the menu I can eat, and that with modifications.

[Chan790]

11. Not being snide...

what exactly does she eat when she eats out?

It seems her dining options would be limited to fresh fruit and veggies when eating out, because you never really know what's in your food unless you've made it from scratch from raw ingredients from known sources.

As a point of personal reference, I pulled the menu of two of my favorite restaurants: both organic-vegetarian with extensive vegan menus: one haute-cuisine and one which is very-much a hippie-run lunch-counter.

http://www.ionrestaurant.com/ It's Only Natural.

http://www.thegreenvibration.com/juicebar/ Alchemy.

Even then, with most of the menu being vegan or vegan-by-request (ie. "I'd like my burrito vegan" isn't going to elicit a groan or look, actually be vegan, and not yield some paltry entree), I found a cumulative total of 7 menu items I'd be comfortable saying "This is safe to eat."; three of which were tossed salads, another was yam fries.

It almost seems like it'd be easier to pack a picnic and go to the park.

[LeftyMom]

12. She didn't go to restraunts here much (she moved home after she finished school)

I do know that the guy who runs Noble Vegetarian was really good at helping her go through the menu and find what she could have when they first opened. The food co-op deli has ingredients posted for everything, so she'd be okay there too.

[sniffa]

10. I like totally hate you right now

It's been 2+ weeks here.

x(

[SammyWinstonJack]

13. Life is good!

:smoke: enjoy!