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[Kari]

I have also noticed through my years of experimenting with diet that the fewer ingredients in a meal, the better. It's nice to have it confirmed by others ..... I've purchased a juicer and just had a glass of fresh carrot juice - yum. My system is very happy with this, and it's my favorite way of having carrots. It made up for the awful, gluten free waffles I tried (Van's) - will never buy those again, especially since I can easily make pancakes with Pamela's mix.

Kari

[Zizzle]

Trader Joe's sells a great wheat-free frozen waffle. It's the one GF food my family doesn't notice as GF!

[Joefnh]

I have recently found an excellent very large 'health food' store in the Boston area called Whole Foods. They are a GF DF SF heaven... There are over 180 stores in the US, UK and Canada

I plan on doing my weekly shopping there tommorow.


http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/


--Joe

[Zizzle]

Yes, I don't know what I would do without my local Whole Foods, or as many affectionately call it here, Whole Paycheck. But the GF foods are cheaper at Whole Foods than in the GF section of the regular supermarket, where they seem to charge a minimum of $5 for every item, regardless of type or size!

[Linda in BC]

I hear ya about the supermarkets, but up here in Canada the Health Food stores seem to charge $7.00 for every item!
Walmart is starting to get some Gf products in. In the one in Sandpoint Idaho, they keep them beside the cereals.
Linda

[Gabes-Apg]

I case out Every shopping centre for a health food shop and every supermarket to see if they have new or different products

If there are products that you really like and use all the time - talk to your health food store about bulk buying and getting discount, it might only be 5%, I am doing this so i can reduce the amount of time i spend hunting and gathering items and to ensure i have stocks.

instead of looking at the cost of individual items, look at the total cost for your week of eating. to be able to afford the one or two ingredients that might be a bit more expensive, i go to a bulk butcher and get my meat at a cheaper price.
and as i dont go out for lunch at work and dont drink hardly any alcohol, my food costs now are not that bad

i see it that the good food and good health is cheaper than doctors visits and medications!

[butterfly]

The same thing happened to me as happened to Kari. I'm a newbit and wrote a fairly long story of my situation with CC. I clicked on preview and it vanished. I don't have time to rewrite now, but I'll try again later. Glad to have found the support group. You've already been alot of help to me!

[butterfly]

Sorry for the typo - I'm a newbie, not a newbit, although that has a bit of ring to it, don't you think?!!

[natythingycolbery]

Sorry for the typo - I'm a newbie, not a newbit, although that has a bit of ring to it, don't you think?!!

All newbies are 'newbits' to the site, therefor i like the name newbit for us newbies!

[Gloria]

I have a Whole Foods about 20 minutes from my home. It is expensive, but here is an example of how it can be cheaper than the chains:

I bought a 4.39 lb. of leg of lamb at a local grocer. It was $5.39 per pound, or about $23 for the leg. I asked the butcher to remove the bone. He did and left it in the package. Before I cooked it, I removed the bone and also most of the fat. I decided to weigh the remaining meat after the bone and fat were removed. I only had two pounds of meat left, making the actual cost per pound $11.50, or almost double what I paid.

I purchased a leg of lamb at Whole Foods a couple of months ago and paid $8.99 per pound at that time. I thought the price was very high, but it was already boned and had most of the fat removed. They also had wrapped it in a string bag. All I had to do was cook it. I'll be going there for my leg of lamb from now on.

It is my understanding that their meats are not treated with hormones and are organic, making it even better.

If I can buy GF items they stock cheaper somewhere else, I do, but they carry many foods that are unavailable somewhere else. For example, I have purchased quinoa and buckwheat in 25 lb. bags from them.

Gloria

[tex]

Hi Butterfly,

Welcome to our internet family.

Sorry to hear about the lost post. If that should happen to you again, just click on your browser's "Back Button". That should take it back to your post, unless your browser is acting up.

I agree - newbit does have a nice ring to it.

Tex (Wayne)

[Joefnh]

Hi Gloria, your right on Whole Foods, they really offer a pretty good deal on meats. I was looking over their prices at lunch time today and they were pretty good for the quality.

I am really glad that you have a Whole foods nearby, I cannot believe I did not know about it, my acupuncturist told me about the store. It's as large as any major grocery chain store. There are none in New Hampshire, but one fairly close to where I work in Massachusetts.

I read in an earlier post that you were a math teacher? That's great! The one and only teacher that really got me going towards engineering and science was a wonderful math teacher ( Joyce Howell). Do you still teach Gloria?

--Joe

[Gloria]

Hi Joe,

I taught from 1985-1997, then the principal asked me to be the technology director. I worked in that position from 1997-2008, when I retired.

I had LC for 1 1/2 years before I retired, of which eight months were without Entocort. When I was the technology director, the student bathroom was just down the hall from my office. Once I was on Entocort, I didn't have the urgency, as you know.

I don't think I could have taught while I had untreated MC. You just can't leave a classroom of students and run to the bathroom.

Back then, I only had eliminated the big FIVE tested by Enterolab, so I had a wider variety of foods available.

Gloria

[Joefnh]

That's great Gloria, you really had a chance to make a difference. That must have been exciting to be the technology director, that's a great honor!

Certainly having MC must have made that more challenging. The Entocort does help but not forever. The diet is key.

Math teachers are great, they awaken and challenge the young minds...

--Joe

[natythingycolbery]

Because i get confused a lot and ask a lot of sometimes stupid questions.....

Is the diet really the main thing with MC for everyone or does it vary from person to person?

I only ask because I don't seem to have an issue with my diet yet and I am confused by what you are all saying here.