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A Gluten Free Thanksgiving

By on Nov 27, 2016 in Advice, Celiac Disease, Gluten Free, Travel | 0 comments

Having a gluten free Thanksgiving is a dream to most Celiac suffers.  An array of food with no cross-contamination fears, no gluten in the stuffing, no gluten in the butter.  But this is far from most people’s reality, so how do you get through a Thanksgiving meal without being glutened?  This is how Julie and I handle Thanksgiving. The first year after Julie’s diagnosis, we went to Thanksgiving dinner without fully understanding what cross-contamination is.  We analyzed the food and determined that only the bread was dangerous, because it was the only food that we knew surely contained gluten.  But this was early after her diagnosis, only 4-5 months, so we weren’t overly concerned about the effects of cross-contamination either.  Like most meals for her after her diagnosis, she didn’t feel great afterward and for some time after that.  We would go through...

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