I shared this in another thread but I discovered I have different reactions to different gluten proteins. When doing a gluten challenge I found I have much more mild symptoms to wheat (Gliadin) which is probably why it took me to long to realize I have celiac, although barley (Hordien) I react really bad to and get awful migraines, and debilitating stomach pain.

I have AuDHD and it’s honestly impacted me so much, I get horrible anxiety around eating out and hate having to ask for accommodations at restaurants so I cook 95% of the food I eat at home. Although I live in a shared household where my family isn’t very considerate about my celiac and I get extremely overwhelmed having to spend 2+ hours whipping everything down because there’s crumbs EVERYWHERE. I had a melt down 2 weeks ago because my dad made homemade pizza and there was flour covered every square inch of the kitchen.

@Carissa Hanson I love meal prepping!! I do it once a week (I tried to do it every two weeks but would get sick of eating the same food too fast, and if something was in the fridge for too long I’d get grossed out and I’d be convinced it was moldy even if it was fine) the cleaning every week sucks but it helps me through the week so much especially because I work out of and work in trades so after being out of the house from 5am to 5pm the last thing I want to do it cook.

@Carissa Hanson I had my endoscopy 7 months after my blood test, I didn’t even realize I had a reaction to gluten because I was eating wheat everyday! I used to eat pasta at least once a day, I was so used to the stomach pain I thought it was normal, and thought the fatigue I blamed on my low iron. It wasn’t until I ate a big helping of barely stew and had one of the worst reactions I’ve ever experienced. I then connected why I always felt sick after eating risotto lol

I’ve been dying to have pierogies, they were my biggest comfort food before, any death, break up, bad grade etc pierogies would make me feel better throughout any hard times, so I will definitely be trying these!!

I always avoid ording anything in a shaker at bars and stick with rum and Coke, or coolers, but I went to Starbucks recently and they were really nice about cleaning the steamers and milk pitchers to avoid cross contamination from anything made with oat milk!