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Improved Searching for Gluten Free Food

Feb 2nd, 2010 Posted in For Celiacs, Gluten Free Food, celiac shopping, gluten free diet, websites for celiacs | one comment »

Gluten Free SearchFor years our designs of gluten free food shopping sites have been frustrated by limitations on searching across multiple categories for gluten free food. A recent visit from my far away programmer son led to a very promising breakthrough. We'd like your help in testing and improving the results, if you have a minute. The search form below will open a new window with results from our sister site Gluten Free Search. Results will be displayed according to search terms you provide. The phrase "gluten free" is already embedded in this search, you need only to specify the type, brand or name of the item you wish to locate.

So please think of a brand of gluten free foods, a specific gluten free food item, a gluten free food ingredient, or a type of gluten free food. Type the term in the form below and see if the search results are useful for you, if you can spare a few seconds. Please feel free to leave a comment here if you wish to let us know what you think of this search utility.

Thanks for helping us to make the site as useful as possible, all suggestions are welcome.

the gluten free celiac store

Nov 22nd, 2009 Posted in For Celiacs, Gluten Free Food, celiac shopping | Comments Off

As I do from time to time, I've created another website designed to hopefully make life easier for people with celiac disease. This one is a gluten free food shopping site, but unlike all of the others I've made I rolled this one out by hand, line of code after line of code. It is called the gluten free celiac store.the gluten free celiac store
I did use a free CSS template to get started, but it has been heavily modified to suit my purpose. The items shown ultimately are all sold by Amazon, but the link layout and the search engine are the results of my own labor. The intent of the design is to make it faster and easier for people to find gluten free food items. There are also a few pages that list books about celiac disease and gluten free cookbooks. Many of the pages expand the navigation area, and there is a live search tag cloud too.

I'd be delighted to get any feedback you might have to offer about what you do and do not like on this new site. It's at http://store.glutenfreeceliac.com/

Thanks,
Steve

Gluten Free Vitamins

Apr 9th, 2009 Posted in For Celiacs, celiac disease, celiac living, celiac shopping | one comment »

These days, with the economy so badly off, we are looking for less expensive ways to shop just like everyone else, affected by celiac disease or not. In fact we spend more time working on shopping websites than anything else at all. Our latest trick is a new way to offer items listed for sale at eBay.
Here is an example, a search for gluten free vitamins:

With this new method we can search for anything sold by eBay. We've added a few new pages here for books related to celiac disease and GF cooking. Since used books are often available on eBay, these book pages might help to stretch your shopping budget, we hope so.

A New Forum

Feb 21st, 2009 Posted in For Celiacs, Gluten Free Food, celiac living, gluten free diet, gluten free recipes | Comments Off

Gluten Free Celiac Discussion ForumI build websites. That's what I do. Today I built another website for people on a gluten free diet. It is called Gluten Free Celiac. This site uses the SMF discussion forum package with a front end portal add-on. I also set up some bots to fetch gluten free recipes and food items for sale and post them as messages. There are already 99 recipes and about 50 food items listed, and this part will continue automatically.

What the site needs now is human users. Human users make all the difference in the world. You seem to be a human, so I'd like to invite you to visit the site: http://glutenfreeceliac.com/

Of course it is and always will be free!

New Gluten-Free Store Supports Mobile Shopping Too

Jul 9th, 2008 Posted in For Celiacs, Gluten Free Food, Recommended, celiac shopping, gluten free diet | 2 comments »

http://gluten-freestore.com/Our latest website designed to help people with celiac disease is now online, and it supports users of cell phones and other mobile devices. Gluten-FreeStore.com features GF food items from the two largest retailers in the gluten free food market, glutenfree.com and Amazon.com.

The site uses Wordpress blogging software, and features listings of a number of gluten free food categories you may select. Prices are shown on the individual item pages, which are in effect each a blog post, and in addition there are pages that list top selling gluten-free items at Amazon.
Mobile Shopping at Gluten-Free Store.com
If you access the site using a mobile device it detects your device type and formats the display layout to better fit your screen.

Please consider visiting http://gluten-freestore.com/ for your GF shopping needs, you can compare the deals from the two top vendors in the business in order to get the best pricing and shipping available.

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Food Scientists Plan Gluten-Free Wheat Variant!

May 31st, 2008 Posted in For Celiacs, Gluten Free Food, celiac disease, celiac science, gluten free diet | one comment »

A baguette, mmmmmmWoo Hoo! Food scientists working together at Washington State University and Oregon State University are planning to develop a new variant of wheat that would not contain the gliadin proteins which cause trouble for people with celiac disease. This, if it comes to pass, would be earth shatteringly good news for those of us with grouchy tummies!

An article on the website Capital Press, which caters to the agriculture industry, reports the good news.

I'd like to thank these food scientists for caring about this issue, and wanting to help overcome this annoying disease.

Imagine sinking your teeth deep into a nice French Baguette like the one shown here, then pulling it ever so slowly away, teeth still clenched firmly, and watching as it stretches and then tears in a way that gluten-free bread just does not do at all.

Imagine eating bread that tastes like bread. Oh yes, I am so there. I might gain 10 pounds in the first week such a wheat-based gluten-free bread becomes available, but I would cherish each and every one of those pounds. Sock it to me, science!

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New Miracle Ingredient, Fraudulin

Dec 22nd, 2007 Posted in For Celiacs, caveat emptor, celiac disease, celiac science, gluten free diet, miracle ingredient, not recommended | one comment »

On the late TV series Futurama, an episode once contained a short skit about Crelm toothpaste, which had the miracle ingredient Fraudulin.

This post is not about Crelm toothpaste.

There is a company named Enzymedica that sells, among other things, a product called Glutenease. In their literature describing this product they make some rather startling statements, let us examine one in particular, the context is a discussion of the usefulness or lack thereof of the gluten free diet as a means of treating celiac disease, which is also called gluten intolerance.

Glutenease by Enzymedica Marketing Statement
"Though effective in the short term, removing foods does not provide an ultimate solution. Once those foods are reintroduced to the diet, the symptoms return. "

Now imagine a person who is drunk, or high, playing Russian Roulette, and then suddenly realizing it is not a very smart thing to do:

Russian Roullette Claim Using Similar Logic

"Though effective in the short term, putting the gun down does not provide an ultimate solution. Once the gun is reinserted in the mouth, the person could die".

We do not recommend that people with celiac disease, which is sometimes called gluten intolerance, should play Russian Roulette with their health. You can see more discussion of this product here.

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Another Site About Celiac Disease

Nov 14th, 2007 Posted in For Celiacs, Recommended, celiac disease, celiac living, gluten free diet, gluten free recipes | 2 comments »

There is a new website for people with celiac disease, the intended use is to provide information and news about celiac disease. Users can register free, and each user is encouraged to maintain their own blog as well as posting messages to a fairly basic forum. Users can also create polls which anyone can vote on, registered or not.


Perhaps the best feature of this new website is the Celiac-related news. It is categorized, mixed, blended and served in your choice of several ways -as just headlines in the left and right sidebars, or in more detail if you use the navigation links.

There is also a big long section of GF recipes, and links to a few GF food items.

The site designer (c'est moi) hopes to build a community of people with celiac disease, and people on a GF diet for other reasons, like autism, are certainly welcome too. There is still time for you to be among the very first people to create an account at All About Celiac. Really, visit http://allaboutceliac.org/ today! It's all free, of course.

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Gluten Free and Vegan Burgers That Are Delicious Too!

Sep 23rd, 2007 Posted in For Celiacs, Gluten Free Food, Recommended, celiac living, celiac shopping, gluten free diet | one comment »

At our house, we go through gluten-free and vegan burgers as if they were candy, yum! Wildwood Tofu-Veggie Burger, original flavor And the best ones we have found are thankfully available in great quantity at our local Trader Joe's. These burgers have a texture and mouth feel that is very much like meat, they are more chewy than most gluten-free vegan burgers. I've seen them at Whole Foods stores too. After two of these with a little ketchup and I get what I call Happy Tummy, always a desirable state for people with celiac disease. Look for them at your local health food store, I think you'll like them too.

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US National Celiac Disease Awareness Day: September 13, 2007

Sep 13th, 2007 Posted in For Celiacs, celiac disease, celiac living | one comment »

The US Senate has declared September 13th, 2007 as Celiac Disease Awareness Day (see attached PDF file). At our sister site The Sensible Celiac we hope to raise awareness, not just in the US but worldwide, about this dramatically under-diagnosed condition.

Although this may change in a few more years, at the present time there are no over-priced medications for celiac disease, and there are no multi-billion dollar drug companies offering free samples and golf tours to doctors for these drugs that don't exist - yet. So, doctors in America are not as conscious of the condition as they might be if a drug company sales rep was dropping in every Wednesday with brochures for the waiting room and free sample packs.

But it's out there. An estimated 1 person in 133 in the USA has celiac disease, but very few are aware of their illness. Symptoms vary widely, adding to the difficulty of diagnosing this disorder.

Have a gluten free day today, and tell a friend, acquaintance or neighbor about celiac disease. Information is the key to progress.

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