Sept. 29 Meeting

ur meeting will be on September 29 (Friday) and our guest speaker is Cindy Sunderland from Gluten Free 4 Me.  She will speak about “The Survival Guide to Gluten Free Living” with realistic suggestions for making the gluten free life easier as well as providing an overview of a 30-60 day meal plan.  Please note that the premise for her program does not require the purchase of any of her baked goods, but the establishment of a healthy perspective.

Vendors who will also be in attendance are Mr. Ritt’s Paul (please see pre-order form enclosed) and Gluten Free 4 Me (you can also preorder from Cindy).  Unfortunately, Grainless Baker did not sell enough to travel down to our meeting again.  We appreciate Dan and Jan Trygar trying to accommodate us.  Remember that these vendors are traveling a long way to be with us.  If we don’t make it profitable for them to do so, we risk losing their attendance at our future meetings.

 

We also need to move to a new meeting site.  The hospital began demolishing the front parking structure in July. The new parking structure will not be available for 18 months.  I checked out many of your suggestions plus a few of my own.  Price was the deciding factor (I had no idea that some places, even churches, charge such a huge fee to use their facilities).  The 9/29 meeting will be held at York Alliance Church, 501 Rathton Road, York, PA 17403.  Instead of turning left on Rathton Road from Queen Street (Route 74) if going north, turn right.  The Church is on the left just 3 streets from Route 74.  It’s the next left (Broad Street) after Edgar Street and is only 0.25 miles from Route 74.

Please don’t forget to bring something to the meeting for everyone to share along with at least two copies of the recipe (one goes to me and one stays with the item you bring for people to check ingredients in case they have allergies in addition to CD). 

 

Previous Meeting

ur meeting last May with guest speaker Jax Peters Lowell, author of “Gluten Free Bible” and “No More Cupcakes and Tummy Aches” was great!  Jax is a wonderful speaker and signed many books for our members.   We even had to purchase additional books.  There are just a few for sale at the next meeting and from Cheryl Abel at Natural Choices Natural Foods.

Sarah Mitchell from our ROCK group supervised the children’s meeting and helped decorate cupcakes.  Thanks, Sarah!

Also, please check out the selection at Cheryl Abel’s Natural Choices (2241 Industrial Highway 840-8998).   Cheryl is constantly adding new vendors and is a great resource for GF products and this support group.  You can get your favorite Grainless Baker products there as well.  Have your tried their hoagie rolls yet?  Some of our members say they are to die for.   In addition Cheryl will provide mixes at no charge to you so that you can make something to bring to the meeting for everyone to share.

Did you get to sample all the products that Bonnie Martin got for our May meeting?  There was tons of stuff and some of it was even hot!  Thanks to you, Bonnie, and your sister for all your hard work.

Report on May Dinner

he dinner at The International Peacock India Grill (2600 East Market Street, York, PA 17402, (717) 600-0013) was fantastic!  This was the first time I had ever had Indian cuisine and I’m a convert.  If you’ve never tried Peacock, please do.  Not at all what I expected.  Everything is not flavored with curry.  Every item but two on their menu is gluten free.  Yes, they had hot, but they also had mildly spicy flavored items.  Their food is really good and reasonable.  Just be careful … the papadum (lentil chips) are addictive!  They even came to our May meeting and let us sample some of their delicious food.  Thank you to Bill Polites for arranging this for us.   We had a great time in a private room.

Bob &Ruth’s

Dining and

Travel Club

ur neighbors to the south, Bob and Ruth Levy have a wonderful opportunity for you to travel without worrying about being gluten free.  Contact them at 410-486-0292 bobolevy@erols.com   A few of their future gluten free getaways include:

2/11-18/07 Club Med Winter Caribbean Getaway III (Cancun)

4/7-18/07 Central American Cruise

May 2007 Culinary Institute of America Mini VI (Hyde Park, NY)

June 2007 Safari in Tanaznia

7/7-14/07 Club Med Sandpiper Family Getaway III

8/12-23/07 Baltic & Scandinavia Cruise & Tour

Oct. 2007 European Riverboat Cruise and Tour

R.O.C.K. Group

he ROCK (Raising Our Celiac Kids) group in addition to assisting at our May meeting with the children’s program, do other family-oriented,  gluten free fun things like their July visit to Hershey Park.  Just contact Jennifer Young for information at jenniferyoung@hotmail.com

Gettysburg 

hair is Cheryl Hutchinson who can be reached at hutchjc@earthlink.net .  They always meet on Monday at 7 pm in the Community Rooms at Gettysburg Hospital (Christian Musselman wing, South Washington Street).  

Gettysburg hosted a gluten free dinner at Hoss’s in June as a fund raiser for their group.  Note Hoss’s seasoning dust no longer contains flour and is now GF.  They also lunch on the first Friday of each month at Pakh Thai in Dillsburg on Route 15.  They also had a gluten free potluck in July.

Lancaster

M eets at Lancaster Regional Hospital, College Avenue, Lancaster, PA, (Auditorium). 

Contact Sue Polachak e-mail her at jpolachak@comcast.net.  You can also contact Eileen Mauskapf .  No reservations are necessary.  Next meeting is 8/21 from 6:30-8:30.  Lancaster also had a Community Night at Hoss’s to earn funds for their group.  Anyone in York interested in arranging one of these for us?

Baltimore

his group meets at St. Joseph Medical Center, 7601 Osler Drive, Towson, MD on Sunday from 2-4 p.m. For information contact Carolyn Evans or clevans511@verizon.net.

 

Dues

e began collecting $15 per year dues in September of 2004. They are due every September.  See the flyer enclosed.  Please try and pay by mail if you can to avoid the crowd at the September meeting. Dues year runs September to September.

 

This ‘N That

I recommend that the newly diagnosed join the Philadelphia Group since they have one of the best new patient packets around.  See the enclosed flyer on how to join this group and get their packet.

G luten Free Living - if you don’t get this publication, you are shortchanging yourself.  Keeps you up to date on everything celiac (including the tough topics).   This publication is top notch.  I recommend it highly.  Editors Ann Whelan and Amy Ratner do an outstanding job.  Do yourself a favor and subscribe.  New REDUCED rates (in color no less) One year (4 issues) is $29, two years (8 issues) is $49.  Send check to Gluten Free Living, 19A Broadway, Hawthorne, NY 10532.  Contact them at (914) 741-5420 or http://www.glutenfreeliving.com/ or see flyer enclosed.

I n case you didn’t know, Giant has a web site which lists the gluten free products sold at Giant stores (15 pages).  www.GiantFood.com/wellness/healthyideas/gluten.htm

 The Montina flour people will send you a free sample of their high fiber flour.  Call 1-877-278-6585.

N ote that there are several new web sites for those on a gluten free diet.  http://www.gfzing.com/ has GF recipes and product reviews.  Also  check out http://www.specialeats.com/ & http://www.theglutenfreelifestyle.com/

Also http://www.surefoodsmarket.com/

 

Stanford University’s 7^th Annual Celiac Conference is scheduled for 9/16/06 in Stanford, California. 

Check out 2006 Gluten/Wheat Free Guide to Eating Out with over 100 chain restaurants plus dining card.  http://www.goodhealthpublshing.com/.

N ew books: Celiac Disease A Hidden Epidemic by Dr. Peter H. R. Green and Rory Jones.  Available at Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com.

Living Gluten-Free for Dummies by Danna Korn.  Also available on Amazon.com or http://www.glutenfreedom.net/ (Dana’s site) and http://www.glutensolutions.com/

The next meeting is scheduled for 5/4/07 and Mr. Ritt’s is booked.  Does anyone have any ideas for a speaker?

D id you see the article in USA Weekend’s HealthSmart column by Dr. Tedd Mitchell on “Dealing with Celiac Disease” on July 9?

Recipe

his is yummy!  Bonnie Martin found this Parfait recipe in one of those cooking magazines:

2 (3 oz.) instant vanilla pudding

1-3/4 cups milk

1 jar Lemon Curd (Dickinson’s can be found at Brown’s)

1 jar fruit preserves

1 8 oz. Cool Whip

Whip milk and pudding until thickened.  Add lemon curd.  Add Cool Whip.  Layer fresh fruit and/or preserves with custard.

I’ve also enclosed a mousse recipe that was in our local paper.

O ats are now available in the US and they’re gluten free!  Two companies (one in Wyoming and one in Canada) are now harvesting uncontaminated oats.  They are being sold as rolled oats, whole oats and oat flour.

Gluten Free Oats in Powell, Wyoming have their oats tested by the University of Nebraska’s FARRP Laboratory and they are below 10 parts per million.  They can be reached at (307) 754-2058 or http://www.salesatglutenfreeoats.com/

Your other choice is Cream Hill Estates in LaSalle, Quebec.  These oats are tested by a lab in Canada and certified by the Canadian government.  Their web site is:  http://www.creamhillestates.com/

Kathie