Any ideas for keeping our kitchen items and foods from being contaminated?

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Any ideas for keeping our kitchen items and foods from being contaminated?

by Liz
(Calgary, Alberta, Canada)

Hi!
My daughter and I have Celiac. She was diagnosed close to a year ago (she's 10 years old), and I was diagnosed about 2 years ago. I am really sensitive it seems. I have separated our foods, condiments, etc. into containers. I bake and cook our foods in sparkling clean pans, and we don't even use the same cooking utensils or strainers/collanders.

We do get our dishes and utensils for eating from the same cupboards/dishes as my husband and my son, who don't have celiac. Everything else is separated. Does anyone else wash their utensils, etc. If someone may have reached into the drawer after handling regular bread or pasta? I wonder what everyone else does? Keep things in separate drawers, etc.?

Sometimes I feel paranoid, and it drives me crazy! We don't have the space to keep absolutely everything separate. Is there maybe something else I'm missing? I still go through periods of daily CD symptoms, and my daughter is still not really growing, which is the reason she was tested in the first place.

The doctor told us to use Carnation Instant Breakfast for the extra calories, protein and nutrients. Maybe she's not growing for some other reason. I just want to be sure I haven't missed any small detail.

Thanks in advance for your responses.
Liz S.

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Apr 05, 2010
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by: Cheryl

Hi Liz, Being paranoid is necessary. I have my own jars of jam, butter etc and I have my own fridge. As the cook of the family, everything I cook is Gluten Free. My Husband is not gluten free and still makes his own wheat bread. I have set aside a small area that is his, and wipe the bench and wash utensils before I use them. I have still had problems from time to time and have gone to the length of buying a flour mill to mill my own flour, but my first lot of grain that I purchased was contaminated with wheat grains, not a lot but enough to make me sick if I ate them. I have had to sort through the grains to remove the wheat, wash the grains I want, dry them and then I can mill them to make flour. Commercially no one would go to that much effort and would probably not even notice the wheat.

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