I am Nikkie Benson, both my husband and I attended BYU roughly 13
years ago. We now live in Sandy, Utah. My husband was diagnosed with
Celiac about 6 months ago. We have been following the diet strictly
but my husband has not noticed any changes in how he feels. He is
going in for more lab work next week to check his antibody levels so
that we will know if the diet is actually effecting those. Hopefully
it is. All of my husbands symptoms have been GI and he has had them
since he returned from his mission to Ecuador. For many years we
thought it was the effects of amoebas or something else. Since my
husband does not have any obvious reactions to gluten (he tried it
to see, after been "clean" for 4 months) we are simply hoping that
his intestines are healing and his levels are improving. We have 4
kids and so far none of them have tested positive, however my
husband also has 2 sister, a brother, 2 neices and a nephew who have
tested positive. I try to keep our house mostly gluten free so that
if my kids are ever diagnosed, it will be an easy diet change. About
the only things that we do not do gluten free are bread and cereal
and of course the kids and I do not worry about it when we go out to
eat. I would be willing to go gluten free with our bread if I could
find a decent one to make that we all liked. I would love a recipe
with amaranth and quinoa so that it would have good protein content.
My husbands current favorite bread is the EnerG Seattle bread. His
second favorite is the Kinikinnick brown bread.