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Health, I respectfully disagree.
“If someone hasn’t yet been told to go on the GFD, there is no reason to start on your own before Pesach.”
The OP stated that her guest “has been diagnosed with asymptomatic celiac disease (discovered accidentally during an unrelated endoscopy).”
The guest is not a child who needs to wait to be told what to do. The guest has a diagnosis of celiac disease & needs to take care of it pronto via a gluten-free diet. Does someone with a dx of diabetes need to wait weeks till after Pesach to be told to monitor the sugar intake? It makes sense to prevent further damage physiologically.
We’ll have to agree to disagree!
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I’ve been cooking gluten-free for some kids, so I might be able to help.
I’ve definitely found it easier just to cook gluten-free for everyone; you don’t need to even worry about cross-contamination & you don’t need to remember which dishes contain the offending ingredients!
Pesach is the easiest time of the year to cook this way…as posted above, just go non-gebroks & you’ll do just fine! Use potato starch instead of matzoh meal in your recipes. That’s it!
Meal plans will consist of more proteins, fruits, vegetables, & soups rather than grains. Desserts are w/ potato starch & fruit.
Just make sure to get gluten-free oat matzoh. The Lakewood brand produces it in both the hand & machine varieties. There’s usually one from England (R.Kestenbaum, Golder’s Green), but I haven’t seen it in the stores yet.
There’s a shehakol Matzoh look-alike from the Yehuda company from E’Y that is inexpensive & tasty. I bought it at Waldbaum’s.
IMHO, if diagnosed w/ this illness through an endoscopy or blood test, please refrain from eating gluten even if asymptomatic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Gluten is a protein that’s more difficult to digest & damages the intestines (as the endoscopy shows) among other things. If one suffers no symptoms from a disease(e.g., high blood pressure, a lump, etc.) but is diagnosed with it, should one just not treat it until symptoms begin to surface? I should hope that people would be proactive concerning their health.
Hatzlacha, and enjoy your company!!!