Due to the success of the gluten-free book "No Grain No Pain", we are anticipating a sequel.
Below is listed a few of the themes we hope to include. If you have any
additional ideas which were not covered in the first book which you
think would be of interest, we would love to hear from you.
Suggested Topics:
- The over-weight celiac
- The gluten-free wedding
- The gluten-free Christmas
- The hospitalized celiac
- Allergies and celiac disease
- Celiac disease and your dentist
- Traveling gluten-free
- My Favourite gluten-free birthday
- Celiac disease and diabetes
- The importance of medic alert
- The celiac as a recipient of random acts of kindness
- My most embarrassing moment as a celiac
- My most hilarious moment as a celiac
- My most frustrating moment as a celiac
- Life's lessons through the eyes of a celiac
- The effect of celiac disease on relationships
Suggested material for each topic:
- Most people with celiac disease are underweight, so for those celiacs
who have a weight problem this can be very depressing. If you have a
weight problem tell us your frustrations (You don't have to be
identified in the book ) so you can be better understood and helped by
fellow celiacs. This section will include lower calorie recipes.
- Your wedding day is a day you want to be perfect. If you are a new
bride/groom we want to hear how you planned the perfect gluten-free
wedding. Please include recipes if you can for your wedding cake etc.
This section will include more gourmet recipes.
- Do you have a favourite gluten-free Christmas cake or a special
family tradition involving food which you were able to convert to a
gluten-free version? Tell us about these. Please include recipes where
possible.
- Being in hospital is often a challenging experience for a celiac. Have
you had such an experience? Tell us about it. Did someone come to your
rescue? If so how?
- Often specific allergies accompany celiac disease. Do you have
allergies? If so, what are they and how do you deal with them? This
section will include allergy substitutions for many different foods that
may cause an allergy reaction.
- Are your teeth chalky? Is your dentist aware of the effect celiac
disease may have on your teeth? When did you realize that celiac
disease was the culprit? Tell us your story. Include recipes with high
calcium ingredients.
- Take us with you on your favourite trip via our imagination. Tell us
about your most clever coping strategies. Include gluten-free recipes if applicable.
- In this chapter we hope to have all kinds of people send in their
most memorable birthday cake recipes along with the memories of that
specific birthday. Often what makes a peticular cake special is the
person who made it or specific circumstances surrounding the day. Tell
about your birthday wish for a gluten-free cake you could eat safely and how it came
to be.
- As if coping with celiac disease is not enough, some people have the
added challenge of dealing with being diabetic as well. If you are one of
these people maybe you can help others in the same situation. Tell us
how you cope and any tips you might have for those newly diagnosed.
Include appropriate recipes please, if possible.
- Do you wear a medic alert of some type? Has it ever saved you from
what could possibly have been a dangerous situation? Did you at one time
not wear a medic alert and had an experience that made you wish that you
had? Tell us your story.
- Have you ever experienced an act of kindness at a time that you
were really needing a lift when someone did or said something that just
overwhelmed you with appreciation. Tell us about the circumstances and
how this helped you move forward despite difficult odds.
- Each of us has an event in our life that we can identify with as our
most embarrassing moment. The person with celiac disease is no exception.
If you have such a moment, that is not too embarrassing to share tell us
your story. (You can tell your story in cognito, if you wish. Please
state you do not wish to be named in the book if this is he case).
- The person with celiac disease has more than his/her share of
frustrations. Identify in story form the one most frustrating moment for
you as a celiac and how this frustration was over-come or hopefully
solved. Your solution may help others!
- Although celiac disease is no laughing matter, we all have hilarious
moments in our life, sometimes despite the seriousness of a situation.
Because laughter is so healing , we would love this chapter to be the
thickest one in the book. Can you help us laugh?
- Life's most valuable lessons are often learned through difficult
situations. Have you learned patience? Do you now have more empathy for
others with health concerns? Have you in turn helped others dealing with
celiac disease? Tell us how you made what was a difficult experience
into something positive. Were you able to make lemonade when you were
handed a lemon? Your story will be an encouragement to other celiacs.
For those who share their stories, tips, gluten-free recipes, jokes or inspirationals,
thank you in advance. In doing so, you will help other fellow celiacs as well as increase public awareness and understanding of celiac disease.
Please send your stories to me at
shirley@edible-options.com
Or mail to: 32 Layton Street
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
N2B 1H2
Sincerely Yours,
Shirley Hartung
No Grain No Pain -- Part II
DETAILS
Following is
a guide to make your story interesting, fun and above
all helpful. Let’s make this an inspirational
book so that even non-celiacs will be interested in
reading it. In this way we will also be educating the
public about celiac disease.
If you are having trouble getting
your story down on paper, it may be helpful to
involve other family members who have gone through
the experience with you.
Write your story in conversational
language and tone, as if you are chatting with a
friend over coffee in your kitchen. Give your story a
title if you can. Add a poem or cartoon, if you are
so gifted. (Or use this format to tell your story.)
I hope to add encouraging and/or
humorous words of wisdom or sayings where space
allows. If you have any personal ones that are
suitable, please include. If they are from another
source written permission would be required before
these could be re-printed, so be sure to include the
source.
Suggestions:
1. Let your personality show
through your story. I want to hear the pain, anger
and frustration as well as the pleasure you have
experienced over each little discovery that has made
the celiac life easier for you.
2. If, in looking back, you can now
see some humor in an experience relating to being a
celiac, please include it in your story. We need to
laugh and it will make the book more enjoyable to
read as well as give hope to those who are newly
diagnosed.
3. Include any tips you have
learned, a favourite gluten-free recipe or two (get permission
to re-print and forward a copy of same to me if the
recipe is not your own personal creation), a
favourite cookbook or piece of equipment that has
been especially helpful e.g. a bread machine.
*( Please include publisher, brand name etc. where
applicable.)
*4. Give written permission for me
to re-print your story, (poem or cartoon) all or in
part. Please include your address in full as well as
your phone number (with area code) and fax or e-mail
if applicable so I can contact you for verification
if necessary.
5. Suggested length is
approximately two typed pages, more or less,
depending how much space it takes to tell your story
Your poem or story can be in addition to this if
necessary or as suggested earlier, it could be your
story.
6.CALLING ALL KIDS!
Children with celiac disease need to be heard too.
Please kids, send in your stories, poems and drawings for the
theme you have chosen to write or draw about.
I look forward to both the tears
and hopefully the laughter that I will experience as
I read your letters. You will be contacted via the
national newsletter as to when the book will be
available for sale. Please understand if some letters
are used only in part. This may be done to avoid
repetition and to emphasize a particular part of the
letter that is important enough to stand on its own.
Many thanks in advance for the time
and emotion that I know you will invest in your
story. Thank you also for being willing to share your
story with other celiacs and the world.
It is my hope that EACH member of
your chapter will participate in this project, and
that you will encourage other biopsied celiacs that
you know outside the chapter to do so as well so that
this book will truly represent the "Celiac"
story !
PLEASE FEEL FREE TO DUPLICATE THIS
LETTER AS OFTEN AS YOU NEED TO AND PASS IT ON!
Shirley Hartung
P.S. Please send your
stories, gluten-free recipes, tips etc. to me at
shirley@edible-options.com
Or mail to: 32 Layton Street
Kitchener, ON
N2B 1H2
Canada
