Last night Custom Choice Cereal went to a presentation by Lesley Stanford (MS, RD, CSP) who is the dietitian clinician at Duke Children’s Hospital & Health Center here in North Carolina. Lesley shared some great information and resources that we want to pass along to you as part of our customer service. We must admit though that the advice and tips from people in the audience were extremely helpful as well.

Here are the most important take-aways from the meeting:

• Kitchen items that have to be kept entirely gluten-free and might require a second purchase for food safety reasons are colanders (draining pasta), pizza stones, and toasters
• Lots of children with type I diabetes also test positive for celiac disease even if they do not show any symptoms. As a result, Duke is now testing all of them for celiac disease
• The University of Chicago’s Celiac Disease Center offers a gluten-free care package including a gluten-free food guide and food samples to anyone that has been diagnosed with celiac disease through a biopsy in the past three months.  Please call (773) 702-7593

These are some of the tips and resources that were new to us. Please feel free to add further tips and advice by commenting on this blog entry!

P.S. This is by the way our 100th blog post!!