I love cooking, especially cakes biscuits etc, which I usually give away, as if I ate them all my self I would put on too much weight.

I love gardening and have just planted a whole heap of herb seeds out in my little back garden. I thought herbs would be easy to look after, so now my garden is growing nicely. I have established garlic chives, sage, rosemary, oregano, and have planted basil, fenugreek, clumping evergreen challots, dill, tarragon, thai chillis, radish, zucchini cucumbers and beetroot can't wait til I can start using them...........

Kate, I try to share my goodies with others as well. I've lost quite a bit of weight in the last two years. I can't help but eat a small piece now and then. I want to lose more just in case I have to go on Prednisone, but also because I can still afford to loss a bit more.

My garden didn't do so well this year. No matter what I planted I had to share it with all my backyard animal friends!! I even had to but tomatoes to can for sauce this year. I hope next years crop is more successful.

Thanks for sharing,
Rachel

Rach, I live in the state where General Mills makes their "so-called" GF products. I'm one of those celiacs who gets sick on even the FDA's acceptable parts per million of gluten. I simply eat mainly whole foods. I'll get around to making my own bread sooner or later but it's a lot of work.

It's been fun reading about everyone's interests. Thanks for starting this thread.

Annie

Annie, I think there is always a chance of cross contamination in any food processing facility. There are so few that don't use eggs, dairy, tree nuts, or wheat type products somewhere in the processing. I can't imagine how hard it must be to be so sensitive to foods. I get hives from all kinds of crazy things, synthetic fabric, dust, the powder in latex gloves, and even the sun. But I can eat most anything you put in front of me!!

Glad your enjoying the thread, I was hoping more people would respond. I know even the computer can be difficult to manage some days, and some folks just feel comfortable sharing. For the longest time I was a lurker, even on other types of forums but I figured what have I go to lose. The most I can possibly due is bore someone to death with an extremely long post about nothing. No one gets to see who I am, the most they can do is raise an eyebrow and say to themselves, OH NO!!!!!, there she goes again kinda like now!!

Well enough said for now, have a great evening!
Rachel