I have discovered the online blog-world of gluten-free blogging. I am awash in new knowledge and discovery of how individuals are living totally gluten-free. For those of you that do not know, I have celiac disease, and have been diagnosed for 18 months now. The first year of diagnosis was akin to swimming underwater with gum-boots on, never completely feeling as though I had my head above water. It was a journey, with dead ends, food avoidances, lots of mistakes and a crap-load of support from my local chapter of the Canadian Celiac Assosiation. Now I am volunteering with the chapter and helping those newly diagnosed to help them sort through the truck-load of information that they recieve.
For example: did you know that gluten is the binder in most medications?
: it is found in shampoo and conditioner (wheat protein)
: it is found in toothpaste and mouthwash?
: it is in salad dressing, soy sauce and bbq sauce?
: it is in beer?
: it is in worshetershire (however you spell that word) sauce?
: in all AVENO products
It is really a gluten-filled world, and this is my journey to be gluten-free. I was excited to see a cook on Martha Stewert bake two totally GF products, and to quote the famous bad-hair diva, it was "a good thing".
Now, blog specialists I need some help. I would like to put the links onto my blog, so that you are able to navigate there, but have no idea how! Anyone out there with the technology?
6 comments:
Hey Michelle,
Nice blog you have here.
About twenty years ago I attended a Mary Kay party and after buying $70 worth of makeup my face broke out in red painful blisters. I had no idea why...now I do..it must have had wheat in it. You better believe it is everything. WE have to read read read...
Great to meet you.
Lynn
I'm sure Melanie can help you with the links. What a great discovery. May you crusade along side other celiac-ers and be gluten-free!
Welcome to the GF blogging community -- I found you via Lynn's blog. I'm another one of those GF bloggers too!
Michelle, as far as putting links onto the blog, I can certainly help. Sorry I forgot to add that in my last post.
From the Blogger Dashboard, go to the "Layout". This should show a web page that says "Add and Arrange Page Elements". You should see some little rectangles in the lower left, one of which is labeled "Add a Page Element" (should appear over some rectangles with "Blog Archive" and such). Click that "Add a page element" and when shown the "choose a new page element" options popup, pick "Link List".
From there, you'll be in a window labeled "Configure Link List". Give your list a title like "Favorite GF Blogs" or whatever, and then add links to the list with the "New Site URL" to each blog, like:
http://gluten-free-blog.blogspot.com/
and then the "New Site Name" to associate with it, like:
Mike's Gluten Free Blog
Click "Add Link", then "Save Changes" once your list is done, and preview/save your changes when done.
Hope that helps Michelle! :)
did you figure out the links thing? if not let me know and I'll either walk you through it or do it for you. Let me know
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