Archived History
12/18/2005 Updated Events and Restaurants.
12/12/2005 Added more Recipes from the April 2005 Newsletter.
12/10/2005 Added more Recipes from the January 2005 Newsletter. Updated Restaurants. Removed/fixed broken links.
12/7/2005 Updated Events. Updated Newsletters section. Added more Recipes from the November 2004 Newsletter.
11/5/2005 Updated Events.
5/1/2005 Updated Events. Updated Newsletters section. Updated Lindsay Amadeo's GF Commercial Product List. HyVee has updated their gluten-free list. Added a page News Feeds. Let me know how is you like this new addition or have any problems with it.
3/28/2005 Updated Events.
2/15/2005 Replaced Lindsay Amadeo's GF Commercial Product List with her latest update.
2/8/2005 Added new Newsletters section.
2/6/2005 Added more Recipes.
2/5/2005 Updated Events, Restaurants, Stores, and Recipes->* Hot Dishes and Soups.
10/28/2004 Updated Meetings & Events. New Recipes, and more coming soon.
9/23/2004 Fixed some broken e-mail links.
9/16/2004 Added Google AdSense and Google Search to help defray the costs of this site.
8/11/2004 Updated Meetings & Events.
8/9/2004 Fixed link to GF Commercial Product List.
7/24/2004 I finally have my Internet up after running in my new house (I moved from Clive to Waukee) so I should be able to start updating this web site again. Updated Meetings & Events to promote our next meeting.
6/8/2004 Updated the copyright notice. Updated e-mail references to our new e-mail address. Made a couple of minor updates to Restaurants.
6/4/2004 Moved into our new site at www.gfiowa.us. New search tool is banner free, on of the benefits of our new hosting service.
6/3/2004 Added "moving" notice. This site will be moving to www.gfiowa.us.
3/4/2004 Updated Meetings & Events. Added 24 new Recipes that landed in 7 of the 8 recipe categories. 5256 visits since 4/12/2002.
1/31/2004 Updated Meetings & Events with a map to the luncheon.
11/27/2003 Added Indianola's Hometown Health Foods to Stores. Added a link to a GF article on the Links page. Removed new recipe markers (*) in anticipation of adding the November meeting recipes.
11/24/2003 Updated Meetings & Events. 4528 visits since 4/12/2002.
10/20/2003 Updated Meetings & Events.
08/05/2003 Updated Restaurants. Added thirty-three new  Recipes. This site now contains 634 documents. A total number of 80620 words were found and indexed by the siteLevel search engine. We are up to 3814 visits on this page since 4/12/2002.
08/03/2003 Added eighteen new Recipes. This site now contains 502 documents. A total number of 58606 words were found and indexed by the siteLevel search engine. We are up to 3776 visits on this page since I started keeping track on 4/12/2002.
07/30/2003 Updated Meetings & Events. I have the recipes from the last meeting and will try to get up on the web site ASAP. 3748 visits since 4/12/2002.
05/12/2003 Were you beginning to wonder if I was ever going to update the web site again? I'm back. I'm sorry I missed everyone at the Easter Egg hunt. I heard it was great fun. Tonight I updated Meetings & Events and GF Commercial Product List. If anyone has an electronic copy of the recipes from the last meeting, please send them to me so I can add them to the site. Thanks! We have had 3354 web hits since 4/12/2002. Maybe if I updated more often we would have more hits. :-)
03/06/2003 Added Ahmad's Persian Cuisine to Restaurants. Updated Meetings & Events. 3017 visits since 4/12/2002.
02/25/2003 Joined a "Celiac Disease Webring". See the bottom of this page.
02/17/2003 After many computer problems, I am back on line. I updated Meetings & Events and added a link to Dannon on the Links page. 2895 visits since 4/12/2002.
12/18/2002 Added CHOCOLATE BROWNIES and SUGAR COOKIES from DiAnn Neumayer. I re-indexed the search engine. This site now contains 437 documents. A total number of 51048 words were found and indexed by the siteLevel search engine. We are up to 2494 visits on this page since I started keeping track on 4/12/2002.
11/16/2002 Updated Meetings & Events and Stores.
11/6/2002 Added Ames' Wheatsfield Grocery to Stores. Removed the Halloween theme images.
10/30/2002 Updated Links and fixed a typo in FRENCH SILK CHOCOLATE PIE. Did anyone try it with 12 squares of unsweetened baking chocolate?
10/24/2002 Updated the Hy-Vee Gluten Free List page because Hy-Vee's Gluten-Free List is now available on their own web site.
10/19/2002 Updated Meetings & Events. Added a Tax Information page about the medical tax deduction for Celiac Disease and Gluten-Free food. Added twelve new recipes. Found and fixed a couple of broken links.
10/18/2002 I re-indexed the search engine. This site now contains 376 documents. A total number of 37344 words were found and indexed by the siteLevel search engine. We are up to 1994 hits on this page since I started keeping track on 4/12/2002.
10/15/2002 Fixed "Join Address Link" to open in a new window instead of squashed in the frame.
10/14/2002 Added MediaCom's Address Book feature to allow you to sign up for e-mail updates when I make changes to the web site. Updated Meetings & Events. Passed 1918 hits on the main page.
09/23/2002 Updated Meetings & Events. We are up to 1716 hits on the main page.
08/18/2002 In an attempt to reduce load times, I split the old long Recipes page into multiple pages, one for each category. Started adding the recipes from last Saturday's meeting. Added Mondo's of West Des Moines to Restaurants.
08/14/2002 Updated Meetings & Events for the pot luck this Saturday. Added information about GF "Très Bon Cheesecakes" to the bottom of Stores. Re-indexed the site for the search engine. This site now contains 344 documents. A total number of 35746 words were found and indexed by the siteLevel search engine. We are up to 1299 hits.
07/08/2002 Added a review of the PLEASANT LAKE BED & BREAKFAST to the Restaurants page. We broke 1000 hits last week while I was on vacation.
06/17/2002 Re-indexed the site for the search engine. This site now contains 343 documents. A total number of 35398 words were found and indexed by the siteLevel search engine.
06/16/2002 A couple of people have had problems reading Lindsay's GF Commercial Product List. I changed the format from compressed Word to HTML. The down side is the file is now 10 times larger.
06/15/2002 Changed the name of the Upcoming Events page to Meetings & Events. Someone asked when the next "meeting" was, which is described on the "events" page. I hope the new title will make the information easier to find. 787 hits since 4/12/2002.
06/10/2002 Updated Hy-Vee Gluten Free List. Hy-Vee (Missy) notified us that the Hy-Vee Crisp Rice Bars and the Hy-Vee Chocolate Chip Crisp Rice Bars contain Malt Syrup. The supplier indicated that it is "a pretty insignificant amount" of malt. Thank you Missy for following up on this for us!
06/05/2002 Added 19 new Miscellaneous. Site contains 340 documents. A total number of 33313 words were found and indexed by the siteLevel search engine.
06/03/2002 610 site hits since 4/12/2002. I just realized that I never added the 19 recipes from the April newsletter to the site. Check back in a few days and I should have them up.
05/28/2002 Trying out a new look. Click here and let me know if you like the new better than the old look or you find problems.
05/26/2002 Updated Meetings & Events. Added Specialty Cakes & More to Links.
05/06/2002 Updated Meetings & Events. Added an Advertise link to Contact Us. I would not mind raising some extra funds to pay for the software I use to write and maintain this site. 300 site hits since 4/12/2002.
04/22/2002 Restored missing GF_Commercial_Product_List.zip file.
04/21/2002 Updated Meetings & Events with more details about the up coming picnic. Created an Archived History to keep this page shorter.
04/16/2002 Updated Meetings & Events.
04/12/2002 Added a page counter to every (?) page and reset all counters to zero.
04/11/2002 HyVee sent updates for the Gluten Free Products Listing. Added The Club Car to Restaurants.
04/03/2002 HyVee contributed a Hy-Vee Gluten Free List.
03/11/2002 In the interest of web space, bandwidth, download times, and site maintenance, I reverted the Commercial Product List back to Lindsay's original Excel format and compressed it.
03/10/2002 Added recipes from the February potluck dinner. Added Lindsay's large Commercial Product List and Manufacturer Contacts documents (I may have to change them to a zip file later). Site contains 260 documents. A total number of 29220 words were found and indexed.
03/07/2002 Moved location of search box. Updates to Links page. Mailto links now fill in subject line. MediaCom fixes "hit" counter.
03/06/2002 Added a local search engine via siteLevel, changed the site name, added meta search data, and submitted the site to several WWW search engines.
03/05/2002 Added Foods Lists section and updated Upcoming Events.
03/04/2002 MediaCom solves it's FTP problems, and this site goes live!
03/02/2002 Created initial version of this web site. Unable upload it because MediaCom is having ftp server problems.