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My First Potluck At A Friend's House!

Monklady123

By Monklady123
in Coping with Celiac Disease

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Potlucks, the minefield of celiac! I've been to plenty of them at my church since I was diagnosed but those are easier in the sense that there are enough people there that it's not obvious about what I'm eating. I always make sure to bring something I can eat, something substantial -- main course, salad, etc. So that's not a problem.

But.... haven't been to one at a friend's house until a few days ago. A bunch of us are going on a dream trip to Israel in October with one of these Christian tour groups. My pastor is the local "host" of it so she had us over to her house so we could meet another couple who have gone before and have them answer questions, etc.

Well... she must have emailed me four or five times to ask about gluten-free. Making sure I could eat the brown rice noodles, and asking about the spices she was putting on the chicken, then asking about the chicken because she had been "doing some reading on the internet" and discovered that a lot of the frozen chicken breasts have been treated with something that might have gluten...etc.

Turns out that she had asked several people, those who were bringing salad-type things, to try for gluten-free if they could. She made sure that one dessert was gluten-free.

And the next morning I woke up feeling TOTALLY FINE!!!! wooot!!!!!

:wub: my pastor. :)

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I'm impressed. You've got some great friends out there. I would have been too scared to eat anything, but maybe I should be more trusting. Hurray for you!

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What a great friend! I have three friends that always bring gluten-free food to my potlucks. One is gluten intolerant herself. The other two are simply sweet, and perfectly capable of figuring out what has gluten and what doesn't. Last party, one brought lentils and rice cooked with just garlic and onions. It was very good, and both gluten-free and vegan as we have some vegetarians in the group as well.

I'm going to have to ban breads and crackers though. I've gotten mildly glutened twice now by eating fruit and cheeses on a table with too many crumbs. Ugh.

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