zipy's Blog

Yesterday was my first trip to the store since being diagnosed. I need some quick foods for certain days of the week. While I love cooking, it's just not always practical to make every meal of every day...besides, I really wanted a bowl of cereal for breakfast instead of egg tacos. Trader Joe's has an okay selection of gluten-free Indian entrees, expensive, and I've never tried them, but hey...it replaces my Health Choice microwave meals. They have a really good wine selection too...so I got my meals and some wine (I know I can't drink it right now, but hey, it's good wine.)On to Whole Foods...Holy Moly....6 bucks for Kinnikinik (sp?)...and it's not a loaf of bread, it's like 1/4 the size of a normal loaf. They do, however, carry Mesa frozen waffles which were only $3 a box. Not too outragous. They also had all the rice flour/soy flour/starches that the gluten-free cookbooks call for...So I stock up on them...My ONLY complaint is on the XANTHAN GUM... WHOA, $10.00 for 8 oz. And I thought gas was expensive! Whole Foods ruined my food budget. But by this time I have everything to try to make my own bread, thank you very much Kinninkinik, and some wine.On to the Asian market...I'm SO grateful that we live in a huge metropolitan area that has an Asian market. The long and the short of the trip to the Asian market is that we should have gone there first. Where rice flour was 2.89 lb at Whole foods, it was 2 pounds for .79 at the Asian market. Yeah! I guess that I'll just have to keep shopping around. Today I'm going to try to get around to cooking something...~Erin