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Happy Happy Joy Joy ! Canadian Thanksgiving Triumph

honeybuzzed

By honeybuzzed
in Coping with Celiac Disease

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honeybuzzed Rookie
honeybuzzed
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I just though I would post a positive thing that happened to me. We had our thanksgiving dinner last night and my family ,about 14 person dinner, had a gluten free meal ! ( aside from the pie for dessert ) It was so awesome ! They are finally starting to take this illness and furthermore cross contamination thing seriously ! I made some stuffing that EVERYONE raved about. I was a little worried about that because it was my first time doing gluten-free stuffing, I also kinda made up the recipe as I went ( I can't seem to help doing that ). Everyone else just kept it simple. I even had my very own mini pumpkin pie! Everyone made sure it was ok to take out their pies and start preparing dessert. The best part was that I came round the corner into the kitchen to hear my father proudly stating that we had a gluten free meal, which he then stated many more times throughout the evening! He said it like he was proud of me for sticking to my guns. It is just so nice to finally have a good experience !

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mommida Enthusiast
mommida
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Happy Thanksgiving! I'm glad to hear it was a healthy happy gluten free day.

L.

jerseyangel Proficient
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I'm glad that everything went so well and you had a great holiday! :)

rinne Apprentice
rinne
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That's great. :)

plantime Contributor
plantime
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:D:D:D:D:D
skipper30 Enthusiast
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What a GREAT family you must have!! :D:D:D

Michi8 Contributor
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Glad to hear you had a successful thanksgiving!

Michelle :)

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Rusla Enthusiast
Rusla
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Well to put two positive spins on it I also had a great gluten free Thanksgiving. I brought the gluten-free pumpkin pies. My brother made summer squash soup with vegetables in it, the stuffing for the turkey was wild and basamanti rice with onions and mushrooms in it and it was much lighter and tastier than even bread stuffing. It was excellent.

jerseyangel Proficient
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Hi Rusla--I'm happy to hear that you had a nice holiday, too! That soup sounds good :P

Rusla Enthusiast
Rusla
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Hi Rusla--I'm happy to hear that you had a nice holiday, too! That soup sounds good :P

I am not much of a squash girl but the soup was very hearty and good . He baked the squash then mashed it adding assorted vegetables like onion, mushroom, garlic, carrots I think celery, a bit of indian curry, a bit of cinnamon and I can't remember what else. It was totally filling and gluten-free. I will have to get the recipe from him as he just made it up as he went.

2Boys4Me Enthusiast
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We had a successful Thanksgiving, too. My SIL hosted it, and everything was gluten free except for buns (Ty had his own crescent rolls) and dessert (Ty had his own mini-pumpkin pie).

Rusla Enthusiast
Rusla
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We had a successful Thanksgiving, too. My SIL hosted it, and everything was gluten free except for buns (Ty had his own crescent rolls) and dessert (Ty had his own mini-pumpkin pie).

Well the only things that weren't gluten-free were the buns and we had two types of pumpkin pies gluten-free and regular. It is nice when things come together nicely.

Just to add to that and being quite impressed with Smitty's restaurant in Canmore. We had our tukey day on Sunday after I drove up there from work. Yesterday morning before we left to drive back to Calgary we stopped at Smitty's restaurant. In Calgary they will not accomodate and nor would I trust them. So, I flirted with death and talked to the manager at Smitty's there and he made sure my meal was done with all clean everythings and even on the bill it said "gluten allergy." I ate my meal and did not get sick...yay! I found the same with Swiss Chalet on McKnight in Calgary the girl made sure she told them it was a gluten allergy, put it on the bill and made sure they did not have it near any bread. I think things are looking up.

Oh, and in Canmore there is a store called Nutter's they have copious amounts of gluten-free food. One I saw was a frozen entree called Seeds of Change and they are gluten-free tv dinner things. Dumb me did not buy some to bring home because I have not seen those in Calgary at all.

KarenCM Rookie
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I had a fabulous gluten free Thanksgiving as well. The turkey and gravy were the best ever. Usually we cook the stuffing in the turkey but this year we didn't. There was stove top stuffing on the side for the rest of the family to have. I never liked that stuff anyway haha. For something different in the gravy we put apple juice and you couldn't even tell it was in there it was just a yummy gravy. For dessert I bought a rice flour pumpkin pie from Choices which I ate mostly myself except for one piece which my brother tried. There was also regular pumpkin pie for everyone else. Hopefully the Christmas dinners go as well as Thanksgiving did.

Karen

honeybuzzed Rookie
honeybuzzed
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It was totally filling and gluten-free. I will have to get the recipe from him as he just made it up as he went.

That is the best way to do it ! I did that the other night with a gluten-free miso based spicy carrot cauliflower soup...and now I am doing it again with the turkey left overs ... I have had the turkey broth brewing since 6pm last night ... the house smells AWESOME it is going to drive the guys NUTS when they get home ! :lol: I don't think I could follow a recipe to save my life ... unless I am baking (don't do that as often ) ... but even then sometimes I can't help it ... but I guess it is good because I am always having ppl drop buy at dinner time :lol:

lindalee Enthusiast
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Glad Thanksgiving was a success!

Wonder whats gonna happen to us? :blink:

Oh well, I'll worry about that tomorrow. :)

MistressIsis Apprentice
MistressIsis
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That's fantastic! I'm glad families are starting to get the seriousness of it.

This'll be my 1st holiday season away from my family & my housemate is really good about understanding & finding other ways so I'm hopeful!

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