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    Dating Don'ts

    By brendygirl,

    People are amazed at my ability to enjoy bad dates. I enjoy the entertainment and ignore the date, or I laugh AT the date, or I creatively and cynically provoke the date to amuse myself. However blunt I am, I am always polite and always offer to go dutch.
    Some good ones:
    The guy with the 18" tattoo of Beavis on his back. And to think I thought he was interesting because he'd ridden in the Tour de France!
    The guy who bragged about never having had a single cavity...
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    Big Haul

    By brendygirl,

    OH YEAH. Thought I'd been saving $$ by eating stuff tucked away in my cupboards and pushing back my biweekly trip to the health food store, BUT, instead, my bill doubled. $190. haha
    I do stock up, but WOW.
    Got favs like Mrs. Leeper's Beef Stroganoff box mix, Amy's potato leek soup, Barbara's Corn Flakes, my EnerG frozen pizza shells, and Glutino lemon wafer cookies. And a Namaste cake mix or 4.
    Got NEW items (new to me) like gluten free dark bread mix (pumpernickel...
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    Oops I Did It Again

    By brendygirl,

    My menu yesterday was nothing new or sinfully worth getting sick over: gluten-free pancakes with berries (no syrup), leftover pot roast and veggies, and Tropicana Lemonade. The lemonade has "natural flavors" so maybe that's it? But I drank some earlier in the week and was fine. Oh well. I cooked it all myself. hmmm
    I must admit sometimes I think I'm sensitive to the tapioca flour in some of the gluten-free baked items. Maybe it's the pancake griddle pan I refuse to get...
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    Unbirthday Cake

    By brendygirl,

    Got lilies and roses delivered at work for my bday, which was a surprise. Got some nice phone calls and nice gifts. BUT NO CAKE. A friend put a candle in a gluten-free donut, but it wasn't the same.
    I'll have to go to the store and buy a gluten-free cake mix. There are good ones out there, but it's not as fun to make it yourself and eat it yourself. Last year, a pal mailed me a cake she baked gluten-free.
    I've never been that big on frosting, but I've always loved...
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    Nightblindness

    By brendygirl,

    My eye doctor is HOT! He has amazing hazelish eyes...AND I've adored him ever since he told me that I'll never need glasses full time (I wear them to see in the dark or driving at night) because I only have night blindness. And YOU KNOW I love that cuz HOW MANY teachers do you know without glasses?
    I mean, going through all that college and the graduate school can really wreak havoc on the eyeballs, ya know? People OFTEN assume I wear contacts (even colored contacts-what...
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    So the Milky Way made me sick all weekend, but I still managed to go 2 steppin.
    I haven't had the pleasure in ten years, so it probably wasn't pretty, but it was fun.
    I'm not big into country music, but I had friends who took me to country bars (cheap beer) back in the college days. AND I can appreciate cute cowboys. They always seem so chivalrous, too.
    My date offered me a beer. I refrained from rolling my eyes and just said I can't have beer.
    He's the same...
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    Murderous Milky Way

    By brendygirl,

    As you know, I was so excited to get that gluten-free candy list that I had gone out and stockpiled those sweety sweets previously assumed to be not gluten-free, but lo and behold the list said they were fine!
    Well, I got glutened today.
    Milky Way.
    My fault. The list says Milky Way Midnight only.
    Sorry, I didn't know there was a milky way midnight.
    I detest dark chocolate.
    anyway.
    I am PAYING dearly.
    I hurt so bad. My back and leg have major...
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    Eatin Out

    By brendygirl,

    Since I am dating and date-able and date-licious, I do eat out a lot. I like Outback Steakhouse, like most others who go my way aka against the Grain, but I have also become adept at ordering sushi, Mexican food, and meat/potato or fish/rice dishes without getting glutened. I also sometimes eat B4 the date and just order a drink and ice cream while the dude chows down.
    My dates are usually pretty good about my food issues. I usually say, "I hate to sound high maintenance...
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    No Chipotle For Me

    By brendygirl,

    Well, I won that Chipotle Restaurant Gift Card, but....
    I read up on that place here and then checked out their website and I guess they make things on a line (I've never been there) and they recommend that people with wheat allergies do not eat there.
    I guess I'll give the card away as an XMAS gift to someone.
    Oh well.
    Just got invited to New Orleans for December. Hmmm...my friend who lives there says dining options are mimimal at this point compared to most...
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    Amy's Soup. I'd read about people reacting to it, but I had already bought it and some people are allergic to ingredients I am ok with. So I tried some one day and I was fine. Ate the rest the next day (potato leek?)yum. Then I had the tomato kind. I guess I'm just glad I get off work at 3, because I can go home and be glutenly grouchily greenily grumbly gross and grim all by myself.
    But the next two days I was feeling sluggish--- funny the theme for Just Say No Week...
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    Food Has Arrived

    By brendygirl,

    Got my order from celiac specialties. Xantham gum, graham cracker crumbs (I want to make a pie), powdered donuts, pumpernickel bread (first time I ordered this), and Dr.Schar's crackers (first time).
     
    The pumpernickel is really good. Not as strong of a flavor as I remember the real kind from my gluten full days, but pretty good straight out of the bag. No toasting or thawing or anything required.
     
    The donuts are good as usual. Haven't tried the crackers. ...
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    Girls nite out dancing last night and the band was really cool. Now that my hair is long (had short hair a la Charlize and Dixie Chicks in my 20s and decided to grow it last Xmas when I turned 30) it's hot on the dance floor! I'm glad celiac hasn't inhibited my hair's ability to grow fast!
    I had one drink, a Jack Daniel's with Coke. But, I got tired! So sad that my bod tires before my tootsies! In 3 inch heels! I should have fake carb loaded b4 hand! My pal was...
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    Got my plane ticket 4 the holidays. I got lucky last year and it was in the 40 degree range in Chicago area last Xmas! Probably won't get so lucky this year.
    Last year I was BRAND new to celiac and this is how I coped on my 10 day trip:
    There are LOTS of celiacs over there (as are there lots of Norske's and other Scandinavian peeps- I read somewhere that most celiacs are Northern European???). Anyway, there was a health food store 5 min. from my mom's suburbian home...
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    The luncheon at work was easy. I ate fruit, a tamale, spanish rice,-- and the peppers with hummus that I brought.
    Not bad. The only thing that looked yummy that I couldn't have was the soup someone made and the brownies someone made. Not for me! Because I'm SSSSSPECIAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    At least I happened upon the gluten-free brand name candy list on this site, so I raided the drugstore for candy that I thought was off limits before: Chunky bar, Trolli...
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    Tahini To Go

    By brendygirl,

    Signed up to bring an appetizer for a work luncheon. Wanted to bring cheese and sausage, but the sausage was not looking like it was going to be allowable for me. SO, I glanced over and saw some HUMMUS and realized I haven't had that in YEARS. So, I bought some bell peppers and there we go!
    Sliced red, green, and yellow bell peppers with black olives and hummus! Sweet!
    However, I did not have the courage to slice them in the food processor, since I'm not totally...
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    Victory At El Torito

    By brendygirl,

    One word: Enchiladas! I had steak enchiladas and they were muy bien! I had no problemas getting my dance on afterward, either! I ordered normally but cautioned the waiter about being allergic to wheat and later he made a joke about how did I enjoy the flour tortillas. haha Whatever. It was cool.
    I defrosted berry pancakes for breakfast today (yum) and ate M&Ms, carrots, tuna w/mayo&dill, and potato chips for lunch, and for dinner I'm cooking pea soup and also...
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    Butta Finga

    By brendygirl,

    Hmmm. Did I see Butterfinger on a gluten-free list?
    I gotta investigate. Bought 2 at the store just in case.
    Lady at work is annoyed I'm thin and said, yeah, she (me)can't eat bread.
    I'm like, yeah, but that's ok because now I can eat bacon, donuts, bagels (gluten-free), ice cream, potato chips/dip and steak--all things I avoided when I was "normal" because I felt that junk was too bad for me. Now I eat it weekly because they are such a great way to balance all...
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    [Turned on some music and got cookin! Pryed open fresh clams to make clam chowder and put the rest in with mussels and big fat shrimp to make Spanish Paella with the saffron rice. mmmmmmm
    I took a pic of it, even. Maybe it will motivate me to make it again soon.
     
    I bought a can of chili and a can of pork and beans at the store since I'd seen them on the gluten
    free list, but then I forgot which brands they were supposed to be, but I bought them anyway and ...
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    Yesterday my mom called me to tell me that Katie Couric was having a story on celiac! My stepdad told her he'd seen it. (I was impressed he recognized it as my deal.) So I watched it on TV and then I watched it again on cbs.com. It was great to see my "deal" get some recognition. I liked the little animation they showed of your body inside. I emailed a bravo to them.
    I agree with other postings that it made coping seem easier, like entire gluten-free stores are abound...
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