Goodnight, gluten!
So I said goodnight to gluten with a nice Frontera cheese pizza and a couple cool glasses of Stella Artois beer. Ah, sweet gluteny yummyness! Will we meet again? I don’t know…
I think I’m ready for tomorrow, and the month of June. Lots of people have weighed in so far with great advice, which I am oh, so thankful for. I stopped by Ethical Planet in nearby Evanston to pick up some goodies and learn a little bit about gluten-free (and vegan!) diets. And I did some major damage at Wild Oats, too. Even found some gluten-free beer, which I’m not feeling too hopeful about (I’m kind of a beer snob), but it’s worth a try. We’ll do a taste-test this weekend.
Suffice to say, it’s expensive to eat healthy! Or maybe it’s not any more expensive than eating out a lot, which I’ve been doing. We’ll see. I came home with a trunkload of healthy food, which should last me at least a week, and I’m sure I’ll be picking up produce every few days. Might hit the farmers’ market this weekend with some pals.
So this is it! Starting tomorrow I’ll be posting just about every day, with a little journal of what I eat, and how it goes, and how I screw up, and what I learn. Feel free to chime in and steer me in the right (or at least, interesting) direction.
zelda said,
June 13, 2007 @ 6:10 am
GF beer is actually really nice if you find a good one. There are some ATROCIOUS ones….but I had one the other day that I had to wrestle off my non-GF free bf.
Jenni said,
June 13, 2007 @ 8:34 am
Can you tell me which brand that was?
Linda said,
June 14, 2007 @ 10:22 pm
If Gluten makes you ill, eating GF is not at all expensive–think of all the money you can save on Rx and Dr bills
I am one of those late diagnosed Celiac Disease people who had to get really sick before I figured out is was CD and not all the other misdiagnoses the Dr.s came up with.
The last big gluten accident was eating scrambled eggs while out of town. It cost me about $2,000 in out of pocket ER expenses and another $3,000 for the insurance company!
Really though, the convenience foods may be a bit more expensive. But, if you stick to whole foods and minimize the convenience products, it does not have to be any more expensive to eat GF. Also, cooking from scratch is much cheaper than buying baking mixes, etc.