Showing posts with label celiac. Show all posts
Showing posts with label celiac. Show all posts

19.2.12

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

i'd like to get this recipe book.
kind of surprised i don't have it yet...
whenever i see a book titled "gluten free", and "survival guide", it tends to come home with  me.
found some great recipes on Elisabeth's website.
maybe i won't even need to buy the book!

this banana bread from her mom's recipe, looks really good (i have most of the ingreidents, which makes it even more appealing).

my familiy loves banana muffins and bread more than any other snack or dessert.
we go through entire batches in one night.
not always.
but sometimes.
even the gluten free banana muffins get attention.

hopefully this bread will too.

15.2.12

morning

good afternoon!
have you cleaned out your dishwasher?
i haven't. i did have a great cup of coffee though.
i make my coffee pretty much the same way every morning, and it rarely tastes the same.

i had a doctors appointment this morning in st.vital. DAKOTA medical clinic.
there are a lot of stores in that area where i can buy gluten free food.
so i popped into vita health to look for bean flour and tapioca starch.
they had neither.
but that didn't stop me from spending money.
two bags of groceries for $82.31 to be exact.
have i mentioned gluten free products are expensive?
i asked the sales clerk if there was some kind of customer rewards program (you know, so i can come back and buy more of your mixes and pasta for $90 a bag...) at the store.
nope. not really.
i guess i wouldn't have had to buy the organic bananas.
they were just sitting there and we need bananas. i didn't feel like driving to safeway and getting out of my car again to save a dollar on bananas.
i like to cut corners that way.
I had to buy the hot chocolate for $6.99 though; non gf hot-chocolate has/have diglycerides, a preservative with gluten.

don't you feel like celebrating after you've lived through a physical exam? not a physics exam...but-a-phy-si-cal.  just so we're clear.
my doctor asks his patients to take EVERYTHING off for the pap and then lie and wait under a thin sheet.
it actually felt more like a gigantic kleenex.
i couldn't stop thinking about the fact that i forgot to shave my legs.

my justification for spending $80 on a few frozen goods just became clear to me.  i spent half the morning lying naked under the worlds largest tissue.
i was in shock.
i probably deserve a quiet weekend away to recover.
too bad the clinic doesn't have a customer rewards program.

its a good thing i like my doctor, or else i would put off these sort of appointments
all together.
he's a pretty laid back guy.
we often have a chuckle together. especially over my mental health.
.........let me explain.
he told me a while back that i was looking good (i was deep in the muck of my depression).
i said "oh thanks! feeling very flattered.. "i actually put make-up on this morning".
he broke out into this loud laugh and said "Christine, i meant your over all appearance, like your demeanor."
oh.
i told him that made me feel dumb.
and he said he was sorry.
he and i are BFF's.

have i mentioned he looks like liam neeson?
i kid you not.

i am thankful for my doctor (seriously) and for a healthy cervix(seriously).
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do you shop a lot on-line?
i like to. kent isn't a fan.
so we meet halfway. if i want to buy something we look at it together.
it seems to make him happy when he has some sort of input.
fine by me.
we "shopped" at old navy a few days ago.
and this was delivered to my door this morning.
isn't life wonderful when society caters to your agoraphobic-type tendencies and fears?


have you seen your doctor lately? you should go.
you might have a little laugh together.
no my doctor does not take any new patients.


have a nice day.
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