I Cheated....On Accident

Old habits die hard.  This weekend I accidentally cheated on my wheat free diet.  I'm sure you're wondering how you accidentally cheat, right?  We went shopping in Kansas City with my little sister and stopped to eat lunch at Wild Bill's at Legends.  My sister and I were going to share a cheeseburger.  This is beside the point but Wild Bill's has excellent cheeseburgers.  So they brought us two plates, each with half the cheeseburger.  I, of course, intended to take the bun off mine.  I had a bite of cheeseburger and was getting ready for my second when my husband looks over and says, "What are you doing?".  I stopped mid-bite to consider what I was doing.  It took a second to figure it out and then I realized I'd left the bun on the cheeseburger.  Whoops!  So this weekend, I had a bite of cheeseburger with bun...on accident.

So Long Subway!

Lunch is always a challenge for me.  I try to bring my lunch with me but there's just times when we don't have leftovers or I don't want to eat them.  And for those days, my go to restaurant is Subway.  Oh I love Subway!  There's one a couple blocks from my office and I eat there once a week unless I'm on vacation or out of town for work.  The ladies who work there know my order.  BMT on flatbread, toasted with American cheese, pickles, and one squirt of light mayo.  Every once in awhile I get crazy and change it up, but not usually.  I don't have a change-it-up personality.

But my new diet says that I can't eat at Subway.  Not entirely true, I guess.  I could get a salad, but I probably won't.  Not a salad eater.  Besides, I don't really want to go into the store and smell fresh baked bread and then not be able to eat it.  Talk about torturous!  But I feel like I should go there one last time and explain to them why I can't come back.  What if they miss me?  Surely they'll be worried, right?  And I'll miss them knowing what I want.  It's kind of nice to not have to say my order every time.  Arby's doesn't know my order.  Neither does Taco Bueno.  They're like friends to me at Subway.  My once a week, sandwich making friends.

I'm really hoping that the fine people at Subway come out with gluten free bread (HINT, HINT, HINT) as I know I'm not the only one who'd eat it.  If that happened, I'd probably just buy my own restaurant and eat at it everyday so I could at least get some of my money back.  But until that day, no Subway.

So today I'm saying so long Subway!  I'll miss you.

My First Blog Post

This is probably my third re-write of this first blog post.  I can't seem to say what I want the way I want.  I never pictured myself as the kind of person who would have a blog.  I've never had anything really awesome to blog about until Monday.  And it's not really awesome, it's kind of depressing.

I've been having some issues with my digestive area working correctly and October was a pretty bad month.  I just felt pretty bad for most of it.  So I had some testing done and nothing is wrong, which is a relief but doesn't really explain what's been happening.  The doctor's next suggestion was to try to avoid eating wheat.  My dad hasn't eaten wheat for a couple years now and my aunt is a raging celiac as she puts it.  So I guess I knew this day was coming.  I was really hoping I'd inherited that part of my body from my mom and wouldn't have this problem, but something told me it was probably inevitable.  That's the kind of luck I have.

My husband said, "I told you so" because he suggested awhile ago that I try not eating wheat but I didn't want to do it.  He also said he was not participating in this with me.  Later he changed his mind and said he might do it if I really wanted him to, but under no circumstances was he giving up flour tortillas.  That's where he draws the line.

So I thought I'd start a blog about this new adventure.  I have a feeling it will be tough for awhile.  I absolutely love all baked goods and I don't mind some pasta now and then.  So the adjustment to learning how to make these things wheat free could be interesting.  My mom has learned a lot in trying to cook for my dad so I'm hoping to get some pointers from her.  I remembered yesterday that I got a peppernut gun for Christmas last year and haven't used it yet so I know for sure I'll be attempting some GF peppernuts at some point.  I also found a recipe for GF oreos that I'm going to have to try.  They looked pretty good in the picture.

Feel free to post any comments or suggestions you have.  I'd like to hear from others who are having the same experience or anyone who has a good recipe or tip.  I've found some good blogs and websites that I'll eventually post links to.  I'm also taking suggestions on a new title for this blog.  I'm not creative and I don't particularly like the one I've come up with.

Tonight is my first GF shopping trip.  I haven't tried eating GF yet because we don't have much in the house I can eat.  So today is my first official try at a GF day.  I had corn chex and orange juice for breakfast.  For lunch I'm having leftover roast and potatoes.  And for supper we're having Mexican which I know I can do as long as I have a corn tortilla.  My dad says I should feel better in about a week as soon as I get the main wheat sources cut out so we'll see!

Have a good Thursday!