Many of you may know that the Humanling and I are gluten free beings. And since I've had to go Rambo on her with the watch on what she ingests, she's complained here and there. And there. And there.
We've bought gluten free cookies. Rock hard.
And gluten free 'granola' bars. They sucked.
And it took me about $5 per experiment to find that out. Not even eating the whole bar, just a bite and basically I just watched five dollars seep out into the litter box.
It's tough for the Humanling not to feel left out during school parties or events (Pizza night! Donuts for Dad! Burger King night!). She couldn't just go to a school for hermits like I did. We had one event all year long in the Spring.
One such event where a boy walked up to me and asked if the man behind me was my father. Affirmative.
He morphed into a blur as I heard the word "BYE!" sear through the air.
I'm not kidding when I say my dad can wither with a glance. No words, not even an exhale. You'd better hope when he is fixing his eyes on you that its good enough to be a neutral moment or at best, a small fragment of admiration or agreement.
Humanling's school was having yet another event. I say this with exhaustion. There's an event hourly. It was some Smores at night thing. She paid for it and Cavey, her dad, *planned* on going. We had to cancel due to Humanling's being sick that day so the test results on reliability would have been just to make a point.
I tried to prepare ahead of time. Cavey is basically like the event that shows up and has no regard for anyone's rules. He does it with charm. As the ex wife, it is my job to be the only soul whose view of Impressed excludes all his efforts.
He would surely feed her gluten. And pass her back to me. Because he doesn't have to deal with the fall out.
However.
I found gluten free graham crackers at the store. Joy! I could send her with those.
Well, since she didn't go, we made them ourselves last night, during a sweet craving. And we loved them.
They didn't suck.
2 comments:
there's a line of baking products called gluten free pantry. they have a brownie mix that is so good i prefer it over all other commercial brands - even the kind with gluten. all of their stuff is really good. if it makes you and humanling feel any better, according to the Angels - there's so much gluten and other wheat by products in our food these days as a result of over-processing that more and more people are developing wheat sensitivies and they don't know it. i am not gluten intolerant, however i AM gluten sensitive and i feel much better when i listen to the Angels and avoid it. if you would like more info on the Angel Way of eating, just send me an email and i can share more with you. i - and other moms - have found it to be an easy way to encourage kids to eat healthy foods.
NUMMY!!
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