Looking for ideas

I have no visitor count on this blog, so I have no idea if anyone is reading. I do know nobody is commenting...

However, I find myself in a strange and somewhat difficult position. I have promised several people that I will start a new website for folks with Celiac Disease - one that attempts to make it easier to buy in bulk by forming co-operative buying groups. You know - you can get the stuff from Amazon, but you have to buy a case. So why don't three or four people go in together to get themselves what they need, at the case price?

Good idea, right?

I'm just having a lot of trouble getting started. Any input would be helpful.

Good news from the GI doc

He says I'm doing just fine, and that he doesn't need to see me for another six months. I like this doc - he actually talks with me about what's going on, and lets me know what he is thinking. So I'm to lose weight (to save my liver) and to take a multivitamin every day, because sometimes people with Celiac Disease don't absorb the nutrients even after the villi heal. Who knew?

He's concerned with vitamin D, calcium and iron in my case. Of course, the osteoporosis might have something to do with that.

But he's never heard of a doctor giving someone with Celiac a letter so they can get accomodation at a motel - fridge and microwave. Told me to ask my regular doc. I laughed.

Oh, well. Sandwiches (on corn tortillas) work pretty well for me.

Better today.

I had KA*ME rice crackers with peanut butter for dinner. She went out with friends for Chinese.

It worked for us.

I also made plans for us to go to Cleveland tomorrow afternoon to attend calling hours for a friend's father. Got to figure out how to manage meals around fasting in the morning for blood work and a 60 mile trip to calling hours in the afternoon.

I think I'll just get her something from Subway. I'll have my homemade chex mix.

Just erased a post

A great, long, whining post. All about how terrible it is to be stuck with a gluten, fat, flavor-free diet as long as my daughter is home from college.

But you know what? I'm not going to do it. I am happy to fix her things that she will eat and enjoy, but I am also going to make some things that I'll like. Otherwise it is going to be an impossible two months for both of us.

So... tomorrow I'll make some home fries and perhaps even some eggs to go with them. And she can have her wheat toast and blueberry preserves for breakfast. Compromise, right?

I don't want to force my problem onto her. So she will have all the things she likes here at home, with some small adjustments. And I'll break out the butter and other flavors for my own benefit.

The alternative is simply unacceptable. I won't drive her away from home over this. We'll work it out.

Recuperation... and planning.

Hello again.

I'm finally starting to feel human again after the trip and the madness that occurred afterwards. But... a friend from Texas will be in town this weekend, (well, in Euclid anyway) for her father's funeral. I have, of course, offered any help I can give, so may wind up making a few trips up there over the next several days.

And of course the plans for the summer have changed again. Now we leave on the first for a quick trip to the airport in Newark, NJ. From there we run straight to the GIG conference in Minneapolis, and from there we come home - only to take off again for Shreveport in a couple of days if the California Rep to Louisiana (IORG) is going to attend their Grand Assembly. (Which reminds me - I never did get my parent card.)

That being the case, I am now looking for some gluten-free alternatives both near the airport in NJ and some interesting things for the drive(s). Any suggestions/recommendations/recipes?

Does anybody know what time it is? Or what day?

We are back from the spring adventure, and I must admit it is good to be home. Got glutened several times - mostly my own fault - but really, when a person asks for no gravy how hard is it not to bring a plate covered in the stuff?

Redfish Grill in New Orleans is incredible, though. Great staff, good management, and a delicious meal that was checked and double checked for gluten by an attentive waiter. Can't wait to go back!

Smokey Bones is good as well, and has a decent gluten-free menu. I just wish I had known that when I ordered, but again - my own damned fault. I didn't think to ask.