Gluten woes
I wish I had kept the wrapper so I can bitch about them with specifics.
Last week at Sprouts, I was checking out their "bar" isle. Not liquor, but their energy, protein, etc. bars. I was looking for the gluten free ones. There was this new brand I never heard of, but they offered lots of flavors and had "gluten-free" all over. I picked up the apple cinnamon and chocolate raspberry one.
Finally this last weekend, I tried the apple cinnamon one. The package opened a bit too easy, and it was covered with a whitish film. I think there was a hole in the package and it went bad. It tasted terrible. I tossed it.
A couple days ago, I picked up the chocolate raspberry one. Remembering what happened last time, I checked to see if there was air in the package and to be sure it wasn't escaping. This had no white film on it. I took a bite. Not bad, but very sweet, and I couldn't taste the chocolate. I swallow the first bite. Then I see something on the back that made me sick.
Ingredients: chocolate liquor
WTF?? I've taked to several liquor experts throughout the last year. After hearing my condition, they have ALL agreed that chocolate liquor is not something I can have. I quietly mourned that loss Mozart is some fine tasting liquor. How can they call it gluten free if it has something that I'm not supposed to have?
I should have tried to throw up that bite I ate. With my hernia, reflux, and past history of puking, I try and avoid it all costs. I would perfer to give myself a shot of Zofran if I feel as if I'm going to puke.
Sure enough, yesterday was a bad day in the bathroom. Today is better, and by tomorrow it should have cleared out of my system.
Oh, and I am baking my mom's cookies today. Tomorrow is her stores big anniversary day where there's free food. And all employees are supposed to bring cookies or something to help. While technially she works for the corporate office, she said she'd bring in cookies. She had bought a bunch of "place and bake" cookies, but has meetings all day. Since I'm an unemployed freeloader, I said I'd take care of the cookies.
But it really sucks when I can't lick the cooked crumbs off my hands or eat the "reject" cookies. I offered to make some gluten free cookies for the customers that could appreciate them. But she said they'd probably get eaten by everyone else by mistake. And I hate how lazy we are with this "place and bake" thing. It's not my nature to do this when I could make a simple chocolate chip cookie recipe in the time it takes the oven to preheat.
Last week at Sprouts, I was checking out their "bar" isle. Not liquor, but their energy, protein, etc. bars. I was looking for the gluten free ones. There was this new brand I never heard of, but they offered lots of flavors and had "gluten-free" all over. I picked up the apple cinnamon and chocolate raspberry one.
Finally this last weekend, I tried the apple cinnamon one. The package opened a bit too easy, and it was covered with a whitish film. I think there was a hole in the package and it went bad. It tasted terrible. I tossed it.
A couple days ago, I picked up the chocolate raspberry one. Remembering what happened last time, I checked to see if there was air in the package and to be sure it wasn't escaping. This had no white film on it. I took a bite. Not bad, but very sweet, and I couldn't taste the chocolate. I swallow the first bite. Then I see something on the back that made me sick.
Ingredients: chocolate liquor
WTF?? I've taked to several liquor experts throughout the last year. After hearing my condition, they have ALL agreed that chocolate liquor is not something I can have. I quietly mourned that loss Mozart is some fine tasting liquor. How can they call it gluten free if it has something that I'm not supposed to have?
I should have tried to throw up that bite I ate. With my hernia, reflux, and past history of puking, I try and avoid it all costs. I would perfer to give myself a shot of Zofran if I feel as if I'm going to puke.
Sure enough, yesterday was a bad day in the bathroom. Today is better, and by tomorrow it should have cleared out of my system.
Oh, and I am baking my mom's cookies today. Tomorrow is her stores big anniversary day where there's free food. And all employees are supposed to bring cookies or something to help. While technially she works for the corporate office, she said she'd bring in cookies. She had bought a bunch of "place and bake" cookies, but has meetings all day. Since I'm an unemployed freeloader, I said I'd take care of the cookies.
But it really sucks when I can't lick the cooked crumbs off my hands or eat the "reject" cookies. I offered to make some gluten free cookies for the customers that could appreciate them. But she said they'd probably get eaten by everyone else by mistake. And I hate how lazy we are with this "place and bake" thing. It's not my nature to do this when I could make a simple chocolate chip cookie recipe in the time it takes the oven to preheat.
Labels: celiac
posted by Jenn @ 11:47
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